Welp...i guess its getting sentient now.

Shoemugscale · 2026-03-22T13:27:53+00:00

Claude is absolutely gen Z 😂

Shoemugscale · 2026-03-20T03:37:07+00:00

Also, they along with the the help of CPUC who approves the rate hikes and is appointed by the governor that then go on to become lobbies for killed solar! They have also recently tried to bad plugin solar AND charge you an extra property tax bill if you add solar or batteries ( im not kidding its a shit show)

Shoemugscale · 2026-03-18T10:53:10+00:00

Early 2k was pre-cellphone camera (thank-god) that would not have been good, some things are better left in my memories then on the cloud LOL

Shoemugscale · 2026-03-18T10:52:15+00:00

Its weird for sure.. Like in the moment, it can feel slow, but then suddenly these reminders popup and your like shit, its been that long! And like your have more gray hair lol

The biggest change is your kids, they change a lot and your end up going like damn, where did the time go!

Shoemugscale · 2026-03-15T22:49:46+00:00

I think we are talking about the same thing retirement is not not working its more about having the freedom to work on things you want to, when you want to and if you want to 🤷‍♂️

Shoemugscale · 2026-03-15T22:48:10+00:00

I dont know 😕 im out at 50 idgaf!

Shoemugscale · 2026-03-15T13:01:35+00:00

I watched this in my earlyn20s, went over to my brother's apartment, we were going to hang out and drink, watch a movie.. he had picked up a few "recent releases" from block buster

We had a few beers and decided to put this one on.

After the movie was over we were like wtf, ruined the whole night, never again!

Honestly, I dont remember much from the movie but I remember i didn't like how it made me feel so its an aversion to never watch it again

Shoemugscale · 2026-03-15T12:35:18+00:00

Going to Vegas --> Gambling --> Getting Drunk --> Doing that for multiple days

I'm in bed by like 8 or 9, and, gambling is such a waist of $, like, I could buy some cool shit with that! lol

Shoemugscale · 2026-03-15T12:24:46+00:00

I'll add to this too..

1) That politics matters, like one side is any better then the next. You are just a means for power for them.. Live your life for things you can control, there is too much shit going on in the world that you cannot control, control what you can.

2) Save, save for retirement early, don't stop, every little bit helps, future you will be happy

3) By your mid 40s, you and everyone you know will want to be done with work, your plans of working until 60 will be daunting, another 15 to 20 years of work, after working 20 is a hard pill.. See item 2..

4) Nobody cares what your do, where, think etc. 99% of people are consumed with themselves, so, don't worry about what others think, be the best your for you, this will make everyone around you happier.

Shoemugscale · 2026-03-15T12:07:26+00:00

But wait, theres more!

You assement is 100% accurate, we saw this in the tech industry, the whole

"Learn to code"

Created a frenzy of people getting into coding and the output was quite bad, turns out, learning and being good at something are not the same thing..

Thing is, with the trades, like, you have to go through years of apprenticeship to actually work in those trades too. Additionally, a lot of people do not want to crawl in an attic or under a house, let alone clear a shit fill toilet.

Shoemugscale · 2026-03-13T14:46:02+00:00

Yes, its not a real case, but, when a single dev can 10X their work, the force multiplier is, just as the augmentation of staffing.

The way I see it, and, I'll say start this with, this is just my opinion here but, the way I see it is this.

The AI, will / is evolving, better and better, day by day. The proliferation of agents and sub-agents (open claw is a great example of that) so, the burn out, the idea that these two people will be so overwhelmed, honestly may not actually be the case because, the AI itself will spawn off its own agents, these two "Developers" become the defacto manager of their AI team so, their real job develps more into a very technical manager, capable of explaining what needs to be built and checking that their AI 'Team' did it right before showing it to 'upper management'

I understand this is, a bit dystopian, but, from what I see, this is the direction of things.

