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I like AI tools. I'm bullish on AI tools. I'm productive with AI tools. But... At my job the prevailing sentiment is everything should be easy and fast with AI now so why bother do…

But we aren't cooking with gas. We are cooking with a more controlled burner than ever that can download a clean code claude skill and be committing better code than you or I could…

First, most software is already a hot mess. Second, LLM code can be less of a hot mess than human written code if you put in the time to train/prompt/verify/review. Generating perf…

What do you mean?

What's a good example of human-led design?

I'm interested to know why you think data structures are important. AI is pretty good at reasoning out data structures problems.

If there isn't a phrase then just say the numbers...

You can tax reach though.

The "overwhelming majority" standard for harm seems odd when you use 15% of smokers getting harmed as an example. 15% is not an overwhelming majority.

We are way past this question now.

I kept a personal license for while because I thought Windsurf kept memories a little better than Claude. But now since I use Claude at work I switched to keep my home and work sta…

All that cleanup can be done with AI and then you can add guidance to the codebase so that the next LLM will do a better job at conforming.

We are not.

I feel like I'm a stone skipping across the water instead of being submerged deep in coding context. I'm getting used to it but I don't like it. I'm also much more tired at the end…

How are the architecture changes you are proposing improving the end result? >but not being able to control the exact output worries me Why?

I have a physical goods side hustle already and I'm brainstorming ideas about a trade I can do that will benefit from my programming experience. I'm thinking HVAC or painting lines…

I don't understand he comment. AI produces code that people can understand and is easy to maintain if you ask it for that.

I'm an 99% organic person (I suppose I have tooth fillings) and the new models write code better than I do. I've been using LLMS for 14+ months now and they've exceeded my expectat…

I'm a former EM who would never go back in an AI age. EMs deal with friction and from my experience more output is more friction. You have org leaders and businessy people putting …

This is a really bad take (and bad faith) because all the failed tech initiatives you mentioned barely had any adoption whereas LLM based AI tools are used by a billion people a we…

I think the question is why didn't you ask the AI and then if you need more information ask the human including what you learned from AI.

Humans, with reliability, will ignore the patterns or best practices in your code and implement the same thing twice in different ways. In 25 years I've never worked in a codebase …

Sure but in my experience LLMs behave much more consistently than humans with regards to quality. LLMs don't skip tests because they have to make a deadline for example. And now we…

You can tell LLMs to conform to certain quality standards and code in a way you think is best. Gold plating code with the best quality standards takes LLMs seconds whereas it would…

The current AI tools extremely good at telling you about how an existing system works. You don't need that one super knowledgeable person anymore. With the right MCPs or additional…