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There’s a terrific writeup from the folks at FlintAI — their team is now 5 devs and 45 agents, all living in Slack. Nine agents per developer. The agents take roles — triage, deploy, review — the human steps in for the two decisions that actually matter (code review, release approval), and they report something like a 3x productivity bump. It’s a genuinely impressive piece of engineering and you should read it.
That’s the model everybody’s racing toward right now: take your best seniors, strap nine agents to them, and harvest the multiple. And it works! I’m not knocking it (and I’m doing it too)!
I'm a senior but if the future of my work is reviewing AI code all day I will buy a bunch of goats and become a goatherder.
Extracting productivity from senior engineers is also burning them out faster.
I've already started rebelling. That won "efficiency" is in part mine, I'm just going home. Why would I allow my bosses to reap all of the rewards for my shittier workday? And if they don't agree, I'm going back to writing by hand.
I heard your goats' grazing land has a datacenter now.
So basically the AI company with AI in the name uses AI a bunch and evangelizes it.