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> We have long had the problem that there are more people who want to write code than people willing to review it. I think this is an important thing to mull over. The world is goi…

It seems possible, in fact reasonable, to understand my observation as following from your assumed "correlation". I gave it context that it is having a conversation with an expert,…

I agree with this post's gist, and I've certainly noticed how LLMs change their interaction with me once I demonstrate some knowledge. I've often started a technical conversation v…

Before I officially got into development as a career I had a manual labor job at a local business. They were debugging issues in their operations and brought in a consultant that w…

That is a good point and I don't mind getting a bit philosophical when I point out that experience is distinct from rationalism. Underneath this there is an argument about empirici…

It is comforting to find other people experiencing the exact same reality as me, since I see so much in this post that matches my own experience. It reminds me of all the recent ta…

I was cleaning my office a couple of days ago and found stacks upon stacks of paper. I've had a habit for over a decade of taking printer paper, folding it half length-wise, and sc…

Today it is SQLite, tomorrow Linux? I'm not sure of the long-term viability of these brute force swarm approaches, but clearly the AI companies dig the marketing they get out of it…

> but soon models may not need to be updated Which is why my original post mentioned the volatility in models. We aren't just doing research on frontier, there is a huge amount of …

I think part of this thinking is in reverse. What I mean by that is people are saying something like "Imagine if 18 months ago a company started to create an ASIC based on GPT-4o (…

I think there is growing confusion in this discussion. I am saying "I see the fixed nature of ASICs creating a barrier to their adoption despite how cheap they are". Many of the re…

Yes, but the context of the discussion is "who wins the war and how". And you are moving the goal posts very far from the original claim, which is that the speed with which compani…

I admit I would like a faster model - but even though I have faster models available I still go to Fable or GPT-5.6 90% of the time. So there is a gap between a potential preferenc…

I mean, if I imagine Anthropic giving away unlimited Sonnet 4.5 away at $20, I would still be paying the $200 for fable. It is a bit like saying "why would you hire someone with a …

I'm not convinced, mostly because things like crypto, which I believe went into ASICs, were based on very slowly moving and mostly understood algorithms. LLMs and model architectur…

It may be a lot of cool things but one thing it is not is a web browser.

I can't try it since it hasn't appeared in my Codex yet, but this is is necessary from OpenAI in my opinion. Fable is just so much better at understanding broad context. I only use…

> Avoid generic brevity instructions: GPT-5.6 is more sensitive than GPT-5.5 to instructions such as “Be concise,” “Keep it short,” or “Use minimal text.” I used to go to a barber …

I've just been carefully reading the code. It is easy to slip into just accepting what comes out to speed things up, but reading the code is important. I save myself by skimming th…

I've had mixed results with downgrading on Fable. I was able to do a complete audit of my OAuth implementation without any issue. But when I asked for an OWASP top-ten review of my…

I'm pointing out how I noticed a particular emotional response when working with LLMs. I've been an engineering manager in the past and I have tried my best to keep the needs of my…

I feel on the other side of this. Just yesterday I was reviewing some code output from Claude and I realized a change that I had asked for in a previous review step wasn't what I w…

I agree, but that is the crux of my initial post. There is a ceiling to how quick I can deliver using LLM coding agents which is the speed at which I can write good enough specs. I…

It does, but I have to direct it and review it. That means I have to think about it, research it, consider how the new feature or system fits in with the existing feature or system…

One thesis I am developing is that LLMs have given us a new kind of tradeoff. We can use the intelligence and tremendous speed up that mechanically pumping out basic CRUD code has …