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your problem domain is greenfield freelancing if i am reading you correctly? The tarpit of AI discussion is that everybody assumes that their local perspective
by dustingetz 1y ago
your problem domain is greenfield freelancing if i am reading you correctly?
The tarpit of AI discussion is that everybody assumes that their local perspective is globally applicable. It is not.
- Xss3 1y agoThis. I work in a large corpo eco system of products across languages that talk to a mess of micro and not so micro services. Ai tools are rarely useful out of the box in this context. Mostly because they can't fit the ecosystem into their context. I think i would need 10 agents or more for the task. We have good documentation, but just fitting the documentation into context alongside a microservice is a tight fit. Most services would need one agent for the code (and even then it'd only fit 10% in context), and one for the docs. Trying to use them without sufficient context, or trying to cram the right 10% into context, takes more effort than just coding the feature, and produces worse results with the worst kind of bugs, subtle ones borne from incorrect assumptions.
- gngoo 1y agoIf contracting with bigger companies and enterprises, for which I am on 6-12 month projects, and even longer retainers is "greenfield freelancing" then sure. I actually do not really engage in small projects less than that, because they don't pay well.