Garrett Payne

Ora et labora || Catholic 🇻🇦|| Guitar, code, writing

[Garrett Payne @gpayne44]

“The horrors of remaining accountable without cognitive ownership”

The vibe coders forget that part of what a software engineer is. When it all goes up in flames Claude isn’t going to own it. If I’m going to be responsible for it I need to work in an environment that gives developers the space to understand what we’re building. The expectation from this industry of having developers just wrangle infinite code generators all day without a second thought for true understanding is pure delusion.

[fj @fjzeit]

my entire career strategy hangs on a strong belief that we are not going to see fully automated software generation in my lifetime.

but we are going to see an end to the ralph-loop, spec-driven-one-shot-dream, and the "end of white collar work" hype.

we're already seeing some high profile players in software development start to set their coarse along the same path i've been following these past few years. it starts with "wow" then "i can use my skills to fully automate this" and then it proceeds to "fast but no cognitive ownership" then disappointment, confusion, frustration, and ends with "hey, this isn't going to work guys, we need to be more disciplined and look at the code, keep our cognitive ownership, and just use the tools to improve our outcomes. these are not our replacement, these are our accelerators. it's the same story, different tooling".

i'm already there. if a company were to come to me today and say "we tried all the trendy stuff but it just made everything worse, we're losing control of our code base, we need to either ditch these things or make them a power-up" then i am ready for that.

if i am wrong, then so be it. my career is over anyway because i have zero interest in giving up cognitive ownership and responsibility (the ability to respond), while remaining accountable.

i'd rather wash dishes or stack shelves than submit myself to the horrors of remaining accountable without cognitive ownership, agency, and responsibility.

[Garrett Payne @gpayne44]

@antiartificial Me rn

[Garrett Payne @gpayne44]

The CEO that just eliminated 3200 American jobs is going to lead a task force on American jobs

[PC Gamer @pcgamer]

US Fed taps Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, who just laid off 3,200 employees, to lead task force on jobs https://t.co/2FHgNFxsXd

[Garrett Payne @gpayne44]

@pcgamer 1) what

[Garrett Payne @gpayne44]

So what do you think you’ll want for dinner 73 days from now

[Garrett Payne @gpayne44]

@skooookum Trvke

[Garrett Payne @gpayne44]

I still remember how to use a camera

[Garrett Payne @gpayne44]

Raw carrots and ice cold coke

You will surely never regret raw carrots and ice cold coke

[Garrett Payne @gpayne44]

@luminousfruit

[Garrett Payne @gpayne44]

@DrewPavlou

[Garrett Payne @gpayne44]

You get more tokens every time you lift a weight or run a mile

[Garrett Payne @gpayne44]

We might be back

[Claude @claudeai]

We're extending access to Claude Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12.

[Garrett Payne @gpayne44]

@BosniaNTBall Scoreboard

[Garrett Payne @gpayne44]

@zekramu Save us SteamOS you’re our only hope

[Garrett Payne @gpayne44]

@SCHIZO_FREQ Pro gamer move

[Garrett Payne @gpayne44]

Remember who you are

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

God Bless America

[Garrett Payne @gpayne44]

@richard_normal Prison

[Garrett Payne @gpayne44]

“But my sLeEp ScOrE!”

Stop being a bitch

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Reminder that the Founding Fathers also drank excessively.

Today you can do that too.

[Garrett Payne @gpayne44]

How could our nation’s founders do this without daily standups, quick syncs and middle management chains

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

Love this re-imagining of America’s founding using Docs, Gmail, Calendar and more from @GoogleWorkspace. Really puts the history in version history :)

[Garrett Payne @gpayne44]

@Nexuist Dudes rock

[Garrett Payne @gpayne44]

Owning your own compute is becoming just as important as owning your own firearms