The AI Vampire
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The AI Vampire
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#2The last time I saw so much blue and orange (see the images) was the era of Battlefield 3/Battlefield 4 box art. I really do miss it tbh.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/69/Battlefield_3...
https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-yzgoj/images/stencil/1280x12...
Downvoted within 1 minute. This website is a trash fire.
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#3> But hey, don’t take it from me. Take it from… the Copilot people. According to The Verge and a bunch of other reputable news sources, Microsoft is openly encouraging their employees to use multiple tools, and as a result, Claude Code has rapidly become dominant across engineering at Microsoft.
Well, that explains the sloppy results Microsoft is delivering lately!
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#4> Jeffrey Emanuel and his 22 accounts at $4400/month
Paying $4.4k per month for the privilege of writing code is absolute madness, I'm not quite so sure with how we got to this point but it's still madness. Maybe Yegge is indeed right, maybe this is just like regular gambling/addiction, which sucks when it comes to being a programmer but at least it gets the dopamine levels higher.
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#5The last time I saw so much blue and orange (see the images) was the era of Battlefield 3/Battlefield 4 box art. I really do miss it tbh. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/69/Battlefield_3... https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-yzgoj/images/stencil/1280x12... Downvoted within 1 minute. This website is a trash fire.
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#6I'm starting to think Steve Yegge lost it. Or he never had it in the first place.
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#7> Jeffrey Emanuel and his 22 accounts at $4400/month Paying $4.4k per month for the privilege of writing code is absolute madness, I'm not quite so sure with how we got to this point but it's still madness. Maybe Yegge is indeed right, maybe this is just like regular gambling/addiction, which sucks when it comes to being a programmer but at least it gets the dopamine levels higher.
It's not per se madness; companies pay much more than that for code. Instead it's an empirical question about whether they're getting that value from the code.
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#8AI takes jobs faster than it creates new ones.
It should be banned in current form. No junior positions available - only those who lasted even have the chance to use them in commercial settings. After layoffs you will get how BAD it is :/ (if you are 35+)
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#9I think Yegge hit the nail on the head: he has an addiction. Opus 4.5 is awesome but the type of stuff Yegge has been saying lately has been... questionable, to say the least. The kids call it getting "one-shotted by AI". Using an AI coding assistant should not be causing a person this much distress.
A lot of smart people think they're "too smart" to get addicted. Plenty of tales of booksmart people who tried heroin and ended up stealing their mother's jewelry for a fix a few months later.
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#10> Jeffrey Emanuel and his 22 accounts at $4400/month Paying $4.4k per month for the privilege of writing code is absolute madness, I'm not quite so sure with how we got to this point but it's still madness. Maybe Yegge is indeed right, maybe this is just like regular gambling/addiction, which sucks when it comes to being a programmer but at least it gets the dopamine levels higher.
It's not per se madness; companies pay much more than that for code. Instead it's an empirical question about whether they're getting that value from the code.
The difference is that if those companies were to rely only on the AI part, and hence to transform us (computer programmers) only in copy-pasters and less, in about one to two years the "reasoning" behind the latest AI models would have become stale, i.e. because of no new human input. So good luck with that.
But my comment was not about companies, it was just about writing code, about the freedom that used to come from it, about the agency that we used to have. There's no agency and no freedom left when you start paying that much money in order to write code. I guess that can work for some companies, but for sure it won't work for computer programmers as actual human beings (and imo this blog-post itself tries to touch on that aspect).