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0 pointsdude25071122d ago0 comments

> You’ll miss the boat when it does come

Is the boat:

1) unmissable since the tools get better all the time and are intelligent

2) nearly-impossible to board since the tools will replace most of the developers

3) a boat of small productivity improvements?

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sd922d ago

Personally today I think it’s 3.

Eventually I do think it will be 2.

I think you’ve got to make hay while the sun shines. Nobody knows how this is all going to play out, I just want to make sure I’m at the forefront of it.

dude250711OP22d ago

So you think the tools will be intelligent yet somehow hard to master?

And the progress is slowing down in such a way, that knowledge learned today will not be outdated anymore?

Should investors be worried, since AGI is not coming anymore?

simonw22d ago

My advice is not to get hung up on whether this stuff is "intelligent" or caught out by the AGI hype.

We didn't ask if type-based autocomplete was "intelligent" before we started using that.

Treat coding agents as tools and figure out what they can and cannot do and how best to use them.

sd922d ago

No, I think they will be very easy to use.

I think the relative comfort we've enjoyed as software engineers is going to disappear eventually. I just want to be the last to go.

My whole career, I've remained valuable by staying at the forefront of what is possible and connecting that to users' needs. Nothing has changed about my approach from that perspective.

I'm not an investor so I have no idea how they should think.

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0 pointsdude25071122d ago0 comments

> You’ll miss the boat when it does come

Is the boat:

1) unmissable since the tools get better all the time and are intelligent

2) nearly-impossible to board since the tools will replace most of the developers

3) a boat of small productivity improvements?

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sd922d ago

Personally today I think it’s 3.

Eventually I do think it will be 2.

I think you’ve got to make hay while the sun shines. Nobody knows how this is all going to play out, I just want to make sure I’m at the forefront of it.

dude250711OP22d ago

So you think the tools will be intelligent yet somehow hard to master?

And the progress is slowing down in such a way, that knowledge learned today will not be outdated anymore?

Should investors be worried, since AGI is not coming anymore?

simonw22d ago

My advice is not to get hung up on whether this stuff is "intelligent" or caught out by the AGI hype.

We didn't ask if type-based autocomplete was "intelligent" before we started using that.

Treat coding agents as tools and figure out what they can and cannot do and how best to use them.

sd922d ago

No, I think they will be very easy to use.

I think the relative comfort we've enjoyed as software engineers is going to disappear eventually. I just want to be the last to go.

My whole career, I've remained valuable by staying at the forefront of what is possible and connecting that to users' needs. Nothing has changed about my approach from that perspective.

I'm not an investor so I have no idea how they should think.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse