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by spicyusername 5mo ago
What a time to be alive. So much of the fundamental dynamics of the industry and the job have changed in so little time. Basically over night. Some days I am so excited at how much I can do now. You can build anything you want, in basically
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by spicyusername 6mo ago
I'm referring to things like spending a whole day pruning a jira backlog and cleaning up stale git branches. Classic drudgery that were part of the day in the life that we're not directly writing code.
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by spicyusername 6mo ago
I didn't say shipping a day. I said shipping at the same time. The review comes at the end, though I truly believe this will go away as well. Agents will also get better at review until they're good enough that no one will want to
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by spicyusername 6mo ago
It can't happen without someone, but certainly it can happen with a lot less people, which is what's going to happen to the industry. Some days I'm shook to my core about how much I did relative to how long it would have take
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by spicyusername 6mo ago
A lot of people down on AI in this thread, but I'm watching the industry slip over the line of trust with these latest frontier models. GPT 5.5 is the first model good enough for me to just let rip. Every jira ticket I see now has acce
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by spicyusername 6mo ago
What is it that makes this different? That the artists don't get paid anymore. Nobody likes picturing a world without art, and if nobody gets paid to make art... where does the art come from? Nobody likes thinking where this
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by spicyusername 6mo ago
There is no way this is real...
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by spicyusername 6mo ago
My opinion is that literature and art will continue pushing the envelope in the places they always pushed the envelope. LLMs will not change this, humans love making art, and they love doing it in new ways. Corporate announcements were neve
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by spicyusername 6mo ago
Arguably it's exactly because it was used naturally so often that the LLMs parrot it so frequently.
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by spicyusername 6mo ago
No
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by spicyusername 6mo ago
just fine Just a dash of survivor bias here I believe. I'm pretty sure the data shows the opposite actually, that compared to today some percentage more of them didn't make it out.
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by spicyusername 6mo ago
I don't know. Maybe this is going away in some places, maybe I just have my own anecdata, but my kids play outside unsupervised all the time, as do all the kids in my neighborhood. I live in just a regular suburban neighborhood on the
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by spicyusername 6mo ago
Out of curiosity, what would have been better? What are the limitations of json schema?
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by spicyusername 6mo ago
On the one hand open source projects are going to be overrun with AI code that no one reviewed. On the other hand, code produced with AI and reviewed by humans can be perfectly good, maintainable, and indistinguishable from regular old code
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by spicyusername 6mo ago
Now hopefully we'll see it in YouTube music as well.
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by spicyusername 6mo ago
Unfortunately, I have conflicting anecdata.
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by spicyusername 6mo ago
Why hasn't it gone away already? ChatGPT at least has been around for over 3 years. Because the models only got good enough to be trusted in the past few months and the developer tooling and agent abstractions are still round
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by spicyusername 6mo ago
The argument is that the bad code will result in the companies core product failing.
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by spicyusername 6mo ago
Because most code is paid for and the people paying want as much code as possible for as cheap as they can get it. If your code is expensive, the fact is that now someone can write it cheaper.
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by spicyusername 6mo ago
code to spec until I get stuck This part will go away over the next year. You doing it will be too slow, when an agent can do it in 5 to 30 minutes. Technically it's not needed now, but everything's so new, it's un
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by spicyusername 6mo ago
Qwen, Gemma, Nemotron, etc
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by spicyusername 6mo ago
I'd love to see some of the open source models in there
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by spicyusername 6mo ago
We're entering an era where the delivering of software is cheap. Basically any idea can have an MVP implemented by one or two people in just a month or two now. Very quickly the industry is learning what the next set of bottlenecks are
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by spicyusername 6mo ago
Ok
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by spicyusername 6mo ago
Very glad my tax dollars are going to solving this problem we didn't have a few weeks ago instead of literally anything else.
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by spicyusername 6mo ago
Competition is good. Having a global monopoly on these kinds of things is part of what has let U.S. companies get away with being so anti-consumer for so long.
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by spicyusername 6mo ago
Yea. Having a purpose and bonding with other people on the way to achieving it are underrated elements of being working age. If you're not conscious about it in retirement, it's easy to just do nothing, waste away, and find out ma
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by spicyusername 6mo ago
I would say it's pretty rare to hear, "What do you do?" as a first introduction in the wild in America. "How do you know x?" is in fact much more common.
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by spicyusername 6mo ago
Those pay packages are basically only on the west coast and in New York, a "small" region of the U.S. 100-200k, is what you'd expect elsewhere. Which is still pretty good, just not astronomical.
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by spicyusername 6mo ago
I agree with this. If anything there will be less tech debt, because it's easier than ever to clean up. Unit and end-to-end tests are free now. Telling an agent to go through your code base and find bugs is free now. Telling an agent t

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