Marc Andreessen (the guy who called it when “software ate the world”) pointed out what AI is doing to coding.
"Everyone assumes AI coding means fewer hours… or leaving the profession. But almost everyone I know is working more hours."
"There’s a new term in the Valley: the ‘AI vampire.’ You’re up all night AI coding because you’re so productive you can’t shut it off."
"The top AI coders make $50M a year. They’ve found the philosopher’s stone."
"Every company has a thousand projects they’ve wanted to build but never had the bandwidth. Now they can. This isn’t a blip, it’s going to intensify."
except the real time sink flipped
developers aren't wasting hours writing syntax anymore
they're wasting hours manually switching models, babysitting reasoning depth, and burning token budgets across 4 tabs
the engineers actually compounding don't manually choose models on every turn
they let a decision model route each prompt to the right engine automatically
stop babysitting models at 3am
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(Full video from PowerfulJRE" (Joe Rogan) youtube channel (link in comment)