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I feel like I'm missing something. They seem to not even have basic observability and online evals. It's not that hard to look at a trace and answer the question "is it writing code for that makes an external network request?" with reasonable accuracy.

science is still early here

Whoever is giving a bad coder resources and access will eventually stop

> three AirBnBs, two Stripes, and three Dropboxes

you want more SaaS?

how does this non dev manager have perms to do this

when I tell codex to build me a chat app and it uses gpt-4o

my bad

> but, given that all of their peers have adopted it, there is a serious social cost to opting out.

The same was true of smoking. A combination of gov regulation and social stigma have managed to reduce smoking rates.

Yes (and many more options). The alternative is having all the construction workers, teachers, janitors continue to labor and pay taxes while the former knowledge workers sit on the sidelines, which would be deeply unfair.

in your link, the "true rate" has also not risen since the rise of AI, was higher in 1995

U.S. unemployment rate is steady at ~4% and we are now almost 4 years after the release of ChatGPT. The Jobs Apocalypse seems to be always on the horizon. UBI is being pushed by college educated workers burnt out of white collar work (understandably), but when you suggest to them working construction, teaching school, or working in a hospital, they deflect and go quiet.

Why not let them have the status boost? This isn't zero sum.

Many CEOs are bad and their businesses will either fail or be bailed out. But the work CEOs do is probably some of the last to get automated - higher order strategy, relationship building, managing people.

Can you show me an example where prices went down (in the long term)?