Everyone feared AI taking over; the real danger is AI serving just the few

If you can build a good harness around a weaker LLM and get good at prompting, you will still be able to out perform people using CC. CC has context bloat and even more checks to make sure it’s not being distilled, doing anything shady, or building a competing LLM. Those things add context bloat.

Hope is not lost, we just need to open a new front.

Regulatory capture now ensures that billionaires and trillion-dollar corporations can put you out of business and sell whatever remains for parts.

If they don't decide to squash you, you're just lucky.

Ran platform tooling with an active Dev team Two years in our director retired My manager at the time (good guy who cared) and a sister team got in an argument My manager told me on our last 1:1 together that he hated those guys. They play politics and speak bullshit Leadership took just me and the app/ tooling to that sister team New manager made me responsible developer. He was okay. Year later he is promoted and promotes his best friend from highschool to be this groups manager That new guy takes a few months off, paternity leave Before he somes back higher leadership starts allowing us to use AI I created a pull request with AI help to fix some logging that I couldn't get to, too busy with other things This new manager is currently anti AI, tells me he noticed I used AI slop and proceeds to say I'll never be a software developer even though I've been doing it for 15 years. He starts emailing me about a bunch made up busy work and stuff "I didn't do" and was late about everything Reality is he didn't attend out team standups. He would constantly reschedule 1:1 with me last minute and then end up canceling after rescheduling a handfull He just didn't like anything my first manager created and hated me by association and was very anti AI like a lot of the management at the time. Summer comes along and I request a mentor. He denies it without reason I even traveled to his office location with my own money to get some. Facetime with him but he didn't show up to the office those days I was in town. That AI pull request started this guy digging in Then company wide. AI is open for all and we need to use it He still shames me for using Claude. Even small. Focused PRs. Didn't matter. January I talk to three level directors up. That guy just shrugged his shoulders and said to do what my manager wanted Two months later that guy setups another second call with me. Starts out well. Then manager joins. They told me the news. I told them on that call that it was insane that I couldn't tell my side of the story and that that manager opinion was all that mattered. At that time my manager was starting a AI project. Full hypocritical timeline. And my account was restricted right away. And security found where I was on campus and escorted me out while taking many photos of me and my vehicle.

Almost five years thrown away. All I did was make my tooling and software less buggy, more reliable, and help all people using the tooling. But that kind of work isn't respected. And management at these places could care less that my dog got cancer during this time. They could care less I moved to that town to work at that company and was there for almost five years with a mortgage. Could care less that I need healthcare. Could care less about all the things I did.

Hell I had good to great performance reviews with the first and second manager. But that third just gave me