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Nobody knows how to build with AI yet

(worksonmymachine.substack.com)
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noodletheworld ◴[] No.44622313[source]
There is a fundamentally unfortunate reality here which is quite problematic.

Namely, you don’t deserve to be paid for working 8 hours if you only worked for 30 minutes over an eight hour period.

I don’t care if you personally agree with that or not, the reality is that businesses believe it.

That means, sooner or later there will be a great rebalancing where people will be required to do significantly more work; probably the work of other developers who will be fired.

It’s fun for home projects; but the somewhat depressing reality is that there is no chance in hell this (sitting around for 7 hours a day reading reddit while Claude codes) will fly in corporate environments; instead, you’re looking at mass layoffs.

So. Enjoy it while you can folks.

In the future you’ll be spending that 8 hours struggling to juggle the context and review 20 different tasks, not playing with your kids.

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1. drivebyhooting ◴[] No.44622331[source]
Playing with your kids, aka increasing their IQ and investing in the future.
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2. noodletheworld ◴[] No.44622353[source]
It doesn’t matter what downtime task it is.

You won’t have time to do it; it’s naive and ridiculous to expect that businesses will just let people goof off for 7 hours a day.

Regardless of the output they generate.

Anyone who doesn’t believe this has never had to manage budgets and staff.

It’s the “AI utopia” people making vague hand wavey motions about post-scarcity.

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