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Post by bblb »

collingreen wrote: post #73
01HNNWZ0MV43FF wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My YC2026 startups are an AI agent that automatically manages your VSCode forks, and a public safety computer vision app for smart glasses that predicts whether someone can afford a lawyer based on their skin color

They'll have to compete with these other pending funded companies: - ai therapist for your ai agents - genetic ai agent container orchestration; only the best results survive so they have to fight for their virtual lives - prompt engineering as a service - social media post generator so you can post "what if ai fundamentally changes everything about how people interact with software" think pieces even faster - vector…

> genetic ai agent container orchestration; only the best results survive so they have to fight for their virtual lives

AI Agent Orchestration Battle Bots. Old school VMs are the brute tanks just slowly ramming everybody off the field. A swarm of erratically behaving lightweight K8s Pods madly slicing and dicing everything coming on their way. Winner takes control of the host capacity.

I might need this in my life.

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Post by ithkuil »

throwawaysleep wrote: post #427
uatec wrote: post #378

"Congratulations, you have been elevated to manager to agents." That's not exactly really where I hoped my career would lead. It's like managing junior developers, but without having nice people to work with.

As an introvert, that's a pro, not a con. The burden of human interaction is removed from building.

I'm an introvert and I love working with nice people.

I just need some time by myself to recharge after all the social interactions.

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Post by throwawaysleep »

sorokod wrote: post #435
uatec wrote: post #378

"Congratulations, you have been elevated to manager to agents." That's not exactly really where I hoped my career would lead. It's like managing junior developers, but without having nice people to work with.

"junior developers" is a convenient label, it is incorrect but it will take a bit until we come up something that describes entities that: - can write code - tireless - have no aspirations - have no stylistic or architectural preferences - have massive, but at the same time not well defined, body of knowledge - have no intrinsic memories of past interactions. - change in unexpected ways when underlying models change…

Sounds like a junior developer?

They can usually write code, but not that well. They have lots of energy and little to say about architecture and style. Don't have a well defined body of knowledge and have no experience. Individual juniors don't change, but the cast members of your junior cohort regularly do.

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Post by shermantanktop »

sorokod wrote: post #435
uatec wrote: post #378

"Congratulations, you have been elevated to manager to agents." That's not exactly really where I hoped my career would lead. It's like managing junior developers, but without having nice people to work with.

"junior developers" is a convenient label, it is incorrect but it will take a bit until we come up something that describes entities that: - can write code - tireless - have no aspirations - have no stylistic or architectural preferences - have massive, but at the same time not well defined, body of knowledge - have no intrinsic memories of past interactions. - change in unexpected ways when underlying models change…

- don't learn from what you tell them

- don't have career growth that you can feel good about having contributed to

- don't have a genuine interest in accomplishment or team goals

- have no past and no future. When you change companies, they won't recognize you in the hall.

- no ownership over results. If they make a mistake, they won't suffer.

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Post by tjmadsen »

uatec wrote: post #378

"Congratulations, you have been elevated to manager to agents." That's not exactly really where I hoped my career would lead. It's like managing junior developers, but without having nice people to work with.

OR - think about the junior developers being managers of agents, and you are still a manager of junior developers. This is not zero sum!

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Post by UltraSane »

uatec wrote: post #378

"Congratulations, you have been elevated to manager to agents." That's not exactly really where I hoped my career would lead. It's like managing junior developers, but without having nice people to work with.

I enjoy getting into a good flow state and pounding out clever and elegant code but watching a good LLM generate code according to my specs and refining it is also enjoyable. I've been burning through $250 of free Claude Code Web credits and having multiple workers running at the same time is fun.

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Post by cambaceres »

shermantanktop wrote: post #444
sorokod wrote: post #435

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"junior developers" is a convenient label, it is incorrect but it will take a bit until we come up something that describes entities that: - can write code - tireless - have no aspirations - have no stylistic or architectural preferences - have massive, but at the same time not well defined, body of knowledge - have no intrinsic memories of past interactions. - change in unexpected ways when underlying models change…

- don't learn from what you tell them - don't have career growth that you can feel good about having contributed to - don't have a genuine interest in accomplishment or team goals - have no past and no future. When you change companies, they won't recognize you in the hall. - no ownership over results. If they make a mistake, they won't suffer.

Sounds like my teammates.

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Post by 6thbit »

Slogsworth wrote: post #24

I recognize the guys in the video, they were in marketing videos for the Windsurf IDE before its founding team was cannibalized by/absorbed into Google.

I found the demo videos off-putting, people come off a bit smug, not sure if intended.
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