The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing

Re:The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding ... by wongarsu on Sunday April 05, 2026 @09:58AM (#47649536)

Duh, the only way to get startup experience is indeed to get startup experience.

My point is that getting into the weeds of writing CRUD software is not the only way to gain the ability to write complex algorithms, or to debug complex issues, or do performance optimization. It's only common because the stuff you make on the journey used to be economically valuable

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Re:The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding ... by iterateoften on Sunday April 05, 2026 @11:29AM (#47650434)

> write complex algorithms, or to debug complex issues, or do performance optimization

That’s the stuff that ai is eating. The stuff I’m talking about (scaling orgs, maintaining a project long term, deciding what features to build or not build etc) is stuff very hard for ai

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Re:The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding ... by 8note on Sunday April 05, 2026 @12:17PM (#47650923)

I dont know if id call it "hard for ai" so much as "untreaded ground"

agents might be better at it than people are, given the right structure

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Re:The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding ... by cweld510 on Sunday April 05, 2026 @03:02PM (#47652736)

AI is only eating some of that though. For instance, everyone who does performance work knows that perhaps the most important part of optimization is constructing the right benchmark. This is already the thing that makes intractable problems tractable. That effect is now exacerbated — AI can optimize anything given a benchmark —- but AI isn’t making great progress at constructing the benchmark itself.

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