Alexis Rondeau

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Bookmarked from shyamal @shyamalanadkat

once you can reliably put any spreadsheet, legal brief, codebase etc. in an agent loop, the thing that is scarce in a company is no longer "who knows how to do that". the scarce thing becomes "who can orchestrate resources well" -- compute, capital, access to data, and human/expert judgment.

three consequences i see:

1/ expertise is democratized. the premium shifts from "i know the tax code" to "i can design the loop that gets the right answer and runs cheaply"

2/ resource optimization matters. we are going to have to get good at assigning gpus, liquidity, lab time, etc. to autonomous workflows. this is a new job

3/ literacy in managing agents becomes the new excel. knowing how to break down a task, set a reward, audit a run is a baseline skill. companies that run lots of agent a/b tests and bake that into their culture will compound faster than the ones that try to bolt AI onto old workflows and drown in complexity

Bookmarked from Andrew Stratelates ⚓️(Continuing Anglican) @AStratelates

It's the 1950s. COBOL promises an English-like syntax that will allow non-specialists to program software systems, 10x productivity and not needing to understand the underlying system.

It's the 1970s. SQL promises natural language queries that managers can write themselves, "just tell the database what you want, not how to get it," and "no more dependency on programmers for data access."

It's the 1990s. Visual Programming tools promise "program without coding," "drag and drop your way to enterprise applications," and "development at the speed of thought."

It's the 2000s. MDA promises "design once, deploy anywhere," "business users can modify the models," and "automatically generate perfect code from UML diagrams."

It's the 2010s. No-Code platforms promise "anyone can build an app," "eliminate the middleman between business and technology," and "goodbye IT department!"

It's the 2020s. Vibe Coding promises "just describe what you want in natural language," "no programming knowledge required," and "focus on what your software should do, not how it works."

Bookmarked from Jay @jayparth_

whenever I see someone level up really fast, it’s usually one of three things:

1. confidence catches up to competency and they stop second-guessing
2. accepting who they actually are
3. environment switch to faster moving water