Michael Larson

Husband to wonderfull wife, JW, software engineering manager @GEICO, ex-Microsoft, like helping people. Posts and thoughts are my own.

[Michael Larson @Mrlarson2007]

@GergelyOrosz If we're going with good enough coding models, I think local open-source models running on optimized hardware on your laptop or PC will also be very popular.

[korn @kornbuilds]

my instagram (@ korn) was stolen overnight via the Meta AI exploit and was subsequently disabled.

it was Meta Verified, facial scan verified, and had 0 TOS violations.

the account is the sole source of my income.

i spent 6 hours trying to get human support and meta's support AI gave me 4 broken links in a row. we're at the point where one AI stole it and another can't fix it, zero humans in the loop anywhere.

does anyone know how to get in contact with meta support about this?

it is absolutely ridiculous that a trillion dollar company allows an exploit like this and doesn't even address it.

@instagram @AIatMeta @DarkWebInformer

[Michael Larson @Mrlarson2007]

@kornbuilds @cfishman @kornbuilds hope someone @instagram reaches out to you soon to fix this. We should always have a way to talk to a human especially when automation fails.

[Michael Larson @Mrlarson2007]

@GergelyOrosz The sad part is they say it's even worth it to destroy your health and family for grindmaxing. What's the point of having all the money in the world if you only work and sleep and your health is destroyed?

[Michael Larson @Mrlarson2007]

@jezhumble If there is no slack on the system then there is no time to improve. As manager it's so easy to get caught up in the day to day that you have to fight to slow down and give the time time to make those improvements.

[Jez Humble @jezhumble]

As usual we are gonna re-learn old lessons with new tools. "The paradox is that when managers focus on productivity, long-term improvements are rarely made. On the other hand, when managers focus on quality, productivity improves continuously." -- John Seddon

[Michael Larson @Mrlarson2007]

@Ric_RTP This is not true at all. I have friends working there using AI everyday, literally went to github copilot event the other day. They canceled access to individual Claude Code subs.

[Michael Larson @Mrlarson2007]

@GergelyOrosz I find that it's going to take going a bit slower and having natural stopping points to review this to make those refactoring moments happen more.

[Michael Larson @Mrlarson2007]

Exactly @ThePrimeagen, if it's just a matter of scaling agents, we should all start up our own swarm of millions of agents so we can all be trillionaires.

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

Honestly why stop at 100x engineer?

Just use more agents, you literally could be 1000x, 10000x, 100000x just by scaling

You could what you use to in an entire year in one second

[Michael Larson @Mrlarson2007]

@LyalinDotCom Also how to spot AI generated videos and content. Too many falling for clearly AI generated videos.

[Michael Larson @Mrlarson2007]

@LyalinDotCom LLM based agents will always need a human in the loop. We have known for years making a mess in your code base eventually leads to higher maintenance costs and longer lead times. We can't keep expecting "The model will get better don't worry".

[Michael Larson @Mrlarson2007]

@JamesNK To start a slash command to build & run tests. If any of that fails pipe the failures into the agent.

[Michael Larson @Mrlarson2007]

We have two cats. I like to think we are one happy family. My wife shattered my illusion today by telling me "Dogs have owners, cats have staff." 😅

[Michael Larson @Mrlarson2007]

Putting in you Claude.md file "DO NOT DELETE THE PRODUCTION DATABASE!!!!" Doesn't work. What does? The safeguards that have prevented production issues before AI was a thing. I explore that in my latest Substack post.

https://t.co/qWiPGXSGOu

[JER @lifeof_jer]

https://t.co/ofucbVgkLV

[Michael Larson @Mrlarson2007]

@James_M_South Compare the number of devs building with Javascript vs devs building with WinForms. Even in #dotnet the WinForms group is small. Can't remember the last time I built something with WinForms.

[Michael Larson @Mrlarson2007]

@GergelyOrosz I have a feeling this is to try to get new experience into Microsoft due to it targeting long term employees with the buy out

[Michael Larson @Mrlarson2007]

@AnthonyPAlicea Been thinking a lot on this lately. When building software for humans, we do have a limitation, how fast can we get feedback and verify what we built actual had the intended effect? Do people like it?

[Michael Larson @Mrlarson2007]

@GergelyOrosz @Pragmatic_Eng I get the "not using AI at all" part, but if you incentivize smart people to maximize token usage, even if they are high performers, what's your ROI per token to the business? Meta is one of the few companies with pockets deep enough to do this. Any other company couldn't.

[Simon Willison @simonw]

Warning to open source maintainers: the Axios supply chain attack started with some
very sophisticated social engineering targeted at one of their developers https://t.co/ykpjVUFmUu

[Michael Larson @Mrlarson2007]

@GergelyOrosz It really depends on what i am building. If I don't care about the code and it's just a tool for me, then I can kick off an agent and go from there. If I care about the output that's a different story, I need to focus on one thing and see that thing through.