I'm struggling to understand how they bought Bun but their own Ai Models are more fixated in writing python for everything than even the models of their competitor who bought the actual Python ecosystem (OAI with uv)

Yes, that's professionally expected from senior management (and below). You never wash your dirty laundry outside. Public departure reasons are lies, that's professionally understood by all involved parties and usually all benefit from those white lies.

Likely, students are a very expensive demographic to cater for in the age of ai with minimal return for the companies because their use cases are often even more compute intensive than what the average office professionals do at work. So not much to win there if the companies must decide between an enterprise customer with big pockets or some school who will insist to get a free ride because its ed.

Using Claude Max was fun for more than a year but the last weeks i'm constantly fighting their Harness, their weekly TOS changes and outages. Anthropic lost all goodwill with me as a developer. I'm switching to OAI.

Not just Google, also Microsoft and Amazon. Real-time cost tracking is technically impossible to solve according to the major cloud providers. I have huge respect for those sales & finops engineers.

If we expect Anthropic not only trying to replace just all software developers with Claude, but also all software product companies with Claude, then i really wanna know why the fuck are we cheering here for Anthropic on Hacker News? What kind of dumb sheep would do this?

It's good to have a discussion here so I am ready for all the dumb peer chats I am going to have in the next few weeks with people who don't use these tools but rely on Linkedin wisdom.

Automation allows us to do more.

Yes; more depression and anxiety about an uncertain future.

The SWE people I know at SW companies now heavily using these agents complain to me how their workday is nothing but code-reviews of the agents output and tedious prompting to prod it back into line; they say they don’t get to actually write code until they get home to work on their personal projects.

3 years ago I never would have believed this capability was possible; I’ve since adjusted my expectations to now assume that in another 3 years the models/agents will have improved enough to reduce the amount of code-review required, leaving us with precious little else to do for our shareholders, or the opposite: they don’t improve and we’re stuck doing thankless PR reviews until the end.

Please tell me where and how in this future I’m supposed to find satisfaction and pride in my work when what-gets-produced isn’t my own work anymore?

After it all is done, what is left to do, but find more? Why don't we rest, relax, and enjoy our few passing years?

Up until you feel automated.

I am okay with being automated. I'll try to go up the next abstraction layer or do something else.

I also understand that our wonderful quality of life is due to automation, and sometimes that means I draw the short straw. That's okay.

You're misunderstanding the purpose of "auto"-model-routing or things like "adaptive thinking". It's a solved problem for the companies. It solves their problems. Not yours ;)

Because with adaptive thinking they control compute, not you

Oh boy, the gap between the average it professional and ai pros here is already staggering, let alone the rest of the world. I feel like an alien, no matter where.

Whats the point of salary for ai? sounds stupid

The suggested salary is not for AI; it is for the project's owners.