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  • I don’t think this is an AI issue. It made things slightly worse (and probably a lot worse for junior devs) but work in IT/development always sucked and led to burnout. If you read about prehistory of the industry (The Soul of a New Machine for example) few people worked as engineers for more than a decade. They would work extremely hard on couple of projects, burn out and move on to managerial positions, become architects or something. Then more and more people started to aim for Principal type jobs thinking that they will do programming forever. Well, the fact is that programming as a job mostly sucks. It’s possible to find great team and interesting project but it never lasts. You usually can’t make any decisions and are just doing what you’re told, even if you know it’s stupid. There’s always some boring maintenance work that no one likes. There’s support which robs you of your free time…

    In my experience, fun projects last a year or two and then management changes, team members change, projects end and suddenly you find yourself in a completely different environment. It’s tiring and yes, people do burn out all the time. And yes, we keep doing it because coding is a fairly good work and we like it. With or without AI.









  • There’s a terrific writeup from the folks at FlintAI — their team is now 5 devs and 45 agents, all living in Slack. Nine agents per developer. The agents take roles — triage, deploy, review — the human steps in for the two decisions that actually matter (code review, release approval), and they report something like a 3x productivity bump. It’s a genuinely impressive piece of engineering and you should read it.

    That’s the model everybody’s racing toward right now: take your best seniors, strap nine agents to them, and harvest the multiple. And it works! I’m not knocking it (and I’m doing it too)!

    I’m a senior but if the future of my work is reviewing AI code all day I will buy a bunch of goats and become a goatherder.



  • Normies keep falling for scams all the time. They fall for scam on windows, over the phone and in person. We generally try to come up with rules that protect normies without overly complicating lives for everyone else. Like I have to go to a bank personally to increase single transaction limit over certain amount but I don’t have unlock some secret options and wait 24 hours every time I want to wire money to a new account.

    A warning saying “this app is not trusted, don’t install it if someone else instructed you to do so” would be enough here. Advanced users should be able to disable this warning. That’s it.



  • “I did it for 100% free”.

    5 minutes later…

    “Hosting is not cheap and I only have fraction of the library big companies have. Donate to support this project”.

    Looks like a cool project but if significant number of people started using this he would have to start charging his users. He’s creating a website that one day could compete with getty, not killed their business model.