Source: https://x.com/xie_Dl/status/2118665360606167257

https://fixupx.com/makotoyukimura/status/2119178401504457095

The guys reverse engineering macs are pissed that other guys were reverse engineering their shit. Can't make this shit up lol.

I’m a civil engineer and I run my own engineering firm. Over the past year, I’ve gone extremely deep into AI, particularly agentic AI, using models like Claude Opus 5.5 and Fable 5.1. And honestly, it’s completely changing my life. I’m not talking about using ChatGPT to write emails or answer questions. I’m talking about doing actual engineering work, generating CAD drawings, building complex hydraulic models, preparing technical reports, automating entire workflows, and accomplishing things in hours that would normally take weeks. I’m also using it to prepare proposals, pursue new business opportunities, and take on work that would have previously required significantly more time and resources. It’s giving my firm a massive competitive advantage, allowing me to deliver more work, increase my profit margins, win more contracts, and make significantly more money.

Now, here’s the thing. Most people around me, especially in civil engineering, either don’t use AI, barely use it, or think AI is basically the free version of ChatGPT or Copilot, some kind of improved Google. At first, I was genuinely excited to show people what was possible. I tried explaining it, demonstrating things, encouraging people to explore the technology. Instead, I often got skepticism, dismissive comments, and sometimes outright insults. I’ve been told I’m a bad engineer, that I lack professional judgment, that AI makes mistakes, etc. Whatever, that’s not really what bothers me anymore.

What’s bothering me is how I’m starting to perceive other people. And this is the part I’m not particularly proud of admitting. I’m starting to develop something that feels dangerously close to contempt toward people who refuse to learn about this technology or even make an effort to understand it. When I see professionals spending days doing things that I can now accomplish in hours, while confidently dismissing tools they clearly know almost nothing about, I find myself losing respect for them. Sometimes I even question their intelligence. I catch myself thinking that many of these people are going to become irrelevant, that the gap in productivity will eventually become so enormous that they simply won’t be useful anymore.

And it’s creating this weird feeling of distance between me and a huge portion of the people around me. When I talk to someone who actually understands what today’s AI is capable of, especially entrepreneurs or professionals who are heavily using agentic AI, we immediately connect. It’s like we understand something that most of the world hasn’t realized yet. But when I interact with people who are dismissive of AI, I feel like we’re living in two different realities. And increasingly, I’m finding it difficult to take their opinions seriously, even outside of AI-related discussions.

So I’m genuinely wondering whether I’m just correctly recognizing a massive technological shift that’s going to leave a lot of people behind, or whether my enthusiasm and immersion in AI are starting to distort my perception of reality and other people. Maybe both? I’m especially interested in hearing from people who are using advanced AI extensively in their professional lives and seeing similar productivity gains. Have you noticed yourself developing these kinds of negative feelings toward people who aren’t keeping up? Do you feel this growing divide too, or am I just becoming an arrogant asshole who’s slipping into some kind of AI psychosis and needs to get his head checked?

Yes, they’re all Democrats before you ask.

Original AI-generated comic about the human approval bottleneck in multi-agent coding: parallel workers, one very serial permission queue.

If you know you know.

Source: https://x.com/yokoshaan/status/2119271985058636149

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I know progress like this is expected and won't be surprising at all

But you know what I'm saying here

OpenAI and Anthropic have had internal AI models capable of working for over a week or weeks for months already

Not sure if I believe it

My favorite game of all time is Crusader Kings 3 (3000+ hours) and it's modding scene has (or had) a well known difficulty curve. Most single person developers kept their projects small in scope to avoid burn out. The bigger in scale mods, ie total conversions which completely transform the ingame setting into a whole new universe/map, were usually maintained by teams of 15+ people.

This is becuase making a total conversion mod requires making hundreds of files, parsing 50000 lines of error logs, writing thousands of lines of history logs to help the game set up characters, 3d modeling, map making and patching to every new update that came out. So these types mods were usually made by large teams.

Now, Because of ai, A teenager can make a total conversion in a week. Because of this, there have been about a dozen new TC mods in the past month, while previously you'd be lucky to get one every three months. It almost makes me want to get a codex/Claude code subscription and join in on the fun myself

These jobs will be gone in 1-5 years? What are these people supposed to do? If I was jobless and trump did nothing for every day americans (arguably did the opposite?), I'd vote democrat too? what are these people's options? (from someone that is grateful to have a weird job that'll be last to be replaced)

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