Amitai Schleier

@schmonz@schmonz.com

Force multiplier.
Outcome improver.
Decision sharer.
Developer, leader, coach.
https://agilein3minut.es podcaster.
Musician.
Bad poet (award-winning).
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[?]Amitai Schleier [he/they] » 🌐
@schmonz@schmonz.com

@sumisu@famichiki.jp @narthur@hachyderm.io most interesting bits for me are, if I’m interpreting your interpretation correctly:

1. No clear short-term savings from reduction in labor costs

2. Increased code volume and decreased quality correlate with a familiar upwards-bending cost curve… assuming the economics work the same for agent- or assistant-maintained code… assuming maintenance matters the way it used to

3. Making code review “load-bearing” is risky and invites failure

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    [?]Nathan Arthur [He/him] » 🔓
    @narthur@hachyderm.io

    @schmonz @sumisu yes to all three.

    On your economics question in point 2: there was another excellent writeup about “decoherence” recently, that I think answers it thoroughly: maevyn.codes/decoherence

    And I think this week has been a remarkable demonstration of what happens when you let quality dip too far, in software systems! I don’t think we can really afford to just let things suck.

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      [?]Amitai Schleier [he/they] » 🔓
      @schmonz@schmonz.com

      @sumisu@famichiki.jp @narthur@hachyderm.io wow. Tremendous piece. Earlier on the LLM adoption curve I had been tentatively/wishfully hopeful that because the feedback loop from shipping crap into production might be so much faster that executives would be more likely to learn the importance of investing in this kind of coherence. But I don’t think I’ve seen any evidence for this yet. Now I’m thinking, in a way you’ve had me think before, about how we would have to arrange things for the pain to be felt in the right places.

        [?]Jeff Smith » 🔓
        @sumisu@famichiki.jp

        @narthur @schmonz excellent essay. Thanks for sharing.

        Remarkable how AI systems actually ultimately follow human systems. I guess you can’t escape entropy.

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