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> For people without sufficient clarity I imagine it amplifies that lack of clarity, which is where it is factually unproductive while it still ‘seem’ to be productive

Convenient way of saying "you're holding it wrong".

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Yes, that's what I'm saying.

I get flamed here whenever I say it's a skill issue, but it absolutely is. Not everyone has what it takes to be a successful CTO but that's the role you play if have 20 agents working on something you designed. I see you got downvoted too.

It would be a skill issue if someone would show they’re able to use it to produce good software while showcasing that it’s due to their mastery. Till this day, I don’t think there’s any such demonstration. Any defects of the technology is always blamed on skill issue.

There's a ton of people out there in various unknown companies grinding away and managing a reasonable number of well-prompted, parallel agents with decent CI and deployment strategy making judicious use of human review.

But that's boring and you can't build a YouTube audience around it.

People who produce good software don't feel the need to show off how modern and agentic they are.

We don't want them to show off, just make public software we can pay and use. What's yours?

Then when asked for examples of what they built using AI, what they have to show is boring slop worse than "git cloning" a mature project.

People who build good software with AI don't gloat about it being built with AI because it's not the most relevant part of it.

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