I literally don't write code anymore, I write detailed specs, invest a lot of time into my guardrails and integrations, and review changes from my agents. My code quality has not fallen, in fact we've been able to be much more strict about our style guidelines.
My job has changed completely, but the results are the same - simply much, much faster. And to be clear, this is in code bases that are hundreds of thousands of lines deep, across multiple massive monorepos, and using context from several different documentation sites - both internal and external.
If anything, people are understating the effects this will have over the next year, let alone further. The entry-level IC dev is dead. If you aren't producing at least twice as fast as you used to, you're going to be left behind. I cannot possibly suggest strongly enough that you start learning how to use it.
Congrats, you work against your own causes. If you aren't willing (or more likely able) to back up your claims, I'm just gonna assume you're full of shit and move on 🤷♂️
Able to afford to throw hundreds of dollars per month towards just the convenience of having food delivered.
Important to note that this doesn't account for the price of the food itself, or the fact that the prices are inflated on top of eating out, just the delivery fees and tips.
I have two kids and still game probably 3-4 nights/week, it's just much shorter sessions. I'm not pulling full gaming days on the weekends anymore, I'm playing for an hour or so before bed.
I find that most people who say there isn't enough time for gaming simply choose things like watching TV instead 🤷♂️ which is fine, to be clear, but it's a choice
You can have friends that are also coworkers, but you cannot have coworkers that are also friends - the "primary" relationship is important, IMO. If the primary reason we're interacting is that we work together, there's obviously no reason we can't be friendly but we are not actually friends.
If your coworker is a coworker first and a friend second, why wouldn't you pick a raise over them? Why wouldn't you pick a promotion over them? Why wouldn't you rather them out for something that negatively affects your job? At that point, it's just a subjective scale for what you would do for the job and what might screw over your coworker.
It's genuinely useful if you know how to use it 🤷♂️
More importantly, it's the first real society-level paradigm shift since the internet, really, and provides the most effective platform for the rich to suck even more of the wealth up to the top of the system. They haven't seen returns like this since the dotcom bubble.
The speed of progress of the current generation of AI
The number of jobs that AI can already replace.
Just how many fuckin' people are forklift drivers or cashiers
The will of your employers to be rid of annoying, needy employees
You're overestimating:
The actual productivity of most people
Your actual worth to your company
How much company leaders understand about AI outside of "I can cut headcount by a lot"
I think the part that most people miss is that it's not about being a 1:1 replacement. With proper use of the AI tools we have now, it's not at all unexpected for one person to be able to do the job of many by overseeing the running and output of AI agents. AI isn't going to replace whole industries (yet), but it is absolutely going to replace half of the members of a lot of teams.
I think everyone can agree the no-html club is insane. Why not just a reduced version, so you can actually do stuff like links?