I understand the sentiment and I've been involved in software engineering in various roles for the last 25+ years. The thing that gives me hope is that never once in that time has the problem ever been that we didn't have more work to do.
It's not like all of a sudden I'm working 2-3 hours a day. I'm just getting a lot more done.
Last week OpenAI pushed out an AI agent orchestration framework called Swarm. I liked how lightweight it is compared to other open source LLM frameworks that I find overly complex. Unfortunately, OpenAI positioned it as an experimental framework and on their GitHub page said they wouldn’t be accepting any PRs for enhancements. It doesn’t sound like they’re going to maintain it. That’s too bad because it is a nice approach for developers looking for a simple solution to orchestrating AI agents.
So I forked it and I spent some time making it work with Anthropic and Groq LLMs. The result is Microagent.
I was wondering what the fuck was going on and whether this was internal community meme or style that I just wasn't aware of. Turns out it's just cringey corporate goons being cringey corporate goons.
It's not like all of a sudden I'm working 2-3 hours a day. I'm just getting a lot more done.