It definitely kept me from starting on one for 2 years. It was stupid. I lost 70 pounds and feel better than ever, with very little side effects.

Sigh

Good post, especially this

> I am of the opinion that his broad charge against WP Engine was valid; I think he handled it insanely.

I cannot believe how he handled it. Had he not crashed out, he may have succeeded in getting things right.

I think you underestimate the ... lack of caring by most Director/VP/CxO folks

I wish I could quote so much from this. But it encapsulates my issue with AI. Yes it can help. But it's not the end all be all. We still need smart people to make decisions.

Also, AI was build on what people figured out before. What happens when people stop figuring things out? Or stop making it available to AI? We hit a wall.

I know people don't like his politics, but the bigger issue to me is that 37signals removes manager titles from the low level people but not the high level people, yet they get the same work and duties. It's insulting.

But the longer it goes on, the more desirable it looks to new entrants.

Very well said

Yes that's what I do

As much as I want to agree with this, for some of the reasons given, even I must admit that AI does have its uses. I think a reasonable take is the ObjFW one:

https://git.nil.im/ObjFW/ObjFW/src/branch/main/documentation...

> AI/LLMs cannot be used to generate any code, documentation, assets or similar – all of it needs to be 100% written by a human.

> Utilizing AI/LLMs to help find bugs in the code or to help with debugging is acceptable. However, if the AI/LLM proposes a patch, this cannot be used – the AI/LLM should be instructed to only explain bugs or fixes, but never produce any code.

> Using an AI/LLM agent to create tickets is not acceptable. However, using an AI/LLM for translation between languages in tickets is acceptable.

I tend to agree this is the only reasonable use of AI indeed.