There's this crazy narrative that everyone starts parroting, saying the days of writing code yourself are over, now we have to use agents for everything.

No, we don't have to. We can just write code ourselves.

(My condolences to people who have jobs where AI is mandated.)

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felix-the-cat 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm in that boat - my current employer recently announced that they are tracking AI usage across the company and if you're not using enough AI you will be "replaced by someone who does".

	▲	skydhash 6 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Your employee is very late on this one. Other companies have tried that and have already been burned by people tokenmaxxing.
	▲	throw10920 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		This seems like an awesome opportunity to sneak in some work on side projects to keep your token counts looking good.

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duskdozer 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's only crazy if your goal isn't maximizing token purchases.