The entire framing is "how do I extract maximum value from candidates" - sorting people into "covetable senior talent" vs "almost replaceable juniors." There's zero consideration from a "lead" and a "mentor" on what the engineer actually gets out of this arrangement.
"Agents push humans up the org chart" - I wrote about this from a human angle instead of "great, now I need fewer people and the ones I keep better be obsessed.":
The entire post reads like a sorting algo for humans, there is value in his suggestions but it's ridiculously cutthroat. Not to mention out of touch, suggesting a broke junior fresh out of college drops $4000 on a NVIDIA supercomputer to differentiate themselves from the competition?? I guess it's a reflection of the market.
> "75% of enterprise workers say AI helped them do tasks they couldn’t do before."
> "At OpenAI alone, something new ships roughly every three days, and that pace is getting faster."
- We're seeing all these productivity improvements and it seems as though devs/"workers" are being forced to output so much more, are they now being paid proportionally for this output? Enterprise workers now have to move at the pace of their agents and manage essentially 3-4 workers at all times (we've seen this in dev work). Where are the salary bumps to reflect this?
- Why do AI companies struggle to make their products visually distinct OpenAI Frontier looks the exact same as OpenAI Codex App which looks the exact same as GPT
- OpenAI going for the agent management market share (Dust, n8n, crewai)
> Why do AI companies struggle to make their products visually distinct OpenAI Frontier looks the exact same as OpenAI Codex App which looks the exact same as GPT|
Because that requires human thought and it might take couple weeks more to design and develop. Do something fast is the mantra, not doing something good.
> "At OpenAI alone, something new ships roughly every three days, and that pace is getting faster."
This is a weird flex. Organizations have long strived to ship multiple times per day, it’s even one of the main business metrics for “high” performance orgs in DORA.
The fact that the premier “AI” company is barely able to deliver at a rate that is considered “high” instead of “medium” (the line is at shipping once per week) tells me that even at OpenAI writing the code is not the bottleneck.
Organizational inefficiency is as usual the real culprit.
I imagine the salary bumps occur when the individuals who have developed these productivity boosting skills apply for jobs at other companies, and either get those jobs or use the offer to negotiate a pay increase with their current employer.
Over the past few months mentions of AI in job applications have gone from "Comfortable using AI assisted programming - Cursor, Windsurf" to "Proficient in agentic development" and even mentions of "Claude code" in the desired skills sections. Yet the salary range has remained the exact same.
Companies are literally expecting junior/mid level devs to have management skills (for those even hiring juniors). They expect you to come in and perform on the level of a lead architect - not just understand the codebase but the data, the integrations, build pipelines to ingest the entire companies documentation into your agentic platform of choice, then begin delegating to your subordinates (agents). Does this responsibility shift not warrant an immediate compensation shift?
Ahh, but its not 2022 anymore, even senior devs are struggling to change companies. Only companies that are hiring are knee deep into AI wrappers and have no possibility of becoming sustainable.
Competition nowadays is so intense and fine-grained. Every new innovation or exploration is eventually folded into the existing exploits especially in monopolistic markets. Pricing models don’t change, revenue streams neither, consumer rarely benefits from these optimisation efforts, all leads to greater profit margins by any means.
It sucks for the ones who just want to play the game as "intended". The min-maxers always ruin it for everyone else. The devs ultimately balance the game around the few percent who min-max and everyone else just has to deal with it or stop playing. And the they say "don't blame the players, blame the game" but the game is literally being warped because of the players.
Also, often the new meta doesn't even make sense and the changes need to be rolled back. So all that pain and hustle will often be for nothing, but a lot of players will end up having a bad taste of the game altogether. So the damage has been done and a roll back can't fix it.
I'm not an economist so can someone explain whether this stat is significant:
> a sustained increase of 1.0 percentage point per year for the next ten years would return US productivity growth to rates that prevailed in the late 1990s and early 2000s
What can it be compared to? Is it on the same level of productivity growth as computers? The internet? Sliced bread?
These are economic studies on AI's impact on productivity, jobs, wages, global inequality. It's important to UNDERSTAND who benefits from technology and who gets left behind. Even putting the positive impacts of a study like this aside - this kinda due diligence is critical for them to understand developing markets and how to reach them.
But the thing is that they really aren't rigorous economic studies. They're a sort of UX research-like sociological study with some statistics, but don't actually approach the topic with any sort of econometric modeling or give more than loose correlations to past economic data. So it does appear performative: it's "pop science" using a quantitative veneer to push a marketing message to business leaders in a way that looks well-optimised mathematically.
Note the papers cited are nearly all ones about AI use, and align more closely with management case studies vs. economics.
This looks super promising and useful for frontend dev work. Gonna start using it immediately and see how effective it is compared to taking screenshots and pasting them in cc/antigravity.
Man everything about this launch is super clean, from the conciseness to the interactivity. I'm glazing but WOW. Well done to the team.
One feature I'd love is a toggle to lock the input to the bottom of the terminal. It's a big inconvenience to have to scroll up and down between the chat and the input when responding to changes.
"Agents push humans up the org chart" - I wrote about this from a human angle instead of "great, now I need fewer people and the ones I keep better be obsessed.":
https://ossama.is/blog/disparity
The entire post reads like a sorting algo for humans, there is value in his suggestions but it's ridiculously cutthroat. Not to mention out of touch, suggesting a broke junior fresh out of college drops $4000 on a NVIDIA supercomputer to differentiate themselves from the competition?? I guess it's a reflection of the market.
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