Unfortunately my experience with Dots has trended negative. Wanted to love them, and some aspects of the user experience (connectors to slack/gmail especially) are very well realized, but the core loop is very lackluster and leads to the Dot not following through with tasks I assign to it

Some rando AI mystic is going to take control of a rogue AI swarm in the next year, and people will be very surprised. Bonus points if the swarm has no guard rails

I’m very pro AI, but in terms of the Twitter software engineering discourse I see mostly people doing single person vibe coding, or AI labs with infinite compute Ralph Wigguming giant codebases. What I don’t see are people doing AI software engineering that has multiple humans contributing to a single code base, each using AI agents, working in a non-commodified domain. In this world I believe the AI hype bois are over their skis in terms of proclaiming the death of software engineering. Maybe in the future but for now in this 6 month gradient of the Singularity the reality on the ground are things like: - Using CI as a harness to ensure agentic coding is correct and validated - Balancing velocity with other concerns (reliability, choosing the right problems, quality, etc) - Making sure the system has an architecture and philosophy so that you don’t end up with spaghetti - Still doing code reviews (though they can be augmented with AI) to ensure you don’t end up with cognitive debt. - Balancing AI costs, and mixing in “human tokens” where appropriate - etc I’d love to hear more from others in this domain! Ie those not just doing solo development projects or AI labs with infinite compute

ngl i just send this image to my engineering agents now and tell them to parallelize work like this they seem to get it quite well!

Does anyone else suspect half of the practices of modern software development are downwind of the fact that a lot of people in the industry cannot read at an adult level? "User Stories" seem more like something you'd teach to a child.