2026-01-30 21:40:02.581883+01 by Dan Lyke 2 comments
Thinking about Simon Willison's "Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw." and how many people I know with missing fingers... 404 Media: Silicon Valley’s Favorite New AI Agent Has Serious Security Flaws, on the obvious flaws in the whole Clawdbot/MoltBot/OpenClaw paradigm.
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#Comment Re: made: 2026-01-31 17:35:35.783567+01 by: markd
> thanks to the invention of the table saw
That's a bad analogy. You're still spending a lot of time with the wood (heh). It'd be more like "Quitting carpentry as a career thanks to industrial robots doing all the things, and you're punching the paper tape to drive them". Carpentry-adjacent, but very different work.
(as someone who quit programming as a career thanks to the robots and am now having a ball programming old computers)
#Comment Re: made: 2026-02-02 18:06:33.356597+01 by: Dan Lyke
Yeah, I've told the story more than once about doing physical product development, and the biz dev guy saying "so I'm waiting for CNC time at my local shop", and I went out into my workshop and whipped together several different prototypes using my track saw, we were able to figure out the details and get the molds built to make these things in plastic long before the shop with the CNC could deliver.
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