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A DEVELOPER PROVED THAT MOST OF THE CLASSES YOU WRITE SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN CLASSES AT ALL 27 minutes from Jack Diederich, a Python core developer, on how much of your code is just a function wearing a costume. -> The moment it lands, the rule is brutal: if... a class has two methods and one is init, you meant to write a function. Most people add structure to feel like real engineers. It just adds weight no one ever needed. Writing more code was never the skill -> writing less of it is. And when an AI agent happily generates ten classes for a job that needed three lines, the person who knows what to delete is the one who ships something clean. Anyone can add abstraction. Knowing when not to is the whole job. Bookmark it and Watch ↓show more

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"The one thing that's going to be truly future proof is judgment. What is the biggest challenge when you have a thousand AI engineers writing code? AI slop. In an era when you can do everything, the question is which of these things matter. On the engineer side, it is evaluating the code. Which of this code is even valuable? You can have AI engineers writing beautiful code that could be wrong, that could have bugs in it, that could be vulnerable. Someone needs to review it. Make sure to have a human review at some point, especially critical code that is in the core of your system. On the product side is judgment around what needs to be built and evaluating. And similarly in design, you have to have judgment around, does it make sense in the broader design system. I think this judgment is the number one thing that humans are going to bring in an era of infinite productivity."

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Elon Musk just said what every government on earth already knows and none will admit. Musk: “AI is moving 10 times faster than government, maybe more.” Not slightly faster. Ten times. And the gap compounds daily. Every institution ever built runs on the same architecture. Committees. Hearings. Drafts. Amendments. Votes. A process designed for a world that moved at the speed of human debate. That world is gone. The moment legislation is signed, the thing it was written for is already three generations obsolete. Law is becoming a monument to things that no longer exist by the time the ink is dry. Musk: “The one thing that the government can do is just issue people money.” The largest militaries ever assembled. The most sophisticated legal infrastructure in human history. The accumulated weight of ten thousand years of institutional evolution. Collapsed to a single remaining function. Printing checks. Not because they failed. Because the velocity of what is coming makes everything else they were built to do ornamental. Musk: “Nobody’s gonna starve is what I’m saying.” The floor rises. Survival becomes automatic. Nobody goes hungry. For ten thousand years, that would have been the finish line. It is not. It is the starting line of the hardest question the species has ever faced. Every civilization in history was organized around one brutal fact. The world needed your labor to function. You worked because you had to. You built because the alternative was death. Every economy, every identity, every reason to get out of bed was downstream of that single pressure. That pressure is being quietly removed. And what it leaves behind is not freedom. It is a vacuum. A check hits your account. Rent is covered. Food is handled. The base layer of existence is solved. But the thing that organized your time. Gave your effort weight. Made your life feel like it pointed somewhere. Gone. No government can legislate that back. No policy can manufacture it. Purpose is not a deposit. Identity is not a program. What you are for when the world no longer needs you to function is not a problem any institution was designed to answer. It is the first problem in history that belongs entirely to you. And while the rest of the world debates how to control what is coming, one person is doing the only thing that has ever mattered. Building what comes next.

Elon Musk just said what every government on earth already knows and none will admit. Musk: “AI is moving 10 times faster than government, maybe more.” Not slightly faster. Ten times. And the gap compounds daily. Every institution ever built runs on the same architecture. Committees. Hearings. Drafts. Amendments. Votes. A process designed for a world that moved at the speed of human debate. That world is gone. The moment legislation is signed, the thing it was written for is already three generations obsolete. Law is becoming a monument to things that no longer exist by the time the ink is dry. Musk: “The one thing that the government can do is just issue people money.” The largest militaries ever assembled. The most sophisticated legal infrastructure in human history. The accumulated weight of ten thousand years of institutional evolution. Collapsed to a single remaining function. Printing checks. Not because they failed. Because the velocity of what is coming makes everything else they were built to do ornamental. Musk: “Nobody’s gonna starve is what I’m saying.” The floor rises. Survival becomes automatic. Nobody goes hungry. For ten thousand years, that would have been the finish line. It is not. It is the starting line of the hardest question the species has ever faced. Every civilization in history was organized around one brutal fact. The world needed your labor to function. You worked because you had to. You built because the alternative was death. Every economy, every identity, every reason to get out of bed was downstream of that single pressure. That pressure is being quietly removed. And what it leaves behind is not freedom. It is a vacuum. A check hits your account. Rent is covered. Food is handled. The base layer of existence is solved. But the thing that organized your time. Gave your effort weight. Made your life feel like it pointed somewhere. Gone. No government can legislate that back. No policy can manufacture it. Purpose is not a deposit. Identity is not a program. What you are for when the world no longer needs you to function is not a problem any institution was designed to answer. It is the first problem in history that belongs entirely to you. And while the rest of the world debates how to control what is coming, one person is doing the only thing that has ever mattered. Building what comes next.

