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@atmoio @dabit3 I’m a forward deployed engineer for backend systems using ai. (I dread having to explain this to my grandparents.)

The AI industry just invented a new job. Wait until you hear what it does.

@ChShersh So you have worked with outsource contracting firms too?

I've seen man-made horror code bases much worse than the ugliest vibe slop you ever encountered

@GergelyOrosz Is it possible we have begun to swing back from the vibe coding YOLO culture?

I find myself doing a lot better work, being more satisfied, and also learn a lot more+faster when I do *the hard work* and don’t outsource it to AI. As in, I’ll use AI as a *tool* with substasks, additional research: but I don’t turn off my brain or kick back, assuming it can do the work for me. Every time I “hand over the” hard work part to AI and mentally turn off, I either regret it or find myself eventually needing to go back and spend more time on it. I also see slop work coming out from people who assume the AI does better work than they would.

@jmj @rsg I agree. Software engineering is more than prompt engineering

We've spent 3 months building a mobile app. My verdict is you cannot vibe code a commercial-grade mobile product today. Mass-market apps still need very talented full-stack mobile devs. If you're a highly talented mobile designer or engineer, this should feel like good news.

@mweinbach This was a cost cutting decision by decision

Great for Microsoft! GitHub Copilot has become way better in the past few months. Anthropic and Claude are going to become hard to justify with their egregious pricing, especially as other models are simply better and happen to be cheaper

@lennysan I think the way that corporations are fundamentally strucred has not caught up with the modern tools. Problem is management is more interested in reducing headcount than getting this issue right.

Engineers don't write code. PMs are shipping to production. The design process is dead (there's no time). Marketing can ship their own campaigns. SDRs are being replaced by AI. Everyone's a data scientist now. What a time to be alive.

@Jesse_Livermore Wait till people realize that ai will destroy all corporate jobs

"We're going to stick a loud, ugly data center near your home. The data center will provide AI compute that will make it easier for your employer to fire you." Hard to think of a technology that is set to face greater political peril. Sam Altman better hurry up with those cures!

@tomwarren For sure this is a cost cutting decision masked as dogfooding. Copilot and Claude are two very different tools.

scoop: Microsoft is starting to cancel Claude Code licenses. Engineers in Microsoft's Experiences + Devices team will have to transition to GitHub Copilot CLI by the end of June. Details in my Notepad 📒 issue, live now for subscribers 👇 theverge.com/tech/930447/mi…

@ChShersh What was the lesson? Don’t ask questions?

I once worked at a company where SWEs were discouraged from asking questions. You were supposed to find answers on your own through reading the docs and code, searching, and debugging. It taught me a lesson.

@edzitron He is simply detached from reality and his army of sycophants cheer him on.

Increasingly certain that CEOs like this don’t do any real work

@nxthompson This is so dystopian. Do any of these people leave their computer at least once in a while?

Nick Bostrom says there are a few reasons to treat AI models with respect: 1. It’s the right thing to do. 2. It helps build good habits. 3. The models might remember it when they become more powerful than us and spare the human race from total annihilation. He had some fascinating points. You can watch our full convo here: youtube.com/watch?v=omv-5R… Produced by @atlanticrethink, The Atlantic's creative marketing studio, in collaboration with @PwC.

@MattWalshBlog Shareholder value! Who cares about people. Our goal as a civilization is unlocking shareholder value.

Big Tech companies are sprinting forward, building data centers as fast as they can, sometimes using eminent domain to seize the land by force, making their AI more and more powerful, expanding the technology at lightening speed with no guardrails of any kind at all. Yet none of these tech gurus or any of their apologists have even attempted to explain what exactly all of the millions of people who lose their jobs, and the increasing numbers who lose their homes, all sacrificed on the AI altar, are supposed to do. How does society support millions of unemployed and displaced people? What becomes of a society where algorithms and machines do everything, and a few people become trillionaires while millions more lose everything? There is no answer to any of this. They aren’t even attempting to answer it. Instead we’re simply told that China exists and we have to “beat them” in some unspecified way, in order to achieve some unspecified goal. We’re going to obliterate entire industries, entire categories of jobs all at once, and the only justification anyone can give is “China.” It’s madness.

@jayair Interesting point

So AI companies are hiring loads of forward deployed engineers, which sounds like a good thing Their job though is to go into companies, streamline the processes with AI aka reduce headcount And worse, what happens to all those forward deployed engineers after they are done?

@evanlapointe lol. It’s funny how some product folks love using acronyms for everything. I think that’s a course at product management school

Product management is the craft of giving the founders imposter syndrome.

@mecid Interesting article but what choice do we have in practice if the workload requires the use of ai tools to keep up?

People who go all in on AI agents now are guaranteeing their obsolescence. If you outsource all your thinking to computers, you stop upskilling, learning, and becoming more competent. larsfaye.com/articles/agent…

@petergyang The over hiring in 2020 was often due to company acquisitions and was felt with in the 2022 layoffs. This is all about funding ai - models , inference, training, data centers etc. every round of layoffs now is like a junkie that just need one more hit.

Tell me if you've seen this before: "Today is a hard day. We've made the difficult decision to cut 1,000+ employees. Our business has never been stronger, but AI has changed how we work..." Whenever I read one of these, I mentally translate it to what's actually happening: "Today is a hard day. We overhired during the zero-interest era and need to cut costs. AI is easy to blame, so…" Over 80,000 tech employees were laid off in Q1, the highest since 2022-23. Here's my rant why these layoffs keep happening and 6 ways to take back control as an employee. 📌 Read now: creatoreconomy.so/p/enough-with-…

@Austen When did senior management turn so negative on the managerial class. So managers are worth their weight in gold.

Any time there’s a “flat org chart” and it actually works it’s because the entire company reports directly to one god-emperor who makes 999 decisions/day

@CarlosBBuild Nice

@DanBerger_ It does a pretty good job honestly, I just had to make some adjustments for the iPad version but overall, great stuff

AppStore rejections often say the build failed on an iPad, it's important to test there too

@heshie Prison in New York

@DanBerger_ what’s Attica?

this is what the average 9-5 outside of nyc looks like

@unclebobmartin That’s how I drive my car. Real drivers only need to see the speedometer.

vibe coding is flying in the clouds with no instruments.