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Spot-on summary of the state of AI affairs by Dax Raad, who ironically is a co-founder of opencode.ai

via shitter

everyone's talking about their teams like they were at the peak of efficiency and bottlenecked by ability to produce code

here's what things actually look like

  • your org rarely has good ideas. ideas being expensive to implement was actually helping
  • majority of workers have no reason to be super motivated, they want to do their 9-5 and get back to their life
  • they're not using AI to be 10x more effective they're using it to churn out their tasks with less energy spend
  • the 2 people on your team that actually tried are now flattened by the slop code everyone is producing, they will quit soon
  • even when you produce work faster you're still bottlenecked by bureaucracy and the dozen other realities of shipping something real
  • your CFO is like what do you mean each engineer now costs $2000 extra per month in LLM bills
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