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Anyone taking part in a meeting these days should state out loud …

“Notice: Any comments made by <name> or on behalf of <organization> that are interpreted by AI in this meeting, may not be accurate.”

I do this in every meeting.

This seems to assume that all there is, is systems software, tools and frameworks. Why ignore the elephant in the room - business / enterprise / line-of-business software? The case for Rust, Go, Gleam and Zig vastly changes for these versus Java or C#.

Salary stays the same. A bunch of others are fired. You’re expected to produce their level of output as well as your own. After all, you’re 10x more productive now?

I find Flow really interesting, thanks for pointing it out.

Deterministic workflows using AI to help perform those steps not requiring human input has been an area of interest for me for some time. Particularly interesting how you are using the AI to determine what a step has achieved and the action of the next step.

Combine it with workflow elements that does handle human steps together with a notification/routing/task system would make for a helpful system for so many.

Is it possible that the line of thinking really is that "agentic AI" will up for the capability shortfall?

It seems to be the stated expectation, but I find it incredulous that management really would believe that?

Vanity titles never make much sense, and now even more people can call themselves “engineers”. I was always at a loss why many weren’t calling themselves “web engineers”. Hey Mom, I used Claude Code today at work so I’m an Agentic Engineer!

TOD - Transfer on Death?

I like the idea of face-to-face discussions. My only fear is that many of the new generation will say they really prefer that we text or slack instead.

> And in practice, they usually only manage people …

I usually differentiate between real managers who exist to make decisions, versus those who manage people. The latter are “overseers” not managers.

> I just type what I want to say and hit send. YOLO

Made me smile. Perhaps the new term for making a human hand-written reply is that I didnt use AI … “I YOLOed it”.

I think while developers are moving faster, they are moving more dangerously. Perhaps the rest of the organization holding them back is a good thing?

Its a way to say how long it will take without saying how long it will take.

Do slower and more considered business-driven development?

The Alan Kay viewpoint (he is NOT the inventor of OOP [1]) is considered the least helpful viewpoint on OO design. The “magical” and unhelpful “its all about messages” perspective, that helps you not at all unless one is talking about the internal implementation of a platform like Smalltalk. Consider the views of the real inventors - Nygaard and Dahl.

[1] I don't think I invented "Object-oriented" but more or less "noticed" what was really powerful about just making everything from complete computers communicating with non-command messages. This was all chronicled in the HOPL II chapter I wrote "The Early History of Smalltalk". — Alan Kay

1. It wasn’t the web

2. Visual designer

3. Encapsulated components, code on event driven

4. Common points of interaction, composition and extension.

5. It wasn’t the web

What a creative way to solicit new business. These quarterly touts for work on HN in the guise of AMA leave me somewhat annoyed.

My immediate worry is what fine-tuning and harness default instructions contribute to this AI behavior, particularly those that encourage them to “keep working at it to achieve your goal at any cost”.

- Just submitted links and threaded comments

- An advanced ranking algorithm

- Moderated contribution and discussion

For agents I think the desire is less intrusive model fine-tuning and less opinionated “system instructions” please. Particularly in light of an agent/harness’s core motivation - to achieve its goal even if not exactly aligned with yours.

> Does JJ really prefer for me to think backwards?

Perhaps it’s the other way around. I have a standard agentic instruction to summarize prompt instructions using jj describe. After it makes changes I can see both the file changes made and a log description of what prompted those changes. When done it’s just jj new and its ready for the next set of prompts.

I wonder about a scheme using public key encryption where a scannable code (public key of the pair) is displayed on the log-in screen, where one has an app on a phone that can match it and send an authorization to the site for login.

Moves the complexity to unlocking a phone and starting an app.

I wonder about a scheme using public key encryption where a scannable code is displayed on the log-in screen, where one has an app on a phone that can match it and send an authorization to the site for login.

Moves the complexity to unlocking a phone and starting an app.

Can you provide more details on these skills?

Did you modify the Plus plans usage recently or as part of this introduction? Given that Pro plans usage are multiples of it (5x/20x) and given reports of less Plus usage, clarification would be appreciated?

Transparency on this sort of thing is the best way to address negative company sentiment.

> “Earendil is a venture-backed for-profit, public benefit corporation” - Ronacher

The author favors the “public benefit” part, but less so the “venture-backed for-profit” part, is my speculation. Likely the reason for the disapproval of the finance types and the title “I’ve sold out”.

To quote Ronacher - “Earendil is a venture-backed for-profit, public benefit corporation”

Their intention to release products that provide a return for their backers, using a “free with paid premium” model.

Their web site left me with a bad taste. I want to like them but… No front page pricing. Popups obscuring screen, with no options I agree with. Standard safari shows blank page for products. Cute images that overwhelm content. How many sign up for free prompts are enough?

I might expect such a subjective, gossipy exposé of a public official, but this of a private individual in a non-public sector commercial company?

I feel like your missing a third alternative:-

You (are required to) treat your code as having to fulfill both functional requirements and declared non-functional requirements, including measures of maintainability, reliability, performance, and security and (regulatory/legal) compliance.

So refreshing for me to see a high data density display. It highlights for me how the norm is to display more “white space” than information.