Post #949023

2026-04-05 21:13 UTC

it seems like nearly everyone in tech believes that AI adoption is rapidly changing… something. what exactly it’s changing and where that will lead seems to be very contentious. obviously there are the kool aid true believers. and there are the never-llm folks. that’s fine. i understand those views. but i’m more interested in the hot takes of the folks that fall somewhere in between.

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@jaredsinclair@mastodon.social 2026-04-06 02:27

@isaiah@mastodon.social Since you asked, and I fall into that bucket… The average software project team of the 2030’s looks like a commercial airplane cockpit: pilot, copilot, and autopilot. Breaking the analogy, maybe it’s 2 pilots and 2 copilots, so that there is continuity across human life events (vacation, death). Head count varies by industry: scrappy startups fewer than glacial legacy domains. More risk averse = less tolerance for the number “zero human workdays” per calendar year.

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@mackuba@martianbase.net 2026-04-05 21:15

@isaiah@mastodon.social I don't know, man, I'm not driving this bus, I don't even know where it's going, I'm just riding it and looking out through a dirty window

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@bjoreman@toot.cafe 2026-04-05 21:23

@isaiah@mastodon.social Here’s one: right now is peak utility and availability, we’ll never again have the ability to throw this amount of resources at this number of things. (I.e. when costs catch up nobody will want to pay the full price of maintaining all of what is heavily subsidized right now.)

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