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So much more stuff and growing- what it is actually useful for ? Are we getting actually more done than with previous volumes or is it just all wasted energy?
by m4rtink 2mo ago
So much more stuff and growing- what it is actually useful for ? Are we getting actually more done than with previous volumes or is it just all wasted energy?
- compass_copium 2mo agoYou already know the answer to that question
- parapsychic 2mo agoTo some extent we are getting more things done as well. In my company (mid-sized startup), they're making us push features every other day now as opposed to maybe 1-2 features per person per sprint. Back when I joined, things were a lot slower. Today, they expect freshers to push new features on day one. But ofc, slop has increased a lot more as well.
- thisOtterBeGood 2mo agoThat's very fast. Feels like you cannot really review this code so it's all just "working" AI code with few railguards and few human supervision?
- throwawayqqq11 2mo agoJumping on the great asymmetry of output between humans and llms, yet still being responsible for the product is pure kafka.
- croes 2mo agoAnd how many of that features are actually used? How long do they last until the get replaced by the next feature?
- MattRix 2mo agoI have some big issues with this technology and the companies behind it, but I know of quite a few people personally who were not previously coders but have now been able to use LLMs to make their own custom software, solving real problems they had.
- colechristensen 2mo agoOne of the things I've done is create an entire fully functional GitHub alternative that does more of what I want and hosts all of my other projects, so yes I at least am getting considerably more done.
- inigyou 2mo agoYou could have just installed Forgejo.
- brookst 2mo agoI’m getting a lot more done. Hobby projects that languished for years are coming along great, at quality and depth I could never have found time for before.
- xeromal 2mo agoSame. Helping family out when I generally was too tired to do it earlier. They're all very happy too
- croes 2mo agoAre they happy about the circumstances of AI too? Higher resource consumption and the set back in CO2 reduction?
- CrimsonRain 2mo ago[flagged]
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- bdlowery 2mo agoyou seem to be uninformed. This should help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_c6MWk7PQc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_c6MWk7PQc
- throwawayqqq11 2mo agoGP wasnt mentioning water consumption.
- bch 2mo ago> raised heat is a kind of pollution > water is not unlimited > you don't want to release a bunch of acid into a river > I know next to nothing about this > I know basically nothing > corn is one of the thirstiest major crops grown in the US What is this rant supposed to inform? Whats wrong with OP being concerned about the costs of operating a DC?
- gabriel-uribe 2mo agoMore done + more leisure.
- mikae1 2mo agoThat's how it's sold, but have you heard about any major tech company that sends their worker home when they've achieved what they used to achieve pre-AI? EDIT: Instead of simply down-voting, you're welcome to name examples that proves me wrong ;)
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- 0x696C6961 2mo agoThis is anecdotal, but I know that a lot of my coworkers and coasting and putting up one AI generated PR per day which they've hardly even self reviewed.
- teiferer 2mo agoIn a good company that will come back to bite them next performance review. So, if it doesn't then you learned something about your workplace (and it's not good).
- darkwater 2mo ago> In a good company that will come back to bite them next performance review. In a good company that should be discussed in the next 1:1s so actual change can happen meanwhile. If it just waits for the end of year review, then it's not a good company.
- teiferer 2mo agoSure. I meant if they are stubborn.
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- 0x696C6961 2mo agoLol you don't need an app for this. My (barista) gf did the same thing by just telling Claude to create pages in notion.
- CrimsonRain 2mo agoAnd you don't need excel. Pen and paper gets the job done. Good logic.
- ozgung 2mo agoHas anyone noticed an increase in the quality, performance or capabilities of the software they use?
- teiferer 2mo agoOnly in software that is used to make other software. So we're all just patting ourselves on the back within our bubble. What I have noticed an increase though is in demands and pressure to deliver.
- boxed 2mo agoI have. Mostly for the software I use that I maintain myself though :P
- rfgplk 2mo agoI have. In fact, some of my hand rolled stuff is actually _provably_ faster and more secure then even heavily battletested and widely used "industry standard" solutions. This is mainly due to them passing an exhaustive barrage of millions of lines of code of tests (literally, in fact I just did a pass over all my tests/ dirs and it's sitting at 6.3 million as of today) ranging from adversarial CVE probing attacks to fuzz tests. Ironically, my same testing suite has caught _numerous_ bugs in production stacks (openSSL/libuv) particularly, literal hard SIGSEGVs and the like. On CVE probing, and I haven't really seen anyone describe/use it (or I may be oblivious), but the way you do it is you curate a list of CVEs for the class of software you're writing, say a web server. Then you take this list in chunks and hand them off to your agents to devise and implement adversarial technically analogous attacks against your codebase. If it's red, report and patch. Ironically (even with Fable 5) it's never complained/refused to do it.
- zingar 2mo agoMy unsupervised agentic setup has built something that I wanted for decades but never built, so I guess that’s an increase in capabilities.
- bblb 2mo agoI play modded Starfield. There's been a clear increase in mods lately. Some of them are from self-proclaimed non-programmers who are using the LLM's to reverse engineer the game or other abandoned mods, and they've started to create new cool mods or they've fixed various engine limitations. Can confirm that these actually work and I can finally have my 1000+ modlist. There was a huge exodus of existing programmers/modders ~two years ago, due to paid mods and what not. The gamers took over with their LLM tools.
- maciejgryka 2mo agoThat’s like asking whether fuel consumption was productive or leisure as the number of cars on the road increased. It’s both! I don’t think you can separate one from the other in any reasonable way.
- ifwinterco 2mo ago[dead]