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Its astonishing how many people miss that if you have servants, you must be an elite, as by definition, we cannot each have 5 servants.

I guess a lot of this depends on whether you consider juniors to be part of your talent pool. Unless you are retaining them, it is just subsidizing industry at large to train them.…

What terminology is required to make Claude Code write code? My experience with friends has been the opposite. A PM friend made a custom tool. A friend who has never written a line…

Gambling has consistently ranked above family for many in human history, so while it hurts a third party, the people involved genuinely believe in it.

Knowledge is knowledge, as long as it can be proven true.

A lot of LLMisms are just poor flowing writing, no matter what the use case.

An enormous amount of on-call debugging is just natural language reading of logs.

That time is otherwise worthless, so yes? I don't value my travel time at all, but it used to be wasted on travelling.

This speaks to OpenAI's approach to things. But it doesn't speak to Microsoft and Microsoft would need to provide the access.

The problem is that someone has to oversee the junior and the multiplier on productivity also applies to the overseer. So you could have the senior oversee the junior or just have …

Not at all. I’m a run of the mill dev who would like to stay ahead of the AI wave.

I think it depends on what kind of senior you are. Juniors are by their nature mostly order fillers. Seniors can be anywhere from more complex code order fillers to fairly well dev…

I suspect that the last white collar workers have been trained outside of regulated fields. If it can be taught, an AI can do it. The only work left is either manual or inherently …

I doubt it. The concept of cheating is largely unique to academia and a few uptight professions like law. Everywhere else it is just collaboration or learning or simply something n…

You can still have multiple contracts.

On the other hand we are also willing to buy it, so reliability is arguably not as valued a good as people assumed.

It’s also trivial to use now. With AI, there’s no meaningful additional work in using a VM.

Or even in 2026. You absoutely will pay a human that for that work.

C# and Java devs are anecdotally the only kind of dev to think of themselves primarily by language. Most other devs don’t talk about language in a driest few sentences intro.

Doesn't this suggest your use case is simply insufficiently complicated?

> but anything built around long running business processes should not be treated in that way. Arguably they are even more willing to cut corners though. Nothing by IBM or SAP shou…

$20 for an everything tool is a steal. It’s a steal at 10x the price. I’ll happily accept best effort in exchange for it being so cheap that I can throw it at any trivial annoyance…

My grandparents had a dishwasher from the 1980s. The contractor they hired to fix it didn’t even know how to take it out of the spot as it had an old design that attached it at the…

The virtue is never having to know for stupid printer crap.

I guess I am mostly intrigued that those lists would differ greatly with respect to cleaning.