> We will deliver success through a flatter organization that is built around makers (individual contributors focused on building), player-coaches (leaders who remain deeply involved in the work while developing their teams), and directly responsible individuals (DRIs) who own key decisions and outcomes
Fascinating. The death of management is happening all throughout software.
Do you honestly believe in the so called “free lunch”? I mean there are MANY substances you can presently take that make you feel way better, but always come with a cost or a downside. Why should we believe GLP-1 class drugs are any different?
Thanks. I went looking for how to actually verify myself as I would love to get access to Fable again. This post confirmed it, it's not relate to Fable at all and has been around. Thanks.
Interesting perspective but don't you think it's too late? Opus 4.8 can already replace most developers. Companies are already cutting the bottom half of the work force, since Opus on a cron can churn out bug fixes.
Maybe there's some hope that if we stop here, we'll still need senior level developers to guide the models and step in where they (occasionally) fall short? Maybe Mythos/Fable was the first time where that was no longer really true?
I'd disagree. I saw plenty of really mediocre work from Fable, especially in various niche programing endeavors (graphics comes to mind). It doesn't strike me as the "end to all programmers" yet... though fast forward 10 years and it seems inevitable that all of our salaries will be halved, if not more.
I was a highly active boy, who really struggled in my youth to find interest in school and therefor found studying hard, etc.
At multiple points I was told I had ADHD but I knew that wasn’t right at all.
I have tons of interests and no struggle to focus on those. Ask me to sit and learn about something irrelevant like Native American basket weaving and I will tune out.
Also missing for boys is physical exercise. 1 hour of PE twice a week in high school is absolutely ridiculous. All that energy has to go somewhere. Pills work but at what cost?
You will literally build nothing but the most primitive of devices unless you accept black boxes. In fact I'd argue its one of humanities great strengths that we can build on top of the tools others have built, without having to understand them at the same level it took to develop them.
I totally get these are very hard problems so solve and that we're on the bleeding edge of what's possible but I can't help and wonder when someone is going to crack real video understanding.
sure, maybe it's still frame-by-frame but so fast and so often that the model retains a rolling context of what's going on and can answer cleanly temporal questions.
"how packages were delivered over the last hour", etc.
Can someone explain what one might use this model for? As a developer with a casual interest in biology it would be fun to play with but honestly not sure what I would do
Genuinely curious as someone who wants to improve… what the hell do you talk about?
I’m trying to picture the random people I encounter while walking my dog, for example. Neighbors who I don’t know. That’d be a great place to start up a convo as I walk by but I draw a complete blank.
I don’t know about others but a big reason I went into software development (whether I want to admit it or not) is because I am “naturally” not very skilled in talking to, or dealing with , people.
While I’ve done very well in tech, the truth is, lacking this skill has only been a detriment.
The problem at this point is I truly don’t like random people, and I have no idea how to fix that. Often people are rude, inconsiderate, selfish, etc. the canonical example is being in a row at the grocery store, walking down the row, someone’s cart is just way out in the center blocking your path, and as you approach, they do nothing.
Anyways “people skills” are definitely a SKILL and one I’ve avoided to my detriment over the years. Need to work on that.
Building wrapper apps on top of LLM APIs takes barely more knowledge and training than normal frontend and backend dev works.
If you want to develop your own models, that’s probably the next layer where you need to learn about training, etc.
Even deeper is Ai research… once upon a time LLMs were not the bleeding edge… it takes research often times theoretical and steeped in physics and math to develop your own “ai”
Fascinating. The death of management is happening all throughout software.