I've never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become available over the last ~year and a failure to claim the boost feels decidedly like skill issue. There's a new programmable layer of abstraction to master (in addition to the usual layers below) involving agents, subagents, their prompts, contexts, memory, modes, permissions, tools, plugins, skills, hooks, MCP, LSP, slash commands, workflows, IDE integrations, and a need to build an all-encompassing mental model for strengths and pitfalls of fundamentally stochastic, fallible, unintelligible and changing entities suddenly intermingled with what used to be good old fashioned engineering. Clearly some powerful alien tool was handed around except it comes with no manual and everyone has to figure out how to hold it and operate it, while the resulting magnitude 9 earthquake is rocking the profession. Roll up your sleeves to not fall behind.
Nano-Banana images in @NotebookLM's Video Overviews are truly jaw-dropping. It's like having an expert illustrator on your team to bring your ideas to life.
My favorite style: Papercraft. Conveniently, I just wrote an essay on the invention of paper. Here's the VO version:
I’ve always loved stories,
the kind that make you feel something,
that linger long after the credits fade.
Plot Party is an agentic canvas built for visual storytelling,
the easiest way to turn imagination into cinema.
We are now in private beta.
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