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AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too

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Re: AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too

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Post by finaard »

sixeyes wrote: post #74
orwin wrote: post #48

I now started to us AI to help review my juniors PRs, because I couldn't keep up with the amount of code they ship. It started poorly, but now I have my method: I first read the code and flag the lines I'm not sure about, then ask any frontier model (I like Claude here for analysis, even if I don't use it for the rest) to explain the PR and to put effort on the parts I flagged (basically explain in detail the code, n…

>I tell them to try to find what part of the code doesn't work before generating the fix this makes me kinda sad. they don't do this on their own? are they not even a little curious

One of my customers now added a policy that junior developers may use AI assistance, but are expected to write code by hand. Only proven developers can use AI to generate code, and are then expected to understand the generated code, and take ownership.

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

SwtCyber wrote: post #164
Gigachad wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At least once a week I have to drop what I'm doing and race in to stop the non dev manager from merging a fully vibe coded patch which will blow up production. Claude Code has made this guy a negative 10x developer.

Just let him take down prod on a friday night once and leave him to deal with the PagerDuty alerts solo. Cures the urge to vibe-code infrastructure real fast

People like that are usually pretty good at deflecting onto other people. Likely you will end up being blamed in some way.

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Post by wolvoleo »

Quothling wrote: post #106
reconnecting wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Quothling 6 months ago [1] I work in a NIS2 regulated sector and I'm not sure we can ever let any AI agent run in anything we do. > We're in the European economic area and are completely NIS2 compliant and we use LLM's to aid in our software development for high risk systems. Please pick one. Either way this is a nightmare level of threat to sovereignty. 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47063153

I don't think they are opposite. We still don't let AI run anything we do. That being said, things have changed. 4 months ago I wouldn't touch the M365 Copilot thing if you paid me to, now it's basically the only AI I use professionally. Cowork changed the way we work, and I've previously spoken about how I think Microsoft sort of won the AI enterprise "war" by selling the tools and not the mode. If you'd asked me a…

Yes cowork is the first part of copilot 365 that's actually useful, to me too. It is however paid separately per token which means you need the expensive 30$ subscription and pay tokens on top of that.

If you just get cowork directly through claude you do get generous usage within their 20$ subscription.

I have to use it through Microsoft too because of their lobbying our company but I don't think they won any war. They're just reselling other people's stuff. The integration with office is alright but I don't really rely on that. In my personal life I avoid them.

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Post by deterministic »

> Too many people don't think for themselves enough in this post-GenAI world

This is nothing new. IMHO, 90% of people are happy to outsource their thinking to some "authority", whether it’s a priest, politician, cult leader, technocrat, news media, or their boss.

Perhaps outsourcing your thinking to an "average" LLM is actually more sane than blindly following some random "authority".

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Post by Mallchad »

wolvesechoes wrote: post #39
Zakis1 wrote: post #3

> Uses only DeepSeek and comes to the conclusion that LLM's are bad at coding? Why not use actual frontier models, and you know do some real research, before writing a blog post?

> do some real research It is funny that only real research on productivity gains from AI shows at best very minimal gains, but AI bros will always tell you "no no no, you have used wrong model, try a different one, there are more of them, you have to try, trust me" and call that a "research".

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Re: AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too

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Post by Mallchad »

Systemerror7A69 wrote: post #36
blfr wrote: post #4

There are some good points, and I ask the question of where is the ground breaking stuff myself, but severely weakened by * stretching the timeline: the actual real programming ability appeared in LLMs in the last 6-8 months, not 3-4 years, * using the weakest possible tool: and I bought $10 worth of DeepSeek credits that is a far cry from Claude with Fable. Also, I know nothing about marathons but for most uses putt…

Even as someone using AI on the regular I'm starting to hate the "You didn't actually use this exact most expensive model so your point is invalid" argument. This is fair to say if someones last experience with AI was copy-pasting code into GPT3 chat windows years ago, but Deepseek is a more than capabale model and enough for someone to get an informed opinion about the technology. If people have actual counter argum…

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Re: AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too

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Post by nfemmanuel »

Quothling wrote: post #43
sriniwasx wrote: post #26

The code smell in my repos are at an all time high and I'm a senior dev, can't image how worse vibe coders have it.

I think it depends on what area of the world you work. We recenty had one of our plant managers build a web portal to keep track of some of our operational tech, with features you wouldn't find in standard products. I've been turning it into a container app that can actually deploy safely into our cloud infrastrcture. It's quite frankly better quality than what most external software companies have provided us with i…

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