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by quantadev 1y ago
Having a happy team is a sub-goal of the higher goal of 'accomplishing the task' (getting the work done), because sure it's nice for people to get along, and they're generally better performers when they're happy; b
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by quantadev 1y ago
Without the sun the only source of energy would be starlight. Planets don't _generate_ energy of their own, they only radiate away energy. So without the sun everything will simply freeze to near absolute zero, once it radiates away al
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by quantadev 1y ago
Even if you have one trillion juniors, you're not going to get them to spit out 1000 lines of code in a matter of seconds, after you give them an assignment, like LLMs do, so this is a faulty comparison. Also often it takes a senior de
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by quantadev 1y ago
What's your point?
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by quantadev 1y ago
That carbon fiber seat is cool. Could be made to integrate right into the back of a backpack (like the rigid frame), to help the backpack stay rigid during use, so it's kind of dual purpose.
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by quantadev 1y ago
On the latest 'All In' Podcast today, one of the Besties Billionaires said coding productivity boost was like '20x to 50x'. Probably just reads my HN.
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by quantadev 1y ago
Yeah, that's where the 'branching' comes in for sure. Ideally a chatbot would be 'tree-based' where you can just go back to a prior point where you wish you had said something different, and just pickup as if you we
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by quantadev 1y ago
The first chatbot I wrote back in early 2023, had exactly this (branching and history editing), and I was highly active on the OpenAI discord showing them it, and trying to influence them, to go in this direction. Tree-based editors can be
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by quantadev 1y ago
All great programmers are exactly like this. We have a relentless insatiable desire to always be fixing problems, solving challenges/mysteries, and/or just creating. When you mix those psychological tendencies with the other aspec
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by quantadev 1y ago
I'm using VSCode with Github Copilot, which has an "Agent Mode". It proactively reads thru your project files to understand the project, but imo you still have to give it pretty precise instructions to get what you want.
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by quantadev 1y ago
The 5min example is like a maximum/extreme case, yes. My average time spent writing each prompt is probably 30 seconds or less, and coding time saved per prompt like 25 to 60 minutes. When I do spend minutes (not seconds) writing promp
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by quantadev 1y ago
This can definitely happen, because the context windows even in a great Agent can become flooded. I often do prompts like "Add a row of buttons at the top right named 'copy', 'cut', and 'paste'", and
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by quantadev 1y ago
That 30x math simply comes from spending 5min typing a prompt, and getting code generated that would take a human 2.5hrs to write. This means in the future most of a developer's time will be spent reviewing code, rather than typing it.
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by quantadev 1y ago
When it comes to zero ambiguity and perfect specificity here's how I define it: If I gave the same exact prompt wording to a human would there be any questions they'd need to ask me before starting the work? If they need to ask a
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by quantadev 1y ago
Not sure how Claude frequently fails for you, but everybody I know says it rarely fails. I'm definitely not claiming it's perfect tho.
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by quantadev 1y ago
I can't tell you how many times I've seen people write shoddy ambiguous prompts and then blame the LLM for not being able to read their minds. If you write a prompt with perfect specificity as to what you want done, an agent like
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by quantadev 1y ago
It was when I started using Github Copilot in "Agent Mode" that my LLM productivity gains went from like 5x to 30x. People who are just using a chatbot get like 5x gains. People who use "Agent Mode" to write up a descrip
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by quantadev 1y ago
It's all about the quality of your prompts (i.e. your skill at writing clear unambiguous instructions with correct terminologies). An experienced developer can generate tons of great code 30x faster with an Agent, with each function&#x
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by quantadev 1y ago
I'll spend like 10 minutes crafting a prompt that explains a new feature to be added to my app. I explain it in enough detail, with zero ambiguity, such that any human [senior] developer could do it. Often the result is 100s of lines o
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by quantadev 1y ago
One good prompt into Github Copilot 'Agent Mode' (running Claude 4) asking for a new feature can often result in up to 5 to 7 files being generated, and a total of 1000 lines of code being written. Your math is wrong. That's
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by quantadev 1y ago
The "instant" to which you refer was meaning that I can tell instantly if the LLM generated what I wanted or not. That doesn't mean it's reviewed, it means I'm accepting it to _BE_ what I go with and ultimately revi
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by quantadev 1y ago
The only thing more reckless than a junior is an LLM-empowered junior.
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by quantadev 1y ago
I can easily get a month of work done in a single day yes. So probably the 30x is about the current max, and 50x was hyperbole, because I didn't add it up before doing that post.
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by quantadev 1y ago
Experienced senior developers can spot and fix the slop instantly, while still getting a 30x productivity gain, while entry level or junior devs basically only have one "Filter" by which they determine code quality which is: &quot
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by quantadev 1y ago
It's more like better-than-senior 99% of the time. Makes mistakes 1% of the time. Most of the 'bad results' I've seen people struggle with ended up being the fault of the human, in the form of horrible context given to t
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by quantadev 1y ago
Your information is quite badly out of date. AI can now beat humans at not only chess but 99% of all intellectual exercises.
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by quantadev 1y ago
Sounds like someone in denial, and certainly with less than 10yrs of his own.
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by quantadev 1y ago
I think the "Who Cares Era" (great name btw) is able to continue down this path because really the entire business purpose nowadays for any online content is simply AD Delivery. If the website can successfully prove to the adverti
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by quantadev 1y ago
What I meant by "doesn't matter" is that your original quip didn't prove me wrong. You just want to talk about all these other things to insinuate somehow I'm unaware of them, despite having 3 decades of web dev exp
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by quantadev 1y ago
I've been coding for 35 years. I love HackerNews. Because it works. And it's all we need. But holding it up as some example of engineering would be silly. It's just a tree editor. I implemented a better tree editor myself tod

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