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The future belongs to idea guys who can just do things

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This guy says he works remotely from a van, who can gets me back to a previous question, are there any concrete case studies of companies that are actually using AI to replace swaths of employees?

There’s a movement in the tech industry which basically is layoffs now, figure out how to replace those with AI shortly after. It’s happening across many/most companies and it’s being done quietly.

I think Joel Spolsky says it best: you want someone who's smart and gets things done

I don't want to derail conversation, but I had a really hard time following / understanding that post. Am I the only one?

Made sense to me.

The LLM engineering productivity boost is real. Companies need to make room for their engineering staff to figure out how to benefit from it. Engineers need to understand that claiming it's useless / assuming it's going to go away isn't a good strategy.

People who are "high agency" - aka curious, ambitious and self-directed - are very well positioned to take advantage of what these new tools can do.

But not everyone is "agentic". I am maybe ambitious and self-directed, but not really curious. I can work on other's ideas, perhaps be curious within the bounds of that space, but I myself struggle to get any meaningful interesting practical ideas. Honestly a lot of times I think I'm just going to be ran over since I don't know how and frankly doubt curiosity can be grown in any capacity. I want to be wrong, would like your feedback.

Honestly, the fact that you're commenting on Hacker News already marks you as somebody who is curious and engaged with your field.

Personally I don't think having unique ideas is as important as being able to execute on projects in a self-directed way.

I guess... I maintain a big open-source project by myself, I assume that kind of points to self-directedness. I guess on a career level it's discouraging since a student isn't seen as self-directed, and to go the startup route requires those unique ideas.

You are not; it seems to be more of a thinking-out-loud exercise than an article meant for others.

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