> The bug gets fixed. Your mental model doesn’t move.

> The symptom vanishes. You ship.

> The tool didn’t determine the outcome. The posture did.

Here's a free prompt if you can't come up with one that avoids this awfulness yourself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100213

I'm starting to wonder if the thing to address is the anxiety itself rather than the "fuzziness about the code" that creates the anxiety - and more explicitly model myself as an engineering and/or product manager counterpart to these things. I wonder how non-IC EMs/PMs do it - it seems maybe fundamentally anxiety-inducing? – but they _do_ do this already (tolerate the fact that the underlying technical system is not fully within their grasp).

Companies compete for your attention so they can show you ads. This leads to very few people actually doing any kind of deep thinking. I've added what I call Boredom Time to my daily schedule. I set aside some minutes to do nothing and just let my mind wander. I put away all devices, turn off any sounds, and just be. I am yet to have a single session where I haven't thought of something interesting and, in some cases, I've imagined some incredibly deep and profound things.

I encourage everyone to try this in order to save our most precious ability that truly differentiates us from other animals.

The tool is undoubtedly useful, and it has been said that calculators also removed the need to do manual calculations.

I think the difference between LLMs and calculators is inherently small. Both are algorithms. And algorithms have already were making decisions for us before LLMs, so LLMs are a natural next step of the path we were already in. Deterministic or not, I think that's irrelevant.

So, in a sense outsourcing your learning is just the natural next step. If you look about it this way, you were already doing that. We don't need to learn how to play on tools to listen to music. We don't need to learn how to do complex calculations to do them. It's just not right to look at LLMs as different from other decision making, study decapitating, tech we already have.

I went to go find some of the stuff that he wrote pre-AI and found myself on his bio. Not only is it generated, it's incredibly clumsy and boastful.

    In sum, Addy Osmani’s career is a testament to the impact one engineer can have by combining technical excellence with education and community leadership.

    Osmani’s journey reflects the evolution of the web itself - ever faster, smarter, and more empowering for those who use it.

    Few individuals have done as much to push the web forward while uplifting its developers, and that legacy will be felt for a long time to come.

[...] Software Engineer at Google working on Google Cloud and Gemini."

The things he must have seen.

"And oh, if you got affected by all of this, then it is cognitive surrender, meaning it is your fault."

This article has a satirical quality I'm quite enjoying. To write is to think. If you're not thinking, how are you learning.

One thing that seems fairly certain is that llms aren't going to get any worse. They'll probably keep getting better, but there is 0% chance they'll get worse.

If you can get away with not fixing the bug yourself today, the very idea of doing it yourself will be laughable tomorrow.

I try to learn the skills that the LLMs struggle with. Some of those skills will be made irrelevant too, probably when Mythos gets released to the public. But also some of them won't. Probably. The skills that Claude has a handle on today? Waste of space in my brain!