I think we are all vulnerable and need to reassess what it is we bring.

Agents merely accelerate and equalize the playing field. And they cost money. We might be a dying breed, but we are the best operators of this technology. And if we want it, this is our moment.

Yes, get into wood working.

LLMs don’t “solve” execution at all. They aid and accelerate it.

Don't kid yourself.

The high watermark of what can be "solved" (read: one shotted) is rising, and will continue to rise. Look at the gig economy (Fiver etc) for simple programming/design tasks, LLMs have taken over completely with their execution.

You know what lacks focus? This whole article. Oh, and also individual styles of commit messages. You know what’s a waste of everyone’s time when you’re building technology in 2026? How to write and summarize what you’re work is doing.

Conventional commits doesn’t make a promise, it’s a specification. Words have power and meaning, this viewpoint is about more than a spec, it’s about the popularity and relevance that they clearly despise.

Conventional commits are like BEM syntax for CSS, it works if you pay attention. It’s structure around what developers do, which thoughtful limits. What is the problem with that? Is it the only way? No. But to say it’s encouraging the “wrong things” pshhhh

This author’s take is dog water for coders who yearn to be controversial and (clearly) focus on the wrong things.

Seems like a bug

That’s a bet and remains to be seen.

AI automation will shift the labor demand curve. Once jobs that were previously done by humans are done by AI, this directly reduces human labor demand.

That's also a bet and also remains to be seen

Labor substitution is math, not a bet.

Based lol

I feel similarly. There is virtually zero chance I’m going to clone and run someone else’s dotfiles. So the act of sharing them is a generous look into a developer’s toolchain and I’ve been inspired by others’ choices. So, if you know how, please share them!

I've never straight up cloned them, but my dotfiles have grown in large part out of some copy-and-pastes from other people's.

I think this author is so far off the mark that it makes me wonder if they were high when they wrote this

Yeah this whole effort is just more money wasted on security theater and this whole discussion thread is filled with disgruntled tech workers who drive into the city rather than take Bart and are so clearly salty about the inconvenience of people being people. To be honest I would have thought sideshows would’ve gone out of style by now I’m sort of impressed it’s this much of a problem lol

Which makes sense because they might actually be people who otherwise feel powerless and deserve empathy like anyone else

TIL I have no empathy if I oppose people shutting down intersections to destroy stolen cars and the streets.