Simon BrunningNov 25
Jason Gorman

For the foreseeable future, when it matters, there *will* be a software developer at the wheel. If Jevons is to be believed, probably *more* of us.

I'd start hiring now if you want to beat the stampede for the remaining skilled devs when reality sinks in.

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Show thread"Musty Bits" McGeeNov 25
@jasongorman I particularly liked this post, thanks for writing it
Show threadJason GormanNov 25
@arichtman I'm here all week! 🙂
Show threadChris PittsNov 25
@jasongorman But…but….AI! Singularity! This is The One! It just needs a few $billion more…. 😉
Show threadThe Long TailNov 25
@jasongorman "But this time it will be different!"
Show threadThe Manchurian IdiotNov 25

@jasongorman no but wait the Databricks Guy told me last week that AGI is already here

https://www.businessinsider.com/databricks-ceo-agi-superintelligence-ali-ghodsi-ai-enterprise-2025-11

Databricks CEO says AGI is already here — and Silicon Valley just keeps moving the goalposts

Ali Ghodsi says AGI is already here, but the tech industry is simply raising the bar on superintelligence.

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Show threadClemens ZaunerNov 25

@pikesley
Well, I understand that argument from his standpoint and why I looks to him that way.

SCNR

Show threadWordmarkNov 25
@jasongorman yes but please do extensive #usecase #functions #buttons #feature #testing for everything longer than 10 lines :-p
Show threadRonnie SoakNov 25
@jasongorman But what if it's not the supply side we should worry about? What if the real 'revolution' is that we will, by sheer force of the big players, are made to accept bad quality as the new norm? What if a program is suddenly allowed to fail, give bad results, die of non-maintainability because it's more profitable that way? Because 'effect on human lives' just doesn't stack up against economic growth enough nay more?
Show threadJason GormanNov 25
@Chaos_99 But that software will still take longer to deliver, and future changes will just get more and more expensive.
Show threadJamie HaleNov 25

@jasongorman “The hard part of computer programming isn’t expressing what we want the machine to do in code. The hard part is turning human thinking – with all its wooliness and ambiguity and contradictions – into computational thinking that is logically precise and unambiguous, and that can then be expressed formally in the syntax of a programming language.”

I wish more people understood this.

Show threadJoanna DenniNov 25

@jasongorman Finally found a good description of my role:
“…turning human thinking – with all its wooliness and ambiguity and contradictions – into computational thinking that is logically precise and unambiguous, and that can then be expressed formally in the syntax of a programming language.”

I’m not a programmer, I’m a Technical Product Manager, but my background is in dev, and I’m part of our engineering team. I’ve done programming, but writing code wasn’t ever particularly fun for me.

Show threadTheSwiftDojoNov 25

@jasongorman

Perhaps as a solopreneur I'm in a different camp. I'm using AI (LLMs) to write production code. I quit codeing back in August, now I'm a director of the product.