It feels like everyone at work is DDoSing each other with AI. Everyone's capable of slightly more output now. Not better or worse, just more. Which means more input for everyone else. AI is good for producing. We don't have great workflows yet for consuming.
Many people assuming I meant job loss anxiety but that's just one presentation. I'm seeing near-manic episodes triggered by watching software shift from scarce to abundant. Compulsive behaviors around agent usage. Dissociative awe at the temporal compression of change. It's not fear necessarily just the cognitive overload from living in an inflection point.
Unpopular opinion:
Unless you’re just prototyping, you should aim to understand as close to 100% of production code generated by LLMs.
Yes, all of it.
Effective mental models are still important for humans to sustainably maintain and evolve a codebase via prompting alone.
@mitsuhiko Cursor mainly because we have licenses ready and with the modes it has it’s good enough to either work on the codebase or ask questions or use another model if Opus is not doing well. Is using Claude Code much better?
Here's a bit of coding agent magic fairy dust for the day: Don't tell the agent to do something. Tell the agent to _begin_ doing something. The LLM will, on average, make wiser choices about how much work to bite off.
@mitsuhiko More or less same experience here on my 13 pro, the lag is unbearable with any transition… but to be fair I’ve had similar experiences with betas in previous versions, fingers crossed.
People will be like, “generative AI has no practical use case,” but I did just use it to replace every app icon on my home screen with images of Kermit, soooo