Writing code helps me think. Every time I read some take about keeping up one's skills when using agents people get so tantalisingly close to the obvious answer, and then fall short. If the tools are making you worse,…
The faster you realize this will never pop, the faster you realize that you too can make money in the biggest gold rush in human history. Hey, yeah, quick question. How did the historical literal "gold rushes" end? Gold…
"When it comes to a field I'm not an expert in, AI is a great tool." Every time.
No. If anything I’m understating the risk.
What you're building should be illegal. Educators who use these tools on children should face jail time. It's hard to overstate the harm of the system you are building. Please understand, there is no way this idea is…
> I think close to 100% of new ambitious projects are going to leverage AI at least to some degree. Once the free money dries up that number will rapidly tend towards 0%. > So how much AI usage does it make it an “AI…
That "nearly" is doing an awful lot of heavy lifting. It doesn't matter if your AI model is 99% or 99.99% accurate. For a tax return it has to be perfect every time or someone is at best getting a fine or at worst going…
It's obvious to more people every day that "AI" has never delivered on what it promised. Until now nobody cared because the costs were cheap and it pays to appear cutting edge. Now the price is rising, and the delayed…
Tried what? Using LLMs to produce software? I'd say the industry has collectively "tried" to do this for a while now and the results have been an unmitigated disaster. Yes, we should "give up" on using LLMs, but…
> They don’t even need to be deterministic checks - a shell script that wraps a `claude -p` - and maybe fetches some online resources to stuff into the context - can do your agent’s legal check for it. No. It can't. If…
Yes connect the 3rd party company with a vested interest to capture as much of your data as possible with a direct pipe into all your internal sensitive discussions about your product, business, and market positioning…
So? The research on AI is showing again and again that people that use AI are losing their skills not just in the specific task but more generally. This isn't a "change of skills" it's a fundamental reduction in the…
We're not talking about replacing "writing code", we're talking about replacing your ability to think about the problems critically at all.
Any company that has become dependant on AI will struggle to survive from here on. By the time many teams realise it'll be too late.
I'm going to take your comment at face value, and I'm also going to assume that you're US-based. You need to take a step back and look at the economic reality of the majority of Americans today. Many live…
On a SWE salary maybe. If the baseline cost of doing business is a $5k GPU you've excluded like a quarter of the US working population immediately.
> This is what everyone says when technology democratizes something that was previously reserved for a small number of experts. What part of renting your ability to do your job is "democratizing"? The current state of…
> What you're missing is that fewer and fewer projects are going to need a ton of technical depth. > I have friends who'd never written a line of code in their lives who now use multiple simple vibe-coded apps at work…
> However, code quality is becoming less and less relevant in the age of AI coding, and to ignore that is to have our heads stuck in the sand. Just because we don't like it doesn't mean it's not true. It's the opposite,…
> agents aren’t going away Why not? Once the true cost of token generation is passed on to the end user and costs go up by 10 or 100 times, and once the honeymoon delusion of "oh wow I can just prompt the AI to write…
There's little to no evidence that companies are actually doing layoffs to focus on "AI-enabled" work. All there is are layoffs because of interest rates and concerns about the economic outlook. Companies using "AI" as…
It's not even as simple as "views as replaceable". It's pure economics. It's someone looking at a spreadsheet going "We spent a lot of money on SWE salaries, our financial results look better if we fire some of them. Is…
> AI is actually better getting those built as long as you clean it up afterwards I've never seen a quick PoC get cleaned up. Not once. I'm sure it happens sometimes, but it's very rare in the industry. The reality is…
> LLMs are clearly a massive productivity boost for software developers, and the value of humans manually translating intent into lines of code is rapidly depreciating. This take is so divorced from reality it's hard to…
Parameterized queries have been a thing for decades, which mitigate SQL injection attacks.[1] This is true of the examples in the post too, they used this: query = """ SELECT * from tasks WHERE id = $1 AND state = $2…
Writing code helps me think. Every time I read some take about keeping up one's skills when using agents people get so tantalisingly close to the obvious answer, and then fall short. If the tools are making you worse,…
The faster you realize this will never pop, the faster you realize that you too can make money in the biggest gold rush in human history. Hey, yeah, quick question. How did the historical literal "gold rushes" end? Gold…
"When it comes to a field I'm not an expert in, AI is a great tool." Every time.
