Today a manager at my work asked all his teams including mine “please write up a report on how many engineers from your teams we could replace with AI”.

Surprisingly, the answer he got was “none, because that’s not how AI works”.

Guess we’ll see if that registers…

I would love to have responded something like “only one: yours”

But in all seriousness, ai does a pretty good job at impersonating VPs. It’s confidently wrong and full of hope for the future.

You're absolutely right!

I use various agentic dev tools all day long, mostly with Opus. The tools are very capable now, but when planning mid-complexity features, I find the time estimates hilarious.

Phase 1: 1-2 weeks

Phase 2: 1 week

Phase 3: 2 weeks

8 to 12 hours later, all the work is done and tested.

The funny part to me was that if I had an AI true believer boss, I would report those time estimates directly, and have a lot of time to do other stuff.

Human time estimates are bad, but the ones that AI gives are just absurd. I've seen them used from small things like planning interviews and short presentations, all the way up to large scale projects. In no case do they make any sense to me. But I think people end up trusting them because they look so confident and well planned due to how the AIs break things down.

When youre the boss telling kids how to work what time esti.ates will you believe?

Tis the cycle

All of them because cost cutting is a red flag in business regardless of what year it is.

Woosh

Ah yes, the “no true fascism” fallacy. Thanks for posting your half-thought out defense of the party that is murdering citizens in the street! I’m sure they appreciate your attempts to keep their jackboots shiny.

Can you point out how I was defending a party? I’m simply saying that the US isn’t a fascist state yet. We can engage, debate and discuss. People are actively out in the streets of MSP and watching and confronting these agents and the incidents are being documented, spread widely and analyzed. Calling it fascism isn’t productive nor is it even front running. I am willing to bet against any of you that this insanity perpetrated by poorly trained or untrained agents running amok in the midwest will be old news by the end of the year and no not because it has been subsumed by some worse class of atrocities. It will have ended, ICE will have ceased these sort of unchecked “operarions” and largely due to public outrage and scrutiny. Actual outrage, scrutiny and genuine activism, not writing articles from an armchair that mischaracterize this as fascism or racism. That sort of thing only perpetuates and makes the rabid crazies who actually support these actions in light of the tragedies sink their jackboots in even harder and empowers them more despite them being in the minority.

Many important people have told me that the wind they produce can blow off a man’s toupee.

/s

Inb4 flagged!

Reposting since this seems to mysteriously keep getting flagged. I think it’s relevant to a tech news discussion site.

Archive: https://archive.ph/t6Dm3

Wow, this is bad. Almost as bad as that time Hunter Biden got his laptop stolen am I right?

/s

But her emails

The moon is getting bolder all the time. Coming out during the day, changing size when it’s behind buildings, and now stealing the very air we breathe. Get lost, you stupid moon. We’ve walked on you! We know your secrets, you big dumb hunk of rock!

> will power is an illusion.

Lol, what? No one has ever abstained from anything, huh? No one ever quits drugs or alcohol, and no one was ever able to control their weight before this drug? Well, guess that absolves us of all personal responsibility then!

That willpower is an illusion doesn’t absolve anyone of personal responsibility. After all, we still take a car off the road if it has faulty brakes, and cars certainly don’t have a will of their own.