Listening to an early release of @latenightlinux (ep 381, https://mastodon.social/@latenightlinux/116399523074094970) where Joe says: “There’s this assumption from some people, of the less technical people in management or whatever, that AI and agentic bullshit is a great boon for productivity and speed” It reminded me of my own employer’s messaging around AI. They are saying that these tools we can be “10x engineers”. And I don’t wholly disagree with them, but I do think they’ve made the assumption that everyone is already a 1x engineer, whereas I think the range is more like 1.0x to -1.0x If you give a -0.2 engineer these tools they don’t become 10 times better, they become a -2.0x engineer and move ten times faster/further in the wrong direction. “Ahh, but guardrails!” I hear you say. Maybe, but we’ve been pretty shit at them to this point and I’m not convinced the proper time and attention will be given to them.