Bryan Cantrill

One thing I love about the Jevons paradox is that, Brian, you're the first person I've ever heard cite it.

And then in the years since I've heard you cite it, it's been cited increasingly more often.

I feel like I see people reference the Jevons paradox once every three months now when I'd never heard of it five years ago.

Simon also did his three year was like what I was trying to get at, but I couldn't figure out how to say it.

And I said something that was much worse.

So mine ended up being like using AI tools and writing software professionally is going to be considered something closer to autocomplete or syntax highlighting than something controversial or exceptional.

And I was trying to like, I originally had something in there about like,

the industry is going to figure out our existential crisis around these tools.

And it's just going to be like one way or the other, but I couldn't like figure out how to put it.

So like I was second, I think it was very well said Simon.

Yeah.

lom assisted right you're making i started to write and then eventually claude wrote all of it like it was very much like i started this before i even thought ai tools were good and then by the end uh claude was doing a lot of work uh i think what right before i left we looked at it and like my personal ai usage was like the same as the rest of the company at the

And I think it's gotten, it seems like y'all have used it even more since I've left, but like, yeah, absolutely.

I think this is definitely a huge thing.

I have several personal projects that are effectively just replacing, you know, SaaS tools with things that are bespoke for people.

And it's great, honestly.

Yeah.

There are a ton of industries that are normie industries where there is 10 consultancies that make shitty software that professionals use because those are the only 10 companies that know their vertical.

My girlfriend's a real estate agent.

And when I look at the tools and the SaaS tools that are useful for her, they're all garbage.