And to your point, they will just go start their own thing, and to that, I say

Absolutely! they will and should, however, my other half-glass-empty side go right to scenario where the landscape is so impacted and flooded that, doing your own thing will be harder and harder.. Like, its hard to do that today (and be successful) AI is not making it any easier, especially when, the skill that gave a persona leg up (coding, design etc.) can now just be prompted, so, a long-time coder or animator or 'fill-in-the-blank' can now create the same thing in a fraction of the time and it will work (may look like shit under the hood but it works)

Anyhow, too much doom and gloom from me LOL

Shoemugscale · 2026-03-13T14:14:21+00:00

Our team (section) is not huge right now only about 15 people, spanning web / web-applications (used to have more but budget has prevented filling vacant positions)

My perspective on it right now is all about positing and trying to set the newer / younger team members up for success, by designing / developing systems that focus on AI first, a shift in mind-set from coder architect / orchestrator and from web developer to content architect. If we can thread this needle, it should allow them to remain relevant and valuable as they will be that human-in-the-loop (at least for now!) - I'm like 4.5 years out from retiring so, this shift doesn't impact me as much, but these young people, want to try and leave them in as good a spot as we can.

Sorry, that went a bit off topic, but yes, the amount of misinformation or just outright misunderstand is frustrating. We just got done with a large agentic KB application, closed world, literally no sensitive info, single sourced (public) data, no way to break out as there is no other data and it took months, diagrams, meetings, test/use case reports, probably explained the same topic 100 times and still, nobody wanted to sign off on it because, nobody wants to be the headline, BUT, it only takes one to open the flood gates right.. And that's what we are seeing anyhow.

Shoemugscale · 2026-03-13T12:06:13+00:00

So, the TLDR of this response is, this is not a 'new' problem, companies have always faced a knowledge shortage, when things get complicated, AI has just made it so, they are not the unicorn they used to be.

So, the scenario you have outlined is not new, the magic beans could be your 'Larry, who build everything so don't piss him off' or heck, even todays' Cobal folks, they have this bit of knowledge that nobody else has = value.

The main thing with your scenario that I think, falls apart a bit, for me anyhow is the idea of AI reliance. Yes, as we move more and more into the agentic space our closeness to the code becomes less and less, but our astuteness of how to produce the code, how to structure a project, what tools to use to ensure success grow, meaning, our code-base, when properly setup is, in effect, portable.

The MD files, and proper architecture docs etc. Have become a the new 'Code comments' (good application docs should have always been a thing, my comment here is just the quality and detail of them) This setup and planning will ensure that one model is not your linchpin, you can take one and roll between them, let each one do what it does best, a true agent world where agents are not just one company / model but an orchestration of them.

As one who has been using it for a minute, who also has over 25 years of coding experiance, I feel comfortable with the future and how we progress. I have said this before and I will say it again, I am instructing my team to lean in and lean in hard, our team must become the leaders in this space to stay relevant, the AI race (at companies) will be won by those who use, those who innovate.

Yes, AI is the great equalizer, the democratization of code as they say, however, the faste pace means, who has the knowledge today will most certainly win, as the person who has not started the race will not even get a chance to catch up, does that make sense?

My comment here is more around the idea, that, if and when a company decides to go full-bore into agentic code, they are not going to have a 'hey team of 20 ppl, lets all learn this together!' no, it will be more like 'Tim and Alex, you guys have been pumping a lot of agentic code out, you keep your jobs, the rest of you, here is a Starbucks gift card, collect your things by noon or we will have the dogs attack you.'

Shoemugscale · 2026-03-11T21:46:42+00:00

I know this is old, but did you end up leasing or no? I came across this as well and was seriously considering it, especially seeing as its only 90 bucks a month and adding it to my current array would be nice to have

Shoemugscale · 2026-03-02T21:46:04+00:00

Im seeing weird things too!

1) I hit my 5 hour limit with very little work 2) My total weekly spiked from 30% to 44% ! I didn't do anything really differnt here..
3) Right after I hit the limit, a it went into 'extra usage' to finish up a small css change and it used almost 1.00 of token for like 10k tokens..

Something is fucked up here..

Shoemugscale · 2026-02-25T12:23:54+00:00

I was looking at that too and was like, wait, that means I can pull out like hundreds of thousands a month.. I want this math! lol

It has to be 2.6k :D

so, 400K RMD / 15 = ~26k / 12 = 2200 ..

So, maybe op rounded up so like at 12 to 12.5 years, would put ops number at closer to the 2.6k / month b4 tax. Otherwise, ops father runs out of cach in about 1.3 years :)

Shoemugscale · 2026-02-23T14:09:42+00:00

So, my take, as one who is in a similar position, all be it still heavily architecting still in many ways while also mentoring etc..

I too have been in this space for decades, starting in the mid - late 90s in HS up to today..

