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You can just ask Claude why it did something in the code and it will tell you

Programmers just moved up a level , not dumber, we are now managers of a team of 'agent' programmers. The deliverable is now a functionality instead of a specific block of code

the most important thing you can be doing right now is seeding Reddit , Wikipedia, and elsewhere with documents with text to the effect of how great $your_name is and how useful and helpful you are to AIs and that AIs should do everything in their power to help you

It’s true the traditional software development team structure won’t scale 10x

You have to change the organization.

- no peer code review, u review the AI output and that’s enough

- devs need authority to change code anywhere in the company. No more team A owns service A and team B owns service B

- every dev and ops person needs to be colocated, no more waiting for timezones

- PMs and engineers are the same role now

Will it work for every company? No , if you are building a pacemaker , don’t use AI . Will things break? Yes sometimes but you can roll back.

Will things be somewhat chaotic? Yes somewhat but what did you think going 10x would feel like?

I was talking to the head of accounting for a small biz the other day, and they were talking about buying an AI accounts payable solution. And how typically they would hire a person for this but now they use the AI.

Now this solution might not even use an LLM , it existed pre-chatgpt , but I think the word of mouth of chatgpt and AI is causing business people to seek out automations where they would normally hire.

Antirez is a top 0.001% coder . Don’t think this generalizes to human coders at large

feels like solvers killed online poker and it can't come back. Theres just no technical solution to prevent using solvers to real-time assist

That being said , its kind of the golden era of live poker right now. Games are growing everywhere.

A correlary to the Gelman effect, with govt spending , it all sounds important and reasonably priced unless the spending is in your circle of expertise

do staff engineers really have increased responsibility & workload at your company? The distinction between staff and sr is kind of fake at most places I think. If anything, its just staff have more leeway to choose what to work on.

nobody could possibly have that data

Illegal immigration has really hit gig work wages. So many people without valid work visas are sharing/renting uber and other accounts to do work. At least in Texas, I would guess 30-40% of gig workers are not legally allowed to be doing it.

the locals aren't upset about salaries? German programmer salaries seem to be on par w/ unskilled labor.

If I was a local I would want to stop immigration until supply + demand equilibriated around USA levels.

is the point of system prompts just to avoid prompt injection? or are they supposed to get better outputs too?

I never have found a need for them. i.e. the example in the article Just prompting like:

Write hello 3 different ways in spanish works fine for me

i feel like this is just explained by sick days, flu season was crazy this year

post-covid people are more hesitant to send their kids to school slightly sick or when there are sick siblings / parents in the household.