Over the top stories with no proof of a usable outcome, being used as an excuse to layoff tens of thousands of people, CSAM, unfettered use in war and domestic surveillance, documented harm to our environment, documented harm to children, documented harm to adults, stealing of other people's work without attribution, causing human fatigue/burnout, brain rot of critical thinking, being used as substitute for disciplined execution, blind loyalty to speed as the only thing that matters. (1/2)
The fact that you know exactly what I'm talking about without having to name it kinda says it all? (2/2)
Just read an AI hype post saying their vibe coding got them 90% complete on a project. Woo hoo! The “only” things they had to engage an engineer to finish off: authentication, API keys lockdown, VPN protection, and a full security audit.
Funny how all these over the top “AI is changing everything!” posts are largely from people running AI startups. Totally not suspicious at all and very believable.
What can we ship today? The world is changing rapidly for sellers, modern earners, and creators so we have to move with intention and fast.
Our leadership team on why speed and focus matter for our… | Block
What can we ship today? The world is changing rapidly for sellers, modern earners, and creators so we have to move with intention and fast.
Our leadership team on why speed and focus matter for our customers ⬇️
Still mulling over the Block layoffs, and one thing that caught my eye was how many folks who were let go were there for easily 6, 8, even 10 years or more. People who gave literally a decade of their life, jettisoned in an instant. (1/2)
In addition to the cruelty of it, there’s is NO WAY that you lose that much institutional knowledge and keep rolling along anywhere close to full operational efficiency, maybe not even 50%. There is a 0.0% chance that your fancy AI tools have *that* kind of context. And they certainly don’t have the collective centuries of technical, product, or design judgement of those people.
Such a failure of leadership and management at every level. (2/2)
think how galaxy brained you have to be to write/believe this
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So I have been using Claude Code pretty extensively for work and side projects for the last few months, and I’m pretty certain this tool won’t go away but equally certain the damage it will do to the tech industry is going to reach its maximum pretty soon.
It’s very good at certain things. It’s gre...
