Also enormous abuse.

Lots of people lament loss of family ties in western society.

But they completely ignore amount of abuse that comes with power of:

„you have no one else to turn to, stay with your family, we will beat you, rob you, but family is important”.

I am getting furious when I read advice like "you should spend time to talk to your customers".

It feels like people giving such advice never really did anything in actual marketing/sales. Mostly because single company uses dozen if not more applications, no one gives a flying fuck about your application and if they would spend time giving feedback to each app they use, they won't have time to their job.

Yes you can get customer time - but it is not "just talk to the customers", if you get one having a day or 2 hours or 1 hour you take it or you might never hear from them again or hear from them again in 2 years or maybe 6 months. CUSTOMER TIME IS SOMETHING SUPER SPECIAL not something "maybe you should do that".

So for developers out there — your sales guy just had a chat with a customer he has another meeting with him in 2 weeks - it is not like he is making up deadline, he needs to show something, anything moving forward to keep the customer hooked and maybe have another meeting with the guy and if has nothing to show it might be back in years or never...

Of course I myself am using shitload of apps and services in my work and I don't give a fuck what they do and don't want them to bother me if I have a subscription, unless they break something then I am going to write an angry e-mail to them (I do understand they might have a problem, as mentioned I am working on B2B SaaS myself) but angry mail works better (maybe not for latest Anthropic Opus).

You are not supposed to use it for „communication” as in Facebook. You are supposed to use spectrum to test your gear and keep transmissions short to leave space for others.

I was in local HAM club and passed the exam for license but never got license to transmit mostly because you are not supposed to chat frivolously over the radio.

But at the same time there is a quote by Stanisław Lem...

"Until I used the Internet, I didn't know there were so many idiots in the world"

This resource also seems like waste of time so not much better.

Some people treat toilet as magic hole where they throw stuff in flush and think it is fine.

If you throw garbage in you will at some point have problems.

We are in stage where people think it is fine to drop everything into LLM but then they will see the bill for usage and might be surprised that they burned money and the result was not exactly what they expected.

The economics and security model on full agents running in loops all day may come home to roost faster than expertise rot.

If Bob is going to spend $500 in tokens for something I can do for $50.

I think Bob is not going to stay long in lawn mowing market driving a bulldozer.

When I work on frontend I much rather have preview on second screen and most likely reference next to it.

When writing documentation or requirements I cannot imagine working on a single screen as essentially I am integrating multiple data sources into one, like I need to see how app looks now and before release, what changed and still have my working space for draft.

Switching windows to quickly look up documentation is fine but when creating requirements having time to understand what needs to be in which place how it has to evolve I need to have it right there so that my imagination doesn’t runaway.

For now too many people will use AI for stuff that deterministic stupid code would be much more efficient.