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Knowledge is knowing Frankenstein isn't the Monster.

Wisdom is knowing Frankenstein is the Monster.

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There’s also the uncomfortable reality that a lot of people spent a lot of time learning how to do things that anyone can prompt now…

We tend to ignore that reality but it hangs above all these discussions like a dirty cloud

I’m not sure this is so true. Anthropic and OpenAI are both heavily hiring for humans in enterprise roles. Safe to say they are using AI as much as possible and they need humans too.

This thread is simultaneously horrifying and hilarious at the same time.

Hilarious because onesociety2022 seems so earnest. Someone who is shocked at the idea that job search isn’t a pure meritocracy.

Horrifying because kuang_eleven points out just how easy it is to pass a qualified candidate if you want to.

The truth is somewhere in the middle…

I don’t understand this comment?

I’m guessing you’re suggesting it’s ok to lose time if you’re away from your computer enjoying life, and I agree. I also don’t see the issue in finding ways to be save time with work.

If you mean something different, please elaborate.

I actually look at this another way. I think we’re going to see a lot more open source. Before you had to get your pr merged into main. Now people will just ask ai to build the tool they need and then open source it.

Maintainers won’t have to deal with an endless stream of PRs. Now people will just clone your library the second it has traction and make it perfect for their specific use case.

Cherry pick the best features and build something perfect for them. They’ll be able to do things your product can’t, and individual users will probably find a better fit in these spinoffs than in the original app.

On the other hand, you lose a lot of time if you step away from a session and it gets stuck asking for permission to do something simple.

I’ve been thinking about this idea a lot. I have a phrase that I’ve taken to using. Leverage Engineering.

I think AI is going to create a whole new class of people that take a tiny output and turn it into an outsized output.

When this works, it is really nice. Think Cursor, Lovable, or OpenClaw.

When it doesn’t work though, things get ugly too. The same power that allows a small team to build a billion dollar company also allows rouge agents to industrialize their efforts as well.

Combine this with the rise of headless browsers and you have a dangerous cocktail.

I wouldn’t be surprised if we see regulation or licensing around frontier AI APIs in the near future.

I'm building a benchmark for coding agent memory following your philosophy. There are so many memory tools out there but I have not been able to find a reliable benchmark for coding agent memory. So I'm just building it myself.

A lot of this stuff is really new, and we will need to find ways to standardize, but it will take time and consensus.

It took 4 years after the release of the automobile to coin the term milage to refer to miles driven per unit of gasoline. We will in due time create the same metrics for AI.