It's not complicated at all. You don't "manage agents". You just type your prompt into an terminal application that can update files, read your docs and run your tests.

As with every new tech there's a hell of a lot of noise (plugins, skills, hooks, MCP, LSP - to quote Kaparthy) but most of it can just be disregarded. No one is "behind" - it's all very easy to use.

Interesting to see so few comments about this.

This is the start of the end of generative AI music.

Without the entire music catalog, they are just not going to be able get the diversity and quality of outputs they once had, and the labels are always going to have their hands out wanting more.

Udio and Suno have demonstrated that okay-quality new music can be created by training on vast collections of pirated music, and, as expected, the music labels shut them down.

It's a line from a banger Skrilla song, nothing more than that.

Yep. I don't think they ever fully recovered, but status page is still reporting a lot of issues.

Thankfully Slack is still holding up.

It’s super broken for me. Random threads no longer appear.

It’s acting up for me but wondering if it’s unrelated. Imagines failing to post and threads acting strange.

Slack is having issues with huddles, canvas, and messaging per https://slack-status.com/. Earlier it was just huddles and canvas.

Same. My Slack mobile app managed to sync the new messages, but it took it about 30 seconds, while usually it's sub 2 seconds.

Looks like its gone down now

Yes, we're seeing issues with Dynamo, and potentially other AWS services.

Appears to have happened within the last 10-15 minutes.

Yep, first alert for us fired @ 2025-10-20T06:55:16Z

No, this violence is from a deranged person who shouldn't have had access to a firearm in the first place. No culture wars please.

I find it useful. A nice little tool in the toolkit: saves a bunch of typing, helps to over come inertia, helps me find things in unfamiliar parts of the codebase, amongst other things.

But for it to be useful, you have to already know what you're doing. You need to tell it where to look. Review what it does carefully. Also, sometimes I find particular hairy bits of code need to be written completely by hand, so I can fully internalise the problem. Only once I've internalised hard parts of codebase can I effectively guide CC. Plus there's so many other things in my day-to-day where next token predictors are just not useful.

In short, its useful but no one's losing a job because it exists. Also, the idea of having non-experts manage software systems at any moderate and above level of complexity is still laughable.

I don't think the concern is that non-experts would manage large software systems, but that experts would use it to manage larger software systems on their own before needing to hire additional devs, and in that way reduce the number of available roles. I.e. it increases the "pain threshold" before I would say to myself "it's worth the hassle to hire and onboard another dev to help with this".

And all of those companies except for Google are entirely dependant on NVIDIA who are the real winners here.

The trend of offshoring came and went nearly two decades ago.

Time zone differences, language barriers and cultural differences proved insurmountable.

Hybrid remote seems to work quite well, on the other hand.