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Fantastic post. This sums up my experience perfectly with a near identical time frame to yours.

I believe you’re confusing access with outcomes. Giving people access to markets isn’t exploitation afaic.

If you’d like to make dubious trades that’s your prerogative and who am I to stop you.

I'm with you on this one, having "vibe coded" some smaller internal tools on GPT 5, and then re-vibed it on Opus 4.6 and 5.5 -- they basically just fixed all of the problems without me doing much of anything other than prompting it to look at the existing code and make it "better".

Captains can't decide to substitute/bench one of their teammates in the middle of a game.

I answered this in a different comment below, but a lot of the friction is around the amount of time it takes to test/review/submit etc, and a lot of this is centered around tooling that no one has had the time to improve, perf problems in clunky processes that have been around longer than anyone individual, and other things of this nature. Addressing these issues is now approachable and doable in one's "spare time".

It sounds like you might have some larger process problems if someone can just inject a bunch of vibe-coded slop into critical workflows while more discerning eyes are dubious of the quality/reliability etc.

honest recommendation: nuke and pave after analyzing (w/ AI of course) where it went horribly wrong.

it's trivial to reimplement a better solution.

We've had a lot of complaints about our review processes, time to submit, etc, and a lot of that boils down to tools no one has time to improve.

It's now trivial to fix these problems while still doing our day jobs -- shipping a product.

I'm sorry to hear that you have people abusing their new superpowers.

I run a team and am spending my time/tokens on serious pain points.

I'm burning an insane number of tokens 8-12 hours a day for the dramatic improvement of some internal tooling at a big tech company. Using it heavily for an unannounced future project as well.

I presume I'm not the only one.

This is the company that allowed a vibe-release resulting in the leaking the entirety of the Claude Code codebase. What is the bar you're expecting here exactly?

You can use the Copilot CLI with the atlassian mcp to super easily edit/create confluence pages. After having the agent complete a meaningful amount of work, I have it go create a confluence page documenting what has been done. Super useful.

Also, with an LLM you can tell it to throw away everything and start over whenever you want.

When you do this with an outsourced team, it can happen at most once per sprint, and with significant pushback, because there's a desire for them to get paid for their deliverable even if it's not what you wanted or suffers some other fundamental flaw.

Fair point. I've wasted way too much time arguing about this in my org. The messaging is effectively that the "data" (which is never presented to anyone) indicates on-site is better, and if you disagree, feel free to go test the job market.

No disagreements there (I'm at Microsoft). I should also note that in the part of the org I work, exceptions are re-evaluated every quarter.

This announcement is pretty much meaningless, as it's completely up to the VPs of a given org to set the policy. Many teams have already been back 3-5 days a week for over a year, and exceptions aren't hard to get if you're a senior+ employee or otherwise have considerations that prevent this from being feasible.

EM = Engineering Manager IC = Individual Contributor

I guess there's no 'M' in "FAANG" but there's this:

https://www.geekwire.com/2025/im-good-for-my-80-billion-what...

Man do I ever miss this UI design. Nice work!

US Senators make $193,400 per year and there are 100 of them. This ~20mil doesn't exactly stack up to the ~1.8 trillion of US government discretionary spending (or ~4 trillion of 'mandatory' spending).

I'd like to get on the pre-order list for this product.

Not sure if this is a joke or not, but you can right-click the taskbar, click taskbar settings, and under the "Taskbar behaviors" tab there's a "Taskbar alignment" drop down with options "Left" and "Center.

Brilliant article, thank you for sharing.

I was pretty amazed to see him link this particular Lee Burridge set from Bali. I’ve watched/listened to it many times over and it never fails to put me in a happier state of mind.

What part of the org were you interviewing in?

I wish there was some sort of permitting required to use one of these things. I love the idea of people getting around quickly without needing a car, but I take serious issue with a large number of people I see on these things in the streets (and more annoyingly sidewalks) of Seattle that think they're a pedestrian that just happens to be going 20+ mph.

https://course.fast.ai/

"You’ll see that fast.ai’s way of teaching is very different to what you might be used to, if you did a technical degree at university. Nearly all technical subjects at university are taught “bottom up”: start with basic foundations, and gradually work up to complete useful solutions to real world problems. But we go “top down”: start with complete useful solutions to real world problems, and gradually work down to the basic foundations. Education experts recommend this approach for more effective learning."

I’ve been a C++ dev for a couple of decades and know my fair share of unreadable code. I’ve recently started learning Python and holy shit, it’s like you get accolades in this language for doing as much as possible in as few characters as possible. Guess I’m getting too old for these young whippersnappers.

Not to mention "sigh", which I find impossible to say without also sighing.

Thank you