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Marc Andreessen (the guy who called it when “software ate the world”) just pointed out what AI is doing to coding next. “Everyone assumes AI coding means fewer hours… or leaving the profession. But almost everyone I know is working more hours.” “There’s a new term in the Valley:... show more
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Marc conflates more code with greater value, much of this extra output is lower quality and riddled with bugs. Lots of literature in this. Interesting that Marc doesn't mention this.

Precisely. I have been programming for 60 years, and the last 3 months with Claude Code have been my most productive yet, and half the time was getting Claude up to speed with how I wanted to do things.

Let me tell you coders are contol freaks . I have seen developers discard a entire pr because of a variable name is wrong "according to them". So you write code with Ai . And then bang your head because you don't understand what it fucking wrote .... The video is BULLSHIT ...

that nose sniff he uses to emphasize his words is such a distracting tic

Such bullshit lol.

This guys friend made a “digital jukebox of his dreams” with AI? Has this motherfucker ever heard of a Spotify playlist?

50m a year lol ok prove it

50 million 😂

This is very true. But it also means projects will get finished way faster and with much less human brain function. Meaning you will need less and less people.

@samrexford Thought of you when I saw this. You shouldn't be sleeping as my boy Andreessen says.

‘AI PSYCHOSIS’

Well, but that is very likely just a temporary situation. Because there is in fact not an infinite demand for software. Nothing is infinite, and surely not software demand. Software profits will go down, and a lot of those extra cases AI can do now will still be pointless to make

The inhales are insane

This is all bs.

It started in coding but the AI vampire is everywhere now. You can go so deep on *anything*, that just about everything can become a project. Coding an app for my kids, the family vacation, stock option trading, retirement planning, a fitness regime,...

This guy sucks now. What a fall from grace.

This is the part of the AI productivity story people miss: When the cost of capability collapses, ambition doesn’t stay fixed. Backlogs become possible. Small teams attempt big projects. Individuals build things that once required companies. The Agentic Economy won’t just do the same work faster. It expands the amount of work worth doing. 🐂

“More code per hour” this egghead doesn't know shit.

Just cause you can build it does t mean you should. More top of strategy funnel wisdom required.

Interested in AI? Follow @AiEvolutio58513 and never fall behind. I track ChatGPT, Claude, and every tool quietly changing how we work and create, then hand you the tested signals.

$50 mil a year! Haahhahahah I wonder if these guys have a good laugh off camera about the crap they say 😂🤣

Much of this is "noise". Whoever figures out how to shut up "chatty kathy", and focus on valuable results will win the coding war. Guessing Elon has already figured that out. (Grok and Community Notes for example)

“All Coding Is Flawed, With Computing Products That Drain Energy, Instead Of Producing Power?”

"The cost of going to sleep is to high" Shut the fuck up...

After men who dug dirt with their hands invented shovels, they didn't spend less time digging.

AI can write code faster. Fine. But the first run is where reality gets a vote. You can model the process, write the planning, build the instructions and let AI optimize every line. Then you put the first unit through the actual machine and discover what the drawing, model or code did not know. That is why first article work matters. You run it. You redline it. You measure it. You watch the material, tooling, sequence, vibration, temperature, variation and throughput. Then the people who actually understand the process decide what is preferred, what is acceptable and what is rejectable. And somebody still has to own that decision. AI can recommend the disposition. It cannot sign its name to it. Now feed that back into AI. Revise the code. Revise the planning. Incorporate the redlines. Run it again. That is the loop. AI does not eliminate engineering or experience. It gives both a much faster tool. The engineer understands why the process should work. The person living with that process knows when it actually does. Put those two together with AI and now you have something powerful: human experience teaching the machine, the machine accelerating the correction, and every run making the next one better. The future is not man versus machine. It is the experienced human standing beside the machine saying: “That passed the specification. Now let me show you how to make it right.🙏🧎🇺🇸

Wow life sounds great, Marc

hours didn't move, the job did. i write less and review more. read 200 customer reviews in 20 minutes last month because the model drafted and i just edited. felt lighter, took the same afternoon. editing is harder than writing and nobody warned anyone about that part. has your week gone the same way or are you still writing most of it

I think so too🤷🏽 but apparently that’s controversial to say😂 the truth always is

Yeeeep. My work hours went from 6 hours is like 11 hours. Making AI movies alllll day long. It’s wild.

Add some sleep checks to cursor ))

???

No, the reason Devs are working night and day is token anxiety... Not knowing when @thsottiaux might hit the reset button lol