No. If anything I’m understating the risk.
What you're building should be illegal. Educators who use these tools on children should face jail time. It's hard to overstate the harm of the system you are building. Please understand, there is no way this idea is…
> I think close to 100% of new ambitious projects are going to leverage AI at least to some degree. Once the free money dries up that number will rapidly tend towards 0%. > So how much AI usage does it make it an “AI…
That "nearly" is doing an awful lot of heavy lifting. It doesn't matter if your AI model is 99% or 99.99% accurate. For a tax return it has to be perfect every time or someone is at best getting a fine or at worst going…
It's obvious to more people every day that "AI" has never delivered on what it promised. Until now nobody cared because the costs were cheap and it pays to appear cutting edge. Now the price is rising, and the delayed…
Tried what? Using LLMs to produce software? I'd say the industry has collectively "tried" to do this for a while now and the results have been an unmitigated disaster. Yes, we should "give up" on using LLMs, but…
> They don’t even need to be deterministic checks - a shell script that wraps a `claude -p` - and maybe fetches some online resources to stuff into the context - can do your agent’s legal check for it. No. It can't. If…
Yes connect the 3rd party company with a vested interest to capture as much of your data as possible with a direct pipe into all your internal sensitive discussions about your product, business, and market positioning…
So? The research on AI is showing again and again that people that use AI are losing their skills not just in the specific task but more generally. This isn't a "change of skills" it's a fundamental reduction in the…
We're not talking about replacing "writing code", we're talking about replacing your ability to think about the problems critically at all.
Any company that has become dependant on AI will struggle to survive from here on. By the time many teams realise it'll be too late.
I'm going to take your comment at face value, and I'm also going to assume that you're US-based. You need to take a step back and look at the economic reality of the majority of Americans today. Many live…
On a SWE salary maybe. If the baseline cost of doing business is a $5k GPU you've excluded like a quarter of the US working population immediately.
> This is what everyone says when technology democratizes something that was previously reserved for a small number of experts. What part of renting your ability to do your job is "democratizing"? The current state of…
> What you're missing is that fewer and fewer projects are going to need a ton of technical depth. > I have friends who'd never written a line of code in their lives who now use multiple simple vibe-coded apps at work…
> However, code quality is becoming less and less relevant in the age of AI coding, and to ignore that is to have our heads stuck in the sand. Just because we don't like it doesn't mean it's not true. It's the opposite,…
> agents aren’t going away Why not? Once the true cost of token generation is passed on to the end user and costs go up by 10 or 100 times, and once the honeymoon delusion of "oh wow I can just prompt the AI to write…
There's little to no evidence that companies are actually doing layoffs to focus on "AI-enabled" work. All there is are layoffs because of interest rates and concerns about the economic outlook. Companies using "AI" as…
It's not even as simple as "views as replaceable". It's pure economics. It's someone looking at a spreadsheet going "We spent a lot of money on SWE salaries, our financial results look better if we fire some of them. Is…
> AI is actually better getting those built as long as you clean it up afterwards I've never seen a quick PoC get cleaned up. Not once. I'm sure it happens sometimes, but it's very rare in the industry. The reality is…
> LLMs are clearly a massive productivity boost for software developers, and the value of humans manually translating intent into lines of code is rapidly depreciating. This take is so divorced from reality it's hard to…
Parameterized queries have been a thing for decades, which mitigate SQL injection attacks.[1] This is true of the examples in the post too, they used this: query = """ SELECT * from tasks WHERE id = $1 AND state = $2…