People just haven't figured out the tools yet.

I'm doing truly astounding - stupefying - levels of work. Others on my team are actively resistant to my advice but the C Suite isn't.

The numbers are shooting up and to the right but people don't want to get on board. It's too much too fast.

And you're likely not reading any of the code and just making the Black box bigger, which is not a fact I'd be proud to announce publicly.

If you keep doing the black box approach you will be deskilled in the medium term and your input less valuable.

If you are reading the code, explain how you can do the claimed amount of work, since whenever I review output it's a huge bottleneck

> I'm doing truly astounding - stupefying - levels of work.

> Consider your own reaction to my statement if down voting.

Down votes in reaction to comments like these are almost always due to there being no evidence shared when these claims are made. Share the astounding, stupefying amount of work you're getting done because you've figured out the tools and watch as your down votes magically turn to up votes.

I shared some and it got downvoted for that too. So I find that hard to believe, if someone wants to comment on why writing an After Effects replacement that does more of what I want in many ways like custom shaders in 2 days is not a suitable example by all means explain it to me, because I find it insanely valuable to be able to do that. If anything people don't really like people posting their AI built products because anyone can do it, it's not that special, so it kind of proves the point.

Every engineer believes they are a 10X engineer. What makes thinking your a 100X engineer with AI any different? Or any more accurate?

Recall the study done with open source devs, every one of them believed they were more productive with AI than without, yet the net effect of AI resulted in a 19% loss in productivity.

Im going to be annoying and show you a free open source vibe coded project to make a point. The viewer part of this project predates AI, it took me years just to get the viewer to be great. I built this Video compositor in 2 days that does beat matching, parameter automation, shader effect layers, auto looping and a ton of other things I need when im video editing, cancelled my after effects account and doing this is something I do professionally. There is absolutely 0 chance of a single person doing that in a month, let alone 2 days, before Opus level models. Its not really cloned from anything other than my experiences doing video editing.

https://lowkeyviewer.com/studio/

> The numbers are shooting up and to the right but people don't want to get on board.

Revenue is one of those numbers, right? Right??

> It's too much too fast.

Yes, that’s exactly what being over-leveraged looks like.

“The number one indicator of fragility is leverage” -Nassim Taleb

We have one of you at my work. He’s a god, but for the wisdom.

> Edit. Consider your own reaction to my statement if down voting.

For my entire career I've been reading the same flavors of unsourced non-falsifiable claims about how someone has the correct insight into hype new tech, and they're just crushing it. And leaving those dumb nobodies behind.

It doesn't even matter if the tech becomes ubiquitous success or a flop. The tech's success wouldn't justify the comment. It's not a meaningful contribution to conversation. It's an invitation to play the hype game.

I think that's really the key for the most productive individuals I've met.

A lot of things that I've paid for subscription services in the past I've just replaced with personalized software for myself. It's not something I would ever release publicly for others to use because I'm sure there's a million edge cases that wouldn't work for a broader audience, but it's perfect for me and saves me a ton of money.

This is just like in woodworking and jig making. Sure you can buy a pre-made jig, but you can now just 3D print (vibe code) one that's good enough and is uniquely made for the way you work.

Does this mean that jig makers out there are out of business? Sort of, they need to sell jigs complex enough that you wouldn't want to / be capable of making.

The most productive individuals were already doing that before, maybe they were "just" scripting, doing macros, going to training on how to extend their workflow. The most productive individuals didn't wait for AI to bother IT by explaining how THEIR very unique situation was special and they needed that one special tool nobody else wanted. They were already using FLOSS tools or heck even had a budget dedicated for a dev to help them precisely because they care. Nothing changed for them ... but for those who wanted to emulated them and never dared, maybe those do have now an excuse to try.