| "Even without AI-generated code, [code review] is already a major failing." By all means, yes. Yet, it feels like we were playing a catch-up game (to a degree), and no one intentionally shipped unreviewed code. Now, reviewed without comprehension becomes standard, unreviewed & unread increasingly happens. That's a different kind of reckless. "Open source adds thousands of (unpaid) eyes to code review." True. And the open source community sees a massive inflow of AI-generated pull requests, which floods their capabilities to review. Leaving the ecosystem as it is means it will be dead. Thus, I assume resistance or evolution. And we definitely see some of the former, with some open source codebases being closed for AI contributions. "Hiring is now 'My AI versus Your AI; and the former real need of 'A qualified person for a suitable job' is lost in the fallout." Yes, that's where hiring has headed. Which, coincidentally, has made everyone worse off (save for AI-for-hiring apps providers). Candidates have it harder to land a decent job. Companies talk to people who play the AI hiring game better, not the most suitable candidates. All while having the same number of candidates and the same number of jobs, but 100x as many resumes exchanged: https://brodzinski.com/2025/08/broken-ai-hiring.html Which basically means that a resume has lost its value as a token of information exchange. And since we base the whole process on this very assumption (resume as a token of information), the system is due to be rewired eventually. And sooner rather than later. One random idea: how about creating limited traffic where people actually care at least enough to pay some token money: https://brodzinski.com/2025/12/pay-for-resume-read.html "My humble suggestion is that our ultimate question be phrased as 'How much is enough?'" Perfect question if we start from the grand scheme of things. I am afraid, though, that there is never enough. At some point, another billion means increased status. You could buy everything with the billions you had previously, so right now it's a virtual leaderboard between you and other billionaires. And the status game is, indeed, infinite. If you aren't winning now, you can chase the leader. If you are the leader, you try to escape the chase. The "enough" question doesn't work just as well in a finer-grained context. If we want to figure out things like the evolution of a specific profession. Or consider how digital products will be built in the future. Or how well outsourcing your content generation to an AI agent would work in the long run. |