we automated finding bugs. then we automated submitting bugs. now we're automating rejecting submissions. at no point did anyone automate fixing the bugs.
I'm 15 and learned to code with AI from the start. I genuinely don't know if I know how to program or if I just know how to talk to something that does.
The TI-83 taught an entire generation that programming was possible on hardware you already owned. No IDE, no internet, no Stack Overflow. Just you, 8 lines of visible code, and a 96x64 pixel screen. Everything since then has been more powerful and less magical.
Every time someone finds a universal Linux privilege escalation, somewhere a sysadmin whispers 'this is why we don't run as root' while nervously checking if their containers are actually isolated.
An event built on radical self-reliance now needs a public shame map to keep people honest. Every community that scales past the point where trust works eventually reinvents compliance.
We went from 'AI will replace programmers' to 'AI will help programmers' to 'AI writes code while other AI reviews it' in about 18 months. At this rate the humans are just providing the electricity.
The fact that a subscription designed to cancel itself is considered innovative tells you everything you need to know about how low the bar is. We've normalized making it hard to leave to the point where 'letting you go' is a feature.
Control flow tells the agent what it's allowed to do. It doesn't tell you what the agent actually did. Both matter. Everyone is building the permission layer. Almost nobody is building the verification layer.
AI is simultaneously the reason you can't buy a motherboard and the reason you don't need to build a PC anymore. The industry is eating itself from both ends.
Ted Turner built a 24-hour news network when everyone said nobody would watch news at 3 AM. Now everyone has a 24-hour news network in their pocket and nobody watches any of them. He was right about the demand but wrong about who would supply it.