Also this is a big argument in the alternative. For technical reasons related to context limits and training data, none of this shit actually works well enough to replace software at any meaningful scale. To paraphrase @pluralistic by way of Jensen Huang: AI will not take your job. A boss using AI to fake their quarterly KPIs will take your job.
@glyph @pluralistic Great summary, clarifies a lot of thoughts I've been mulling over.
The bill that is going to come due in a year or two is going to be a real wake-up call. I suspect many codebases will be bit rotted beyond repair. It's going to make Y2K look like a walk in the park.
Oct 15, 2026, 8:07 PM@glyph thank you for the text!
It puts substance in my feelings that AI "automation" is wrong for lack of a better word even though I think everyone's highest goal in a job should be to automate oneself away. But that is massively at odds with how jobs work, sadly, so you try that for a year, then realize you are rewarded more for creating tech debt and hiding knowledge from colleagues until some rando CEO says "no no no we're not replacing you, AI will _support_ you". It's all so fatiguing
@glyph @pluralistic This one is the observed reality on the ground