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This guy probly doesn't doesn't do any actual work just reads ppl like Mario Damadai who are out there claiming 90% of coding will be done by llms in next 3-6 months.

"thought leaders" are a plague on working ppl.



Will wrote one of my all-time favorite essays about software engineering: https://lethain.com/migrations/

He's worth paying attention to IMO.


I just read this for the first time and was totally underwhelmed. What is the takeaway? "Derisk, Enable, Finish"? This is not insightful or even interesting.


yep i had the same reaction doing a quick read. Whats the insight here?


Is he going to update it with how AI will assist in migrations? Or get an LLM to ghostwrite it?


This was excellent and rings very true, thank you


An excerpt of the author’s bio:

> I’m a software engineering leader and writer, currently serving as Carta’s CTO. I’ve worked at Calm, Stripe, Uber, Digg, a few other places, and cofounded a defunct iOS gaming startup


Is this supposed to be an endorsement or an indictment?


Why would it be an indictment?


oh look another out of touch 'leader' . So sick of these ppl.

His career advice should be how to get your work done while appeasing "leaders" like him at work.

my company now has mandate that 'all coding work must be done by AI' and only manually if its not possible. They bought licenses to all AI coding tools.

Which would've been great if these things actually work. I've never felt more like a stupid cog in my whole career than now.


How are they checking if you are using AI enough?




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