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Not saying that's how it should be, that's just the world I predict in the not too distant future.
I love thinking, but most people I know seem to experience it as a form of physical pain.
Actually unreadable
No one understanding what's going on inside of complex systems in financially constrained environments built and maintained by average, at best, engineers is the norm and is what keeps the world running.
None of that is a symptom of AI. The only change AI brings is that even first person developers don't know anymore what the fuck they just deployed.
I keep seeing the canard that "Anyone with an idea and access to an AI agent can ship a product. What used to take a team of twenty and six months now takes one person and a weekend. That's not hype. It's happening right now, everywhere, all at once." But I don't see it. Where is this glut of software?
I keep seeing the canard that "Anyone with an idea and access to an AI agent can ship a product. What used to take a team of twenty and six months now takes one person and a weekend. That's not hype. It's happening right now, everywhere, all at once." But I don't see it. Where is this glut of software?
I am mainly seeing across a lot of my engineer friends and mentor who I respect deeply. They are using swarms of agents to build crms, small business and run their homelabs.
There are reports of industries trying to use these tools to generate as much as possible, sure. There are also people generating bad art and unpleasant prose and using llms to generate nonsense they don’t pay attention to.
I don’t see why that implies that you or I lost interest in tinkering with toys we build. If I want to spend 4 weeks understanding oauth a little better by implementing a client, I still can and I still do.
Automating our builds absolutely didn’t create a cathedral of complexity while nobody noticed. It did mean I can open an Free Software project, read the build file and understand how to build the thing. That’s the opposite of generating complexity.
I worry about our future generations as much as the next person, but this low effort pabulum doesn’t represent the thoughtful industry and hobby that I love.
"The future belongs to whoever understands what they just shipped." Perfect summary. It's like we invented a world where you can finally, _finally_ speedrun an enormous legacy codebase and all patted ourselves on the back like that was a good thing.
I like that. These AIs are legacy codebase generators. Nobody knows how it works and everyone is afraid to touch it.
by managing the risk of failure and technical debt with a financial instrument, i have a lot more freedom to move fast and break things, and scale aggressively
I keep seeing the canard that "Anyone with an idea and access to an AI agent can ship a product. What used to take a team of twenty and six months now takes one person and a weekend. That's not hype. It's happening right now, everywhere, all at once." But I don't see it. Where is this glut of software?
I suppose if one is simultaneously ignorant when it comes to software and an expert at agentic workflow, then yeah sure, maybe--at the cost of how many tokens, though? But logically it seems that the former would preclude the latter.
Also, the "get it done in a weekend" seems to be a gross exaggeration.