https://youtu.be/SpEO-jIKhE8?si=89Qw1_AOXYow9PfR

But ramjets have been promised to us for years

LLMs write working code, but have trouble following the script. They are slot machines of code. Human oversight is under pressure to deliver faster but code takes time to comprehend and analyze. Also in LLM coding, we end up with lots of natural language based spec files to manage and code we don't have an intuitive feel for unless we commit to the rigor of deep code review..(which no human really does anyway)

The author is this guy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/biltahir/

Bilal is not a writer he is a developer and founder. he founded a two person startup to use AI to produce podcasts. He calls himself a 'Product Engineer' which just means he is using claude and AI to develop..

The article he wrote has all the hallmarks of a lot of AI hyperbole and style. The author has some education in economics but no indication of any writing ability. so who knows what his real writing style is. I too can generate a similar article with Claude in about 30 seconds. Does that need to be read on top of HN too?

e.g this use of AI of the word 'line' is sooo annoying: The "they just overhired during COVID and are self correcting" line was the dominant"

So this ai article about ai is out there.. its out there influencing us even though it is largely speculation, hype and AI-content. The site he has is all AI written (which I am not opposed to but Bilal never worked at Meta, he never spoke with anyone in senior leadership.. So this is an opinion piece driven by AI influencer..that reaches the top of HN

Ok so what about its content here is the points he made (who knows how many he really thought of or that Claude created)

1. AI layoffs structural, not cyclical—"measurers" (middle management, finance, legal) hit hardest Only producers/sellers and top leadership safe; the coordinating middle gets cut (WHO knows if this is correct?)

2. Founder-led firms cut first—board trust buys 12–24 month head start (Everyone is laying off, economy sucks, AI Cap expenditure and uncertianty..)

3. "10x engineer" becomes "1000x"; token data makes leverage brutally measurable (not right now..yes for quickly built MVPs hardly as fast -1000x is just hyperbole)

4. Inequality explodes—first trillionaire soon, many to follow (Pure speculation) 5. 2028 political backlash predicted: anti-elite, anti-AI populism, plus xenophobia (sure maybe)

5. Regulation may cost U.S. the race vs. China (hype driven influencer speil - AI is barely speeding up as fast as VC Bros are predicting)

I'm working with 3 other startups, but work is contract based, no healthcare and flaky..

his value to Anthropic is his influence..he has over 2 million followers, and value is that he is the Top influencer for AI right now, like it or not. just like Selena Gomez might be for top for women age 21-29...

Every AI nerd I know reposts his (very thoughtful posts and projects mind you) like religon

Why not just look through the actual Claude code codebase and use your own AI to deconstruct it

https://github.com/codeaashu/claude-code

It's funny that Anthropic needs to spend millions acquiring a dev doc platform, can't they just vibe code something up with Mythos a few junior devs at Anthropic?

We have Dario claiming SWE development is obsolete and both OpenAI and Anthropic and big tech bros like Musk are still spending millions like this..

Read his bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Perry_Barlow

Cheaper younger people who dont think vibe coding is bad

Is this a good idea - probably not

Youtube and the internet is a goldmine and way bigger than old 80s/90s content, im over 50 and remember the 80s well enough.. a few great well produced documentaries are not a comparable to gigabytes or petabytes of videos and podcasts we have today

The cultural format of exchange has changed and the consequences of that - so called tiktok attention deficit folks means perhaps no one watches this content but I think that too is a generalization and great content is watched probably by a greater proportion of smart curious people today than back in the 80s on your phone nonetheless- we have a pocket tv with an almost unlimited amount of content

Im an information junkie and just today I spent 3 hours watching a documentary series on the incan civilization follower by a Stanford video on LLMs and then watching Blaise Arcas’s interesting ideas on computational life and intelligence

https://youtu.be/KhSJuqDUJME?si=-TMkLdapsbcWuoft

It would have been easy to run a few ai agents to review the code and find these issues as well and architect it clearly

Why don't cloud services have reviews like amazon products.- I’m so tired of enterprise sales speak in corporate docs- just cut the BS and do straight talk

If you haven’t used a service you shouldn’t have to search reddit for dev experience on it

- I’d say SWE is an experienced engineer not a senior developer- for Pete’s sake he graduated in 2023 that was 3 freaking years ago

I’ve been developing production software for 20 years now -

What other profession counts someone with 3 years of professional experience out of college as senior?

Maybe competitive sports? Or academic math?

If it means this kid is smart and good at coding sure ill buy that but experiences and wisdom are something else entirely..

Wisdom is a thing, so is competence. Humans have it or they don't but machines do not (yet), but the massive capabilities of the tools are also something that can't be ignored.

We can't throw the baby out with the bathwater. It's going to take some cycles of learning the ropes with this technology for humans to understand it better.

I would push back -why couldn't the senior devs communicate these issues to senior management? It sounds like a broken human system not a broken tool or technology. All AI did was shine a light on the human issues on that org.