I would rather AI not exist. But it does. No sense in ignoring it.
I just run Claude/Codex raw, always did, before I was always forcing plan mode before any task, but they are so good right now that not even that is needed anymore 90% of the times.
Also before I was at least using terminals, now? Not even that, Claude Desktop and ChatGPT desktop apps all the way.
But overall, I enjoy my time playing the game. If someone engages in behavior that makes me have less fun, I mute them and go back to having fun. It's fun.
> I also played through some singleplayer games [...] I had a lot of fun in all of them.
nice!
I don't know what either of those two things actually mean.
I have so many questions:
* What kind of work are your agents producing?
* Why is your employer happy with that low quality output?
And most important,
* are you hiring? I could finally finish tetris!
- Because it solves the problems they need solved.
- Before AI companies whitelabelled humanity's accomplishments, I was very performance-minded. I still am I guess. I benchmark every function and if it's slower than I anticipated I tell the computer to fix it. A few months ago I would sometimes have to do it myself. Now I don't.
I am salaried making > six figures and all I do is press the think button on the funny little screen.
I largely assume that all the micro optimizations people are making to their "agentic setups" is just bikeshedding. There's not much else for them to think about now. Probably makes people feel useful if they can get 0.5/1% improvements to their job-doer robot.
That being said, I've found peace in just embracing it. Work didn't require me to think anymore, so I've found some of that in trying to get very very good at a videogame. Quantifiable improvement, problem solving, adapting to new scenarios, etc.
But for work all that is needed is "computa, fix the bug".