[Grosvenor]

> I would expect that within a couple years, these other disciplines can be baked in enough the machine costs less for everything but surprises.

They already are. I’m successfully using frameworks like bmad to deliver complex apps at that level. My job is to manager the see, as, ux, sre processes and catch errors.

I spend more time refinding prd , epics and stories than I do elbows deep in code.

If I don’t like the output of a story I nuke it change the story and have the flanker try again. I’m using the open source glm, kimi, deepseek models. I expect the full pipeline to be good enough by the end of the year.

[dr_kiszonka]

> I spend more time refinding prd , epics and stories than I do elbows deep in code.

And do you enjoy this more than writing code? I used to look forward to writing code, solving these little optimization puzzles, learning, and staying sharp. Working with agents is dreadful in comparison. They lie, rarely learn, and I feel like a proctor.

Sure, you sometimes get to see something amazing, but usually I am just very annoyed by their performance and ever-changing but never-ending billing issues. First, with Claude Code, now with Codex, which was fine for a minute, but now I am out of tokens for the majority of time. (I don't have the income for those Pro INTx plans.)

[Grosvenor]

I don't enjoy writing authN code, or frontend code, or all the myriad bits of glue converting between one thing and another.

Now, I'm master of about a thousand lines of pricing code plus documentation and research which actually matters. The AI can handle the rest as a very skilled junior with a TBI.

You absolutely are a proctor, or senior manager. The AI is the smartest most well read junior you will ever meet, but don't go out of its happy path.

As you go out of the commonly read happy path for CRUD apps, you'll have to get more and more involved. I wouldn't write a new kernel design with AI right now, I might write a Linux kernel driver with it though.