@georg_dev

Chief of Yelling at Agents @Dynatrace. Data scientist turned software engineer.

Wien, Österreich
Joined August 2013
rate my setup :) – at Caldaro sulla Strada del Vino, Trentino-South Tyrol
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Georg Unterholzner retweeted
Bury your head in the ground at your own risk. I aim to not jump on any hype trains, but since Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.2 + the harnesses it was clear that these things can write code nearly as good as I can in my best language; better in other languages. But we won't see non-devs push production code for a long time; possibly forever, if you ask me. Software still needs to be built in robust ways, and it's our profession to do this well, and use the new tools we have, which create new and interesting (+tough!) challenges
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I am still convinced there will be more software engineers in 5 years than there are today. And none of them will read or write code.
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This post looks like the start of a VERY sophisticated and well-funded PR operation to get support for Democrats to regulate AI into oblivion. Let me show you how it works: 1.) This guy, with minimal followers and no previous account activity, goes to the Wall Street Journal which publishes an exclusive with quotes from him on his resignation 18 minutes BEFORE this post goes up. Planning was clearly done in advance. 2.) Within hours, it has tens of thousands of reposts and the account has 100k+ followers. The post is punchy, quotable, it almost seems professionally written. The first three accounts to quote tweet it all do so within 15 minutes of the initial posting. Remember, this account had basically zero engagement beforehand, so an organic reach explanation seems unlikely. According to Grok those accounts are @_NathanCalvin (General Counsel at Encode AI), @peterwildeford (Head of Policy at the AI Policy Network), and @DKokotajlo (Head of the AI Futures Project), all of which are up-and-coming AI-Doomer policy advocacy nonprofits. The AI Futures Project website says it is funded “primarily” by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which says on its own website that it has advised Jaan Tallinn, Skype creator and one of the leading investors in Anthropic, to grant over $2.5 million to the AI Futures Project since 2024. Encode AI says on its website that it is ALSO funded by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which in turn says that it told Anthropic investor Jaan Tallinn to grant $516,000 to Encode AI in 2025. And wouldn’t you know it, the Survival and Flourishing Fund ALSO says it told Jaan Tallinn to grant $2 million to the AI Policy Institute, the 501(c)(3) affiliate of the AI Policy Network, as well. What are the odds that the first three quote tweets of Coxon’s post would all be major AI-restriction policy advocates funded generously by the same donor, who also happens to be one of the leading investors in, and a board member of, Anthropic, the company Coxon was resigning from? And all within 15 minutes of posting (two within ten)? 3.) Jacob Coxon doesn’t have much of a resume, but we do know that, in 2022, he got a $20,159 scholarship for the “long term future scholarship program” from the Good Ventures Foundation, one of the philanthropic vehicles of Dustin Moskovitz, a notorious AI-doomer who has spent tens if not hundreds of millions on policy advocacy to strictly regulate AI, while also being an Anthropic Investor himself. It also just so happens that the 14th person to quote Coxon’s post was @MaxNadeau_ (27 minutes after posting) who is the program officer for the Technical AI Safety team at Coefficient Giving, another of Moskovitz’s philanthropic spending vehicles. Max is not a frequent poster, his last posts before quoting Coxon were before Labor Day, but he was remarkably quick off the mark for this one. 4.) Basically every major Democrat politician and candidate has suddenly glommed on to this post, and conveniently, as the people cry out foe answers, Bernie Sanders already has a bill written to “ban super intelligence” and regulate AI into oblivion, and will be releasing later this week. The bill, among many other things, will create “a new cabinet-level federal agency to safeguard the public from the dangers of artificial intelligence” that will be “advised by an Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board comprised of experts on artificial intelligence.” Do you think, perhaps, Anthropic and its many investors who fund AI policy advocacy might have interest in getting to place a pet “expert” on the board of an entity that dictates what AI is and isn’t allowed to do? And isn’t it fortuitous that this whistleblower came forward with his oh-so scary stories so close in proximity to the release of the most radical piece of AI legislation ever introduced?
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
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This is me I ended up leaving OpenAI, not because there's anything wrong with OAI (I actually think they're underrated as a biz), but because to me, building commercial software doesn't feel fun anymore Because agents write ~all the code: - There’s less human to human collaboration, so it’s a lonelier experience - You’re constantly context switching and not going as deep into the code, which means there’s ~zero flow state - Most of the job becomes code review and trying to reduce complexity, which is very mentally draining Again just my experience, and none of this specific to OAI. There are many people who seem to be enjoying building software in this era! But I've always wanted to try making films, and now seems as good a time as any
obviously self-selecting by virtue of being my friends, but i keep hearing about more and more engineer friends leaving commercial software to make art
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Please unfollow & mute everyone who reframes the Moderna breakthrough as a result of generative AI. Thanks.
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every senior engineer eventually discovers that half of software architecture is just inventing increasingly elaborate ways to form a queue.
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Early employees have the true opportunity costs in our industry today. 1) Startup pays in [low-mid salary] plus [fairydust] Faang/mango/etc pays in [mid-high salary] plus [sellable stock] 2) The employee has the stresslevel of a founder but the upside of a employee. 3) the founder builds network and brand, the early employee works their ass of in the garage. 4) The company crashes the founder gets a strong lead job in another company. The employee has a resume entry of a company nobody knows in the prime of their career. 5) The founder gets earlier secondaries and in a shitty exit some compensation. Employee stock options are the first to be cancelled in case of trouble.
Please don't dunk on employees. Especially early ones. I can name many cases where they're more responsible for the success of the company than the founders themselves. And today, I wouldn't be surprised if they actually take on more risk than founders do.
