> but in today’s world but in today’s world where the world changes every month, it’s best to be ahead.

Could I be the one getting ahead of him if I skip next month and plan for +1 world changes?

All the tools that improved productivity for software devs (Docker, K8S/ECS/autoscaling, Telemetry providers) took very long for management to realize they bring value, and in some places with a lot of resistance. Some places where I worked, asking for an IntelliJ license would make your manager look at you like you were asking "hey can I bang your wife?".

He probably meant languages he's not proficient with.

A few years ago, when Agile was still the hot thing and companies had an Agile "facilitor" or manager for each dev team, the common career path I heard when talking to those people was: "I worked as a java/cobol/etc in the past, but it just didn't click with me. I'm more of a peoples person, you know, so project management is where I really do my best work!".

Yeah, right...

"Researchers Extract Nearly Entire Harry Potter Book From Commercial LLMs"

https://www.aitechsuite.com/ai-news/ai-shock-researchers-ext...

Now the security implications are even greater, and we won't even have funny screenshots to share in the future.

Stable Diffusion enabled the average lazy depraved person to create these images with zero effort, and there's a lot of these people in the world apparently.

In my irrelevant opinion, this is good. To me at least, the word engineer represents someone with a big, heavy responsibility on their hands.

I never liked being called an engineer and only have it on my resume because that's the keyword recruiters search on linkedin nowadays. One reason is that I don't have formal education. The other is that, in almost 15 years of experience, I witnessed very few occasions of software receiving proper care to the extent that I could call it "engineering".

The worst case I remember happened a few months ago when a staff (!) engineer gave a presentation about benchmarks they had done between Java and Kotlin concurrency tools and how to write concurrent code. There was a very large and strange difference in performance favoring Kotlin that didn't make sense. When I dug into their code, it was clear everything had been generated by a LLM (lots of comments with emojis, for example) and the Java code was just wrong.

The competent programmers I've seen there use LLMs to generate some shell scripts, small python automations or to explore ideas. Most of the time they are unimpressed by these tools.

- If the number of programmers will be drastically reduced, how big of a price increase companies like Anthropic would need to be profitable?

- If you are a manager, you now have a much higher bus factor to deal with. One person leaving means a greater blow on the team's knowledge.

- If the number of programmers will be drastically reduced, the need for managers and middle managers will also decline, no? Hmm...

git commit -> gc

git status --short -b -> gsb

git checkout -> gco

systemctl --user restart -> scu-restart

Nothing that you couldn't come up with yourself, but I've been using for so long it has become a standard for me.

The fzf plugin enables a fuzzy finder when you hit ctrl+r or ctrl+t. You need fzf installed.