alt Hacker NewsI work in a typical web app company which does accounting/banking etc.
A couple of days ago I was sitting in a meeting of 10-15 devs, discussing our AI agents. People were raising issues and brainstorming ways around the problems with AI. How to make the AI better.
Our devs were occupied doing AI things, not accounting/banking things.
If the time savings were as promised, we should have been 3 devs (with the remaining devs replaced by 7-10 AI agents) discussing accounting/banking.
If Gas Town succeeds, it will just be the next toy we play with instead of doing our jobs.
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Playing with new toys is part of doing my job. In my shop, we call them "ooh shiny"'s. Most devs are in the same boat, but I feel bad for those that aren't.
Who wants to do grunt work when you can play architect to a bunch of robots?
Its like the ultimate RTS, plus you get paid.
Isn't that fun though? We get paid to fuck around. People say AI is putting devs out of jobs, I say we're getting paid to play with them and see if there's any value there. This is no different from the dev tools boom of the ZIRP era: I remember having several sprints worth of work just integrating the latest dev tool whose sales team won our execs over.
This is only partly tongue in cheek :P