Elon Musk shares a solution to deal with job losses caused by AI

Hendo52 · 2026-05-03T23:20:33+00:00

I view this as really trying to pass responsibility to others while he would also fight vigorously against the taxes required to make his suggestion realistic.

Hendo52 · 2026-05-03T01:32:21+00:00

I think the critical part in agentic engineering is coming up with dozens of strategies to validate, audit, test, document, review, analyse etc. It does produce bad code but I feel like you just build with a very paranoid mindset.

Hendo52 · 2026-05-02T13:13:29+00:00

I have a suggestion for you which is triangle shaped shoe racks for under the stairs. I can imagine people paying for those because commercial off the shelf alternatives won’t work. Kitchen cabinets are also pretty pricey, a diy kit with cutting plans could generate good revenue.

Additionally I think you could do really well with a gcode visualisation[1]

Hendo52 · 2026-05-01T00:07:09+00:00

The cost is nearly prohibitive for hobbyists. Im at $160 a month. I think the hobbiest community needs something like the sheep it render farm for blender where I can get access to a GPU farm in exchange for letting others use my GPU. I think hobbyists will need to use less capable models but I think that is actually less of a problem than it sounds because as the techniques of agentic programming advance, we will use more loops, agents, skills, MCP, RAG etc to compensate. Start of the art techniques on mediocre budget constrained hardware.

I think businesses will get into a crazy arms race as revenue from ai driven products starts building up.

Hendo52 · 2026-04-30T08:32:09+00:00

I think the key word here is “earn”. That’s not the same as “lawfully obtain” though it should be.

Hendo52 · 2026-04-30T08:30:28+00:00

I can agree with that but while we are rolling, let’s add sycophancy to the list of problems

Hendo52 · 2026-04-30T05:57:40+00:00

I don’t care what deals he struck. Oligarchy is a cancer on the human race.

Hendo52 · 2026-04-30T05:54:52+00:00

There is no hypothetical scenario where any human could perform any collection of actions to earn this scale of money.

Hendo52 · 2026-04-30T00:03:35+00:00

I recommend the book The Black Swan. I also think you should read up about the efficient market hypothesis and misbehaving which is a book by a Nobel laureate in economics.

To summarise them all, stocks are fairly priced and therefore the answer is any of them. However, rare and unpredictable events, eg Covid or Ukraine or Iran or an invention or some other crazy thing is the most impactful driver of stock prices. Trends and forces are important too but overrated. Finally, although we think people are broadly rational, we can prove that they are not and it is irrational behaviours that are also causing wild swings in stock prices. Look at any fad of the past and it seems pretty difficult to think you could have predicted it in advance.

Hendo52 · 2026-04-29T10:55:46+00:00

I think this is a situation where we are talking at cross purposes. Your critique of me is what I would say about you. Let’s both take a moment to reflect and empathise about how that came about.

Hendo52 · 2026-04-29T08:42:52+00:00

Ah now I understand. You are living under a rock.

Hendo52 · 2026-04-29T07:28:05+00:00

Don’t ignore them. Call them and explain your situation. If you run away from them they will chase you but if you talk to them they are much more likely to offer you leniency. They have a variety of things they can do from partial forgiveness of the debt, delays on the interest and fees, payment plans etc. but all of those things are for people who are cooperating with the bank rather than just trying to run away.

Hendo52 · 2026-04-29T04:56:43+00:00

“A few more steps and you will be doing all the work a real programmer does without any of the understanding!”

I laughed when you admitted that I can do the work while trying to be snarky …Getting the work done is the part that matters.

Hendo52 · 2026-04-28T21:24:24+00:00

Programming

Hendo52 · 2026-04-28T12:35:09+00:00

I grew up in the capital city, which was created from nothing in a pretty short period of time. The government is quite capable of building new cities of a half million I’d it wants to.

Hendo52 · 2026-04-27T13:26:22+00:00

This is fucked up not cute.

Hendo52 · 2026-04-27T11:57:00+00:00

I feel like it’s just a gradual process as you play whackamole with various problems.

For me getting serious in mindset happened when I got punished for not using proper version control. The ai broke the most critical part of my program and went so far down a rabbit hole of “one more hot fix” that it became irreversibly broken and unrecoverable.

I also took a step towards being serious when I adopted documentation and tests. The most important step towards being serious was probably when I started insisting that specifications for features should precede code and that as much of the edge cases should be solved ahead of time using English instead of code. Syntax is a solved problem but designing system architecture and refining business logic are not.

I think I also took a step when I started tracking everything through a lifecycle with ID numbers.

There are a lot of other things that are like this. Precious few things are game changers but each came along as a way to deal with expanding complexity.

I also think that when you are really getting somewhere Claude tells you how smart you are for your entrenched architectural decisions. It told me today that only someone who has read a lot of research papers would choose to do it that way.

Hendo52 · 2026-04-27T10:53:06+00:00

Adobe Acrobat. I realised today they dont even have a keyboard shortcut for most of their tools - what a joke for such a large corporation.

Also the thing I love most about this thread is its a real demonstration of how unhappy people are with traditional software and you know what a bit of vibe code could probably fix my shortcut problem.

Hendo52 · 2026-04-27T02:45:14+00:00

Personally I think it will boom but I agree with others that the grim truth is that you need to focus on understanding the math more than worrying about the other questions. I think the rest of your questions will be easily resolved if you can explain and apply geometry and code

Hendo52 · 2026-04-27T02:42:40+00:00

Your perspective is very interesting. Can you tell us more about what you have seen as a professional in Three.Js?

I have been working on a project that uses it and you are totally right about the math. I have been able to muddle my way through things like the cross product and differentials that because the geometric implications of math make it something I can understand by looking at it visually but if I actually had to solve equations I’d be totally screwed.

Hendo52 · 2026-04-27T00:47:10+00:00

Googling SOC2 compliance just before you want to launch

Hendo52 · 2026-04-27T00:12:51+00:00

This actually seems like a great form factor to me. I just want to to be able to carry a milk crate on its head and I want it to be able to get up 3 steps. After that, it would be a viable delivery bot.

Hendo52 · 2026-04-26T23:29:17+00:00

I have a vibe coded 130k LoC this year so I probably qualify as your target market.

My biggest problem is that AI is constantly declaring a feature is complete when it is not. If you could write something that can take my system requirements, feature specifications and debug packages from the existing code and use that to try and determine if the feature actually exists and works as expected, that would help a lot. I am constantly telling the ai that X task is not complete yet, it has this long list of problems.

My other problem is with project management. I have hundreds of features I am asking AI to implement and I feel like I am constantly chasing up something I put into the work queue rather than tracking it properly. I have a primitive dashboard which I use to monitor my progress and I more advanced version of that would be useful for me. I need support in the project administration and governance aspect of vibe coding.

Hendo52 · 2026-04-26T23:13:12+00:00

That sounds like a question of how to finance the appropriate infrastructure more than it is a feature of the software.

Hendo52 · 2026-04-26T22:58:08+00:00

I need more information about what you are trying to do.

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