Anyone applying to this should be careful. Looks like one of the many scam job listings. Make sure to evaluate the code they give you from GitHub and run it in an isolated Docker container.
What's the reason behind this? If agents can code, doesn't that effectively take away your job as an engineer and even your work? I mean, if I can use your agent to build myself your company, how are you going to survive in the future?
1. They think they can control this and sell you a service that can make any app you want nearly instantly.
2. They plan to use any profit they make from the service or sale of the company and invest it in stocks/bonds/real estate after and retire before they themselves get replaced.
3. They plan to use this to keep the team small. One talking point of AI is that it could allow far fewer people to make a valuable company.
4. They don't really know what will happen in that world.
That is the question I keep asking myself. Many makes theories about getting rid of software developers. İf this can be achieved, then software companies wont exist. Every new day, there should be a new OS like windows, a new word, excel etc. So, it is not engineer shooting themself from the foot, but software companies does ?
The cost of using their agent to replicate the same agent may be astronomical. Maybe the Reflection folks figured out that will bring them enough $$$ to retire afterwards.
Funny how HNers are now concerned but were all 'meh' when Silicon Valley has been trying to automate away my job for years. The world is a safer place when you take fallible humans out of the loop, don't ya know?
I'm not the post creator, but I'm one of the founders of Instill. I don't think it was intended as such as the HN crowd isn't really our target customer (non-technical health & fitness content creators who need a comprehensive / white glove solution to launching a subscription content platform, not people who can engage in a debate about the cheapest way to set up your own infra to stream videos haha). Ev had some interesting thoughts about Vimeo's huge shift which were informed by us having started this platform some months ago based in part on some pushpack from content creators on Vimeo. Of course, as an early startup, we will also take any attention we can get so I don't hate if this wound up being a little bit of both ;)
