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Has anyone noticed an increase in the quality, performance or capabilities of the software they use?

by ozgung 2mo ago

teiferer 2mo ago
Only 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 ago
I have. Mostly for the software I use that I maintain myself though :P
rfgplk 2mo ago
I 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 ago
My 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 ago
I 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.
philipbjorge 2mo ago
I'm writing much more secure software and infrastructure (e.g. IAM now gets configured well).
goalieca 2mo ago
Well, many of the saas I use continue to have problem meeting their SLA. And I’m on support just as often as always trying to get through to a human to file a bug that will never get fixed. “It’s in our roadmap”.. no it isn’t. Even with LLMs, product will focus on making new features to push their AI mission.
9cb14c1ec0 2mo ago
At my company, we are using AI to clean up huge amounts of technical debt that would have just hung around otherwise, so yes. I'm not sure that your average user would notice, but we do without a doubt have a much better product now.

Has anyone noticed an increase in the quality, performance or capabilities of the software they use?

by ozgung 2mo ago

Has anyone noticed an increase in the quality, performance or capabilities of the software they use?

Only 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 ago

I have. Mostly for the software I use that I maintain myself though :P

rfgplk 2mo ago

I 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 ago

My 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 ago

I 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.

philipbjorge 2mo ago

I'm writing much more secure software and infrastructure (e.g. IAM now gets configured well).

goalieca 2mo ago

Well, many of the saas I use continue to have problem meeting their SLA. And I’m on support just as often as always trying to get through to a human to file a bug that will never get fixed. “It’s in our roadmap”.. no it isn’t. Even with LLMs, product will focus on making new features to push their AI mission.

9cb14c1ec0 2mo ago

At my company, we are using AI to clean up huge amounts of technical debt that would have just hung around otherwise, so yes. I'm not sure that your average user would notice, but we do without a doubt have a much better product now.