In the age of Agentic Development, the limiting factor is Human attention span and motivation.
Models are always available, scalable, affordable, and mostly capable.
Human review and orchestration is the bottleneck.
Comparing a house fly to modern robotics:
body (~10 mg), wings beating 200-300 times/sec, powered by micro-amounts of food, performing precise flips, turns, and hovers.
Our best micro-drones are maybe centuries behind this level of energy efficiency & control
Thinking about humanoid robots made me realize how insane it is that biological humans can consume a sandwich and a glass of water, then go climb mountains, build cities, and even heal themselves.
Robots won’t match our biological energy efficiency or adaptability anytime soon.
Everyone wants to be a software architect instead of a software developer now.
Devs do the labor intensive work whilst managers just plan solutions and get paid more
Being able to get your hands dirty with coding will be like being a plumber in the age of automation and AI.
After thoroughly using Cursor & Claude 3.7, I'm confident the days of manually coding are almost over.
SWEs must pivot to focus on launching products/features as a Product Manager using agents to build.
It's great by reducing ship time, but lowers barrier to entry to anyone
In person interaction between humans will soon become, if not already, useful for only pleasure.
Any information we want to find/learn is almost always more accurate and efficient by searching online rather than asking someone In real life.
(Ex. Maps, Reddit, LLMs, Search)