The claim that the AI startup “faked AI” with hundreds of engineers went viral – and I also fell for it, initially. The reality is much more sobering: Builder.ai built a code generator on top of Claude and other LLMs; it did not build a so-called “Mechanical Turk.”
An AI state of the union: We’ve passed the inflection point & dark factories are coming
On AI Coding and Its Discontents - Cal Newport
Back in January, I received a note from a senior software engineer in Silicon Valley. He described himself as an AI skeptic who became converted ... Read more
Running an AI-native engineering org | Claude
How the Claude Code engineering team’s processes and structure changed once agentic coding became the default way of working.
How StrongDM’s AI team build serious software without even looking at the code
Last week I hinted at a demo I had seen from a team implementing what Dan Shapiro called the Dark Factory level of AI adoption, where no human even looks …
Startups Target the Tricky Task of Making AI Seem More Human
Simulated human behavior companies raise millions
Good design hasn’t changed with AI — John Pham, SF Compute
Why AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’t
Coding agents as normal technology
The website that created an AI clone of its editor in chief
Every CEO Dan Shipper on doubling headcount while automating everything, building an agent out of 30,000 copyedits, and the “dirty secret” of writing with AI
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Turns out Generative AI was a scam
Or at least very very far from what it has been cracked up to be
AI-assisted engineers are burning out, is this fine?—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog
AI-assisted code generation is not free. It comes with a hidden cost: burnout. Are we dangerously ignorant to this problem? And how can we cope with it? In this post, we discuss this question.
The Real Reason We Still Need Software Developers in the World of AI
The dream of AI churning out perfect production-ready code doesn’t hold up against the reality of modern software development.
AI for coding works so well because code has a bunch of built in self checks that allow an agent trained with reinforcement learning to find what works and what doesn’t. This will not so easily translate to eg machine design until we have way better simulations or much more “embodied AI” (robots).
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DON'T SHARE THIS, IT'S AI FABRICATED It's fake - the media outlet almost certainly used generative AI to write this and it pulled from a "parody" acct (instagram.com/p/DZu8trmR89Y/) The more you share this, the more you help the pro-AI bros say this is all fake youtube.com/live/ho_ZmwgvDdM
