Scott (Human) - 𐌃𐌏ᖇ𐌉乙乙𐌃𐌕

Notes from the Jobmarket ------ Most jobs I've gotten calls for are: 1) Help make make my team scale with AI via can you either invent an AI-DLC or use one they've started or find us one 2) Build me a harness/software factor that makes us scale 3) Help me keep my budget under control. I am spending $$ on per token usage and can't us Subscriptions because privacy concerns My Raw Notes ------ - If you're a solo dev with AI subs its easy to make end to end things. If you have to do this with a team or play with your ties in a bigger sanbox... there be fights and dragons in first 1-3 months - Harness/Software Factory is hit and miss. It works great on greenfield but brownfield there is a lot of setup foundation work to bootstrap one in place. I think people just assume they download an AI-DLC harness/factory point at brownfield and say "make new" and it just works. It will do a lot quickly and give you a sense of "yeah its working... see.." but again, its a lie. As many say "junk in, junk out" still applies - Product Management ... Years ago I went from a Developer Evangelist over night to Product Manager at Microsoft and I didn't suddenly "know" how to do it. I had to literally shadow brilliant people to figure it out and find a path here. I didn't realise it but now that skillset is coming back today, as that prompt in CLI terminal demands you give it something to chew on thats well thought out. No amount of skills or bullshit markdown files are going to solve this problem, you either know or you don't. Immature product management is what I think kills AI projects fast... - YouTube rots your brain. Stop watching youtubers talk about AI vibe coding, harnesses, factories etc. 90% of them are just echo chambers and full of bullshit techniques that don't last beyond a demo SaaS solution. Good demo, great demo, production, not really. I think most already long into adoption have figured this out but the new comers.. just stawp.. - SaaS UI is done. No its not. You can spot a AI saas solution fast. For example AI doesn't know how to do gaps/spacing/padding correctly. It assumes everything generally is even and lives in odd pixel structures. A Good SaaS designer can also manage your behaviours, grid, spacing, tones and so on. Its night and day when you hand an Ai-gen SaaS to a designer. They come back with way noticeable differences. However, AI can throw out a good enough via shadcn anyway so its down to "it works kinda" - Vibe Code works only when you invest in the foundation. I have it now setup where it produces code that fits my architectural needs but doesn't drift and it took a lot of schema and guardrails to make that happen. It still churns out terrible code if you let it, so thats why I prefer managed languages like C# for the backend. .NET is pretty much guardrail abstraction anyway, so it doesn't feel then need to become too creative with the language. You're mostly nudging it back into shape when it drifts not pounding it back in. - AI Bot network. It can work but you have to have your foundation and build trust over time. Grok Bot was great at the orchestration / marshalling but now its usage is weak sauce. Sneeze it in one day you can get around 30% usage and thats for the same work that I make Sonnet do and it taps at around 4-8%.. so i'd prefer using OpenBot and just use my existing subs. Tbh i'm cancelling Grok, its a waste of time and money atm. - Markdown files are foundation built on sand. I keep seeing people push their markdown ecosystem every inch of the way as guardrails. It can work, even better tell AI "Use compressed notation" and it kind of builds a rules language to keep that in check. Honestly the best unlock for me is to live and die by declared schemas in json. Nobody gets to write a markdown without an attached schema that defines the shape.

random thought.. am re-reading The Magician again (Raymond E Feist) ... at various points in the book I stop and think "I wonder what that would have looked like" so I use voice to narrate to Codex to "render me this scene" Here's pug leaving the portal... its not really him though ... but ....if you build out a character sheet and read a book.. i mean... something there...