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Thanks for providing some actual facts.

So many people flailing around to justify their feelings rather than thinking rationally.

It is time to give up arguments without evidence.

Disappointing - not a very insightful list

If you've ever undertaken the task of documenting entire workflows, then you know that you quickly put up the white flag at the word "entire". When you actually talk to people abou…

This strikes me as a very solid methodology for improving the results of all AI coding tools. I hope Anthropic, etc take this up. Rather than converging on optimal code (Occam's Ra…

"According to the study, AI still struggles with several crucial facets of coding: sweeping scopes involving huge codebases, the extended context lengths of millions of lines of co…

>> It reeks of cope. haha, well said, I've got to remember that one. HN is a smelly place when it comes to AI coping.

That's an excellent job of teaching - thank you!

You get to keep your job instead of being replaced by someone willing to use the latest tools.

It's a good idea to think of a converse situation, but this is a bad example. The constraint was not about technology but about budget, perceived benefits and political will.

Let's just imagine we're critiquing cars or planes in about 1910. They're so flawed. No one can say with certainty whether or how they will improve. Side note of interest, from Wik…

There's a lot of resistance to AI amongst the people in this discussion, which is probably to be expected. A chunk of the objections indicate people trying to shoehorn in their old…

Is the UX of the name any indication of the UX of the product?

I think this was more comprehensively described by The (Eight) Laws of Software Evolution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehman%27s_laws_of_software_ev... This subject always remin…

Great idea, thanks for doing this. But - why is the most important information, the title, in such a light, hard to read, font? The title should stand out, not the comments count e…

I don't understand the glee so many people have over this. I love being able to use Generative AI tools. How is it different than if I asked a person to draw these pictures for me?…

I gave a presentation many years ago to a software process group in Silicon Valley entitled, "Unsolved Problems of Software Maintenance". The problems are all still there. Having d…

That's an awesome site. What tools did you use?

What this completely overlooks is the time developers spend trying to understand existing code. For greenfield development that is close to zero. For maintenance work it is over ha…

Gray goo - "Self-replicating nanobots are going to cover the world in gray goo." This was the prediction about nanotechnology that has so far not come to pass. However, these gener…

> pearl clutching Says it all

Haha, me too, I read that sentence and closed the tab.

Headline: Too many Americans living where they choose to live.