Wonder how quickly this thing would self-optimize its way to firing me. Job security just took a hit.
Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously
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#542Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well in my personal projects I write all code by hand because people relying on agents will have forgotten how to do their fucking job in 3 years and then it will be appreciated to have people understanding what they're actually doing. That being said, in my job ai writes the code just because it's way faster.
Your "fucking job in 3 years" will be very different, and if you don't learn how to do it in time, you won't still have a job in the computer industry. Pick an industry where you can stop learning new things once you're out of school, because the computer industry is not one of them and never has been. My fucking job used to be writing 6502 assembly language on an Apple ][, and I loved it, but I hope I've forgotten e…
The thing is I think there will come a time when AI tools will not be as accessible as they are now. I just don't know if it is in 3 years or more, because the market can stay irrational longer than I can foresee.
I saw this idea from elsewhere that the things AI helps with was never the "profit bottleneck" of companies. 10x engineering productivity gain does not translate to 10x more revenue if your profit bottleneck is customer acquisition and retention. In other words, your profit is limited by how many people are willing to give you money for your services and AI can't really affect that.
And even the productivity gains per individual is a generous assumption. An individual can only prompt (and check! You guys check right?) so much. Sooner or later the pendulum is gonna swing in the other direction and it will be cheaper to build a team than equip individuals with AI _to deliver the same value_. I'm also assuming that AI is still in the VC-subsidized pricing stage.
Hence why I think the job in the future is gonna be pretty similar to the job four years ago.
> The next most important skill is persistence ;) -- writing stuff down before you forget it, in a way that won't make future-you hate present-you when you need to learn it again.
Huge amen. Another thing I've found Claude very useful for is writing documentation for legacy systems and cleaning up my own notes on it. I only need Claude to be 70-80% correct because from there I can take it. That error margin is no different from moderately-outdated-but-still-useful documentation.
When that pendulum swings, I will have a documentation binder that I will print money with.
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#543This is a parody, right?
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#544Earlier quoted context omitted.
haha no they admit they built it because they cannot build a revenue generating business in the article. maybe THAT is what is good for the world!
They said that the current models could run a vending machine profitably, just not more complex things.
I feel like an AI lab is less complex than a physical vending machine business.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-claude-ai-vending-mach...
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#545Earlier quoted context omitted.
They said that the current models could run a vending machine profitably, just not more complex things.
A vending machine in Anthropic's office , which stands to gain from narratives like "I used Claude to generate profit".
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-claude-ai-vending-mach... It went badly at WSJ
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#546Meanwhile, I can't even get Astra to consistently re-use the same font-size across all of my HTML page headings+subheadings. There's just no world where this actually results in a stable, respected business. It will be death by a thousand bad impressions, mistakes and oversights. Yeah, you can automate everything. That doesn't mean it's being done well. That's not to say this might not be something feasible in 2-3 ye…
> Meanwhile, I can't even get Astra to consistently re-use the same font-size across all of my HTML page headings+subheadings.
Are you using a consistent or centralised design system across all your projects?
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#547Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because it cannot be held liable
That will probably change sooner than you think. Now that it's commonly accepted* that AI has reached AGI status there are already movements to grant legal personhood and rights to it, which would mean legal liability for its actions. Eventually we get to the cyberpunk trope of entirely autonomous corporations that only ever hire humans for gig work and pay them in femtobitcoins or something. * I'm not arguing what t…
That sounds like a horrific dream than anything. How will you even punish an AI model? I think the cyberpunk trope is a bit out of touch from reality, but a lighter version of it can definitely happen where we do get AI companies and entire board coups replacing CEOs with AI for short amounts of time, but in the end people (both consumers and investors) will want something to blame and punish properly, and they will also want control (realistically if you told any of the big people in the AI scene you're replacing them with a model they will definitely reject and claim they are needed for the company to prosper)
In addition this will probably only happen on America as most movies take place lol
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#548It's good to see the jobs of CEO's finally being threatened. Let's go after those who sit on corporate boards next, please.
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#549Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Define the style in one place and reuse it. If I had to guess, this is pure Tailwind rot.
I don't use tailwind but surely it has ways to standardize this kind of stuff?
Tailwind's philosophy is that you must not use CSS facilities at all and instead all their utility classes should be inlined into the HTML soup.
This leaves framework components as the only abstraction boundary, but that means if you're writing plain HTML without a framework there's literally no way to standardize your design system.
That and the huge soup of classes in DOM is (part of why) I don't like Tailwind... but that ship sailed a long time ago.
Re: Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously
#550Meanwhile, I can't even get Astra to consistently re-use the same font-size across all of my HTML page headings+subheadings. There's just no world where this actually results in a stable, respected business. It will be death by a thousand bad impressions, mistakes and oversights. Yeah, you can automate everything. That doesn't mean it's being done well. That's not to say this might not be something feasible in 2-3 ye…
I fully agree with the respected part. People hate when they need to contact customer support and are greeted with an AI chatbot. Now imagine if a customer needs to contact the CEO or sales department and is met with an AI chatbot.
I read a paper that says people prefer to talk with AI customer support! Where did you see the opposite being claimed??