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We will deliver success through a flatter organization that is built around makers (individual contributors focused on building), player-coaches (leaders who remain deeply involved in the work while developing their teams), and directly responsible individuals (DRIs) who own key decisions and outcomes

Fascinating. The death of management is happening all throughout software.

Interesting point… and I suppose for the most part, I agree. A rare case of a mostly free lunch.

Do you honestly believe in the so called “free lunch”? I mean there are MANY substances you can presently take that make you feel way better, but always come with a cost or a downside. Why should we believe GLP-1 class drugs are any different?

And you’ve opened wireshark and verified the model is sending absolutely nothing? Not caching and sending later, etc?

Thanks. I went looking for how to actually verify myself as I would love to get access to Fable again. This post confirmed it, it's not relate to Fable at all and has been around. Thanks.

Interesting perspective but don't you think it's too late? Opus 4.8 can already replace most developers. Companies are already cutting the bottom half of the work force, since Opus on a cron can churn out bug fixes.

Maybe there's some hope that if we stop here, we'll still need senior level developers to guide the models and step in where they (occasionally) fall short? Maybe Mythos/Fable was the first time where that was no longer really true?

I'd disagree. I saw plenty of really mediocre work from Fable, especially in various niche programing endeavors (graphics comes to mind). It doesn't strike me as the "end to all programmers" yet... though fast forward 10 years and it seems inevitable that all of our salaries will be halved, if not more.

I was a highly active boy, who really struggled in my youth to find interest in school and therefor found studying hard, etc.

At multiple points I was told I had ADHD but I knew that wasn’t right at all.

I have tons of interests and no struggle to focus on those. Ask me to sit and learn about something irrelevant like Native American basket weaving and I will tune out.

Also missing for boys is physical exercise. 1 hour of PE twice a week in high school is absolutely ridiculous. All that energy has to go somewhere. Pills work but at what cost?

I doubt it. There’s a very hungry work force ready to take any job available.

You will literally build nothing but the most primitive of devices unless you accept black boxes. In fact I'd argue its one of humanities great strengths that we can build on top of the tools others have built, without having to understand them at the same level it took to develop them.

There is a huge difference between greenfield development and working with an existing codebase.

I'm not trying to discredit your experience and maybe it really is something wrong with the model.

But in my experience those first few prompts / features always feel insanely magical, like you're working with a 10x genius engineer.

Then you start trying to build on the project, refactor things, deploy, productize, etc. and the effectiveness drops off a cliff.

I totally get these are very hard problems so solve and that we're on the bleeding edge of what's possible but I can't help and wonder when someone is going to crack real video understanding.

sure, maybe it's still frame-by-frame but so fast and so often that the model retains a rolling context of what's going on and can answer cleanly temporal questions.

"how packages were delivered over the last hour", etc.

Is there anything unique here happening for the video aspect or is it just taking snapshots over and over?

I’ve been looking for a good video summarizing / understanding model!

Can someone explain what one might use this model for? As a developer with a casual interest in biology it would be fun to play with but honestly not sure what I would do

Don’t have to prove it to me… I was asking genuinely.

What do you mean when you say “do a gut cleanse”?

Why do you do in production?

What? Where do you live?

I often ask people when I first see them, “ hey how’s it goin’? “

And 99.9% of the time it’s a short “good, u?”

Very much just a hi/hi type oft thing.

Genuinely curious as someone who wants to improve… what the hell do you talk about?

I’m trying to picture the random people I encounter while walking my dog, for example. Neighbors who I don’t know. That’d be a great place to start up a convo as I walk by but I draw a complete blank.

0 skill in this.

Fascinating post for THIS forum.

I don’t know about others but a big reason I went into software development (whether I want to admit it or not) is because I am “naturally” not very skilled in talking to, or dealing with , people.

While I’ve done very well in tech, the truth is, lacking this skill has only been a detriment.

The problem at this point is I truly don’t like random people, and I have no idea how to fix that. Often people are rude, inconsiderate, selfish, etc. the canonical example is being in a row at the grocery store, walking down the row, someone’s cart is just way out in the center blocking your path, and as you approach, they do nothing.

Anyways “people skills” are definitely a SKILL and one I’ve avoided to my detriment over the years. Need to work on that.

It all depends on how deep you want to go.

Building wrapper apps on top of LLM APIs takes barely more knowledge and training than normal frontend and backend dev works.

If you want to develop your own models, that’s probably the next layer where you need to learn about training, etc.

Even deeper is Ai research… once upon a time LLMs were not the bleeding edge… it takes research often times theoretical and steeped in physics and math to develop your own “ai”

Eh, sure, but marginally better if not the same as Claude 4.6, which itself was a small bump over Claud 4.5

But actual progress seems to be slower. These modes are releasing more often but aren’t big leaps.

there’s something of a paradox there. Reduce the context window and work on smaller/tightly scoped requests? Isn’t the whole value proposition that I can work much faster? To do that, I naturally try to describe what I want at a higher, vaguer level.

I’m an “old school programmer” just like you, but still use Claud code.

For greenfield projects it’s absolutely faster to churn out code I’ve written 100 times in the past. I don’t need to write another RBAC system, I just don’t. I don’t need to write another table implementation for a frontend data view.

How Claud helps us is speed and breadth. I can do a lot more in shorter time, and depending on what your goals are this may or may not be valuable to you.

A share a similar frustration as you, that it seems “people” don’t care about / never question things, but for me it’s really about one big question:

Why the f*ck are we here? Why does ANYTHING exist? What IS this reality?

How “nobody” (very very few) people are trying to figure this out or are bothered by the question and open to talking about it blows my mind mind.

Honestly you need to try Waymo. It’s in a league of its own.

That pretty much nails it. Starting something from 0? AI can get you from 0 to something in blistering speed.

Working on a real product, in production, at scale?

Tread carefully..

Gosh, given you’ve been there I have to ask what allowed you to get out of that and pursue only things that interest and excite you?

Unless that polish has value. Thats the hard part, knowing what features to really spend that extra time on, and which to 1 and done.

Ultimately the vision for the company and the product have to come from SOMEWHERE.

Small companies often have the CEO in a product position in my experience.

Still isn’t ideal though and more to your point, how they actually do the product role is really what matters. I.e. chasing shiny objects.