And the update is: A new tool was presented today, and agent orchestrator, to basically do all our work. It didn't produced anything useful, or even that compiled. The manager still said we have to use it, because otherwise we won't be 10x more productive...

While I don't disagree from your conclusions. Today we got the message from my manager that people who left the team won't get replaced and we need to leverage AI to keep the timeline of our goals (someone let a chuckle come out when he said that)

That's corporate america (really, more worldwide): They will be liberals or far right supporters as long as it doesn't hurt the bottom line

Didn't Adam Smith said the same as he wrote the Wealth of Nations?

The way all branches of power just abdicated to a tyrant is just sad.
So much for a constitution which actually had provisions for the people to raise against a tyrannical government.

Well, I am latino. My wife's family aren't but they were born in south america. When I met my in laws, one of the first thing her father said to me was: "One of the main reasons we left latin america was that I didn't want my daughters to end with a latino," so you tell me

Reminds me of a very evangelical relative who called Obama the antichrist, but Trump the saviour of christianity. I guess that shows the real values there

Not a pro here, but this is something I experience constantly, my wife who is a musician often wonders how do I have such good ear but cannot sing on key, to which I always reply that I just don't know how to phisically move my throat to produce what I want

Reminds me of a post I saw:

It's my first app ever.
It took me 50 min.
Vibe coding is a thing, indeed.
I'm proud of myself and ChatGPT, lol

the app in question was a form

yo creo que más del problema del campo, es que vaya a haber un lucho herrera que le tiene ganas a la tierrita, pero no tiene ganas de pagar por ella

Donde trabajo, esa celebración parecer estár cancelada. Mientras el año pasado había pines y camisetas y decoraciones por toda la oficina. Este año solo hubo un par de banderas en la cafetería, que desaparecieron para la hora del almuerzo

The article says "Plain english specs," so more than translating code, it seems to be building requirements for a rewrite.

I wonder how that compares to transpiling the code to a modern language and then refactor that modern language.

Uy, haciendo las tareas bajo la vela escuchando la luciernaga con un radio de baterías