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I don't think it's quite at trillions to zero, but I do think the numbers are way, way out of balance so far. I'm still at the point where, if AI disappeared tomorrow, I would be, …

Its also worth noting that if you can create a business with an LLM, so can everyone else. One possibility may be that we normalize making bigger, more complex things. In pre-LLM d…

Fair; that was an example instance. People interested in “Free software” rather than “open source” seem to often favor the GPL, though other licensing options also count as “free s…

I’ve seen different opinions. Can LLM-generated software be licensed under the GPL?

I see AI coding as something like project management. You could delegate all of the tasks to an LLM, or you could assign some to yourself. If you keep some for yourself, there’s a …

Go enough shoulders down, and someone had to have been the first giant.

There has long been debate that software development is not even an engineering discipline at all, because it lacks certain characteristics from "real world engineering". I have wo…

One of the main points of the GPL was to prevent software from being siphoned up and made part of proprietary systems. I personally disagree with the rulings thus far that AI train…

Is your proposition that programmers are now incapable of writing code?

I don't see why it's not possible. In your example scenario, it sounds like Bob is vibe-coding a project in assembly language, and then using an existing assembler to create the fi…

As described above, I think with AI coding, our role shifts from "programmer" to "project manager", but even as a project manager, you can still choose to delegate some tasks to yo…

Most of my career has been as an individual engineer, but the past few years I have been a project manager. I find this to be very much like using AI for coding. Which also makes m…

I wonder how much more it would take Anthropic to make CCC on par with, or even better than, GCC.

I’m glad cheap stuff exists. Sometimes I really do need something quickly, and borderline-disposable quality is good enough. But I also want the option to buy better than that. I i…

Will the agents also be the ones using the software?

What compiler accepts cash as input?

Maybe. This book from 1990 https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262526401/artificial-intelligen... envisions a future of AI assistance that looks not too far off from today.

Right. I work in aerospace software, and I do not know if this option would ever be on the table. It certainly isn't now. So I think this question needs to be asked in the context …

I think that's the question. Is a programmer expected to ever touch the source code? Or will AI -- and AI alone -- update the code that it generated? Not entirely unlike other code…

Maybe AI was driving his car.

Delegation, yes. I do not see LLM coding as another step up on the ladder of programming abstraction. If your project is in, say, Python, then by using LLMs, you are not writing so…

Sometimes determinism is exactly what one wants. For avionics software, being able to claim complete equivalence between two builds (minus an expected, manually-inspected timestamp…