Eleanor Berger

@intellectronica.net

🌐 https://intellectronica.net/ 👩‍💻 Expert AI Leadership (ex google microsoft startups ...) 👩‍💼 Consulting https://okigu.com/ 👩‍🏫 Teaching http://nanolink.xyz/ai-coding

Asymmetry: If Netflix showed you a video by a teenager from Arkansas talking about ferrets ... you'd cancel your Netflix subscription. If YouTube showed you a TV-quality series ... you'd cancel your Netflix subscription.

... in this unformed world, whose rules and objectives are largely unknown, seemingly indecipherable or even possibly nonexistent, always on the verge of being killed by forces that we don't understand ...

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This is how my @code workspaces look like these days. Copilot / Claude / Agents / Terminal on the right. Navigator on the left. And one big nothingness in the middle ... because theoretically I'm a programmer, but in practice I hardly write any code (I do read code sometimes).

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so after I gave up on n8n because I don't like programming with icons I also gave up on Windmill because it's expensive and unpleasant and I asked Claude to just take my automation scripts, stuff them in a docker, slap a simple scheduler, log everything, and push it to railway.

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I call BS. It doesn't make sense to assume that one thing changes and everything else stays the same. The world of 10-20 years from now is going to be very different. If nothing else, today's "juniors" will have had 10-20 years of working and learning with AI.

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One tiny advantage of the agentic AI era is that content is completely fungible. I used to struggle with all the different formats and restrictions. Now when I get a book, I ask a CLI agent to convert it to a markdown file, clean it up, and upload it to a gist.

The put-downs I'm hearing these days from "professional" software mavens on AI in software development and no-code/low-code agents rhymes beautifully with the put-downs I've heared 25 years ago about "scripting" languages like Python and JS. Spoiler alert: scripting won.

I'm technical, rational, and a bit of a cynic. I understand AI quite deeply and have been using it a lot for the last few years. Until now I've been persisnt in treating it like a sotware tool. Opus 4.5 gave me the first few moments where I felt there's someone else in the room.

My drumming teacher suggested that now that I have improved my skills I could prepare a playlist with songs I like so that we can practice them. So I sent him the playlist and when we met today he said "I was so suprised, I was sure that you only like metal!" 🤷‍♀️

My Current Setup (AI Coding) - Opus is all around the best for almost anything - Haiku is seriously underrated - incredibly fast and cheap but good enough for most simple tasks - Gemini 3 for complex one-shot analysis / review / planning

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