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points by teekert 2 days ago | 0 comments

What kind of "things" are you making? I can't process this much information, so I would inevitable be outsourcing most decision making. That could be fine for some products, but not for mine, where data model and RBAC model (among others) all require alignment between multiple stakeholders.

I have one agent and already find it quite intense to outsource code writing and basically just make and document decisions.

I feel like I could be rich working like you, I also feel like it is impossible for me to meet the needs of my clients if I'd work like this (so I can't be rich, it's a paradox). I wouldn't be able to answer their questions (without the active agent on-call, context window fully loaded), I wouldn't be able to explain just where the data model needs changing, or why some role really can't exist they way they envision etc, etc, etc.

I could of course branch the whole project and basically discuss multiple implementations during stakeholder meetings, but then still I'd need to explain the advantages/disadvantage of choosing one system over the other and guide them through it.

[–] teekert 2 days ago

So, in essence, my added value is translating the vaque demands of my clients into as efficient as system as can be.

Can the AI do it? Not yet I think. Maybe someday, for now I feel like clients of mine simply have the vocabulary, nor the mental models, to guide the LLMs. Ie, they have no idea of what one-to-many is, or why it's smart to put some information in separate tables, whereas some information is ok to filter row-based on a user attribute, etc.

[–] glennfiedler 2 days ago

I guess my trick is that mostly I'm my own customer. I'm a late stage career expert in netcode, so I pretty much have this long list of things I've been wanting to create for 20-30 years now... I'm still working through this, and each new thing I make, it creates 2-3 new ideas to explore! It's fun times :)

[–] teekert 2 days ago

Hmm, that does sound like fun. I guess, I'm truly screwed when the AI can actually serve customers directly. I guess it's coming, at some point.

I've been having conversations with normies about how they can use AI, but they don't really seem to grasp the basic idea of an automation, something that does something or 100 times something, on some trigger. The don't understand that a loop is free, that 100x is as difficult as 1x.

Ie, I tell someone, you could set up something that makes a Word doc for you with math problems, based on a theme, optionally picked from a pool of "approved" problems. That'd take about 30 min to make. "No I can't do that every time, 30 minutes!" No, I mean then it's there, forever, for all your colleagues to use, I mean. Ok how?

Well... I don't know copilot in MS365 and stay away from it, but I can imagine it can do with Word and Excel what I do with Markdown and websites?

I'm starting to see MS' "problem" now :)

[–] lp92 1 day ago

> I pretty much have this long list of things I've been wanting to create for 20-30 years now

Hah, I think there's quite a few of us like this. We didn't have the time to spend doing this work in the past, but now with AI we can have it build what we want by giving it our ideas and framework.

It's going to be interesting to see what kind of new innovations across various industries comes from this over the next few years as the subject matter experts gets to work on their own ideas.

[–] glennfiedler 1 day ago

Yeah I've really been wondering what causes some people to just get absolutely sucked in harder than a game of Civilization at 2AM with AI coding, and it seems to be this.

People who have a bunch of ideas they want to create!

The people who get really pissed off about AI coding seem to be all about the doing, but those who are really excited about creating things and the end result not the process come out OK