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I can not. We're all racing very hard to take full advantage of these new capabilities before they go mainstream. And to be honest, sharing problem domains that

I can not. We're all racing very hard to take full advantage of these new capabilities before they go mainstream. And to be honest, sharing problem domains that are particularly attractive would be sharing too much. Go forth and experiment. Have fun with it. You'll figure it out pretty fast. You can read my other post here about the kinds of problem spaces I'm looking at.

deadbabe 1y ago
Ah, super secret problem domains that have been thoroughly represented in the LLM training data. Nice.
mmaunder 1y ago
I'm seeing the downvotes. I'm sorry folks feel that way. I'm regretting my honesty. Edit: I'd like to reply to this comment in particular but can't in a threaded reply, so will do that here: "Ah, super secret problem domains that have been thoroughly represented in the LLM training data. Nice." This exhibits a fundamental misunderstanding of why coding agents powered by LLMs are such a game changer. The assumption this poster is making is that LLMs are regurgitating whole cloth after being trained on whole cloth. This is a common mistake among lay people and non-practitioners. The reality is that LLMs have gained the ability to program, by learning from the code of others. Much like a human would learn from the code of others, and then be able to create a completely novel application. The difference between a human programmer an an agentic coder is that the agent has much broader and deeper expertise across more programming languages, and understands more design patterns, more operating systems, more about programming history, etc etc and it uses all this knowledge to fulfill the task you've set it to. That's not possible for any single human. It's important for the poster to take two realities on board: Firstly, agentic coding agents are not regurgitating whole cloth from whole cloth. Instead they are weaving new creations because they have learned how to program. Secondly, agentic coding agents have broader and deeper knowledge than any human that will ever exist, and they never tire, and their mood and energy level never changes. In fact that improves on a continuous basis as the months go by and progress continues. This means we can, as individual practitioners or fast moving teams, create things that were never before possible for us without raising huge amounts of money and hiring large very expensive teams, and then having the overhead of lining everyone up behind a goal AND dealing with the human issues that arise, including communication overhead. This is a very exciting time. Especially if you're curious, energetic, and are willing to suspend disbelief to go and take a look.
- kobe_bryant 1y ago
  this is absurd. no one needs or wants your AI generated answer that's a whole lot of nothing
  - mmaunder 1y ago
    Comments like this reveal the magnitude of polarization around this issue in tech circles. Most people actually feel this kind of animosity towards AI, and so having comment threads like this even be visible on HN is unusual. Needless to say, all my comments here are hand written. But the poster knows that, of course.
- zamadatix 1y ago
  Never hold regret for having honesty, it tends to lose its value completely if you only care about it when you have good news to deliver. If for anything, hold regret for when you didn't have something better appreciated to be honest about. The easier threading-focused approach to the conversation might be to add the additional comment as an edit at the end of the original and reply to the child https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45649068 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45649068 directly. Of course, I've broken the ability to do that by responding to you now about it ;).
  - mmaunder 1y ago
    Thanks. I wasn't able to reply in a thread earlier - I guess HN has a throttle on that. So I edited the comment above to add a few more thoughts. It's a very exciting time to be alive.
    - jamiek88 1y ago
      Just click on the time. Where yours says ‘two hours ago’ now, if you click on that you can reply directly to any sub comment in a thread.
  - mmaunder 1y ago
    lol, thanks.
aprilthird2021 1y ago
Why would you even comment that Codex CLI is potentially worth switching an enormous amount of spend over ($70k) and give literally 0 evidence of why it's better? That's all you've got? "Trust me bro"?

deadbabe 1y ago

Ah, super secret problem domains that have been thoroughly represented in the LLM training data. Nice.

mmaunder 1y ago

I'm seeing the downvotes. I'm sorry folks feel that way. I'm regretting my honesty. Edit: I'd like to reply to this comment in particular but can't in a threaded reply, so will do that here: "Ah, super secret problem domains that have been thoroughly represented in the LLM training data. Nice." This exhibits a fundamental misunderstanding of why coding agents powered by LLMs are such a game changer. The assumption this poster is making is that LLMs are regurgitating whole cloth after being trained on whole cloth. This is a common mistake among lay people and non-practitioners. The reality is that LLMs have gained the ability to program, by learning from the code of others. Much like a human would learn from the code of others, and then be able to create a completely novel application. The difference between a human programmer an an agentic coder is that the agent has much broader and deeper expertise across more programming languages, and understands more design patterns, more operating systems, more about programming history, etc etc and it uses all this knowledge to fulfill the task you've set it to. That's not possible for any single human. It's important for the poster to take two realities on board: Firstly, agentic coding agents are not regurgitating whole cloth from whole cloth. Instead they are weaving new creations because they have learned how to program. Secondly, agentic coding agents have broader and deeper knowledge than any human that will ever exist, and they never tire, and their mood and energy level never changes. In fact that improves on a continuous basis as the months go by and progress continues. This means we can, as individual practitioners or fast moving teams, create things that were never before possible for us without raising huge amounts of money and hiring large very expensive teams, and then having the overhead of lining everyone up behind a goal AND dealing with the human issues that arise, including communication overhead. This is a very exciting time. Especially if you're curious, energetic, and are willing to suspend disbelief to go and take a look.

kobe_bryant 1y ago
this is absurd. no one needs or wants your AI generated answer that's a whole lot of nothing
- mmaunder 1y ago
  Comments like this reveal the magnitude of polarization around this issue in tech circles. Most people actually feel this kind of animosity towards AI, and so having comment threads like this even be visible on HN is unusual. Needless to say, all my comments here are hand written. But the poster knows that, of course.
zamadatix 1y ago
Never hold regret for having honesty, it tends to lose its value completely if you only care about it when you have good news to deliver. If for anything, hold regret for when you didn't have something better appreciated to be honest about. The easier threading-focused approach to the conversation might be to add the additional comment as an edit at the end of the original and reply to the child https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45649068 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45649068 directly. Of course, I've broken the ability to do that by responding to you now about it ;).
- mmaunder 1y ago
  Thanks. I wasn't able to reply in a thread earlier - I guess HN has a throttle on that. So I edited the comment above to add a few more thoughts. It's a very exciting time to be alive.
  - jamiek88 1y ago
    Just click on the time. Where yours says ‘two hours ago’ now, if you click on that you can reply directly to any sub comment in a thread.
- mmaunder 1y ago
  lol, thanks.

aprilthird2021 1y ago

Why would you even comment that Codex CLI is potentially worth switching an enormous amount of spend over ($70k) and give literally 0 evidence of why it's better? That's all you've got? "Trust me bro"?