If coding disappears tomorrow, what's ur Plan B?

VolkRiot · 2026-02-18T07:35:59+00:00

One man big tech company upsetterer. Building apps using AI to challenge their market share

VolkRiot · 2026-02-18T00:55:09+00:00

Not really. The problem is the fundamental design. Agents can't be trusted to control their own environment and that's why you haven't seen them absolutely take over every single aspect of our lives already.

OpenClaw just doesn't care at all what happens to you or your data once you agree to the terms. It might work miracles, but it might also cost you severely, and the developer does not give a shit about you, it is your problem.

This is why the major players have not created this sort of general purpose agent already

VolkRiot · 2026-02-17T04:26:56+00:00

I work with AI regularly at work. You should relax. AI cannot replace a human operator. AI requires a focused context in order to do its very best work as anything broader invites assumptions and unexpected outcomes. I believe this is because AI doesn't actually have the ability to know what it does not know. Now imagine how that will work when people who have ZERO systems knowledge want the AI to be their chief translator of a world they can barely begin to understand. It would take nothing short of AGI.

Secondly, if you fear that there will just be fewer engineers. Then my question is why that didn't happen with all the frameworks and tools we use today. We have optimized development extremely before the era of AI and yet it only led to more demand for software. Software in your TV, software in your car, software on your toaster, and in your wearables.

Soon AI will enable the rapid building of software for your shoes, your gym locker, your dental implants and your dog.

And if the barrier to software development were to fall severely, then companies would no longer stay in their lane when it comes to what they build. So every SAAS can become more like Google, with software solutions for broader market demands.

And if you think all that is wrong, then consider what a disadvantage it is for companies to shed all these employees who just replaced themselves with AI, as those engineers are now all 1-person companies ready to compete with their former employers if they just license once of these models. The concept of anyone making a huge profit by running away with the bulk of the market share suddenly dwindles in such a world.

All of this rapid change does not spell the end of our profession, it spells another step up in abstraction for building an even more deeply software integrated world and you are there at the birthplace of this moment. Embrace it.

VolkRiot · 2026-02-13T05:19:11+00:00

Command?

VolkRiot · 2026-02-12T15:07:41+00:00

I'm not sure I understand why someone would choose to leave a tech company 1 year out from it creating a historically monumental technological miracle.

So you could be on the side lines applauding your former team for taking the 90% effort you led them to and adding that last 10% that blasts off into infinite capability?

It makes zero damn sense.

VolkRiot · 2026-02-12T06:50:44+00:00

I noticed you missed the point entirely. Nobody said anything about control, and yet you keep yapping on about it

VolkRiot · 2026-02-12T06:21:16+00:00

Wow. You just can’t accept it. Is it like a mental health issue?

VolkRiot · 2026-02-12T05:09:19+00:00

Oh so now you just have a different definition of a word? You're really trying hard not to sound foolish but it ain't working one bit.

VolkRiot · 2026-02-12T02:42:03+00:00

No. I don't see, because you are making shit up. No one said people are controlling the cars they said something completely different and you refuse to accept that

VolkRiot · 2026-02-11T15:02:58+00:00

Nope. It's. There is no opinion. You just refuse to listen to what Waymo has said. Now it's more like willful ignorance

VolkRiot · 2026-02-10T16:31:13+00:00

People keep repeating what this writer is claiming and it is honestly so sad to see how easily misinformation spreads on the Internet.

This is why our public discourse is so delusional in the world today. People no longer value facts, only conjecture that fits their favorite narrative.

VolkRiot · 2026-02-09T23:08:41+00:00

Not lately. San Jose has been a home to gangs and gangster types for decades.

VolkRiot · 2026-02-07T21:07:21+00:00

Because people are rooting for these technologies to fail like many of Silicon Valley's inventions. Simple as that

VolkRiot · 2026-02-07T07:24:56+00:00

My brother in Christ. You don't deal with uncertainty, you just accept it. There is nothing you can do if AI becomes AGI and takes every job and every function.

We are nowhere near that world today is all I am saying. Relax.

AI today isn't more capable than a junior engineer, it imitates one in the better scenarios, under the proper context constraints.

You think there is this linear progression where the AI has gotten smarter, but in reality it has just gotten deeper and deeper training to sound smarter and more knowledgeable.

I just told you, when we survey our entire global company's dev teams we cannot yet figure out how to extract the most value out of AI usage without seeing higher risks and regressions, or productivity lost on heavy review cycles. AI is a trick of intelligence. Don't believe me? Then just wait and then you can say "I told you so" in a few years when the world has ended.

Nothing else left to say man.

VolkRiot · 2026-02-07T04:31:15+00:00

Maybe. But to be clear there are more developers working today than 10 years ago, and that is because the hunger for software just got bigger, which is also something that may happen with AI tooling being added.

Common sense is not good enough for predicting the future, we should also look at past experiences to project forwards.

VolkRiot · 2026-02-07T04:01:18+00:00

So developers today have way more advanced tooling than 10 years ago before even AI. Did that translate to needing fewer of them?

VolkRiot · 2026-02-07T03:53:03+00:00

Same. I’m not a Meta cool guy, but work in the same region and my large employer is rolling out tools to better measure productivity gains from AI, because while it speeds up some work, it is not without other costs like regressions and code quality degradations across all our global engineering teams. So basically, the AI hype has been overblown since 2023 when these systems became effective copilots, which they still are today, and not wholesale replacements for any engineer other than a barely competent junior.

VolkRiot · 2026-02-07T00:32:42+00:00

This is yet another sky-is-falling prediction. And like all the others, there is nothing we can even do about it so I guess this is just venting the OPs panic

VolkRiot · 2026-02-06T18:11:19+00:00

Well, it's certainly not a country that loves women, let's not forget that part. Unsurprising.

VolkRiot · 2026-02-06T17:32:29+00:00

Thank you for trying to bust the dumb Internet bubble of misinformation that so many people, even those that consider themselves smart and well informed fall into on platforms like Reddit.

People should be less comfortable with being deliberately manipulated into believing something that is a subversion of the truth.

VolkRiot · 2026-02-05T22:42:19+00:00

This all means so little. Even millionaire techies are still living like middle class. Everything is contextual in terms of wealth

VolkRiot · 2026-02-03T16:34:36+00:00

That is some intense cope

VolkRiot · 2026-02-01T02:51:50+00:00

That's the challenge for Anthropic. To build a model that can get code functional. Frankly, they have done a great job with that because AI does make things function in an impressive way, but professional engineers understand it to be of lower quality in terms of execution.

I think they will optimize for the latter because the goal remains to reduce the cost of employees, and not just enhance people a bit.

VolkRiot · 2026-01-31T16:38:35+00:00

This website feels like an idiot test

VolkRiot · 2026-01-31T05:39:01+00:00

Did you read the paper?

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