As many of us have stumbled upon productivity gains with agentic AI coding tools over the past year or so, we assume we can keep those gains forever, with fewer engineers building and operating ever-larger systems.
Here is why such claims are premature
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Here is a fresh article where I compare taming agentic IDEs to work predictably with running a team of 100 teenage developers who believe they know everything there is to know.
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Do good. Minimize harm. Challenge your ethical beliefs.
Writing in long-form is such a dividend-paying exercise.
As I was thinking through a few tricky situations, I went back to what I wrote a year and a half ago about a leadership framework I crafted for myself. Bigo, I figured out what I needed to do and how to do it.
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We are entering the age of industrial software production, and each of our cheeses is going to move.
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I was skeptical of AI for coding till recently. The underlying tech hallucinates, lacks conceptual understanding, and is incapable of consistently creating correct, maintainable code. My skepticism changed, but you still need to get some basics right.
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Still free, neutral, open, and human. #Wikipedia25
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"Decide what you would like your obituary to say and live the life to deserve it."
"My advice: Don’t beat yourself up over past mistakes – learn at least a little from them and move on. It is never too late to improve. Get the right heroes and copy them."
From Buffet's "Going Quiet"
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Don't you wish more of us acknowledged and behaved accordingly?
"But Lady Luck is fickle and – no other term fits – wildly unfair. In many cases, our leaders and the rich have received far more than their share of luck – which, too often, the recipients prefer
not to acknowledge."
I’m begging these leaders to change their tone. That’s it. You run the company however you see fit. But if you don’t change the way you value and respect your workforce in public, you’re going to force more and more of that workforce to come up with a backup plan. Fix the relationship before it gets damaged beyond repair.
“I’m begging these leaders to change their tone. … you’re going to force more and more of that workforce to come up with a backup plan.
Fix the relationship before it gets damaged beyond repair.”
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Thanks @anildash.com for leaving with a sense of hope
“mainstream of tech culture is thoughtful, nuanced and circumspect”
Indeed.
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Definitely not AI. AI capex, may be. Journalists need to challenge the narrative.
“A leaner new normal for employment in the U.S. is emerging. … Nearly two million people in the U.S. have been without a job for 27 weeks or more, according to recent federal data.”
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“To study the Buddha way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by the myriad things of the world.” - Dogen Zenji.
Blessed to learn about this.
“To study the Buddha way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by the myriad things of the world.”
- Dogen Zenji (via www.buddhistinquiry.org/classes/2025...)
Well written, by @garymarcus.bsky.social. But I bet folks are far too deep in the hole to realize.
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Last week's AWS incident reminds us that we're in a tangled mess. There are no more independent systems. Our systems share the fate with large swaths of the Internet. Resilience is costly. Know what you need, the business cost of what you need, and do what you can.
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“Making matters worse, the platform-extraction model is now spreading from tech to other economic sectors. In health care, private equity firms have sought to reorganize the industry into what they openly call a platform model. …”
Here we are.
“It is simply too risky to count on just a few platforms to invent our future.”
and a few individuals whose values and worldviews determine the future for the rest
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Time to distance this …
“If OpenAI quickly comes up with a vital service everyone proves willing to pay big bucks to use, maybe even its price can be justified. ”
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We will keep making the same mistakes.
“If you think an AGI would generate multitrillion-dollar profits, even a tiny chance that it happens is worth a lot.”
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Defeat greed. Don't succumb to it. Nothing else will bother you.
They can't get rid of the open web fast enough.
"Altman said he expects a chatbot interface to replace a traditional browser’s URL bar as the center of how he hopes people will use the internet in the future."
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Truly inspiring when everyone else seems to be losing their minds.
Today’s internet is one single gigantic fault domain.
"Someone who says I'm against abortion but is in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life, and someone who says I'm against abortion but I'm in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don't know if that's pro-life." 🙏
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“What will people who work at technology companies tell you, if you talk to them in ten years? I have no idea. But I suspect they will tell you that they are doing too much tedious grunt work, and they are hopeful that they will soon be saved.”
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