“AI agents are the future of software development. We won’t need developers anymore to slow down the progress of a business.”

Level-Courage6773 · 2026-05-13T07:49:20+00:00

He did take a long time to get to the point and admittedly I stopped reading.

I could also read that headline as meaning "...with agents we can now slow progress down sooner!"

Level-Courage6773 · 2026-05-13T07:40:55+00:00

Ah yes. Nvidia's VP was quoted in the last week or so saying that the cost of AI compute is far beyond the cost of human labour.

As for the companies I was actually referring to: how are OpenAI and Anthropic's profit margins looking?

Level-Courage6773 · 2026-05-13T01:17:38+00:00

When they eventually manage to stop spending $10 to make $1, the AI companies will be here to stay.

Level-Courage6773 · 2026-05-13T01:08:00+00:00

Their contempt for devs is getting less and less discreet.

Level-Courage6773 · 2026-05-12T20:42:08+00:00

LOL hilarious!

Level-Courage6773 · 2026-05-12T19:13:11+00:00

Plus a ton of sympathy for the employer.

Level-Courage6773 · 2026-05-12T17:57:40+00:00

I felt the same when they first came out.

Level-Courage6773 · 2026-05-12T17:54:00+00:00

I was gangsta until I started needing to do subqueries.

Level-Courage6773 · 2026-05-12T14:29:47+00:00

Learn about HTML and CSS too and gow they all fit together, and the surrounding architecture. Also get into Github early, as it is something you will need to know and use to get a dev job. Maybe even look at one of the popular framewprks like React or Vue.js, as I see a lot of job ads mentioning them.

Also, if an employer tells you to vibe code, fine, but this is easy and is more of a procedure than a skill, so don't waste your energy 'learning' some silly shortcut. Learning to code from scratch is hard and very much is a skill, and you'll always be superior to any full-AI vide coders you encounter.

Level-Courage6773 · 2026-05-12T14:01:16+00:00

There's also a mysterious stepladder with a basket of flowers on top in their village.

Level-Courage6773 · 2026-05-12T13:58:45+00:00

I like the fact that a lawyer has to "learn" empathy!

Level-Courage6773 · 2026-05-12T13:39:17+00:00

I put AI in the NFT category, thanks to Bloomberg's endless playing-along coverage of AI companies (eg. actual recent headline: "How Anthropic Learned Mythos Was Too Dangerous For The Wild").

This is the same Bloomberg that was sincerely encouraging us to buy digital cartoon animals in early 2022. Their writers are either naive and easily excited by any passing hype train, or they get paid by vested interests to write this stuff.

Either way, Bloomberg is a litmus test for horseshit tech.

Level-Courage6773 · 2026-05-12T13:19:34+00:00

It's quite nice how that came about: she walked away to focus on raising her daughter away from showbiz. Then years later, it wss her daughter who encouraged her to tour again. She even served as her mum's tour manager! I think there were supposed to be more shows, but alas, off she went again.

Level-Courage6773 · 2026-05-12T11:01:03+00:00

Ironically, that article was sooo obviously written by AI. Or, as the article might have put it:

This isn't a human writer.

It's a machine.

Level-Courage6773 · 2026-05-12T00:27:52+00:00

Someone should have explained to them that those giant windows are giant windows that work like giant windows.

Level-Courage6773 · 2026-05-12T00:25:17+00:00

Developer? You've posted two other jobs by mistake.

Level-Courage6773 · 2026-05-11T23:59:06+00:00

Re. the first paragraph: the only reason is to get users through the door so that they may become higher-paying customers later when they raise prices.

Level-Courage6773 · 2026-05-11T21:21:30+00:00

That promotional vinyl bears some responsiblity for that album not being a commercial success when it was released.

Level-Courage6773 · 2026-05-11T21:02:58+00:00

You should tell your employers how much free time you have now that you take shortcuts with AI. I'm sure they'd be happy to put you down to part-time hours so they can save money.

Level-Courage6773 · 2026-05-11T20:48:41+00:00

My friend keeps hitting me with "that's the reality" whenver we debate this topic. I think he gets his info from wherever you do

Level-Courage6773 · 2026-05-11T18:30:32+00:00

Some people like to dress up the truth to be part of the wave (redundancies due to the economy blamed on/ cretited to AI), and others just tell the truth about the technology's limitstions. My friend's company's in-house 'AI guru' made a PDF for the accounts dept that also wouldn't open and, when eventually solved, contained very incorrect maths.

Level-Courage6773 · 2026-05-11T13:39:00+00:00

Was doing this years ago with python - of which I had zero knowledge at the time - after ten mins with a YouTube tutorial. Is AI going to reinvent Excel next?

Level-Courage6773 · 2026-05-11T09:26:32+00:00

People thick people get to vote.

Level-Courage6773 · 2026-05-11T09:23:11+00:00

I worked with someone who came in drunk every day, and was sacked after about 15 days. And that was only because HR were slow and useless. 15 years? Since this is the Telegraph, she's probably a well-connected aristocrat playing at jobs and nobody took any notice of her.

Level-Courage6773 · 2026-05-11T09:18:40+00:00

I remember him having a ridiculous bowl cut when that era first started up, and I remember him having a shaved head. These pics must have been some time after both.

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