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by acjohnson55 8mo ago
If a company lets faulty code get to production, that's an issue no matter how it is produced. Agentic coding can produce code at much higher volumes, but I think we're still in the early days of figuring out how to scale quality
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by acjohnson55 8mo ago
Voice assistants, which I've used less than 10 times in my life, are hardly related to what I'm talking about.
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by acjohnson55 8mo ago
I am not having the exact same experience as the author--Opus 4.6 and Codex 5.3 seem more incremental to me than what he is describing--but if we're on an exponential curve, the difference is a rounding error. 4 months ago, I tried to
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by acjohnson55 8mo ago
I regret using the term "one-shot", because my reality isn't really that. It's more that the first shot gets the code 80-90% of the way there, usually, and it short-circuits a ton of the "code archaeology" I wo
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by acjohnson55 8mo ago
This was a really interesting conversation, and I learned a lot from your thoughts and everyone else's on this thread. As I said up top: > LLMs are the first technology where everyone literally has a different experience. I totally
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by acjohnson55 8mo ago
> But you miss a lot of experiences compared to when you’re actually in the code trenches reading, designing, and tinkering with code on your own. Completely agree. Working with this tooling is a fundamentally different practice. I'
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by acjohnson55 8mo ago
That's different form my experience. I've worked many places where there are loads of valuable ideas in the backlog or bugs that are real, but don't have enough impact to prioritize. But the business has limited resources, an
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by acjohnson55 8mo ago
I'm working in a very mature codebase on product features that are not technically unprecedented, which probably is determining a lot of my experience so far. Very possible that I'm experiencing a sweet spot. I can totally imagine
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by acjohnson55 8mo ago
> If you are really truly reviewing every single line in a way that it is the same as if you hand wrote it… just hand write it. I think this is only true for people who are already experts in the codebase. If you know it inside-out, sure
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by acjohnson55 8mo ago
> If Claude Code or Cursor is actually that good then we're all unemployed anyway. Using the tools won't save any of our jobs. There is absolutely reason for concern, but it's not inevitable. For the foreseeable future, I
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by acjohnson55 8mo ago
I disagree with the characterization as "slop", if the tools are used well. There's no reason the user has to submit something that looks fundamentally different from what they would handwrite. You can't simply throw the
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by acjohnson55 8mo ago
I was a huge skeptic on this stuff less than a year ago, so I get it. For a couple years, the hype was really hype, when it came to the actual business utility of AI tools. It's just interesting to me the extent to which people have to
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by acjohnson55 8mo ago
I read this and thought, "are we using the same software?" For me, I have turned the corner where I barely hand-edit anything. Most of the tasks I take on are nearly one-shot successful, simply pointing Claude Code at a ticket URL
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by acjohnson55 8mo ago
I'm pretty sure this project just does the storage model. It's up to communities that use it to determine the semantics and derive reputation and other higher level concepts from the data.
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by acjohnson55 8mo ago
I'm guessing denounce is for bad faith behavior, not just low quality contributions. I think it's actually critical to have a way to represent this in a reputation system. It can be abused, but abuse of denouncement is grounds for
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by acjohnson55 8mo ago
I don't understand the dismissiveness. I think it's pretty clear. Keeping it going for the current users, but not trying to innovate. It might seem weird in an industry that prizes constant innovation and disruption, but this is a
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by acjohnson55 8mo ago
Yep, this is the way. Everyone is skating towards this goal.
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The Fall of the Nerds(noahpinion.blog)
3 points by acjohnson55 8mo ago|0 comments
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Software Engineers Don't Talk Anymore(petercoy.substack.com)
2 points by acjohnson55 8mo ago|1 comments
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by acjohnson55 8mo ago
Not really. Investors with hundreds of billions of dollars have decided it. The process by which capital has been allocated the way it has isn't some mathematically natural or optimal thing. Our market is far from free.
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by acjohnson55 8mo ago
Simply put, yes. This is not good for SpaceX. It's a less valuable company with X and xAI. But it helps Elon make it look like he runs two successful businesses.
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by acjohnson55 9mo ago
This is reminding me of the crypto self-custody problem. If you want complete trustlessness, the lengths you have to go to are extreme. How do you really know that the machine using your private key to sign your transactions is absolutely s
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by acjohnson55 9mo ago
But the LLM cannot be guaranteed to obey these rules.
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by acjohnson55 9mo ago
But it's actually a tremendous amount of friction, because it's the difference between being able to let agents cook for hours at a time or constantly being blocked on human approvals. And even then, I think it's probably imp
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by acjohnson55 9mo ago
Yes, because the upside is so high. Exploits are uncommon, at this stage, so until we see companies destroyed or many lives ruined, people will accept the risk.
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by acjohnson55 9mo ago
The problem is that most interesting applications of LLMs require putting data into them that isn't completely vetted ahead of time.
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by acjohnson55 9mo ago
Posting this because it's a grim glimpse into what the present looks like for people in countries that do not permit dissent. Imagine what could be done with the cooperation of software companies.
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Iran makes high-tech additions to its age-old playbook for crushing protests(cnn.com)
5 points by acjohnson55 9mo ago|1 comments
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by acjohnson55 9mo ago
Google Wave worked fine for me, as I recall. I remember being really impressed on one level, but I also couldn't figure out what to actually use it for. A couple weeks ago, I thought about diving back into demos to reacquaint myself wi
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by acjohnson55 9mo ago
IMO, their biggest problem was that they made a product that was terminally uncool.

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