But reduction is narrower than management which is narrower than organization.

Also uncertainty is part of complexity. Being able to isolate what is deemed predictable under clearly identified premises is the best that can hoped on that matter. It means that then one strategy can be applied to protect the stable core, and other strategy can be tried on what is unknown (known and unknown unknowns).

An AI agent using a web browser like a human. I used various stealth technologies to achieve this. I set it off on a research task for me and it saved me $30 of a purchase by finding the best price. Its Jeff Bezos worst nightmare, visting amazon.com and ignoring all the product placement ads.

It had multiple tabs open, did searches in multiple places, opening products and checking sites....it looked just like a human would do doing the same task.

This I can assure you would not have been possible without my expertise. I had to be very careful to remove all bot signals from the browser, including going to browserscan.net to check. Once done, most captchas were never shown to the agent. There is a NodeJS codebase involved that I wrote by hand.

I searched through the code of the browser automation framework I was using, looking for ways to make it look more human. I had AI help with this part, but had to confirm everything and pull the agent up when it suggested bad ideas.

Most of the work was architectural, including making sure my browser was easy for the agent to use.

I'm going to add 2captcha as a next step, to solve the few captchas that it still encounters (as I still do sometimes as a human).

I'm thinking of open sourcing it, but i'm not sure if its a good idea as if it became widespread, it might encourage the adoption of even more invasive anti-bot measures.

complexity bad

say again:

complexity very bad

you say now:

complexity very, very bad

That includes gate-keeping behaviour such as not handing off knowledge, sham performance reviews to prevent ambitious juniors from over-taking them (even with AI) and being over-critical to others but absent and contrarian when the same is done to them.

That leverage does not work anymore in the age of AI as having "expensive" seniors begging for a pay-rise can cost the company an extra amount of $$$. So it is temping to lay them off for another one that is a yes person that will accept less.

In the age of AI, I would now expect such experience to include both building and working at a startup instead of being difficult to work with for the sake of a performance review.

Almost all business presidents, CEOs, and owners are thinking this. I guarantee you they are sick and tired of developers taking forever on every project. Now they can create the apps themselves.

My comment isn't meant to debate every nitty-gritty detail about code quality, security, stability, thinking of every aspect of how the code works, does it scale, etc. All of those things are extremely important. However, most leadership never cared about any of that anyways. They only heard those as excuses why developers took so long. Over the last decade they put up with it begrudgingly.

You know all the developers that wanted to complain about IT, cybersecurity, DevOPs, cloud architects for getting in their way and if they only had administrator access then they could get everything done themselves because they are experts in networking and everything else? Well, those developers are about to have the worst day ever when every single person on the planet can generate code and will be "experts" in everything as well.