#future-of-work
Every post tagged "future-of-work".
57 posts · showing 51–57
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The Engineer Got Faster and the Team Got Smaller — Both Are Happening
The optimists and the pessimists are both describing real observations from different rooms. One variable decides which room you're in — and it isn't model capability.
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Cheaper Software Means More Software: The Demand Argument
Every previous drop in the cost of building software increased the number of builders. The mechanism is real and depends on one condition — which you can check in your own organization's backlog.
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Why 10× Productivity Doesn't Mean One-Tenth the Engineers
The arithmetic is clean and both halves are shaky: the multiplier applies to a fraction of the job, and the conclusion only follows if the amount of software anyone wants is fixed.
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The Parts of Your Job an Agent Can't See
The code, the tests, the tickets — that sounds like most of the job. What's missing is why the system is shaped this way, what's about to change, and what the requester meant rather than wrote.
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"Will AI Replace Engineers?" Is the Wrong Question — Ask Which Tasks
Jobs don't get automated whole — task bundles get rewritten around whatever became cheap. Two questions sort your week into what's exposed and what isn't, and the answer is often uncomfortable.
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Who Owns the Agent? The Team Structure Question
Prompts need domain expertise; tools need engineering; evals are specification. That split doesn't match team boundaries, which is why agent ownership goes ambiguous — and ambiguous ownership shows up as quality nobody watches.
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The Skill Agents Erode Fastest: Reading Unfamiliar Code
Delegating code traversal is pure gain. Delegating comprehension means not having the model — and review quality is bounded by the model you don't have.