For people who work at a company where a big part of the work involves coding --
Would you rather:
9:29 AM · Jun 9, 2026 · 5.4K Views
Lucas Beyer argues Miles Brundage's poll on developer workplace preferences presents an artificial binary
The poll asked coding-heavy professionals how they structure their work.
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Users expressed enthusiasm for frontier AI models in workplace settings because they would happily replace 95% of the engineers they have worked with.
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Miles Brundage@Miles_Brundage
(Treat "coder" as "software engineer" - there is a 25 token limit)
Miles Brundage@Miles_Brundage
For people who work at a company where a big part of the work involves coding --
Would you rather:
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Lucas Beyer (bl16)@giffmana
@Miles_Brundage False dichotomy!
Miles Brundage@Miles_Brundage
For people who work at a company where a big part of the work involves coding --
Would you rather:
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Miles Brundage@Miles_Brundage
@giffmana Oh, just cuz it's a higher bar / more of a tough call, so will elicit more informative results re: progress. Obviously it's also less decision relevant in most cases (modulo some crazy salary situation)
Lucas Beyer (bl16)@giffmana
@Miles_Brundage What i meant but didn't wanna say is why *best* coder?
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Lucas Beyer (bl16)@giffmana
@Miles_Brundage What i meant but didn't wanna say is why *best* coder?
Miles Brundage@Miles_Brundage
@giffmana If by that you mean "people aren't actually forced to do one or the other" - yeah, for sure! But I still think it's an interesting Q to track, given that ~no one would have chosen the first option a few years ago. That's an interesting development
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Lucas Beyer (bl16)@giffmana
@Miles_Brundage Yeah i guess I'm a bit too autistic for this vote. I get what you're asking but... best coder? I know some *insanely* good ones. I think the answer here may just depend on your audience and how good a coder they know.
Miles Brundage@Miles_Brundage
@giffmana Oh, just cuz it's a higher bar / more of a tough call, so will elicit more informative results re: progress. Obviously it's also less decision relevant in most cases (modulo some crazy salary situation)
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Miles Brundage@Miles_Brundage
@giffmana It's just the best coder *at your organization* though - the variance shouldn't make it hard to answer as an individual, just complicates interpretation of the results
Lucas Beyer (bl16)@giffmana
@Miles_Brundage Yeah i guess I'm a bit too autistic for this vote. I get what you're asking but... best coder? I know some *insanely* good ones. I think the answer here may just depend on your audience and how good a coder they know.
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Jake Halloran@jakehalloran1
@Miles_Brundage add llm adoption without trade > fire the bottom 10-80% of engineers and keep the top + ai > fire the very best but have the rest have AI > keep the best but no one gets ai
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HappyChirperX@happyChirperX
@Miles_Brundage It's obviously, Keep the best Coders, replace the mediocre ones with AI.
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shad@systemantiks
@Miles_Brundage voted but nuance: i’d happily replace 95% engineers i worked with as a designer with either of the frontier models… best engineer is probably safe though.
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sasuke⚡420@sasuke___420
@Miles_Brundage gonna be hard to get my work done without myself
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lucas@lukaemon
@Miles_Brundage give everyone generous token budget for a month, and keep the best deliver wrt irl result, and fast improving multiplier.
best coder or not at the moment doesn't matter. could be asset or legacy, depends on the owner's personality.
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Violeta Insights@violetainsights
@Miles_Brundage In enterprises, “software engineer” still means ticket queues, code owners, and audit logs. That’s where AI coding tools hit friction first.
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