"terrified".... overused word. As a man I literally can't relate. I get terrified when I see a shark next to me in the ocean. I get impatient when code is hard to debug.

We're pretty good at naming fear when it has a physical trigger. We're much worse at naming the unease that comes from watching something you care about get quietly hollowed out over time. That doesn't make it melodrama, just a different category of discomfort.

Step 1: Start looking beyond your code, as the stuff beyond your code is looking at you.

Its existential dread, of being useless and of not being able to thrive.

Its being compared to that of a slop machine, and billionaires claiming that its better than you are in all ways.

Its having integrity in your work, but the LLM slop-machines can lie and go "You're actually right (tells more lies)".

It all comes down to that LLMs serve to 'fix' the trillion dollar problem: peoples wages. Especially those engineers, developers, medical, and more.

I hear you, especially as a man, because we're attuned at looking for trouble in the horizon. AI is not some transition from horses to cars, which just meant selling the horse, buying a car, and continue your transport business. It's intelligence that may be able to take over all aspects of our current professional training, thus potentially threatening our livelihoods.

Thats the underlying dread.

The base capitalist premise is if you work, you'll have resources to survive and thrive. The flip-side is that if you cannot or refuse to work, you will starve, be destitute, homeless, without medical care, live under a bridge, and die hopeless.

And societal failings in a capitalist system are always reflected towards the individual no matter what.

Bad monetary policy? Should have saved. Businesses buy state laws to worsen worker laws? Get a better job. Got sick and medical lost your job? Too bad, go die, I guess?

Its never a systemic thing we can identify and fix. But its always always reflected as a personal failing.

Theres a top comment on this article that LLMs are a perfect parieto machine. 80% good, 20% utter shit and lies. That seems to track pretty well with what I'm seeing. If thats generally being accepted, I have to ask if my (and all others professional labor) if we're worth our wages for that 20%. And the question isnt being asked of us, but about us in HR and C levels.

I'm already seeing "make do with what less labor you already have and hope AI helps". I support a national level thing (all 50 states). Used to be 3 engineers for backend. Now its just me. I'm already seeing the stark negative effects, overworking, sloperating as a necessity (no DBA), and hope and prayer stuff doesnt go down.

And combined with the fact we're seeing worse hiring and layoffs since the Great Recession... Something's gotta change.

I wonder how people like you would have fared even just 100y ago, if typing on a keyboard with your own fingers is so foundational to your identity.

My job, a place I spend 1/3 of my days is a core part of my identity. It's also how I manage to feed myself.

Ask a horse buggy driver and find out.

"People like (me)".. And what are me and people like me like?

How's about you say what you're comparing me and people like me to.

In my experience, people who use terms like "You people" are just using that as a placeholder for racism, sexism, or ableism. Which is it in your case?

And 100 years ago, when industry took over something, the new thing still needed people. But thats not a hard economic law - thats just what happened before. There is no guarantee of that observation to still hold true.

I think it's a genius name and is playful on the meme of a pale Zuckerberg being a robot.

It's worth noting that if someone has the skill to install and run Linux with games, they probably have the skill to use massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts and ask AI to help bypass to install a local Windows account. And that probable takes less time.

Reminds me of what's happening in Tehran, where they might have to relocate the capital due to severe, chronic mismanagement of their water supply.

So apparently all swarm features are controlled by a single gate function in Claude Code:

---

function i8() {

if (Yz(process.env.CLAUDE_CODE_AGENT_SWARMS)) return !1;

return xK("tengu_brass_pebble", !1);

}

---

So, after patch

function i8(){return!0}

---

The tengu_brass_pebble flag is server-side controlled based on the particulars of your account, such as tier. If you have the right subscription, the features may already be available.

The CLAUDE_CODE_AGENT_SWARMS environment variable only works as an opt-out, not an opt-in.

why would it be? It's a creative setup.

I just actually can't tell, it reads like satire to me.

to me, it reads like mental illness

maybe it's a mix of both :)

I mean no offence to anyone but whenever new tech progresses rapidly it usually catches most unaware, who tend to ridicule or feel the concepts are sourced from it.

yeah, nfts, metaverse, all great advances

same people pushing this crap

ai is actually useful tho. idk about this level of abstraction but the more basic delegation to one little guy in the terminal gives me a lot of extra time

Maybe that's because you're not using your time well in the first place

bro im using ai swarms, have you even tried them?

bro wanna buy some monkey jpegs?

100% genuine

Depends. Some agents can finish simple tasks by themselves. Sometimes for complex tasks or random reasons they may need more management. There are no rules in such a dynamic field with all these new, experimental workflows.

At the moment I have 20 subagents fixing stuff throughout my own codebase.

But I've never had the gall to let my AI agent do stuff on other people's projects without my direct oversight.

Ignatenko et al., 2025 found the 2025 tariffs could yield modest U.S. welfare gains through improved terms of trade if partners don't retaliate. Concrete data shows $236 billion in revenue, a 25% drop in Chinese imports, and $1.7 trillion in announced manufacturing investments. So the debate isn't who pays (both sides agree Americans do), but whether reshoring and revenue gains justify the cost.

> $236 billion in revenue

That's a tax increase, using a regressive tax. It would strain belief in their seriousness if Republicans suddenly thought tax increases are a good thing.

> reshoring

A tax on ordinary people that goes to welfare for US corporations.