> write complex algorithms, or to debug complex issues, or do performance optimization
replyThat’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
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.
replyI dont know if id call it "hard for ai" so much as "untreaded ground"
replyagents might be better at it than people are, given the right structure