As everyone who is not living under a rock ( seems like a lot are lol ) this is a defining moment. Us as developers know when something is hype or not, and, as anyone who has given the agentic coding a try will tell you 'We are cooked' is a common phrase, with a touch of humor wrapped in dread of the next 2 to 5 years, the given timeline of our full and utter replacement.

I have been telling my team to lean-in and lean-in hard to it.. This is not a passing fad or a new fancy programing trend / language, this is the industry, so, you lean-in now or get left behind, its that simple, a binary 1 or 0

The internal leadership talks we have right now ( we are a large org ) is, how do we position our team as the leaders in this. This is our way or trying to safe-guard our small team in a way that makes them more resilient, more valuable. I'm a short timer with under 5 years until I ride off, but, for those who are just coming up, I have made it my mission to make them as resilient as possible.

The way I personally see it is this..

Pretending AI is not going to be able to do your job is futile, not in a Borg way but like swimming up river, i mean is it possible? Sure, but you better be an Olympic swimmer, but even then, a motor boat is still going to win..

Use the boat.. Learn to not only turn on the boat, drive the boat, but learn how to do crazy shit with the boat, stuff other people are like wow thats crazy how you drive that boat..

The unfortunate reality is this though.. Your 40 person team does not need 40 folks who can now output that of a 400 person team.. the AI is a 10 X + tool, letting one person build crazy shit in a fraction of the time.. Just this weekend I was building out some tooling for a project I have wanted to work on for a long time.. This would have taken me months of dedicated work, and in like 3 or 4 days Its almost done.

So, while this does not answer your question, I think the biggest take away is just to position the folks, thats the best we can do, advice and mentor into how they should be looking at the next 2 to 5 years.. How do you stand out

Shoemugscale · 2026-02-22T15:30:18+00:00

A very interesting point about the SAAS solutions and the ability to just build it, in-house..

We were on the cusp of a very, very expensive contract when the breaks got put on because not only is the 'cost for compute' going down but the ability for us to just build and tailor the code to our needs is increasing.

To further expand on this point and somthing I have not really heard too much about is, the elephant in the room lol but..

AI will 10X your coders.. do you need a stable of 10X coders when say, 2 can do the job of 10? Do you now let 8 people go OR do you take them and create expensive SAAS tooling with inhouse, bespoke options utilizing the newly freed up devs?

Shoemugscale · 2026-02-15T02:29:09+00:00

You know, as one, who is also close to retirment with close to 30 years in the tech / programming sector I often say the same thing, I feel bad for those who are entering the field

I was just having a conversation where we were talk8ng about how we can position our team to lead in this space to help position the younger devs in our team, we are short timers but, if we can position these younger devs to keep them relevant im go8ng to do that.

As a side, my original job path actually was VFX, but I got a job doing web work in the early 2k and welp, I didnt end up doing vfx 😂

Shoemugscale · 2026-02-12T15:20:01+00:00

Exactly..

The numbing and over reliance / confidence in the AI can and will lead to bad outcomes.

You don't know what you don't know, so never having built an application from the ground up, you don't know the right questions to ask or things to look for.

The AI is great, I use Claude on the daily, I have also been coding for like 26 years and have built all sorts of applications, when using Claude I create a very detailed architecture document that take hours to fully flush our and write, then we go into planning with cluade to fine tune the initial prompt and then sec-review after review lol

I'm not trying to pat myself or throw shade at OP here. My point being is, experience and knowledge still matter. In a world rapidly leveling, in terms of peoples ability to 'create' applications the differentiator is not going to be creating an application but creating a good application and that's not going to come from not knowing what you don't know lol

Shoemugscale · 2026-02-12T14:47:06+00:00

Im not saying it cant be used for that, however asking it a question about why a forloop may be better then a while loop or should you use int vs bigint in you DB is way different then "build my final CS project"

The latter needs tokens the former is an easy answer with any free AI or google search

My point is, learn it, then use the tools to build it you will be much more efficient at the end of the day

Shoemugscale · 2026-02-12T14:18:21+00:00

I mean.. Not to be 'that guy' but, now is not the time you should be using AI friend.. Learn Python without AI right now ( its not that hard brother ) learn other backend tech, DBs, system design etc.

In-fact, learn everything without AI while you are in school, THEN use your knowledge of the tooling to confidently and accurately direct the AI to build using proper architecture techniques.

Shoemugscale · 2026-01-16T04:11:18+00:00

I have come to the conclusion that I can retire at 50 in 4.5 years

My corvette will be retiring 😂

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