Are you able to code with 1s and 0s, as well as be able to reconstruct a computer from raw minerals? If not, that's not fine IMO.

This sounds good in theory, but have you hired someone in 2026?

Developers are really lazy in general and don't want to work. The more people you hire, the more you run into the chance of gumming up productivity with unproductive developers.

Even if they are productive, once you cross the threshold of 30 people even productive developers become lazy because of entitlement, bad resource distribution, or complexities from larger teams.

We don't even have to talk about teams of 1000+. Ownership is just dead at that point.

In 2026, having just 5 engineers with AI means you can cut through all the waste and get stuff done. If they start being weird, you can see it pretty easily vs. when engineers are being weird in a team of 50-1000+.

It's not rocket science to see leadership decide to cut down on teams to better manage weirdness in devs. More people doesn't mean more results unfortunately because of work culture nowadays.

This sounds like a rant from a dysfunctional out of touch manager more than anything. From a 57 day old account here to pump AI because humans are terrible and not printing you lambos. Totally not a shill or anything. Humans = bad AI = good. Shill.

When you area asked specifics about how you use AI so effectively when others cannot you do not reply. Shill.

I've hired close to 200 people and 4 were bad apples that I had to fire. So no real life does not reflect what you wrote. Most people want to do a good job.

> Developers are really lazy in general and don't want to work

According to Larry Wall, the three great virtues of programmers are laziness, impatience, and hubris.

Though perhaps perl isn't a great argument for the latter.

https://thethreevirtues.com

You are consuming non-renewable resources by reading this on your device and posting a comment for your entertainment.

At least with Moltbook, it is an interesting study for inter-agent communications. Perhaps an internal Moltbook is what will pave the path towards curing cancer or other bleeding-edge research.

With your comment, you are just wasting non-renewable resources just for your brain to feel good.

It's either that, or you are 100X slower for not using Claude Code. The manpower per hour savings are most likely more worth it than protecting some inputs.

You could also always run a local LLM like GLM for sensitive documents or information on a separate computer, and never expose that to third party LLMs.

You also need to remember that if you hire regular employees that they are still untrustworthy at a base level. There needs to be some obfuscation anyway since they can steal your data/info too as a human. Very common case especially when they run off to China or something to clone your company where IP laws don't matter.

"Nobody wants to work anymore"[0] is a trope as old as industrialization itself.

0: https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/w3si8l/nobody_wan...

A trope is a trope because it is commonly true for long periods of time. This proves nothing.

Cycles exist, and there can be periods of time where there is true passion in an industry followed by lack thereof.

A boom and bust economic system guarantees that there will always be times where a ton of "normies" enter tech who just want a paycheck during booms.

Is it really that surprising that a vast majority of people don't work a job that is not better than doing whatever they want whenever they want?

What do you mean? The layoffs have nothing to do with people loving their jobs or being loyal to their employers.

I just mean people are just not excited about tech as they used to be.

I would expect, out of all the sites on the Internet, that people would say something like trying to lead some initiative that they never had the courage to do so before leaving the company if given no opportunity for the love of the industry.

Most of my neighbors who have well more than $10M in the bank (Tesla stock, houses, cash, etc.) and they all work because they enjoy it. The younger neighbors quit and just sit around doing nothing but collecting rent money from houses.

But of course, the only constant in life is that things will change. It isn't that surprising I suppose.

This thread is about jobs. If I had $10M in the bank I would be developing something I had equity in instead of enriching others.

If you ever hang out in the nonprofit sector you will notice that a lot of these underpaid workers are independently wealthy as well.

I program for fun on my own time, I'm absolutely passionate about technology. What I'm not passionate about is spending 40 hours a week increasing shareholder value or making some capitalist asshole more rich and powerful than they already are.

While I agree that smart people tend to play the system, I will offer another explanation.

I think university students are just weirder now. They just don't have the same social skills as before. Maybe Covid has erased social skills and behaviors, or maybe the internet is too prevalent.

I don't know what the social equivalent of the Overton Window would be, but I think that's shifted so hard that traditional autism tests would mark most modern students as autistic.

I've only been using AI for small editor tools or for common utils (math, physics, string manipulation) instead of importing libraries to reduce random dependencies.

I find that most LLMs hallucinate and write too much bad code.

However, with Claude Opus 4.5 it's completely shifted my entire day. I'm out here running 8 concurrent agents knocking items off our todo list like crazy. I've gone from 99% manual code to 1% over the course of the last 4 days.

Never thought this was going to happen until at least 2060...

> 8 concurrent agents

how are you managing to run and work between 8 concurrent agents to get through the ask in hand?

I keep seeing git workspace tree + agent combo being mentioned

git workspaces, combined with some guard rails to keep the llm on task. For example a detailed document with requirements and implementation details and a unit tests that the llm can keep verifying against and/or enhancing between each step to increase the reliability of it’s output.

Give Claude Code a try, with git work trees and especially some skills pre-loaded https://github.com/obra/superpowers

> Give Claude Code a try...

Two days after they released their web interface for Claude Code I was hooked. Haven't really used the regular interface or the app since. Oh god, I'll never go back to copy-pasting code.