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What the heck? What product was I advertising here?
The one you link to?
I posted this comment because I didn't know what the author meant by ONA and had to look it up myself.
I wonder if there is cargo culting afoot There are definitely guys in some companies just pointing an agent swarm at 50 Github tickets and saying "go get 'em boys" and hence need a lot of orchestration tools but for the rest of us do we really need the AI to do all the build steps and the testing steps... or do we just need the new feature that runs when the button is clicked and then we can check it out in the brows…
I still don‘t know if this is real. If it works like that, where are the companies that only kept every tenth, 10x‘d AI enhanced dev? They should have significantly higher margins. The companies that keep all devs and 10x‘d them, finally bringing that backlog to 0 should have exploding revenue and profit.
Where does AI create value? I can‘t see it.
I use it every day, but nothing got faster.
It's August 9, 2026 and if you're a software engineer who hasn't had multiple "holy shit, I can't believe it just did that" moments, it's time to consider a new trade.
It's August 9, 2026 and if you're a software engineer who hasn't had multiple "holy shit, I can't believe it just did that" moments, it's time to consider a new trade.
"The hard part of software engineering was never writing the code." Again, are we still on this ridiculous concept. I stopped reading at that sentence. Is that going to be the revisionist future that the industry tells itself - ""one day, LLMs came along and suddenly computers could program themselves, and it was an absolute revolution, but it made no difference at all to anything because "The hard part of software e…
The second part was that the test was being administered by a gatekeeper who was hired before those practices were put in place.
The 3rd was what? Amazon or Netflix burning your ass out because they are anti-human companies?
It's August 9, 2026 and if you're a software engineer who hasn't had multiple "holy shit, I can't believe it just did that" moments, it's time to consider a new trade.
No. Anyone making this claim is being disingenuous.
I wonder if there is cargo culting afoot There are definitely guys in some companies just pointing an agent swarm at 50 Github tickets and saying "go get 'em boys" and hence need a lot of orchestration tools but for the rest of us do we really need the AI to do all the build steps and the testing steps... or do we just need the new feature that runs when the button is clicked and then we can check it out in the brows…
> just pointing an agent swarm at 50 Github tickets and saying "go get 'em boys" I still don‘t know if this is real. If it works like that, where are the companies that only kept every tenth, 10x‘d AI enhanced dev? They should have significantly higher margins. The companies that keep all devs and 10x‘d them, finally bringing that backlog to 0 should have exploding revenue and profit. Where does AI create value? I ca…
It's August 9, 2026 and if you're a software engineer who hasn't had multiple "holy shit, I can't believe it just did that" moments, it's time to consider a new trade.
Not everyone is a web developer bub
I don't recommend web work, the last ten years or the next ten. Wouldn't touch the stuff. I skipped the phone app era, too.