Kev

The "stop reading code" influencers have strong opinions on how to prevent your agent from running rm -rf on your machine, and surprise: those opinions are extremely stupid.

so far at least, i'm pretty sure AI has been net job-creating. this was not what i expected--although i was much less pessimistic than others, i thought by this level of capability we'd have seen some impact. it is possible this direction keeps going!

Writing your own code, running into challenges that stump you, then learning from that is how we as developers learn why certain optimizations exist and when to use them. Most people are going to be using AI at work. This knowledge 100% still applies and is valuable. AI doesn't replace learning, but it can massively speed up your development time. Minimize use on learning projects, maximize use in cases that require speed. Give it guardrails so it gives you consistent, quality output.

For anyone wondering how a third-grader can complete six years' worth of math in a single year AND score a 5 on the AP Calculus exam. This knowledge graph spans 3,000 math topics, from 4th grade to the university level, providing the perfect basis for mastery learning. Students can go as fast or far as they want! There are no restrictions whatsoever. The only requirement is that they must demonstrate mastery of each topic before moving on to the next. Kids are capable of incredible things when given that kind of freedom and support.

my friends are all feeling extremely productive and also extremely drained with the latest coding models. this makes me feel like something is wrong, and also that there might be a big opportunity. does anyone have any strategies they use to make it feel better day-to-day?

I went a dinner a few weeks ago with a bunch of enterprise execs who told me "we will never use Chinese models." "Even if it's 100x cheaper?" "No, we care about safety and security." 1. They don't understand when they host open-source models with their own GPUs or US data centers, they won't share their data to China. 2. They are giving away all their data to OpenAI and Anthropic rather than owning it privately themselves. 3. They don't understand math. 100x is a big number and lots of profits. It's almost July 2026 now. If your execs still talk like that, fire them now.