Dustin

50,301 Aufrufe • vor 26 Tagen

THE ENGINE DIRECTOR BEHIND AAA CONSOLE GAMES WALKED ON STAGE AT A C++ CONFERENCE AND TOLD A ROOM OF EXPERTS THAT THE CLEAN, OBJECT ORIENTED CODE THEY ARE PROUD OF IS A LIE AND IT QUIETLY THROWS AWAY 90% OF THE MACHINE THEY PAID FOR 85 minutes from Mike Acton -- engine director at Insomniac Games, where wasting cycles is not an abstract debate, it is the difference between a game that ships and one that dies. -> His first principle is blunt: the only purpose of any program is to transform data. Not to model the world in pretty classes. Move data, fast. 06:33 -- The lie he calls out: "Software is the platform". No. The hardware is the platform. Ignore it and you cannot even reason about the cost of your own code. Most devs never look at what the CPU actually does. They stack abstractions until the machine spends its life waiting on memory it should never have touched. 49:38 -- He prints a value, zips it, and measures the waste directly. A brutal little trick that exposes how much of your data is pure noise. And this is the AI era's blind spot too. Agents generate more abstract code faster, on hardware nobody profiles, while the GPU bill quietly explodes. You thought clean code was the goal. This is the man shipping real engines saying the machine is the goal, and clean code is often how you lose it. Bookmark it & you'll never look at your own abstractions the same ↓

THE ENGINE DIRECTOR BEHIND AAA CONSOLE GAMES WALKED ON STAGE AT A C++ CONFERENCE AND TOLD A ROOM OF EXPERTS THAT THE CLEAN, OBJECT ORIENTED CODE THEY ARE PROUD OF IS A LIE AND IT QUIETLY THROWS AWAY 90% OF THE MACHINE THEY PAID FOR 85 minutes from Mike Acton -- engine director at Insomniac Games, where wasting cycles is not an abstract debate, it is the difference between a game that ships and one that dies. -> His first principle is blunt: the only purpose of any program is to transform data. Not to model the world in pretty classes. Move data, fast. 06:33 -- The lie he calls out: "Software is the platform". No. The hardware is the platform. Ignore it and you cannot even reason about the cost of your own code. Most devs never look at what the CPU actually does. They stack abstractions until the machine spends its life waiting on memory it should never have touched. 49:38 -- He prints a value, zips it, and measures the waste directly. A brutal little trick that exposes how much of your data is pure noise. And this is the AI era's blind spot too. Agents generate more abstract code faster, on hardware nobody profiles, while the GPU bill quietly explodes. You thought clean code was the goal. This is the man shipping real engines saying the machine is the goal, and clean code is often how you lose it. Bookmark it & you'll never look at your own abstractions the same ↓

