Indeed. So much so that the richest CEO of all is spread across so many companies that there's no way he's actually doing any real "work".

I don't know. For as long as I can remember, game dev has had the reputation of being the most sweat-shoppish of all the software engineering disciplines. I have a hard time believing that game devs aren't also going to find themselves being crushed under the CTO imperative to "use AI or else" like the rest of us.

Ok I should’ve said indie/solo game dev

I feel like legislation that resulted in every taxpayer getting an itemized receipt like this would be hugely popular and a massive PR win for the representatives that sponsored it.

I can only conclude that the reason it hasn't been done is because they don't actually want you to know.

Yup. Agile definitely suffers from the "nobody ever tried Communism correctly" argument. As far as I'm concerned Agile is: A) nearly impossible to get right, and B) not particularly helpful at unfucking poorly run projects.

It's definitely not a magic bullet and I suppose the only reason it's had the staying power it has had is because unlike other project management philosophies, it has an extremely profitable "Agile Seminary" ecosystem.

Or at least think you've uncovered deception. It's not clear to me yet that any of these "AI detectors" are reliable, and if they are, it's just an arms race.

Indeed. And with the frontier AI models it's worse than that. You can literally just have them write test cases for the product you want to clone, then set it loose reverse engineering the code base.

That said, all these models are trained on the open source code bases presumably, so it would be interesting to see if AI-blackbox reverse engineering actually holds up in court.

My gut says it would infact hold up in current US courts, but only because the lionshare of corporations want it to and the courts have been stacked in their favor.

I personally believe it should not and that AI code should NOT be considered a "clean room" method. That said, IANAL.

Devastating news - expect the stock to jump 10%.

Free markets don't exist when the political system is engineered for regulatory capture. Look at corporate political spending over the last 30 years. We don't have free markets.

Free markets also don't exist when you're forced to participate in them... which we all are by virtue of being alive and wanting to stay that way.

Yup. I'm all for letting people get wealthy.

What I'm not for is letting them rig the rules of the game through unlimited political spending and not having functional social safety nets because we don't want to offend the all the future billionaires-to-be.

Basically, money makes money and at some level you get into infinite money glitch dynasties. I am no longer convinced that allowing that to happen is a good idea.

48 years old and I am 100% feeling this.

Yes, I am much more productive having Claude Code bang out boilerplate back-end code, but honestly I always kind of enjoyed doing it. Now I'm just a micro-manager for an AI.

And honestly, how long will that last? Given that LLMs came out of nowhere to radically redefine my role from software engineer to prompt writer in just a couple years, I have every reason to believe that they're coming for my role as prompt engineer next. (As my CEO surely hopes.)

I'm just glad the timing of the great AI replacement began right when I was nearing burnout anyway.