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> All the propaganda and extortionist language about how all countries will pay up to USA.

Sounds a bit like Brexit.


That is a nice blog post, Gemini!

So I'm not the only one who got that impression....

Claude is incapable of producing a native application for itself, and is bad enough with web ones to justify Anthropic acquiring Bun.

It's a bad time to be an altruistic perfectionist, tell you what.

Avoid hands-on tech/team lead positions like hell.


It’s not even about perfectionism. Code’s value is about processing data. Bad code do it wrongly and if you have strange code on top of that, you cannot correct the course. Happy path are usually the low hanging fruits. What makes developing software hard is thinking about all the failure and edge cases.

that second line is so underrated

Thats the kind of thinking that got us into this mess... scab


> But they all just skip the press releases and go straight to the not using it part

Lol


Did they ever get the full extra person who gives a shit?

Slop Engineering Patterns

Do you think there’s a chance that the hundreds of thousands or millions of developers - real developers - using these tools, might actually find them useful?

Dismissing everything AI as slop strikes me as an attitude that is not going to age well. You’ll miss the boat when it does come (and I believe it already has).


> You’ll miss the boat when it does come

Is the boat:

1) unmissable since the tools get better all the time and are intelligent

or

2) nearly-impossible to board since the tools will replace most of the developers

or

3) a boat of small productivity improvements?

?


Personally today I think it’s 3.

Eventually I do think it will be 2.

I think you’ve got to make hay while the sun shines. Nobody knows how this is all going to play out, I just want to make sure I’m at the forefront of it.


So you think the tools will be intelligent yet somehow hard to master?

And the progress is slowing down in such a way, that knowledge learned today will not be outdated anymore?

Should investors be worried, since AGI is not coming anymore?


My advice is not to get hung up on whether this stuff is "intelligent" or caught out by the AGI hype.

We didn't ask if type-based autocomplete was "intelligent" before we started using that.

Treat coding agents as tools and figure out what they can and cannot do and how best to use them.


No, I think they will be very easy to use.

I think the relative comfort we've enjoyed as software engineers is going to disappear eventually. I just want to be the last to go.

My whole career, I've remained valuable by staying at the forefront of what is possible and connecting that to users' needs. Nothing has changed about my approach from that perspective.

I'm not an investor so I have no idea how they should think.


> You’ll miss the boat when it does come (and I believe it already has).

That's fine; these boats are coming daily now. I'll catch the next one if I need to.


> If you want seniors, you must let the juniors write the code.

I do not want more juniors, because given time they will be my competition.


> ...not because you wanted them to contribute, but because you wanted them to learn to contribute.

Rather because you want them to go away, because management conveniently forgot to reduce your load to account for time spent on mentoring.


I saw someone on Safari having to actually watch YouTube ads.

It was so bizarre! I forgot those even exist.


Adblockers for Safari exist. Even on iOS.

They even work sometimes I have heard.

Wipr2 is amazing. Never see ads on mobile Safari. On desktop, Orion is great.

Yeah, their thing is more making products worse over time and wasting billions. You will see this in action shortly with XBox. I think they will do both this time.

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