I’m 62. Same. The huge productivity jump is exciting. But the real gold is removing all the mechanical pain of typing, navigating files, grinding through library docs and many other grunt level tasks. Now I can stay in higher cerebral plane.
Some might say that optimization (how quickly and efficiently people are killed) is THE thing about war. I mean, aren't nukes the ultimate optimization?
> how soon before we start designing codebases for LLM agents to navigate more cleanly?
In my (so far limited) experience, the best thing you can do is establish and consistently follow patterns in you handwritten code.
I find Claude does really well with “follow existing conventions and patterns” or pointing to some specific part of the app and saying “do it that way.”
I prompt Claude the same way I would a junior dev, and that seems to work really well so far.
A big part of this is that too many kids are going to college. Less than 2/3 who begin a 4-year degree program will graduate.
We’re pushing kids who are not suited to higher education into it because of credential inflation. As more kids get a certain level of credential, others are forced to seek those credentials to keep up. It’s a tragically wasteful way to signal fitness to employers.
This has been spurred on by government loan guarantees and other means of assistance, which create demand, which drives prices up. The universities don’t escape blame here. The author is getting these ludicrous pep talks from administration because they must play the charade to keep business booming. Nothing more. They’re selling a crap product to people who don’t benefit from it.
“18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated.”
Witness how “this type of work” is actually done. You’ve been claiming to “do this type of work,” yet even in this most earnest appeal “to the American people” you don’t bother to cite one single accomplishment that might make we the people sympathetic.
You can eat as much meat and tropical fats as it takes to satisfy, and you WILL lose weight and regain metabolic health. The catch is, you gotta ditch most of the carbs.