slash1s

171,784 Aufrufe • vor 21 Tagen

Jensen Huang just told the world something nobody wants to hear. AI is not coming for your job. It is coming for the part of your job you mistakenly believe IS your job. Huang: “The purpose of your job and the tasks that you do in your job are related but not the same.” That one sentence is the fault line between the people who thrive in the next decade and the people who vanish from it. Huang used himself as proof. Reduce the CEO of Nvidia to his raw outputs and his entire career is typing and talking. Both have been automated to superhuman levels. Huang: “Typing and talking have both been automated to a superhuman level by AI. And yet, I’m busier than ever.” The man building the infrastructure that automates human labor has never worked harder. That should stop you cold. We look at a profession and see the tasks. The motions. The mechanical friction. We never see the intent underneath. And when AI arrives, we panic. Because we confuse the task with the job. The task was never the job. It was always the bottleneck between a human and their actual purpose. Now the bottleneck is dissolving. Years ago, the experts declared radiology dead. The algorithm could read a scan better than any human. A generation of medical students listened. They walked away from the field. The result was catastrophic. Huang: “We need more radiologists than ever, and we don’t have enough.” The algorithm did not replace the doctor. It armed the doctor. Suddenly the department could see more patients. Catch more anomalies. Generate more revenue. The hospital did not fire the radiologists. It tried to hire more. And could not find them. Because we terrified an entire generation out of a career with a prediction that landed exactly backwards. Now the same hysteria is consuming software engineering. The timeline is screaming that coding is dead. Meanwhile, inside the very company building the hardware that automates code. Huang: “The software engineers that know how to use AI, know how to work with agentic systems, are the most popular and the most successful.” The tool did not replace the architect. It replaced the shovel. This is the pattern nobody wants to confront. AI does not eliminate the human. It eliminates the friction that made the human slow. And when the friction disappears, demand for the human explodes. But only if the human shows up. The ones who defined themselves by the mechanical act of writing code are fading. The ones who defined themselves by what the code was meant to build are now the most valuable people on the planet. That is not a nuance. That is the entire dividing line. The machine will write the script. Read the scan. Draft the brief. It will never possess the reason any of it needed to exist. The task was never the job. And nobody who figures that out last gets the privilege of figuring it out twice.

Jensen Huang just told the world something nobody wants to hear. AI is not coming for your job. It is coming for the part of your job you mistakenly believe IS your job. Huang: “The purpose of your job and the tasks that you do in your job are related but not the same.” That one sentence is the fault line between the people who thrive in the next decade and the people who vanish from it. Huang used himself as proof. Reduce the CEO of Nvidia to his raw outputs and his entire career is typing and talking. Both have been automated to superhuman levels. Huang: “Typing and talking have both been automated to a superhuman level by AI. And yet, I’m busier than ever.” The man building the infrastructure that automates human labor has never worked harder. That should stop you cold. We look at a profession and see the tasks. The motions. The mechanical friction. We never see the intent underneath. And when AI arrives, we panic. Because we confuse the task with the job. The task was never the job. It was always the bottleneck between a human and their actual purpose. Now the bottleneck is dissolving. Years ago, the experts declared radiology dead. The algorithm could read a scan better than any human. A generation of medical students listened. They walked away from the field. The result was catastrophic. Huang: “We need more radiologists than ever, and we don’t have enough.” The algorithm did not replace the doctor. It armed the doctor. Suddenly the department could see more patients. Catch more anomalies. Generate more revenue. The hospital did not fire the radiologists. It tried to hire more. And could not find them. Because we terrified an entire generation out of a career with a prediction that landed exactly backwards. Now the same hysteria is consuming software engineering. The timeline is screaming that coding is dead. Meanwhile, inside the very company building the hardware that automates code. Huang: “The software engineers that know how to use AI, know how to work with agentic systems, are the most popular and the most successful.” The tool did not replace the architect. It replaced the shovel. This is the pattern nobody wants to confront. AI does not eliminate the human. It eliminates the friction that made the human slow. And when the friction disappears, demand for the human explodes. But only if the human shows up. The ones who defined themselves by the mechanical act of writing code are fading. The ones who defined themselves by what the code was meant to build are now the most valuable people on the planet. That is not a nuance. That is the entire dividing line. The machine will write the script. Read the scan. Draft the brief. It will never possess the reason any of it needed to exist. The task was never the job. And nobody who figures that out last gets the privilege of figuring it out twice.

Dustin

52,863 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

This is the dream of anyone who has ever tested a website. Writing automated tests for a UI is one of the hardest things ever. Here is how to write and run tests for your web pages 100x faster (it also supports iOS and Android apps).

This is the dream of anyone who has ever tested a website. Writing automated tests for a UI is one of the hardest things ever. Here is how to write and run tests for your web pages 100x faster (it also supports iOS and Android apps).

Santiago

31,529 Aufrufe • vor 5 Tagen

Hermes agent supports Browserbase to browse and interact the web just like a human. You can add it when you setup your agent, or add it with Watch it add deodorant to my amazon cart, something much needed for engineers around the world.

