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@annieqyang Maybe even more dangerous: someone who was already a great coder but had no taste.

AI doesn't fix that part.

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@jonathan_wilke Because the bottleneck isn't the interface anymore. It's the speed of intent → execution.

For a lot of developers, typing a sentence is faster than clicking through menus.

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Everyone is obsessed with AI agents.

The weird thing is that most companies don't actually need one.

What they need is a chatbot that remembers things.

90% of the "agent" demos I've seen are just:

Search
Memory
A few API calls

We've turned "workflow automation" into a new religion.

The winners won't be the companies with the smartest agents.

They'll be the ones that make AI reliable enough that nobody notices it's AI.

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@GaryMarcus Feels a bit early to call it one of the dumbest blunders in corporate history.
The AI race has a habit of making everyone look wrong eventually.

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@themishra4402 At that income level, the extra $350k matters less than what kind of life you actually want.

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@Jason @cursor_ai The acquisition makes a lot more sense when you look at how expensive the compute race is becoming.

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@omgsidewalks And somehow you're supposed to do all of it at the same time while pretending you're not stressed.

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@netcapgirl At some point SpaceX accidentally became the answer to unrelated questions.

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@mattshumer_ That's usually how breakthroughs feel.

If you're using it for ordinary tasks, the difference looks tiny.

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@DanBochman The phrase "you're right to push back" just activated my fight-or-flight response.

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@mert This is probably the strongest argument that work and money are not the same thing.

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@Tim_Denning I think the flaw here is assuming everyone with a $100k job wants to be a business owner.

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@lorahmoe This is one of those situations where two people can have completely different interpretations of the exact same events.

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@NoLimitGains Whenever I see a headline like this, my first question is always "which part of the story got compressed into one sentence?"

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@Dhruvam987 Finally, a productivity post I can relate to.

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@PeterDiamandis The weird part is most opportunities I've stumbled into started with curiosity, not a plan.

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@pushkersoni72 Maybe.

The hard part was never the math. It's getting people to actually follow the plan.

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@jeremyct The awkward part is that both people think they're talking about money, but they're actually talking about completely different economies.

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@MatthewBerman Counterpoint: the incentive isn't always capability.
Sometimes it's preventing the narrative from becoming "everyone else caught up."

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@RNR_0 That's the difference between a tool and a coworker.
One gets you there. The other needs constant supervision.