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I can't see into the future, but I think that AI, at any level, will not excuse people from the need to acquire top professional skills. Software engineers will need to know Software Engineering and CS, AI or not. Marketers will have to understand marketing, AI or not. And so on... I could be wrong, but that's what I think.

AI-assistance is a multiplier, not an addition. If you have zero understanding before AI, you will get zero capabilities with AI.

Very true. One thing we could do it to take a positive/constructive view of the future and drive towards it. People can all lose their jobs, OR we could write 1,000x more software. Let's give corporate developers tools to write 1,000x more software, instead of buying it from the outside vendors, as a way of example.

Not saying AI will take anybody's job. It's just that the nature of the job is changing, and we have to acknowledge that. Will still be competitive. Will still require strong SE/CS knowledge and skills. Will still require/favor CS/EE degrees, which NVIDIA CEO told us not to get anymore. :-)

Also, it looks like the OpenAI and Anthropic has completed their fundraising cycles. So the AGI "has been cancelled" for now. :-)

Yes, you could write the code yourself, but keep in mind that this activity is going away for most engineers (but not for all) in 1 - 2 years.

I think a better advice would be to learn reading/reviewing an inordinate amount of code, very fast. Also heavy focus on patterns, extremely detailed SDLC processes, TDD, DDD, debugging, QA, security reviews, etc...

Kinda the opposite advice from the blog. :-)

Edit: Somebody pointed out that, in order to read/review code, you have to write it. Very true. It brings a questions of how do you acquire/extend your skills in the age of AI-coding assistance? Not sure I have an answer. Claude Code now has /output-style: Learning, which forces you to write part of the code. That's a good start.

Correct, but each may be using different 20%.

In the enterprise software (think ERP), each user may be using only 0.01% of the overall functionality. And the entire company maybe using only 1% of the functionality.

I am ended up not using this option anyway. I am using B-MAD agents for planning and it gets into a long-running planning stream, where it needs permission to execute steps. So you end up running the planning in the "accept edits" mode.

I use Opus to write the planning docs for 30 min, then use Sonnet to execute them for another 30 min.

Wait, doesn't hitting Escape do this already?

There is a saying that, in China, the top political career starts at 70.

I don't think the age is the problem. It's corruption.

Are we still getting AGI in 2026, per OpenAI?

Based on AGI 2026, they convinced US Government to block high-end GPU sales to China. They said, we only needed 1-2 more years to hold them off. Then AGI and OpenAI/US rules the world. Is this still the plan? /s

If AGI does not materialize in 2026, I think there might be trouble, as China develops alternative GPUs and NVIDIA loses that market.

If they are PhDs in Computer Science, I believe they would qualify for EB-1.

My understanding is that the smartest people are getting EB-1 and O-1 visas. We should definitely get them all.

What these CEOs are asking for, must be something else.

Yeah, I am sure soon we be given good reasons why "they couldn't handle" JK either. Just scroll down the comments. See, ABC affiliates wanted him gone... :-)

TC has now an audience larger than the entire Fox News. Maybe JK will do the same.

Yes, they could have spent time, first creating an informal "communication safety" group between some Government agency and Disney/ABC. But I feel like this is splitting hairs.

First of all, no need for personal attacks. Second, I am not supporting this, merely stating the reality.

Would you rather pretend that things like that aren't happening?

We are constantly being told that AI will soon replace engineers and other jobs. I would like to understand what will we need H1B workers for, with the wide adoption of AI?

My understanding is that best and brightest will go on O1 visas anyway.

People are discovering that cancel culture goes both ways.

Neither one is good.

But let's not pretend that cancel culture has not been going for many years now.

Remember Fox News cancelling, their most popular at the time, Tucker Carlson Show?

I am not even sure what free market is, aside from Economics textbooks and foreign policy positioning. Whatever it may be, I don't think we had it for quite some time.

No judgement here, but a US-based corporation refusing services to the US Government?

While the terms of service are what they are, the US Government can withdraw its military contracts from Anthropic (or refuse future contracts if they don't have any so far). Or softly suggest to its own contractors to limit their business dealings with Anthropic. Then Anthropic will have hard time securing computing from NVIDIA, AWS, Google, MSFT, Oracle, etc...

This won't last.

After everything they printed, who could possibly consider Washington Post narrative engineers as journalists? :-)

So faced with a choice of buying hobbled H20 GPU chips vs developing their own (so far behind the SOTA), the Chinese market decided to develop/buy their own GPU chips?

Who could have possibly seen this coming? /s

I am not sure C++ needs a defense. Especially after C++ 11 cleanup.

Forced time in pre-release sounds like a really good idea.

Can somebody drive this up the chain to people who administer npm?

I have no basis to conclude anything in this matter. I saw multiple news reports/interviews to that effect. True/not - you get to decide based on news you hear.

Do you have a basis to conclude that "every intelligence and law enforcement agency that has looked into it and published a report has found the opposite"? You exhaustively went through all Western intelligence and law enforcement agencies and read their reports? So you are quoting other news articles/interviews. Apparently their views differed. Ok.

My, admittedly layman, understanding is that it was a very difficult thing to do from a technical perspective. And that there are very few countries that have technical capabilities to accomplish this. Ukraine is not one of them.

Are Python packaging systems like pip exposed to the same risks?

Is anybody looking at this?

What about Vue? How popular/good is it, in comparison to React?

It's actually worse than that.

First, when they thought they had a big lead, OpenAI argued for AI regulations (targeting regulatory capture).

Then, when lead evaporated by Anthropic and others, OpenAI argued against AI regulations (so that they can catch up, and presumably argue for regulations again).

"Combined, these patterns suggest that overqualified individuals are less motivated, but still outperform others in their same job. Underqualification results in a polar opposite set of findings, suggesting these individuals are motivated to put forth more effort, but still struggle to compete when judged relative to others."

Did Captain Obvious wrote this working paper or all NBER research is like this?

I am not very sophisticated npm user on MacOS, but I installed bunch of packages for Claude Code development. How do we check if computer has a problem?

Do we just run:

npm list -g #for global installs

npm list #for local installs

And check if any packages appear that are on the above list?

Thanks!

I used to read it and subscribe to it, a while back. I would not technically categorize them as a tabloid. They serve a different purpose.