agents are pretty good at cleaning up a codebase, finding dead code, fixing bad abstractions, etc. You just have to spend some focusing the agents on that goal.
my cellphone has been named “sneakernet” for years. it’s a throwback to a time when it was faster to walk a zip disk across campus than it was to send it.
Fun fact. My wife and I met on something similar in 2006 or so. "My Blog Log" was a sidebar widget that showed other people who we reading that blog. She was in marketing, I was in tech, and it was a blog at that intersection written by Rex Hammock (RIP).
i have been thinking about this from a different direction: how do we make these shared within a company in a way that increases the productivity floor of the team/department/company. Sure, they can still be extended/enhanced by individuals, but we don’t need everyone configuring mcps, building institutional memory, etc.
for me, it’s not about the cost to leave, it’s about lowering the cost of onboarding and change.
I used something like this tool to create 10 different fonts of my handwriting. Then I wrote scripts to randomize which font was used for each character, ensuring that no word had that same variant of a single letter. It worked incredibly well for a personalized printed mail campaign. It really did look hand written.
edit: basically what DANmode replied to the same parent. I did this 10 years ago while running for political office.
For some of us, the world has already changed drastically. I am shipping more code, better code, less buggy code WAY faster than ever before. Big systemic changes for the better to our infra as well. There are days where I easily do 2 weeks worth of my best work ever.
I totally understand that not everyone is having that experience. And yet until people live it, it seems they just discount the experience others are having.
I have a small-ish vertical SaaS that is used heavily by ~700 retail stores. I have enabled our customer success team to fix bugs using GitHub copilot. I approve the PRs, but they have fixed a surprising number of issues.
Part of schools "affording" the best teachers is not money, but the amount of discipline problems they need to deal with. Which correlates to the financial status of the families at that school. For tons of reasons.
Which families tend to win the lottery to go to these schools? The parents that can afford to. Even if the school is free, the transportation is often not. Plus the parents have to have enough free time to be aware of the lottery for their 3 year old.
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