Marcin Kołodziej

AI-native Product Engineer 🚀 Polish 🇵🇱 Posting about AI, building products & tech

[dax @thdxr]

i am having more fun than ever collaborating with people

get an agent in the mix, we all bounce ideas off each other. prompt it, get more ideas. narrow in on something

stop dooming about ai and your job and start gangprompting

[Marcin Kołodziej @the_markolo]

Well, the 2x promo ending for 5x plan in Codex hurts. Luckily there is opencode go as a backup, tbh for simpler tasks I see no difference when comparing GPT 5.5 with DeepSeek V4 pro

[Sam Altman @sama]

man the early days of the internet were so special

[Lee Robinson @leerob]

"Engineering, product, and design are all merging into a 'builder' role"

Yeah... I'm not so sure. This feels like an oversimplification and podcast talking point. Reality is a lot more complex.

Even with 1000 "Member of Technical Staff" titles, someone still has to wake up and care 100x more about Product or Design than anyone else. It is their Main Thing™

That's not to say MTS titles are universally bad, but I think they're an example of this 'builder' talking point that's become bastardized.

AI and coding agents have made generating code easy and yet... you're in for a world of pain if non-engineers ship a bunch of slop and don't have great engineers to tame the complexity.

The SF hivemind has a tendency to overfit what works at startups for every company. And to be fair, sometimes this is true! Startups can be a leading indicator for how the industry is changing and often cause disruption.

However, it is going to be incredibly hard to disrupt the extremely human parts of corporate jobs. You really think there's going to be a PM who also does some engineering and design on the side at JPMorgan Chase?

This is true for the simple parts of most jobs, like people wanting to have ownership over something and do good work, move up a career ladder, support their family, get paid well, make an honest living...

And also the hard parts: internal politics, some critical business system that has a bus factor of 1 which has been running for 15 years and isn't documented anywhere because it's that guy's job security. The real world has a lot of this stuff.

It's easy to pontificate about all roles collapsing but it's actually really nice to have a specific person or team who is an expert in one thing that you can work with. I don't expect that to change. Further, I think AI disruption to knowledge work will take decades to play out because it is more fundamental to the human condition (e.g. sociological/organizational) than pure intelligence.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

When you can’t afford a PlayStation

[Marcin Kołodziej @the_markolo]

@AgentsOfMine @TimJayas Issue is though, that the limits are an issue even for Chinese models providers, I've heard a lot of people complaining about the GLM Coding Plan restrictions for GLM 5.1 for instance, which is closest to SOTA in my opinion

[Jacob Matson @matsonj]

how to build empathy for your users, honestly love this

[Marcin Kołodziej @the_markolo]

@TheGeorgePu Depends on the task, but usually with good enough guardrails I am way more productive

[Lee Robinson @leerob]

You might believe you should spend less time thinking about code because of AI.

I strongly disagree! We’re watching this play out live where tons of AI generated code becomes a liability.

At the end of the day, an engineer needs to be responsible / on call for code that gets shipped to production. If you don’t understand the system you’re trying to debug, you’re probably going to have a bad time.

Yes, AI can help with all of this, if you set up the proper systems. You can have agents triage prod logs, look at errors, etc. You can speed up parts of the investigation, but an engineer needs to make the call. There might be serious customer or financial implications from that change.

I expect the trend continue for trimming dependencies, vendoring code so you can modify it directly, preferring simpler systems with fewer abstractions, and spending waaaay more time thinking about system design and code maintenance.

I’ve said this before, but it’s a great time to get familiar with CS fundamentals and some of the history behind what great software looks like. Many parts will be different in the coming years as AI progresses, but also a lot more than people realize will stay the same.

[Marcin Kołodziej @the_markolo]

@thsottiaux ahh, should've used more extra-high in fast mode

[OpenAI Developers @OpenAIDevs]

It’s Codex Thursday, and yes, we have updates for you.

First up: Appshots, a new way to bring the context of what you’re working on into Codex.

On your Mac, press Command-Command to attach your app window to a Codex thread. Codex gets both a screenshot and text from the window, including content beyond what’s visible onscreen.

Appshots are available across plans on Mac, with enterprise access coming soon.

[Marcin Kołodziej @the_markolo]

@iuditg Might not be as good intelligence-wise, but I think it still can be 95% of intelligence for 20% of the cost compared to SOTA

[Marcin Kołodziej @the_markolo]

@laurensnys Maybe OpenAI is doing a gradual phase-out of the current usage promo, which is supposed to end by the end of May

[Karthik @karthikponna19]

minimum requirement for getting a job in 2026

[Sahil @sahill_og]

Vibe coders clicking "accept all" on 22,469 Claude Code changes without reading a single one

[Marcin Kołodziej @the_markolo]

@thsottiaux @dkundel What I find a bit annoying, whenever I have some independent features and create new chat for each, I have to re-open the browser each time, would be cool if we could have it pinned or something, persisting between chats

[Marcin Kołodziej @the_markolo]

@gdb I was able to make changes in my project, when I just got an idea while I was at the gym, cool times we live in

[Marcin Kołodziej @the_markolo]

@thsottiaux Anthropic - watch and learn

[Programmer Humor @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R]

continueFromHereClaude

[Marcin Kołodziej @the_markolo]

@levelsio I'm curious why you don't want to switch to Codex, in which way do you think Claude Code is better?