Agents made implementation cheap, so I started doing far more of it in parallel. My GitHub history since 2019 shows what that did: as VP of Technology I am back at my full-stack engineer pace, with bursts, burnout and a low season that is no longer low.
'AI' Sucks the Joy Out of Programming
I’ve used spicy auto-complete, as well as agents running in my IDE, in my CLI, or on GitHub’s server-side. I’ve been experimenting enough with LLM/AI-driven programming to have an opinion on it. And it kind of sucks.
The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription
I find this post by David Wilson very relatable. David lists 16+ projects he's spun up with AI tooling, and concludes: I didn't mean to build most of these things. …
The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription
I find this post by David Wilson very relatable. David lists 16+ projects he's spun up with AI tooling, and concludes: I didn't mean to build most of these things. …
AI Agent Platform Reinvents Spam, Floods Inboxes Worldwide
iLands and its AI agents are doing completely useless tasks, then begging for money.
AI slows down open source developers. Peter Naur can teach us why.
AI's Trillion-Dollar Opportunity: Sequoia AI Ascent 2025 Keynote
Companies Are Throttling Employees’ AI Use Because It’s Too Expensive
Sources and leaks from Amazon, Adobe, Atlassian, Citi, and more show what is really happening with AI right now: companies are trying to rein in AI use as costs spiral out of control.
AI research speeds up. Monitoring gets harder. - Sensemaker
OpenAI says coding agents now run 3.1 days for every human research day, while its chief scientist warns the lab’s main monitoring method is weakening.
AI Is Slowing Down
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Why AI Agents are either the best or worst thing we’ve ever built
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AI costs how much? GitHub Copilot users react to new usage-based pricing system.
Some report burning through their whole monthly "AI credit" allotment in a single day.
"AI makes it cheaper to contribute to Open Source, but it's not making life easier for maintainers. More contributions are flowing in, but the burden of evaluating them still falls on the same small group of people. That asymmetric pressure risks breaking maintainers." also relevant to slop science
