BREAKING: the UK government publishes official rules on how to use AI: 1. Ask first if you really need to use AI 2. Check if a spreadsheet can do the job before using AI 3. Choose the worst model possible so it uses less energy 4. Keep prompts short to reduce the environmental impact 5. In general, use AI only when necessary, as a climate-saving measure With a mindset like this, we should accept the UK back into the European Union

before ai you would - write some code - it works, ship it - few months later you'd realize it was bad - you'd refactor it - repeat not sure much has changed. you can produce a lot of code now but you can also refactor a lot of code

everyone's arguing about the details of code mattering or not but you can have a lot of fun by working on things where the code definitely doesn't matter there's a mountain of things in this zone you never even considered before

Best part of AI is shattering dev's egos, the worst part of this industry. You are not special. Your code actually sucked like everybody else's. You were never the smartest person. The things my sales guy BIL and designer brother are doing is beyond anything I have done.

The thoroughness with which agents can test and QA software is unrivaled. I pointed out something wasn't rendering right in a mobile (in-app) browser. The thing goes to the depths of Mordor to reproduce, simulate, fix, deploy, verify. It created an ephemeral vercel deployment to throw at an iPhone simulator! The absolute grind on these things. Humans could simply never match this level of intensity. We'd run of energy, we'd extrapolate, we'd hope it'd work out. The software of the future will be of a quality and performance we've never experienced before. It's amazing to watch this shift.

the hardest people to sell software to now are people who can build with ai they’ll spend a week building a shitty version of your app to avoid paying $20/month then maintain it forever