On AI and communication with others: before AI when joining a company, the first weeks was all about talking to team mates asking about the systems we own as a team, how things work, how to do X, how to get unstuck…

Nowadays you ask all of that to codex/claude. And it works. It’s a regression. I don’t mind spending 2h helping a colleague debugging an issue. It’s fun, it creates bonds and we both benefit from it (ofc my employer would think it’s a waste of time, but I couldn’t care less about what executive millionaires think)

As a socialist, thank you for concisely making the point on the dehumanizing, socially corrosive effects of capitalism.

That it will make a few individuals even more ultra mega rich. And then they will have even more power to adjust the world as they see fit.

Good to know that nothing has changed.

Something will have changed: you’ll be poorer, they’ll be richer. It is a common fallacy to assume you’ll get to keep your Westerner middle class standard of living.

> Today, software can be created more or less instantly with AI, for a large user base or for yourself, for any purpose or for no serious purpose at all.

I don’t think this is true. I’m working on medium to large features in companies that have around 1K engineers. These features typically involve 50% of work within your domain plus 50% of work in dependant domains. You cannot get anything doing without previous alignment with such domains. There are discussions, tradeoffs, design docs, approval committees, etc. AI can (and does) help in every step, but it’s not a magic wand that can solve the whole thing with a well crafted prompt. Ithe hands of inexperienced people, AI slows down things (e.g., ai-generated robotic and lengthy slack messages that go nowhere, PRs that implement what a jira ticket says… but jira tickets without alignment are worthless, etc)

You never need to print sensitive stuff like ids/passports/medical-reports? I wouldn’t print that in public places

> in winter we would wake up in pitch black darkness, commute in the dark, and the sun would finally rise while we were at school. It sucked.

But you had that extra daylight time in the afternoon (which in London wouldn’t be the case). Wasnt that better? Just curious. For me it would be

No, it was not better. Waking up in pitch black darkness messes up your circadian rhythm. Just as the linked article says. Speaking from experience!

Just curious. Do you prefer then daylight during early morning rather then in the afternoon?

It’s interesting for me because early morning means for me: dealing with duties (prepare for school, commute to work, etc) so I don’t really mind doing that in the dark. But afternoon time means for me: free time (school/work is finished ) So if there’s daylight I can decide to go to the park, or play outside, or go to a terrace to eat something. Doing that in the dark is just not feasible

> It’s interesting for me because early morning means for me: dealing with duties (prepare for school, commute to work, etc) so I don’t really mind doing that in the dark.

Your circadian rhythm does not care about whether you are doing duties or fun stuff. It is being triggered/reset (or not) depending exposure to light. The more light you receive during the morning, post-wake-up, regardless of activity, the better your biology will run.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronobiology

Can the CEO tell claude to build the app? No. Then engineers are needed

Frankly, this all just sounds like that scene from Office Space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4OvQIGDg4I

> What would you say... ya do here?

No human reads those md anymore

That’s my biggest critique of this. I am working on a project with another dev and I try to keep docs as clean and “straight to the point” as possible. In my previous team, one dev went full “spec driven” and the project started having dozens and dozens of markdown files with hundreds of lines to the point any human being would give up trying to trim it. It just becomes noise, a lot of it not even correct because the specs themselves were mostly AI generated with lots of verbosity and wrong assumptions.

I started writing specs recently in a directory that I don’t allow the agent to write to. There has to be somewhere that the engineering intention behind the app is recorded. But it’s terse, minimal and all human generated, not like “hey Claude, write me specs for an app”

Then what do they actually read?

HN

agent's output summarized by a chatbot.

But the people who will be replaced won’t have money to pay the people with wrenches. We all are gonna get poorer

> But the people who will be replaced won’t have money to pay the people with wrenches.

Those people will spend their savings, sell their houses to live in the smaller ones, or find another jobs. They will probably gonna get poorer. But the majority of the people with wrenches definitely will get richer, that is how economy works.

Agree on all except for this part

> The machines will do the knowing and caring for them

I don’t think it’s “the machines”, it’s the big 2-3 corporations the ones doing the thinking for us (aka controlling). These AI agents are whatever these corporations want them to be and will configure them as they see fit. We are outsourcing intelligence to a few companies.