3 items tagged “forrest-brazeal”
2024
Knowledge Worker (via) Forrest Brazeal:
Last month, I performed a 30-minute show called "Knowledge Worker" for the incredible audience at Gene Kim's ETLS in Las Vegas.
The show included 7 songs about the past, present, and future of "knowledge work" - or, more specifically, how it's affecting us, the humans between keyboard and chair. I poured everything I've been thinking and feeling about AI for the last 2+ years into this show, and I feel a great sense of peace at having said what I meant to say.
Videos of all seven songs are included in the post, with accompanying liner notes. AGI (Artificial God Incarnate) is a banger, and What’s Left for Me? (The AI Existential Crisis Song) captures something I've been trying to think through for a while.
I think that AI has killed, or is about to kill, pretty much every single modifier we want to put in front of the word “developer.”
“.NET developer”? Meaningless. Copilot, Cursor, etc can get anyone conversant enough with .NET to be productive in an afternoon … as long as you’ve done enough other programming that you know what to prompt.
For the past 10 years or so, AWS has been rolling out these peripheral services at an astonishing rate, dozens every year. A few get traction, most don’t—but they all stick around, undead zombies behind impressive-looking marketing pages, because historically AWS just doesn’t make many breaking changes. [...]
AWS made this mess for themselves by rushing all sorts of half-baked services to market. The mess had to be cleaned up at some point, and they’re doing that. But now they’ve explicitly revealed something to customers: The new stuff we release isn’t guaranteed to stick around.