I’d say both.

They ran out of novel things to say which is expected of anyone because there’s only so many non trivial things one could say. But then unlike normal people they didn’t stop talking because being rich they are bored and they want to be in the limelight all the time. So they end up talking nonsense.

You also changed, you are now wiser and have developed BS detector.

I learnt about rule-5 through experience before I had heard it was a rule.

I used to do tech due diligence for acquisition of companies. I had a very short time, about a day. I hit upon a great time saver idea of asking them to show their DB schema and explain it. It turned out to be surprisingly effective. Once I understood the scheme most of the architecture explained itself.

Now I apply the same principle while designing a system.

This is what bugs me the most. Those who are now at IC6/7 rose through the daily grind of coding and debugging from L1. But now that those jobs are getting automated how will someone rise to IC6!!? It’s as if first 10 rungs of a ladder are missing and only someone with an exceptionally good athleticism can jump up and start from 11th rung.

I think in the coming decades we will see IKEA effect in woodworking. Like it’s extremely easy to build cheap furniture whose individual parts are really compressed papers. There’s hardly any good carpenters left to do the real wood carpentry. Those who are left will cost a bomb (rightly so) and can only be afforded by rich people.

I built significant pieces of the Copilot onboarding, purchasing, billing and settings flow. For eight months I headed up the Copilot anti-abuse effort. I then led the launch of GitHub Models, and am now working on other Copilot projects.

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This describes me nearly perfectly. Though I didn’t exactly burn out of coding, I accidentally stumbled upon being an EM while I was coding well and enjoying. But being EM stuck so I got into managing team(s) at biggish companies which means doing everything except one that I enjoy the most which is coding.

However now that I run my own startup I’m back to enjoying coding immensely because Claude takes care of grunt work of writing code while allowing me to focus on architecture, orchestration etc. Immense fun.

They need to show all that ad somewhere right?

Most software is mundane run of the mill CRUD feature set. Just yesterday I rolled out 5 new web pages and revamped a landing page in under an hour that would have easily taken 3-4 days of back and forth.

There are lot of similar coding happening.

This is the space AI coding truly shines. Repetitive work, all the wiring and routing around adding links, SEO elements and what not.

Either way, you can try to incorporate AI coding in your coding flow and where it takes.

For those starting out using Claude Code it gives a structured way to get things done bypassing the time/energy needed to “hit upon something that several of us have evolved to naturally”.

Op and others are saying DNS poisoning is a popular way of achieving that goal.

Continuing my example…LLM listed out a bunch of reasons such as advanced weapons, organizational structure, etc. I can then explore each of those areas further.

Or when I wanted to understand the raise of regional languages in India. Similar process as before…

My larger point was that LLMs now makes it possible to speed run this research curiosity of mine. This sort of a thing was next to impossible in traditional google/web search world.

Of course we need to fact check and eventually read the actual source.

To take one concrete example, it helped me get a well rounded picture of how British despite having such low footprint in India (at their peak there were about 150K of them) were able to colonise it with 300+ million population.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radhanath_Sikdar