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Nobody knows how to build with AI yet

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Re: Nobody knows how to build with AI yet

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There is a fundamentally unfortunate reality here which is quite problematic. Namely, you don’t deserve to be paid for working 8 hours if you only worked for 30 minutes over an eight hour period. I don’t care if you personally agree with that or not, the reality is that businesses believe it. That means, sooner or later there will be a great rebalancing where people will be required to do significantly more work ; pr…

Playing with your kids, aka increasing their IQ and investing in the future.

Re: Nobody knows how to build with AI yet

#252

There is a fundamentally unfortunate reality here which is quite problematic. Namely, you don’t deserve to be paid for working 8 hours if you only worked for 30 minutes over an eight hour period. I don’t care if you personally agree with that or not, the reality is that businesses believe it. That means, sooner or later there will be a great rebalancing where people will be required to do significantly more work ; pr…

Twas always such. Until we build a system where necessities are cheap (housing scarcity is a self-imposed own goal for one) we will be in constant competition with our peers so the value we produce can be extracted by casual owners.

Re: Nobody knows how to build with AI yet

#253

This article is spot on. I had stumbled upon Kidlin’s Law—“If you can write down the problem clearly, you’re halfway to solving it”. This is a powerful guiding principle in today’s AI-driven world. As natural language becomes our primary interface with technology, clearly articulating challenges not only enhances our communication but also maximizes the potential of AI. The async approach to coding has been most fasc…

The challenge is that clearly stating things is and always has been the hard part. It’s awesome that we have tools which can translate clear natural language instructions into code but even if we get AGI you’ll still have to do that. Maybe you can save some time in the process by not having to fight with code as much but you’re still going to have to create really clear specs which, again, is the hard part.

in my experience only a limited part of software can be done with just really clear specs, also at times in my career I have worked on things that became more "clear" what was really needed as time went on the more we worked on it, and in those cases really clear specs would have produced worse outcomes.

Re: Nobody knows how to build with AI yet

#254

There is a fundamentally unfortunate reality here which is quite problematic. Namely, you don’t deserve to be paid for working 8 hours if you only worked for 30 minutes over an eight hour period. I don’t care if you personally agree with that or not, the reality is that businesses believe it. That means, sooner or later there will be a great rebalancing where people will be required to do significantly more work ; pr…

"deserve" has nothing to do with it.

Re: Nobody knows how to build with AI yet

#255

There is a fundamentally unfortunate reality here which is quite problematic. Namely, you don’t deserve to be paid for working 8 hours if you only worked for 30 minutes over an eight hour period. I don’t care if you personally agree with that or not, the reality is that businesses believe it. That means, sooner or later there will be a great rebalancing where people will be required to do significantly more work ; pr…

Playing with your kids, aka increasing their IQ and investing in the future.

It doesn’t matter what downtime task it is.

You won’t have time to do it; it’s naive and ridiculous to expect that businesses will just let people goof off for 7 hours a day.

Regardless of the output they generate.

Anyone who doesn’t believe this has never had to manage budgets and staff.

It’s the “AI utopia” people making vague hand wavey motions about post-scarcity.

Re: Nobody knows how to build with AI yet

#256

There is a fundamentally unfortunate reality here which is quite problematic. Namely, you don’t deserve to be paid for working 8 hours if you only worked for 30 minutes over an eight hour period. I don’t care if you personally agree with that or not, the reality is that businesses believe it. That means, sooner or later there will be a great rebalancing where people will be required to do significantly more work ; pr…

Playing with your kids, aka increasing their IQ and investing in the future.

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Re: Nobody knows how to build with AI yet

#257

There is a fundamentally unfortunate reality here which is quite problematic. Namely, you don’t deserve to be paid for working 8 hours if you only worked for 30 minutes over an eight hour period. I don’t care if you personally agree with that or not, the reality is that businesses believe it. That means, sooner or later there will be a great rebalancing where people will be required to do significantly more work ; pr…

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Re: Nobody knows how to build with AI yet

#258

There is a fundamentally unfortunate reality here which is quite problematic. Namely, you don’t deserve to be paid for working 8 hours if you only worked for 30 minutes over an eight hour period. I don’t care if you personally agree with that or not, the reality is that businesses believe it. That means, sooner or later there will be a great rebalancing where people will be required to do significantly more work ; pr…

I am hopeful that AI leads to a future with mandatory 10 hour work weeks.

Re: Nobody knows how to build with AI yet

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post #258

There is a fundamentally unfortunate reality here which is quite problematic. Namely, you don’t deserve to be paid for working 8 hours if you only worked for 30 minutes over an eight hour period. I don’t care if you personally agree with that or not, the reality is that businesses believe it. That means, sooner or later there will be a great rebalancing where people will be required to do significantly more work ; pr…

I am hopeful that AI leads to a future with mandatory 10 hour work weeks.

Why would that happen when they can have mandatory 50 hour work weeks?

Re: Nobody knows how to build with AI yet

#260

There is a fundamentally unfortunate reality here which is quite problematic. Namely, you don’t deserve to be paid for working 8 hours if you only worked for 30 minutes over an eight hour period. I don’t care if you personally agree with that or not, the reality is that businesses believe it. That means, sooner or later there will be a great rebalancing where people will be required to do significantly more work ; pr…

> sooner or later there will be a great rebalancing where people will be required to do significantly more work; probably the work of other developers who will be fired.

this already started in 2022-23 with all the layoffs and "downsizing"

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