Ernesto 🇨🇱
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Ernesto 🇨🇱
@gnapse
Product-minded software builder at @todoist. Always learning.

Que prefiere, pasillo o ventana? Los leo


Conductor 0.39 is out! So many good things in this release. First up: summarizing chats is now instant!








This year, the Engineering role splits in two: 👨💻 Coders: Love writing code, worried as agents take over their passion. 👷 Builders: See code as a means to an end, excited to create more.



Amazon is holding a mandatory meeting about AI breaking its systems. The official framing is "part of normal business." The briefing note describes a trend of incidents with "high blast radius" caused by "Gen-AI assisted changes" for which "best practices and safeguards are not yet fully established." Translation to human language: we gave AI to engineers and things keep breaking? The response for now? Junior and mid-level engineers can no longer push AI-assisted code without a senior signing off. AWS spent 13 hours recovering after its own AI coding tool, asked to make some changes, decided instead to delete and recreate the environment (the software equivalent of fixing a leaky tap by knocking down the wall). Amazon called that an "extremely limited event" (the affected tool served customers in mainland China).















