AI makes people less productive because it’s speeding up the thing that was hard: training AI for better future AI. The productivity gets siphoned to the AI companies owning the AI.
You'll be unsurprised how many AI poison pill projects are on GitHub
Not at all. Curious are you programming anything with AI and what is your output looking like? Are you excited about anything you're building, staying away, or both and have anything you're looking forward to building in this world either with a team, with ai, and/or with yourself?
Using a coding agent over days on a personal project. It has made me think 1. These llms are smart and dumb at the same time. They make a phenomenal contribution in such a short time and also do a really dumb change that no one asked for. They break working code in irrational ways. I’ve been asking them to add so many tests for all the functions I care about. This acts as a first guard rail when they trip over themse…
Questions. I want to get into coding agents, so, out of curiosity: which one(s) did you use and how much money has it costed you? (Any metric is fine)
My wife has a Gemini AI pro Ultra whatever that she paid for to help with her academic research, but uses barely. She was generous to login with it on my computer to let me use the cli with her credentials. So Gemini-3.0-pro comes from there. I use OpenAI and Claude API keys with EUR 20 credits that I topped up (pay per use). I've mostly settled on Gemini-3.0, but occasionally pit codex, Gemini and Claude at each other at a gnarly problem reviewing each other's work, and proposing actionable changes with clear reasoning. They tend to catch teachers blind spots, an dI get to learn something from their reviews as well.