You can't write "autonomous agents often fail" and then advertise "AI agents that perform complex multi-step tasks autonomously" on the same site.
AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton
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#182I like this analogy, and in fact in have used it for a totally different reason: why I don't like AI. Imagine someone going to a local gym and using an exosqueleton to do the exercises without effort. Able to lift more? Yes. Run faster? Sure. Exercising and enjoying the gym? ... No, and probably not. I like writing code, even if it's boilerplate. It's fun for me, and I want to keep doing it. Using AI to do that part…
You can continue to do that for your personal projects. Nobody forces you to like AI. You may not have the choice at your job though, and you can't take Claude Code et al. from me. I've been programming for 30 years, and I still have fun with it, even with AI.
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#183You can't write "autonomous agents often fail" and then advertise "AI agents that perform complex multi-step tasks autonomously" on the same site.
Sure you can
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This take lands for me. I'm a busy dad working a day job as a developer with a long backlog of side project ideas. Hearing all the news of how good Claude Opus is getting, I fired it up with some agent orchestrator instruction files, babysat it off and on for a few days, and now have 3 projects making serious progress that used to be stale repos from a decade ago with only 1 or 2 commits. On one of them, I had to fee…
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Did you purposely write this to sound like an LLM?
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#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
No it's not that. Tell me, when was the last time you visited your shoe cobbler? How about your travel agent? Have you chatted with your phone operator recently? The lump labour fallacy says it's a fallacy that automation reduces the net amount of human labor, importantly, across all industries. It does not say that automation won't eliminate or reduce jobs in specific industries. It's an argument that jobs lost to a…
Jobs are replaced when new technology is able to produce an equivalent or better product that meets the demand, cheaper, faster, more reliably, etc. There is no evidence that the current generation of "AI" tools can do that for software. There is a whole lot of marketing propping up the valuations of "AI" companies, a large influx of new users pumping out supremely shoddy software, and a split in a minority of users…
I was with you till like a month ago. Now I’m not so sure..
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#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It can be a co-worker and it can also replace you and your whole team. You drank the koolaide m8. It fundamentally cannot replace a single SWE and never will without fundamental changes to the model construction. If there is displacement, it’ll be short lived when the hype doesn’t match reality. Go take a gander at openclaws codebase and feel at-ease with your job security. I have seen zero evidence that the fronti…
Isn’t it delusional to argue about now, while ignoring the trajectory?
The trajectory hasn’t changed: they scaled generating code, a great feat, but someone has to apply higher level abstract thinking to make the tool useful. Running agents in a cron or having non SWEs use it will not last longer than a prototype. That will not change with scaling pattern matching algorithms.
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Isn’t it delusional to argue about now, while ignoring the trajectory?
The trajectory hasn’t changed: they scaled generating code, a great feat, but someone has to apply higher level abstract thinking to make the tool useful. Running agents in a cron or having non SWEs use it will not last longer than a prototype. That will not change with scaling pattern matching algorithms.
This is true. AI won't replace software developers completely, but it will reduce the need for software developers in the long-run, making it harder to find a job.
A few seniors+AI will be able to do the job of a much larger team. This is already starting to look like reality now. I can't imagine what we will see within 5 years.
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Sure, but do you want abundance of software, or scarcity? The price of having "star trek computers" is that people who work with computers have to adapt to the changes. Seems worth it?
Abundance of services before abundance of physical resources seems like the worst of both worlds.
Aggressively expanding solar would make electrical power a solved problem, and other previously non-abatable sources of kinetic energy are innovating to use this instead of fossil fuels