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Isn't this a show of security negligence rather than of exceptional agent capabilities? Don't get me wrong, I am pretty impressed that an agent was able to use these vulnerabilitie…

I see! Thanks!

Very interesting! One thing I don't understand is: doesn't this assume that they could do the calculations to get the coefficients... Using decimal notation? How could they for exa…

I can't access my active sessions from my phone app nor from the web page.

At the beginning it was very cool to see them write a lot of code for me, in particular while I was ramping up on a new codebase. But I am seeing myself using agents less and less …

It's the classical trolley problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem

Good point. To clarify my stance: what I meant is that the narrative of the article is the following: AI made us change the playbook and so now , because of AI , the playbook is th…

It blows my mind how these posts seem like everyone is victim of a collective amnesia. Literally every single point in the article was good engineering practice way before AI. So i…

The unfortunate reality is that (1) and (2) is what many, many engineers would like to do, but management is going EXACTLY in the opposite direction: go faster! Go faster! Why are …

> So as a senior, you could abstain. But then your junior colleagues will eventually code circles around you, because they’re wearing bazooka-powered jetpacks and you’re still ridi…

The point of the article is that the jump start that AI gives you is not the same as the one that well thought frameworks give you. What AI writes falls apart and leaves you with t…

It that's the essence, then of course 9/10 is accident. I think that's not software engineering though. The essence: I need to make this software meet all the current requirements …

This. Thanks. It's a relief to see I am not the only one completely disappointed. I still believe that these posts are just an ad stunt to publicize their soon-to-be released AI to…

I think this post unveils a great truth that I never grasped: estimates are a political tool to decide what gets done and what doesn't get done. Thanks for putting it so nicely! On…

> But plenty can be estimated more accurately. As a person that has never encountered a complex software project that can be accurately estimated, I am being a bit skeptical. The a…

I hope the budget has been written by AI, so that we can take a shortcut and immediately answer the question "Can AI grow corn?" with a "No". I am extremely worried by the amount o…

> Hours instead of weeks. And then goes on describing two things for which I bet almost anyone with enough knowledge of C and Redis could implement a POC in... Guess what? Hours. A…

> The engineer who truly understands the problem often finds that the elegant solution is simpler than anyone expected. > The engineer who starts with a solution tends to build com…

> Would you still defend your position if the “grumpy” guy answered in Linus’ style? If they answered correctly, yes. My point is that providing _actual knowledge_ is by itself so …

I spent the last 14 days chasing an issue with a Spark transform. Gemini and Claude were exceptionally good at giving me answers that looked perfectly reasonable: none of them work…

> Logs were designed for a different era. An era of monoliths, single servers, and problems you could reproduce locally. Today, a single user request might touch 15 services, 3 dat…

Am I the only one that is surprised that the app still works?!

Aren't we just reinventing programming languages from the ground up? This is the loop (and honestly, I predicted it way before it started): 1) LLMs can generate code from "natural …