Hermes agent supports Browserbase to browse and interact the web just like a human. You can add it when you setup your agent, or add it with Watch it add deodorant to my amazon cart, something much needed for engineers around the world.

Kyle Jeong

28,034 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

"The number one job of government is to keep people safe" Oliver Dowden NO IT IS NOT!!! and we have never needed a national emergency alert before, and all government buildings already have a siren or alarm. There is more to it.

"The number one job of government is to keep people safe" Oliver Dowden NO IT IS NOT!!! and we have never needed a national emergency alert before, and all government buildings already have a siren or alarm. There is more to it.

Darren of Plymouth

390,682 Aufrufe • vor 3 Jahren

Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, just shortened your career timeline. His own engineers have stopped writing code. Amodei: “I have engineers within Anthropic who say I don’t write any code anymore. I just let the model write the code, I edit it, I do the things around it.” The people building the most advanced AI on Earth are already being replaced by what they built. Not in theory. Not in a forecast. Inside the building. Right now. Amodei: “I think we might be 6 to 12 months away from when the model is doing most, maybe all, of what SWEs do end-to-end.” Six to twelve months. Not from automating busywork. From replacing the full scope of what a software engineer does. Architecture. Logic. Debugging. Deployment. The entire chain. Software engineering is not some fading trade. It is the highest-paid, highest-demand, most protected skill the modern economy ever produced. And the man running a frontier lab just gave it a six-month shelf life. If the most technically sophisticated job in the economy falls first, nothing beneath it is safe. That is the inversion no one saw coming. The assumption was always that AI would eat from the bottom. Routine work. Data entry. Simple automation. It started at the top. Engineers first. Then analysts. Then strategists. Then the managers overseeing work that no longer needs them. The displacement doesn’t crawl upward. It cascades downward. Starting with the people closest to the technology itself. Amodei: “If I had to guess, I would guess that this goes faster than people imagine, and that that key element of code, and increasingly research, going faster than we imagine.” Not just code. Research. Hypotheses. Experiments. Interpretation. Discovery itself. If AI closes that loop, it doesn’t just write software. It improves itself. Every iteration compresses the timeline further. Amodei: “It’s very hard for me to see how it could take longer than a few years.” He is not selling optimism. He is setting a ceiling. A few years. Maximum. For AI to absorb the two most important intellectual functions in the economy. The window to position yourself is not a decade. It is already closing.

Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, just shortened your career timeline. His own engineers have stopped writing code. Amodei: “I have engineers within Anthropic who say I don’t write any code anymore. I just let the model write the code, I edit it, I do the things around it.” The people building the most advanced AI on Earth are already being replaced by what they built. Not in theory. Not in a forecast. Inside the building. Right now. Amodei: “I think we might be 6 to 12 months away from when the model is doing most, maybe all, of what SWEs do end-to-end.” Six to twelve months. Not from automating busywork. From replacing the full scope of what a software engineer does. Architecture. Logic. Debugging. Deployment. The entire chain. Software engineering is not some fading trade. It is the highest-paid, highest-demand, most protected skill the modern economy ever produced. And the man running a frontier lab just gave it a six-month shelf life. If the most technically sophisticated job in the economy falls first, nothing beneath it is safe. That is the inversion no one saw coming. The assumption was always that AI would eat from the bottom. Routine work. Data entry. Simple automation. It started at the top. Engineers first. Then analysts. Then strategists. Then the managers overseeing work that no longer needs them. The displacement doesn’t crawl upward. It cascades downward. Starting with the people closest to the technology itself. Amodei: “If I had to guess, I would guess that this goes faster than people imagine, and that that key element of code, and increasingly research, going faster than we imagine.” Not just code. Research. Hypotheses. Experiments. Interpretation. Discovery itself. If AI closes that loop, it doesn’t just write software. It improves itself. Every iteration compresses the timeline further. Amodei: “It’s very hard for me to see how it could take longer than a few years.” He is not selling optimism. He is setting a ceiling. A few years. Maximum. For AI to absorb the two most important intellectual functions in the economy. The window to position yourself is not a decade. It is already closing.

Dustin

16,132 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten