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I'm tired of people speedrunning the end of their careers. The more they brag to leadership how much can be done without reading the code, the more leadership will believe that no one has to read it. Even if verification isn't nearly there, and they're just on a lucky streak before it breaks down.

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If anything, the expectations will become so high that you actually don't have time to read the code if you wanna meet them.

Also, don't share a generated presentation that you clearly haven't even read yourself. Btw, the animations are so flashy that people stop hearing little you confusingly say as you look at the slides for only the second time. I don't know the rules of good presentations, but this ain't it.

Generated text doesn't belong in Slack. If you can't explain it in your own writing, you don't understand it. If you don't understand it, I'm not interested. Then I might as well ask the LLM myself.

I think it's largely a leadership failure to fully understand the potentials + risk of AI and continuing to use it as a buzzword. There's got to be more to these tools than iterating on company SaaS slop and dreary dashboards. bsky.app/profile/grif...

Griffin Wiebel@griff.dev

Crazy just how much better things COULD be under more competent leadership. How we could have innovated + created new research and jobs with a transformative approach to our collective goals. How much we could have collectively grown + ideated to meet the moment instead of just blowing it all up.

Nobody has any idea what the limits of this approach is. We've been writing code pretty much the same way for 60 years, it's gonna take longer than ~18 months to figure out how to do it safely. I have intense distrust in anyone with any other POV

I fear it won't matter where the limits are if enough people believe there aren't any. I selfishly hope they'll get into a mess they can't untangle, but I don't wanna be responsible for reliability with someone next to me working like that.

Of course this would be very irresponsible leadership, but it's something I could see happening. The economic forces are strong, especially if reliability is already not taken seriously.

Leaders will look at other companies from the outside, sharing their wins using lots of agents, asking why that's not happening at their company too. But the other companies will not share their failures.