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Guilty as charged. Typing is for secretaries on husband shopping missions. My task is to solve problems.
We are all Scott Aaronson now "These days, if I need any coding done, I use the extremely high-level programming language called ‘undergrad’."
I think that the people that naturally prefer waterfall (or in its other names known as agile or scrum) are the hardest hit. Right now pile prompts on the agents to see what works, then extract core spec, then cleansheet implement is really powerful flow.
That actually leaves more time for thinking about the problem. Agents are also unbelievably good at gathering context. A normal programmer's job is mostly this.
This is part of effort post that I will finish never called Scott Adams and HAL. The gist is that Scott idea about stacking mediocrity is really potent with AI. Agents are just mediocre ... but they are so in everything. They are average programmer, writer, accountant, cad designer, chemist, physicist, physician, surgeon, musician, luthier, home appliance repairman, researcher, metallurgist, underwater basket weaver, devops, casino manager, security researcher, shawarma street vendor, translator - so the more domains a real world problems needs to touch - they compound to extremely high floor. When I prompt AI it is good in translating my request to proper terms of the art, thinking like the needed profession and solving problems that i didn't even needed solution in said task.
The endgame will be fun. Either hyper niche specialists with lifetime of knowledge and expertise and the people with most agency and imagination will be on top.
I find that vibe coding a proof of concept is one of the aspects where AI is mandatory now. When a throwaway pile of cludges is acceptable you can just tell AI to make it work. When trying to implement a powerful flow though it's vulnerable to outputting excessive and useless crap.
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