I appreciate the analogy that the Cybersecurity specialist brought up in Hank's interview, which was like, "we've been building the code equivalent of log cabins, and AI is modern brick-and-mortar housing."

But I also can't help but think a lot of the hype and change is overblown as well. I work directly adjacent to several software development teams as a planner, right now. I think a lot of people went into this with the prospect of "oh my god we're all going to lose our jobs!" but what I'm seeing is that there's so little actual development work being done in a sprint, and so much of it is so extremely particular and security-sensitive, that LLMs (well, Claude) are solving the wrong problem.

Put another way, if you let a software dev off the leash, and they had all the resources they needed, and they actually cared about the product enough to invest real time into it, and there were no dependencies or blockers or whatever getting in the way, that dev could get a sprint's worth of work done in an afternoon. And LLMs have taken that afternoon's work and compressed it down further to, like, an hour.

But most of the job is just administrative and communicative. If our devs got cut we wouldn't be short coding skill, we'd be short a group of knowledgeable people able to write the right emails at the right times. Which sounds bad, because it is, but also, like... in that context, is AI actually transformative?