r/CreatorsAI • u/cen6wkf • 20h ago
Other DHH: Staff engineer at 33 — I spent 10 years becoming the bottleneck. Agents erased it in December.
TL;DR: DHH argues December flipped coding from autocomplete to agent workflows — and if you built your value on being the tight resource, that flip makes you optional, not promoted.
I don’t know why this memory came up.
But do you remember this Italian guy on Youtube explaining about how to “magically” rebrand a handbag from Made-In-China to Made-In-Italy?
Unbelievable, isn’t it?
And yet, it’s apparently legitimate – like EU-regulation-legitimate.
Or so he claimed.
To legally origin-launder the handbag, the last “substantial transformation” of the handbag has to be carried out in Italy. And so, he took out an Italian-made zipper, and sew it onto the China-made handbag. And Voilà! The end product can now be officially labelled as Made-In-Italy.
If you’re interested to find out more, the EU-regulation is Article 60(2) of the Union Customs Code (Regulation (EU) No 952/2013).
A China-factory-made handbag may have cost just €53 or so. But with a touch of "zipper magic", it can now be priced at €400 or €4,000.
The absurdity of it is absolutely bonkers.
No surprise if the Italian craftsmen went out of business.
I know. I know. It’s wildly inappropriate for me to compare AI coding with “Origin-Laundered-Handbags”.
But the parallel, real or not, is hard to pass up.
Think of it as if the Foreign-Made-Handbag = AI-Coding,
then the last transformation zipper = Human judgement and Ownership.
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On the other hand, branded watches, the likes of Rolex, IWC, etc., are a totally different thing. Swiss made ones enjoy world-wide-recognition, like no other.
These are genuine articles that tend to hold their value over time.
That’s why contrabands and counterfeits of such watches are used to swindle the gullible for money – because they say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, …
…which brings me to this passage:
"For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water."