The article argues that while tech companies like Netflix shaped industry practices through transparent blog posts enabling informed decisions, GenAI vendors like OpenAI and Anthropic embed practices in products with proprietary reasoning, creating a different dynamic where vendor revenue depends on adoption rather than on sharing knowledge.
A Hacker News discussion post asking software development teams, particularly small startups with 10-20 developers, to share how their practices have evolved in the past 6-12 months in response to AI agents and related tools, covering changes to workflows, tooling choices, successes, and failures.