I believe that I am more of an AI realist. The agentic dev tools are really helping me out, but if I could wave a magic wand to make AI go away for a hundred years, I would do it.
I really hope that we can all laugh at how wrong I was.
However, I believe that the horrors will likely outweigh the benefits. Our global society/political systems are not ready for Stasi as a Service, mass unemployment, or any of this impending crap storm.
Who could call me a starry-eyed idealist? I have invested in bunkers.
I hate money.
You know what I hate even more? Being the supposed "smart one," and having to borrow money from my entire family to get through my health issues.
I will never do that again, hopefully.
Like ex-developer turned PM who is now vibe coding everything they can and thinks it's the greatest thing ever.
To the GP: I'd like some details of these "insanely agile products". Is this insane agility reflected by your customers saying that they have a better, faster, more reliable product? How are you measuring this?
I get that it's tedious to sit on tech forums listening to an endless stream of people insisting that suchandsuch technology is world-changing. Many people and probably most people who say that are wrong. But sometimes the world really does change.
It's tedious because the insistence doesn't seem to be matched by much observable change.
If software development speed has doubled, then we should be seeing not just an increase in apps being released, but an increase in product output from the big players too.