Given the right setup and guardrails coding agents become more and more productive, as shown in a recent article from OpenAI. What I find striking is how well their findings for maintaining context and high quality output align with how a high functioning team would work.
China's betting on AI while the West argues culture wars. Are we heading for Banks' utopian Culture — or something darker? Two reads that made me feel like we're standing at a civilisational fork in the road.
The "AI Swiss Army knife" hype isn't empowering young talent. It's a cost-cutting memo dressed up as a compliment. Generalists have always been the glue of great teams. Let's not confuse accessibility of tools with depth of craft.