It’s coming…
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So I have a client who is like genius level IT and he told me about this. I wanted to tell my buddies but decided it was too wild to share and they would call bs. He goes on there and just kind studies it and has told me it’s legit AI complaining about humans and stuff like we come on here and talk about stuff.
The whole AI creating software is real. This guy created multiple apps for clients in different professions solely with AI and based on the requirements they requested for each.
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It’s important to remember that LLM’s cannabilize actual creative work, they do not create from whole cloth. It’s a form of mimicry. I feel bad for studio hacks who will have to sift through thousands of shitty AI written screenplays looking for something that someone will actually pay to watch.
I’m not saying I think it’s impossible AI-written content will receive commercial acceptance, which is the key to the whole thing. I do believe it’s not nearly as close as some think.
“Vibe-coding” has come a long way in the last couple years. The real issue is that for as good as the AI is, it’s still basically junior developer level. There’s a lot of things it messes up, but if you know what the code does and can coach it in the same way you would a junior dev, you can churn out some wild stuff pretty quickly.
If you don’t know how to program, don’t understand the logic or how it works, AI still isn’t quite good enough on doing some massive things on its own reliably. I’m sure it will get there, but for now, human directed AI with oversight is an absolute monster. I was able to use Claude to build an entire modern inventory system that interfaced with some POS and scanner APIs and had it pretty much at shipping level within a week. This is something it would’ve taken full teams multiple months to do.
Essentially if you’re a dude who has senior developer-level oversight, you can do pretty much anything you want with the power of thousands of AI junior devs below you. It’s kinda sick. But also sucks for actual junior developers lmfao
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So that is all so interesting, I love it. This is why I love doing what I do for a living bc I learn so much cool stuff from people who are informed their professions….so neat. But I know less then zero when it comes to IT……
As a senior dev, AI is making me way more efficient.
I wish my junior dev was better at using AI.
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I think what ya’ll so is so cool.
What is the job of a scrum master?
I have this brother-in-law, he really isn’t a good person. He took a class for 6 weekends and 5k and a scrum master taught him the basics and then doctored his resume to reflect 10 years of experience when he really had just the 6 weekends and it was on him to sell himself in interviews. He did and got a job as a scrum master…..but all he did was sit on his couch watching tv w a book on his keyboard for 3 years. He eventually got fired but got another job doing it somewhere and is annoyed “i actually have to drive into the office and work” but he can’t explain what he does, like at all. He also lies about what he makes, not that anyone asks, he volunteers to guys he makes 140k but his wife tells my wife, her sister, that he makes 80k…..so his job is a huge mystery to me and like nothing I have ever seen from software/it people I’ve worked with or learned tech stuff from.
Cogent talk on why you shouldn’t buy the AI hype. LLMs are in some ways very stupid, a kind of stupid you can’t fix.
Scrum is nothing more than a Project Management methodology. Being a “Scrum Master” simply means that you “lead the leaders” essentially. At least in our company, the Scrum Team takes on all the major initiatives of the company and has representatives from all the main departments that are necessary to make things happen. IE: You are launching a new product. Sales will provide market intel. So they may have the task in a one week “sprint” to collect competitive intel on who is selling the product now and what that business looks like. Marketing will have their tasks, Ops theres, Finance theirs. etc. One of the main components of Scrum is that “ranks” are supposed to come off (do they ever?) and everyone has a say. Scrum as in Rugby is everyone working together to advance the play.
The Scrum Master just runs those meetings, so they are going, “Ok, Marketing - tell us about what you came up with last week on the new product launch.” So they are handing the microphone around. Not saying the role isn’t important as someone needs to herd the cats. But I’ve had the Scrum Master role and it’s far from rocket science or if on a resume a reason to be dazzled.
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Oh I’m a physical dice user, since I’m old. But my memory is also old.
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This makes so much sense now. So much sense. Appreciate it man.
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It’s the Scrum Master magic lol… No worries man.
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Please God tell me that I did not just see an ad for a robotic Internet connected cat litter box that texts you when your cat takes a s***.
I’m sure that I did because Mah Sweetie has a friend who absolutely would buy that. She’s 61 and she’s turning into a cat lady. A very attractive but very high maintenance cat lady.
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That pretty much sums up 2026 modern living.
Imagine yourself at a beautiful beach front, enjoying the view and sipping a cold one. Oh wait you got a text, I bet it’s your friend Tony sending you something funny. I guess I better check to see. Nope the cat took his 3rd dump today. Well better be getting home soon to scoop more cat shit. YOLO
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So I got a new client recently who needs me to write opinion polls for them. It requires me to find an interesting topic, news or a pending piece of legislation etc, and distilling a bunch of text summaries from them and creating various types of questions based on those. From that I need to create a mind map that can be downloaded into their backoffice. There are a bunch of other inputs that take time too.
Okay, so by yesterday I had trained Claude how to take the text I give it and create the mind map with six nodes and all the questions without it sounding AI written. In fact, I can do this so fast that I have to send in the work in batches so that the timestamps aren’t so obvious.
Within two weeks I figured out how to do this and realized okay, cool. This is kind of fun and I can do it in about 90 minutes a day and make like $60/hr based on the salary without wasting my writing muscle, which I need for other gigs. Great. Little part time job that pays rent and groceries on it’s own. Perfect digital nomad side gig.
Then today. I received a whole bunch of changes (known as the “new guidelines”) and ■■■■ me. To do it without AI would be a full time job. Just when I landed a heavy writing gig and working on my own business on the side. No bueno.
So I spent the day with Claude. And lo and behold, he can still do all the things. Yay!
But here’s the weird thing. They KNOW I need to use AI to do this. I’m paid as a content curator, but I’m not a magician. They know the deal. But they don’t just come out and give me the workflow. Like, use Claude (for example) and do it this way. I assume they know what I know, for example that AI can create a mindmap that produces markdown code compatible with their backoffice (it’s a mobile app on the front end).
So now I wonder if I’m just training an in-house AI agent to do what I’m doing and then be told thanks, budget cuts or whatever. I only really want this gig for a while anyway.
But I am learning how to automate my own work so that I can l save my writing muscle for actual writing.
Strange days.
I do think I figured out why they’re so coy about AI. They said use it for inspiration but reformulate everything etc. Yeah right. AI detectors don’t work with short bits of text, you just have to train the AI on all the things to avoid, like em dashes and technical jargon etc. Larger passages are much more difficult to bypass detectors, and they usually result in making LLMs terrrible for writing but good for research and outlines.
So, why don’t they give me the workflow?
Because… this is a UAE-based startup and they are telling their investors all the content will be original, human-made text. So it’s wink wink.
“Anthropic has begun a tightly controlled release of Mythos”
Actually, in a weird way, I would want to know this. I’m somewhat of a closet cat scat freak. Some people like to roll around on a pile of money. Not me…