As a human, AI workflows let me have a life. I can let the agents knock out the easy things while I'm working on other tasks. I still need design out what's to be worked on, review the code, fix bone mistakes they make, etc. It's basically like having a junior developer assigned to you.
Every time I see someone talking about AI being a junior developer, I am quite certain they have never worked with a junior developer.
Very few in the industry are interested in parsimony.
I've come to accept that this as true, and further conjecture that bloat is often a corporate/institutional goal.
This seems to be a joke, but in reality corporate incentives are aligned to make things more bloated. If you're a manager, then the more people you have under you, the more power you have. This means you want your people to go slower so you have to hire more of them.
I don't have a solution but there must be one.
This quote from the summary about two engineers with an AI assistant being more productive than ten engineers without one just doesn't add up. I have done vibe coding both on hobby projects and at work, and it doesn't make me anywhere near that productive.
I've wondered about that, too.
Communism collapsed under its own absurdity. I had a front row seat on the other side.
Which absurdity are you thinking of? (Because it's not like the non-communist world lacks absurdity).
It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river. -- Abraham Lincoln
