Yeah, I'm doing fine but it's ominous in lots of ways

They're not like interns or juniors at all, but in practice they sure are replacing them. I'm running a couple of projects now that previously would be me, another senior, a mid-senior and a junior or two between them and now it's just me and claude.

Feels like a stretch goal, right?

The best way I've heard this described is that the bottleneck used to be the production of working code, full stop. That bottleneck is gone now, so we're blocking on experience (knowing what things might work) and judgement (knowing if the design is sane/sustainable).

Why do you have a "fuck rural America" tab of skeets? Genuinely curious here.

Man that was an incredible bait and switch from trailer (Fast And Furious On The Mooooon) to movie (Daddy Issues In Spaaaaace). It was pretty, though.

I just wish the little shits would treat it less like a consequence-free baccanal and drop less on the ground for the squirrels and the mice

This is another one of those times where the reason and the rationale are conspicuously distinct.

For years when we were all young in our careers we'd come in every work day in this gap and drink wine, play cards, and watch movies together. We called it The Interregnum, because anyone with any authority was dead to work for those days.

No, they made one that wrapped it all up called Endgame. That was the end. It was a great run and a real triumph and something we can look back on fondly now that it's over.

Oh wow, I've never heard that one. Neat!

I'm going to agree with you very aggressively and point out that saying "not in our lifetimes" implies that it's possible in principle, which I don't think either of us believe to be true.

Oh, interesting. I learned this as "fool's mate" and later as "blitzkrieg", with a few people having their own random names for it - "haymaker" and "hadouken", I think.

You're arguing that there's no inherent quality to anything, only the fine details available for someone to perceive. I think it's extremely clear that perception is an experience adjacent to the reality of something, which exists uniquely in time and history.