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Once they "reach AGI", will they have a big party on a carrier with a "Mission Accomplished" banner?
by Netcob 7mo ago
Once they "reach AGI", will they have a big party on a carrier with a "Mission Accomplished" banner?
- echelon 7mo ago[flagged]
- candiddevmike 7mo ago> They just need to put all of the engineers on HN out of work. I think you've crossed the line from being an AI maxi to just rage baiting. This comment is a pointless anecdote at best, please take your ridiculous FOMO takes elsewhere.
- hn_acc1 7mo agoSo you now have 400Kloc of Rust code? Doing what? How much of that is "new"? I can't get Augment / Opus 4.5 to edit a few C++ files from within VSCode without going off on a wild goose chase or getting stuck in an infinite loop after I tell that it should be doing this: "oh, you're right, I need to do X", "To do X, I must understand how to do Y", "I see now that to do Y, I should look at at Z". "Let me look at Z", followed by: "oh, you're right, I need to do X"..
- drivebyhooting 7mo agoTo be fair, humans editing C++ also go on wild goose chases. Have you seen the insanity the C++ committee has ratified?
- harry8 7mo agonot seeing anyone at all suggesting the work of the c++ committee is going to radicaly alter the efficiency of labour.
- drivebyhooting 7mo agoMy point is that C++ is a tarpit, famous for nerd sniping and leading otherwise intelligent people into Wild goose chases. Have you read Alexandrescu’s “modern c++”? It’s like a piece of modern art but completely not self aware. There’s just something about C++ that lures intellectuals in; like ice age mammoths to a tar pit. Small wonder LLMs also fall victims to C++’s deranged ways.
- harry8 7mo agoI don’t love c++ but can get things done in it. The tarpit is Haskell ;-)
- Aperocky 7mo ago> write 20kloc of Rust code every day (and I review all of it) Only one of this can be true. It's not a shame to say you don't bother reviewing it, in the future that may well be the norm.
- echelon 7mo agoThis isn't agentic coding. I haven't even tried that yet. I'm prompting every change set, reviewing the outputs, then reviewing the total changes. I'm sitting at my PC all day doing this - I used to be productive in short bursts, now I'm productive all the time. It's addictive.
- Tesl 7mo agoI don't completely disagree with what you are saying -- but there's no way you produce and review 20k lines a day. That part is clearly false. Even if Claude generated it in 10 seconds and it needed no changes you probably still couldn't review that much sensibly. I used Claude a lot on a recent project where it probably wrote 15-20k lines in a month, and it was overall excellent.
- ThrowawayR2 7mo agoYou are reviewing 20kLOC per day, which is about 0.7 LOC per second in an 8 hour working day, assuming literally doing nothing else but reviewing? Pardon me but I don't find that very believable.
- techpression 7mo agoThat’s the same definition of reviewing code as saying watching the movie is the same as reading the book it’s based on. No human has ever reviewed 600k lines of code in a month, ever. It’s hard to find someone who can even read and understand that amount in that time.
- bigfishrunning 7mo ago> 20kloc of Rust code every day (and I review all of it). Reviewing 1k lines of code an hour is a breakneck pace, are you spending 20 hours a day reviewing code?
- xienze 7mo agoIt’s clearly code so flawless you can tell at a glance that it’s correct.
- Cipater 7mo agoWhat does all this code do? What software are you writing?
- CamperBob2 7mo ago"All of it"
- runlaszlorun 7mo agoBest comment of the day. In three words no less...
- xienze 7mo agoI’m convinced these “guys you gotta believe me I’m a seasoned veteran and this shit is the real deal” posts that show up in every AI thread are either coming from Sam Altman or a bot.
- echelon 7mo agoJust try it.
- CamperBob2 7mo agoI have. It's great. Not 20 kloc/day great, though, and nobody believes that you are giving >1 kloc/hour anything more than the most casual glance.
- ex-aws-dude 7mo agoI had to hack my scrollbar speed to 500% to get through all the code reviews in a day
- xienze 7mo agoYeah, I do use agentic coding a good bit. It’s impressive, but not so much that I’ve convinced myself that my days are numbered.
- echelon 7mo agoI'm not doing agentic coding yet! I'm asking it change by change. I'm just sitting at the PC all day doing this.
- throwaway173738 7mo agoTo do what, exactly, and are people paying you for your output or are you just making things for yourself? Building things at a mature company with a market is a lot different than hacking together your own tools. There are a lot more people you can let down at scale.
- toraway 7mo agoA classic hype merchant sales pitch: believe me, I was a doubter just like you, but I saw the light thanks to [insert latest model]! (Which for anyone familiar with your long comment history as a regular HN poster, is comically absurd to imply. You've been reliably adamant that AI will demolish this or that entire industry overnight for years at this point).
- laserlight 7mo agoGP commenter got my attention during the last few days. Judging by their claims of productivity, they should have been a billionaire already. I'm curious to know their motivation behind making such outrageous claims.
- sph 7mo agoI’ve seen their outrageous comments so often I wonder if it’s Sam Altman’s alt account. Probably the biggest AI snake oil merchant on the forum these days, with a sadistic pleasure at seeing people losing their job to AI.
- echelon 7mo ago> You've been reliably adamant that AI will demolish this or that entire industry overnight for years at this point We'll see who's right. I never said "overnight". Let's check in at the decade's end. Y'all dunked on me in 2019 when I said AI was coming for Hollywood. Have you seen Seedance 2.0? It's coming for us too. I've written five nines, active-active systems that handle billions of dollars of money movement daily. These systems can work in those contexts. I didn't think we'd be here this soon, and I actually thought LLMs were a dead end. I was wrong. I'm not trying to sell Claude Code. I hate the concept of hyperscaler companies. I want there to be viable open source coding models - there just aren't. I'm merely reporting on my findings. I sit at my machine for hours now in a prompt, review, test cycle. It's addictive. I'm getting more done at a faster rate than any time in my professional career. I'm excited, and I'm also worried. I don't know what happens after this. If you've seen how much I praise AI, then you've also seen how much I rail against monopolies. I am worried these giant companies are going to take the means of production from us. I don't think enough people are freaking out about this. It's a very real possibility. I'm just going to keep building. But you should pay close attention to what's happening.
- lifeformed 7mo agoI buy my software by weight! Give me the biggest one you have, please. I'm talking hundreds of klocs.
- http-teapot 7mo agoI let it work all night, wake up and eat klocs for breakfast.
- unfunco 7mo agoThere's no way you're reviewing 20kloc a day unless all you're doing is the Sandi Metz squint test.
- lelanthran 7mo ago> In the last month, I've been using Claude Code to write 20kloc of Rust code every day (and I review all of it). If you're generating 20kLoC per day, you definitely aren't reviewing it!