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Sometimes it takes the older generation of members and leadership to die out for these beliefs to shift.

Businesses aren't hiring as many new grads, and many "thought leader" business types are actively snorting at not needing many or educated employees. So what do we think the "American views" would do in that situation?

It's just one "Buy Now" button. How hard could that be? /s

There's agentic development where you've designed, even at a high level what the goals and constraints are. Within reason, as doing 10 things at once is not compatible with actually thinking about a problem, no matter what your Adderall says.

Then there's... management forcing "agentic development" on you to basically hurry up, and actively don't want your design input or even to think about the problem. Just 'review it' and be expected to own the problems after. Outsourcing basically.

The first is fine, second is not sustainable for any happiness unless you are offering top compensation.

I'd love to see you successful, so wanted to comment:

The app feels very vibe-coded, and gives impression it's not well tested and polished for a new user/project.

I appreciate PCBs aren't the usual the consumer-level type of user, but I felt confused by a lot compared to JLCPCB. Hope that helps.

It's great aside from no usb-c display, mine has an HDMI port though.

It's been my primary dev machine for 2 years

Biggest issue that gets lost is the slower mundane parts of development were/are a very valuable forcing function to think about wtf you are even doing and making.

Even with AI, you need that time. So I've drawn a line in sand with management that, no, I won't be rushed along and hurry up on those important parts, even with AI speeding some things up.

I think that's why you keep hearing about all these tech stack rewrites.

Many of these companies have no idea what to do to begin with, so improving dev throughput is not really the business problem to begin with (even though frequently blamed).

> A truly skilled developer who makes a genuine attempt should be expected to solve 99% of their tasks within the same business day as of October 2026.

> Quite the contrary. It will create a vacuum that the business will fill with new work that may incidentally increase the developers' compensation packages.

This seems very disconnected with the reality of any company I've worked at in 25 years.

"Tasks" frequently are not spelled out, or if they are, they are wrong. There's almost no value to a company to blaze through all this.

Similarly, no one is getting rewarded for that type of speed, especially if the company has no idea how to uptake it.

I’m not a fan of many progressive causes, but this is absolutely more an issue with globalization and easy ability to move jobs overseas to cheaper areas.

This is the case throughout the West, including the US. A generation ago the powers at be decided they would invest in China for this.

Never personally liked Rails, but I see folks in my circles now convincing themselves they are 100x productive having Claude write web apps with no frameworks in whatever random combo of tech they chose. The end result looks like they should have just used Rails and done this in a few days instead of weeks or months of tokens.

To be honest, I really think some people use the “I'm so productive“ as an excuse for why they’re doing drugs and cover for addiction (even if mild). A lot of this so-called productivity is spinning wheels and jumping around.

So can I work from home then instead?