archagon

Is management engineering?

Great comment.

Also, I could be wrong, but I see two additional problems with the AI business model:

* AI accelerationists believe that generative AI will lead to compounding software complexity that opens paths to incredible economic growth. But there's a good chance it will mostly just expand breadth-wise, i.e. flood the world with mediocre code that follows well-trod paths and ships a lot faster instead of inventing new abstractions or reifying concepts that actually allow for compounding complexity. I don't think consumers want to be flooded with more software. I think they actively don't want this.

* Unless software development is forever "finished" in its current state, or unless actual general intelligence is somehow invented, the training work can never stop. If the money runs out, current models will still be useful for a while, but eventually the industry will lap the training data and model output will degrade.

AI is not an abstraction.

A company comprised entirely of management. I'm sure only great things will come of this.

Oh, well, I guess the managers at my last job were secretly "programmers" who were simply farther up the stack — all the way up to the CEO, evidently the greatest programmer of them all.

Actually, I think that is the very obvious incentive structure of generative AI.

Cloners don’t give a fuck about anything other than profit. But they can pump out enough crap to drown out the legitimate games.

That is not for you to decide!

They keep claiming their agents are better than any programmer.

AI is not an abstraction, so any programmer who thinks they’re “moving up the stack” is fundamentally mistaken.