I'm finding what's happening right now kinda bizarre.

The funny thing is - we need less. Less of everything. But an up-tick in quality.

This seems to happen with humans with everything - the gates get opened, enabling a flood of producers to come in. But this causes a mountain of slop to form, and overtime the tastes of folks get eroded away.

Engineers don't need to write more lines of code / faster - they need to get better at interfacing with other folks in the business organisation and get better at project selection and making better choices over how to allocate their time. Writing lines of code is a tiny part of what it takes to get great products to market and to grow/sustain market share etc.

But hey, good luck with that - ones thinking power is diminished overtime by interacing with LLMs etc.

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mumbisChungo 2 days ago | parent [-]

>ones thinking power is diminished overtime by interacing with LLMs etc.

Sometimes I reflect on how much more efficiently I can learn (and thus create) new things because of these technologies, then get anxiety when I project that to everyone else being similarly more capable.

Then I read comments like this and remember that most people don't even want to try.

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utyop22 2 days ago | parent [-]

And? Go create more stuff.

Come back and post here when you have built something that has commercial success.

Show us all how it's done.

Until then go away - more noise doesn't help.

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mumbisChungo 2 days ago | parent [-]

I don't think there's anything I could tell you about the companies I've built that would dissuade you from your perspective that everyone is as intellectually lazy as your projection suggests.

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skydhash 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Not GP, but I really want to know how your process is better than anyone else. People have produced quite good software (as in solving problems) on CPU that’s less powerful than what’s on my smart plug. And whose principles is still defining today’s world.

	▲	mumbisChungo 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		I just find that I learn faster by interrogating (or being interrogated by) a lossy encyclopedia than I do by reading textbooks or stackoverflow. I'm still the one doing the doing after the learning is complete.

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utyop22 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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