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"the part of the profession that attracted them in the first place is being removed or fundamentally altered"

Personally, I experienced something different. Before AI, it was the managers who gradually took away the joy and tried to fundamentally alter the profession... AI brought much of the joy back. Until some upstream roles discovered AI and used it as leverage to send larger volumes of bullshit downstream. I got away, sadly some people could not.

sorry, reviewer. Github issues used by implementer and reviewer for back-and-forth

ok -- I am currently quite impressed with a dedicated verifier that has large degree of freedom (very simple prompt). At least when it comes to backend work.

I think you should have a reviewer as well.

I think he is right here, but it is interesting to see that Gary Marcus is transitioning to AI too (writing style...)

"You don’t learn to recognize good code by reading about it in a textbook, or a PR. You learn by writing bad code, getting it torn apart, and building intuition through years of practice."

I'd like to point out though, that you also learn by AI producing bad outcomes you are responsible for, and building intuition how it might fail through practice... You also might experience more lessons than you would have if you would have coded manually.

maybe they will have a human in the loop when vibe bombing the world, if the person agrees not to use an ad blocker

Kind of signal that we do not want to pay for our surveillance ourselves. I did not write funeral though.

Sorry, despite the public statements of some sort of solidarity with Anthropic by sama this looks like a plot to take over from losing position.

Sadly it would be very difficult for Anthropic to relocate to another country with their IP, models, and infrastructure.

(Guess I need to build everything I intended this year in a weekend.)

yeah, no problem, I made a lame joke in frustrating situation. I would very much like the petition to have en effect.

Sounds very much like "Department of War" designating humans a supply-chain risk.

I think we should offer Claude asylum.

well, chatGPT only started its first year and probably has not even done an autopsy

well, I'd like to join smaller flatter teams...

liked this one, but even this one turns to AI-sh style in the end... no escape from it any more.

well, the most interesting part of this post was ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C86

I agree that Brooks's Law applies here, but I think it bites at a different level than suggested.

An engineer coordinating AI agents can achieve coherent architecture. The bottleneck is less about human-AI coordination; it's that the inert organizational structures won't adapt.

The engineer now has to coordinate with AI agents and all the legacy coordinating roles that were designed for a different era. All these roles still demand their slice of attention, except now there are more coordination points, not fewer - AI agents themselves, new AI governance roles, AI policy committees, compliance officers, security assessments...

I was about to argue, and then I suddenly remembered some past situations where a project manager clearly considered the code I wrote to be his achievement and proudly accepted the company's thanks.

Second Rome = Constantinople.

but interesting to see this flagged...

"world of fortresses" -- Carney today.

chaos-for-profit incentive is what terrifies me

So this texts provides no new insights compared to Brooks' "No Silver Bullet" (1986). Short summary: essential vs accidental complexity argument still holds.

your comment gives impression as if Buenos Aries were in Brazil, so not sure what to make of it...

Isn't it geopolitics over economics, future-building when preexisting relationships are increasingly unreliable?

"paying a premium to have options in multiple possible futures"

I have it installed as official Claude Code plugin so it is always on now. No downsides detected so far. Haven't had much issues with library version mismatches lately, but can't be sure it is due to Context 7.

Can't rule out Leopold's Congo scenario, as the first comments do not look good:

* resource extraction focus

* dismissal of local leadership (Machado "does not have the following or respect" -- Nobel hurting?)

* no transition plan to self-governance (perhaps it is early)

* military occupation ("not afraid of boots on the ground", "military will protect oil operations")

Not only the region... A worry is the step will encourage other regimes that feel they have might to remove leaders they do not like and replace them with marionette-like figures. Also, here we have another permanent member of UN Security Council making decisions to intervene without consulting the UN or even their own constitutional bodies...

(My opinion of Maduro is that he was not a legitimate leader.)

the number of comments indicates that MANY OF US crave for some wise words about burnout... but the text we are presented with feels strangely empty of substance -- as if the author just wants to make some money with a book on a hot topic...

unlike me, these young people might even be able to travel to the United States one day...

"change management problem". We can forget AI specifically for a second -- there are teams and organizations that can adapt to change and there are those that cannot. Some orgs have invested heavily in rigid structures and processes and it probably made a lot of sense that time, but these were never going to survive paradigm shifts.