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such bollocks. bro throws out some half baked idea that we're all writing code that doesn't matter and we can just yolo our way with a code fountain and abandon our responsibilities. sometimes i do wonder what the hell people actually write code for. bottom line is 99% of those of us who actually ship products are supporting profitable businesses who are heavily reliant on quality predictable and maintainble outcomes. sure, if you're sat in your bathrobe producing the foundations for your next book, or writing mickey mouse code to put in your next paper, or if you're a data usher in a close-to-zero users SaaS where the only effect of errors or downtime is "oh my users can't produce pretty pictures" then none of the code you're writing matters anyway. the fact remains that lying at the foundations of every worthwhile computer system is a mental model of its intended operation, including a deep enough understanding to support the ongoing improvement and maintenance to ensure a solid foundation upon which a profitable business sits. i fear that we are going to learn some very hard lessons if the academics and toy-builders get enough air to influence the direction of our industry.
So many snarky comments here from people who are supposedly writing code so complex than modern models can’t write correctly. I’m not sure why is that a flex. Do you understand you are still typing gibberish like a caveman while the rest of us are making money by talking to a magic box that’s helping us do our jobs?
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This. You really don't need to spend hours in forums anymore. Use a modern distro + ask an agent whenever you want to go custom. Linux has become so easy.
Microsoft will never fix Windows, because the features that enrage users in Windows 11 are exactly the ones that generate recurring revenue and market control. That is exactly *why* they enrage users! Yes, you'll get reversals of some idiotic user interface decisions. You'll get some speed tweaks. These will be loudly hyped in hopes that they distract you from what you'll never get. Don't take my word for this, look at what Microsoft is hyping as fixes in their reform program and Windows 12. Do they say a word about no longer requiring a Microsoft account to do a local installation? Or about removing the repeating nag prompts for OneDrive? Do they make any promises to end the advertising spam? No. And they won't. Because that's where the money is. Windows now exists to broker your eyeballs to third parties and upsell you into Microsoft subscription services. I've been warning anybody who would listen for 30 years that when you install closed-source software you're accepting a power asymmetry with the vendor. All of their incentives say they should use the control you grant them to take more control. Induce more dependency. Lock you in. Microsoft has been on this path for a very long time. "DOS isn't done until Lotus won't run!" You might think these tendencies would be restrained by their fear that when they increase the pain level above some threshold they can't predict in advance, a critically large percentage of their userbase will pay the aggravation cost to escape their clutches. There are two reasons this won't happen, one general and one specific to Microsoft. The general problem is that corporations differentially respond to market incentives according to how easily they can be measured. Revenue from cloud services and the adtech vampires is a strong, visible signal; exit by pissed off users creates multiple signals that are diffuse and easy to misinterpret. The Microsoft specific problem is Azure - which, ironically, mostly runs Linux instances. Microsoft now makes most of its money from Azure, which reduces its incentives to care about pissed-off desktop Windows customers bailing out. Indeed, if I were a cold-blooded Microsoft strategic planner, I might be tempted to deliberately burn up the desktop business for short-term revenue, knowing that that's not where my long-term fortress is. I'm not saying they're actually doing that, but from outside the difference between this move and an over-focus on measurable revenue streams leading to accidental destruction is difficult to make and probably not very informative even if you could. The bottom line is that it's just not going to get any better. Ever. In fact, bailing out is doomed to get more painful over time. The more process habits you form around Windows, the harder the dependency gets to break. The conclusion is obvious. Get out now. A lot of major tech influencers have noticed over the last 18 months that after decades of sour jokes about the year of the Linux desktop, Linux is finally ready for you. It's time.
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> Engineering is the practice of systematically applying natural science and mathematics to design and improve systems, devices, or processes that solve problems under constraints. SE never was about the code. It's about solving problems. Your pretty code is a means to an end.
software engineering craftsmanship is dying in front of our eyes. writing beautiful code, a nicely crafted library, or designed framework do not matter anymore. there will be nobody that appreciates the code, nobody even understanding it. is the status quo now frozen or what is the incentive to go the extra mile to create the next beautiful library?
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Mandatory reading. gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-03/
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Replacing planning mode with a discussion only mode would be so much more useful.
Anyone else end a prompt with “don’t write any code, I’m just asking a question” when talking to Claude or codex?
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What's stopping you from coding like this? – at Caldaro sulla Strada del Vino, Trentino-South Tyrol
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Remember: a guy just spent 1100$ to have Codex reverse engineer Claude Code. I guess these tokens aged like fine milk.
I reimplemented "claude" CLI with codex and gpt-5.4-high. It cost $1100 in tokens, and is 73% faster and 80% lower resident memory during sustained interactive use. It is very easy to reverse claude from npm distribution, then reimplement is 1:1. It is indistinguishable from the Anthropic version to the every header and analytics it send back github.com/krzyzanowskim/cla…
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Sorry to break it to some of you but every AI engineering approach that requires you to write exhaustive specs beforehand is going to fail. Your specs suck. Always have. Always will. We learned that lesson decades ago.
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omg..
You can hide these !commands in html comments so people don't see them when reading the skill. The command executes without the AI even knowing about it.
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Georg Unterholzner retweeted
Why is it everyone with an absurdly futuristic AI take is someone who - as best I can tell - doesn’t work on (and often never has) real software that has real users and real requirements? More so, why do you trust them?
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Georg Unterholzner retweeted
100% of dev is going to be done in sandboxes in the cloud, controlled by kanban boards. Trust me, I love my local machine and gorgeous mac apps, but all of it is just a terrible form factor for running a team of agents effectively.
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AI this. Agents that. My tendency to build things 10x as complicated as they need to be is still the same.
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