I work in a typical web app company which does accounting/banking etc.

A couple of days ago I was sitting in a meeting of 10-15 devs, discussing our AI agents. People were raising issues and brainstorming ways around the problems with AI. How to make the AI better.

Our devs were occupied doing AI things, not accounting/banking things.

If the time savings were as promised, we should have been 3 devs (with the remaining devs replaced by 7-10 AI agents) discussing accounting/banking.

If Gas Town succeeds, it will just be the next toy we play with instead of doing our jobs.

Isn't that fun though? We get paid to fuck around. People say AI is putting devs out of jobs, I say we're getting paid to play with them and see if there's any value there. This is no different from the dev tools boom of the ZIRP era: I remember having several sprints worth of work just integrating the latest dev tool whose sales team won our execs over.

This is only partly tongue in cheek :P

Playing with new toys is part of doing my job. In my shop, we call them "ooh shiny"'s. Most devs are in the same boat, but I feel bad for those that aren't.

Who wants to do grunt work when you can play architect to a bunch of robots?

Its like the ultimate RTS, plus you get paid.

Sounds like more of an issue of corporate meeting culture.

Has it written anything of quality?

beads is a 275k line todo tracker (probably more now). Yeggae is proud to have never read the source. I'm sure its high quality.

Anyone using beads should switch to something else that isn't insane. If you like beads, https://github.com/hmans/beans works the same (not my project), just that its serdes is markdown files with front matter, in a dot folder. Like every sane solution. No daemons, no sync branches. I cannot guarantee the project at all, but at least its better than beads. Or make your own; this is one example of one such project.

I really don't get the point. An LLM can easily, flexibly, and masterfully track commented hierarchal yaml todo lists without breaking a sweat, with zero lines of code.

It's like writing a 275k line C++ program just to printf("You are absolutely correct!") when ChatGPT can do that for you with a one line prompt in just one shot.