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Question on my mind right now: What role is least impacted by AI (so far)?

Agents should not be the new runtime. You are then locked and at the mercy of token limits changes, etc... Agents should help you build sound architectures. Most of the time, you do not need an Agentic solution.

AI + Agency = you cannot say anymore "This is not my job"

@lennysan 100% But to be balanced, AI facilitates access to data, and now PMs & Eng have no excuses not to look at the data. @cursor_ai , Snowflake MCP, and Google Workspace is a fanastic trio. Now, I can do deep data analysis, without depending on anyone. Game changer.

Not enough people are talking about how much AI is impacting the role of data science. I was chatting with a DS friend, and he said that most of his team's work now is reviewing half-assed AI data analysis from PMs and engineers. And that 50% of the time, that analysis is wrong. The role is becoming less fun.

@petergyang Reviewing and editing is the new coding

Here's a common trap with AI if you're not careful: 1. You ask it to generate some markdown files (maybe to build some skills). You skim them and they look ok. Sure, there's a bit of slop in there, but you're too lazy to edit them manually. 2. Over time you ask it to generate more markdown files. Except now it's referencing the previous files to write the new ones. 3. What started as 5% slop becomes 10% and then more. Before you know it, you've got a pile of AI-generated slop that feels overwhelming and have no idea how any of it actually works. 🥲

@poteto Yes, and we deserve an editor. Who is building this ?

i am on team markdown

Convince me that Terminal is better than Cursor 3. Try hard, I listen.

Excellent formulation of where I currently land. If we generalize, we need to distinguish input to AI (markdown carefully curated) from AI output (html with clear visualization). Always date and tag AI output as such. I fear very soon, we won't know which is which, and will consequently drown in a sea of content.

@andrestaltz True. People don't understand until they try it.

Cursor* is better than Claude Code. * The IDE, the cloud environment, the integration with Linear, Slack, and various other tools. And the overall experience, flexibility and productivity. I never have to worry about keeping my laptop awake.

@DanielMiessler @trq212 Agree In short - md is for Human and AI to collaborate - html is the output for readability

This is really cool thinking from @trq212 here, but I think I disagree with the solution. He makes a great point about Markdown being more difficult to share and communicate ideas with, because formatting and visuals can make things super easy to understand. My problem with the approach is that, by trading editabilty for readability, we’re separating we humans even further from the creation process. I value Markdown because I value text. And I value text because I see it as one step away from thought. I believe thinking is the one thing we should be careful not to outsource, and I worry what this idea smuggles in is a major step toward making our creations opaque to humans. Not just AI's creations, but ours as well. The reason I value Paul Graham so much is because of the idea compression work that goes into writing super clean prose. It's difficult to write clearly because it requires thinking clearly. Text makes your ideas naked, and I like that. - What is the problem, exactly? - What should we do to solve it? - Why is our solution better than alternatives? I love the challenge of crystalizing this kind of critical stuff in pure text before any technology is involved. If we're not writing that text ourselves, and then editing it, it starts to feel a lot like bringing a strong robot to the gym. I worry that if we vibe-think to AI and have it spit out amazing HTML, we're instantly disconnected from the idea. Like where did the idea go? It started as vibes and got put through a woodchipper and turned into someone else's HTML. Can I see it in 4 simple bullets? Can I stare at it? Can I grapple with it. Can I tweak it? It's an idea. I need to be able to wrestle with it. Of course we can ask the AI to summarize its brilliant HTML document into four bullets, but we'll have lost through compression and expansion some percentage of the original. Maybe I'm being overly emotional here. I just feel like if you didn't put the hard thinking and writing work into the original idea, and then maintain it in a format that's easy for humans to read and edit, then you have somehow surrendered something Holy to the machines. I say this as a total AI maximalist. But I get the point he's making, and I think it's super valid. It's hard to explain or convince people of things with a giant text file. Formatting massively helps. Images massively help. Even an interface or a video or something. So we're synched on that. I just think it might be better to come at the output we both want in a different way. - MARKDOWN: Easy for humans to write, hard for humans to read. - HTML: Hard for humans to write, easy for humans to read. Maybe the solution isn't moving the first step to HTML where it becomes more opaque to both agents and humans (plus the versioning issues Thariq talked about). Maybe the solution is something crazy like document pairing: like you have the thought file and you have the presentation file(s). The proposal is to ask AI to just write HTML, right? Well why not just have a separate but linked file for that? One is for crystal-clear human creation and sync between human and AI. Simplicity, clarity, precision, and human editability. And then AI can produce whatever from that. Images, diagrams, videos, or whatever. And if you want, yes, a full HTML file that contains all of them. And that can be what you use to present or share the idea with audiences. (Plus there's the fact that some file formats are literally directories, which could be shared with lots of related content, and then there's also things like .mdx that allow for richer content in Markdown, etc.) I hate the idea of multiple files, but I think it's far preferable to losing the transparent, editable connection to the idea that you get with text. Plus, the better and cheaper AI gets, the more trivial it will be to have the core thought file plus n-number of associated versions or formats that are useful for different audiences. Basically I think it's much easier for AI to make a rich and shareable version of clean, editable thought, in the form of text, than it is for humans to stay connected with ideas as opaque HTML. And I think the human thought-to-text connection is the most important thing to preserve. Still thinking it through, however, and massive thanks to @trq212 for the push for all of us to evolve on this.

@lennysan @mickeyedlin @lennysan - I think a lot of people could be writing similar words. Thank you for all you do and bringing amazing guests on the show. It's getting better and better.

Heart, full.

@nickco Every morning - go for a 30min walk, talk to yourself and record (FOMO). Have AI summarize into concrete action item or sequence of event - sit and write down on a sticky note the things you must do today Then start your day

How are folks managing the cognitive overload in this AI wave?

Boots on the ground research.

Data analysis capability of AI is clearly underrated - discover dataset (schema) - relate them (join) - poke the data (detect patterns in the data) - show (build visualization) @cursor_ai is my new operating system

Comments are now more important than Content.

@cursor_ai Markdown is the new code. Here is a feature request to comment on .md preview mode and submit in bulk to the agent forum.cursor.com/t/add-add-to-c…

During this time, Israel continues to bomb Gaza and Lebanon killing civilians. ... Just saying. Silence is acceptance. STOP.

We have reached super intelligence for 99% of tasks. What matters is context, prompt, correct, iterate. If it is not possible, there is a high chance you did not figure out (yet) how to do it.

Shared context is a bottleneck