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Maybe these larger models are better at producing concise, internally-consistent, non-polluting (of the wider codebase) features. I just spent 3 days reviewing the code of a vibe c…

I'm totally willing to believe that new orders of magnitude of software complexity are going to be possible with this kind of engineering. And also, my company brings in a lot of r…

An AI maximalist on my team put up 2 pull requests with ~120-140 changed files this week. If they spent $200 on tokens to achieve this, we spent $2500-3500 in human salary and oppo…

I suspect that we will end up with a social convention or understanding around reputation that is tied to whether someone pushes slop on other people. If I need to pass on some AI …

La dee da! I have convinced myself to donate a kidney to someone I don't know, and also gain clout!

I no have a few esp32s sitting around. I no wonder what else I could use these for?

I have similar feelings. I am sympathetic to a perspective that says this is not the responsibility of a mayor of a single city... But also; who else is going to do it? Normal peop…

Canadian here. My exposure to this topic is mostly: - News coverage about how extremely hot it has become in north/central Europe - News coverage/comments about heat-related deaths…

I find it unintentionally hilarious to see our weather reporting channel (Weather Network in Canada) constantly ringing the "extreme weather warning" bell! They manage to have an a…

So sad, such a lack of fortitude. Canadian here. Window air conditioning units work in any fully-openable window. They are $150CAD. Portable air conditioners work in almost every c…

Such a scold-y attitude. Window air conditioning units work in any fully-openable window. They are $150CAD. Portable air conditioners work in almost every configuration of openable…

I'm building a new feature into our product this week. We each get a $20/mo Claude subscription. My 5-hour context high water mark is ~75% and weekly is ~%15. I ... tell it exactly…

Coworker seriously asked "since we're generating most of our code now, who is actually reading all of the code?" We're at a small company, but the urge to trust The Oracle is almos…

You-know-it-when-you-see-it might be a good boundary. It's different for everyone, surely. Personally I find the Protect The Children charity workers and anti-abortion protesters i…

I started using a self-hosted RSS reader (which is how I found your article) with curated lists of things. I used to read Google Chrome's feed articles but they are a trash fire of…

For me, they just never did anything useful. I have light switches that work nicely. If voice transcription + LLMs + conversational AI had been good in 2017 I might have used my go…

My journey. Raw PHP + SQL Queries -> Python + server-side rendered HTML -> Ruby/Python APIs + ugly JS frontends -> Python + EmberJS (remember that?!) -> Go/Ruby/Python/I don't care…

My low value comment. This feels directionally correct to me. The problems I've been struggling with in my dev job for the past 6 months have been 80% maintenance/legacy code inter…