Gergely Orosz

Situation 1: dev A thinks approach X is correct, dev B thinks Y is the right way. They argue and try to convince each other. Situation 2: dev A thinks approach X is correct, tells the LLM to implement it. There is SO MUCH learning in Situation 1, lost when using LLMs....

Wild to see every VC funded and publicly traded tech company rebrand to being an AI company Paging company —> the platform for AI-first operations CDN —> AI Cloud Helpdesk software —> AI-powered helpdesk platform o11y —> AI-powered intelligent o11y Everywhere…

That feeling of: "I'm in the middle of the code... oh, this is such a nasty hack. OK, let me clean it up as I go. [2 hours pass] OK, it's done, now let me get back to where I was." It just never happens as organically as I use AI agents. I no longer spot stuff as I don't "live in" the code...

Amusing: I'm hearing that at several tech companies, a more frequent topic on internal knowledge sharing sessions is about efficient AI usage. Cannot really remember topics like "techniques for faster CI/CD" or "how to speed up builds" being THIS widely discussed in the past!

Been doing research on the job market for devs: and it's still a weird market. Job openings are up, but devs don't seem to feel that it's a much better market? Meanwhile, companies are also struggling to fill roles. Take this full remote (US) sr eng role at $155-184K salary at a nonprofit. 0% AI:

Amusing to see a 100% AI-written email with every single AI “smell” try to convince people writing newsletters to give up writing and give it to an AI that will make them sound like AI and make their writing insufferable. Anyone taking on this offer deserves what will follow: no one caring anymore

My email inbox is filling up with AI-generated emails: an example. I get an email from seemingly a human, asking for a link insertion to promote a company that is their client. Except this is not from a human. It's with AI/automated: the domain is an automated marketing co.