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Has anyone noticed Amazon or AWS shipping features faster than their pre-GenAI baseline? I haven't
I'm noticeably faster shipping.
IBM tripling entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption
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Sounds nice, for how many years have you had that annual recurring revenue so far?
I only started charging customers in September. Super-linear growth. I launched annual subscriptions and within less than a week > 15% of customers switched.
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Everytime someone say something like that there is no link to the product. Maybe because it doesn't exist ?
Historically in a lot of niches such as search marketing etc, people would not name their successful projects because the barrier to entry is low. It someone can use AI to make a $50,000/year project in three months, then someone else can also do so. Obviously some people hype and lie. But also obviously some people DID succeed at SEO/Affiliate marketing/dropshipping etc. AI resembled those areas in that the entry ba…
Still need good taste and judgement to build the thing people actually want to use.
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#175You know when someone is singing the praises about AI and they get asked "if you're so much more productive with AI, what have you built with it"? Well I think a bunch of companies are asking this same question to their employees and realising that the productivity gains they are betting on were overhyped. LLM's can be a very useful tool and will probably lead to measurable productivity increases in the future, at th…
No one has built business AI that is flat correct to the standards of a high redundancy human organization.
Individuals make mistakes in air traffic control towers, but as a cumulative outcome it's a scandal if airplanes collide midair. Even in contested airspace.
The current infrastructure never gets there. There is no improvement path from MCP to air traffic control.
It's hard work and patience and math.
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This mirrors my experience exactly. Vibe coding straight up does not work for any serious code.
Todo web apps aren't serious code, I can buy that, but in your mind, what is? Are compilers "serious code"? https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-c-compiler Like, I'm sure it's just laundering gcc's source at some level, but if Claude can handle making a compiler, either we have to reframe a compiler as "not serious", or, well, come up with a different definition for what entails "serious" code.
Ticketing, payroll, point of sale, banking, HFT, e-commerce, warehouse, shipping… how have you not thought of these
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just to be clear: from my standpoint it's the worst period ever being a junior in tech, you are not "fucked" if you are junior, but hard times are ahead of you.
OTOH, as a junior, you haven't learned all the wrong lessons that don't apply anymore, and you have fewer responsibilities than the seniors.
That still doesn’t sound employable
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Tbh, getting good results from ai requires senior level intuition. You can be rusty as hell and not even middling in the language being used, but you have to understand data structures and architecture more than ever to get non-shit results. If you just vibe it, you’ll eventually end up with a mountain of crap that works sort of, and since you’re not doing the coding, you can’t really figure it out as you go along. S…
100% accurate. The architect matters so much more than people think. The most common counter argument to this I've seen on reddit are the vibe coders (particularly inside v0 and lovable subreddits) claiming they built an app that makes $x0,000 over a weekend, so who needs (senior) software engineers and the like? A few weeks later, there's almost always a listing for a technical co-founder or a CTO with experience on…
If that's true, it sounds like the vibe coders are winning - they're creating products people want, and pull in technical folks as needed to scale.
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> The "AI will replace all junior devs" narrative never accounted for the fact that you still need humans who understand the business domain, can ask the right questions, and can catch when the AI is confidently wrong. You work with junior devs that have those abilities? Because I certainly don't.
Not many, but junior devs grow into senior devs who do, which is the point. If there are no junior devs there is no one growing into those skill sets.