> Here’s the uncomfortable truth: the state of the art is not public knowledge. Power users are keeping their techniques to themselves —
Um, so in other words, there’s no evidence to support this?
The death of software development
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#22The post itself is AI (or co-AI) slop, which means it can be just ignored. > If an idiot like me can clone a product that costs $30k per month — in two hours — what even is software development? (...) The new software developer is no longer a craftsman. It’s the average operator, empowered If entire industries employee counts are decimated and/or commodified, this means the "new software developer" wont find people t…
There's a great Twitter/X post floating around that I saw a few days ago that I've come to agree with:
"IMO it should be considered quite rude in most contexts to post or send someone a wall of 100% AI-generated text. “Here, read this thing I didn’t care enough about to express myself." - https://x.com/littmath/status/2010759165061579086?s=20
Rather than ignore it, I'd deem it rude that something as low-effort as an AI generated blog post was shared here. I may not be able to set rules, but I wish we could flag posts like these. Some faux-gineer told their agent of choice to write up another fearmongering post about software developers and AI; I feel like my time was stolen from me.
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#23> "Obviously, I didn’t clone the full Bloomberg Terminal — I built the subset I needed for Polymarket analysis. But here’s the thing: cloning the full terminal would probably take a day or two of token usage. Not months. Not years. Days." I have some experience with the Bloomberg Terminal and this was laugh out loud funny to me. This is like someone saying that they vibe-coded a rudimentary text editor with a spell c…
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#25I love the author work, effect-ts. It's an amazing effort, innovative.
I decided to not use it in my project, but I still have an immense respect for it.
You can tell the authors have a craftsman mindset. They deeply care about writing solid, robust software.
This article though, is so disappointing. It's pure LLM-lingo, which makes it awful to read.
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#26> "Obviously, I didn’t clone the full Bloomberg Terminal — I built the subset I needed for Polymarket analysis. But here’s the thing: cloning the full terminal would probably take a day or two of token usage. Not months. Not years. Days." I have some experience with the Bloomberg Terminal and this was laugh out loud funny to me. This is like someone saying that they vibe-coded a rudimentary text editor with a spell c…
How would you rate OpenBB [0]? It’s touted as a Bloomberg Terminal alternative and it has most certainly been included in training for all SOTA models.
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#27Bro is clueless. The opposite of what he believes is true: process barely changes outcomes comparatively to the models. No matter your process, you can't make Claude 3.5 do what 4.5 is capable of. There are tasks that you'd have to reroll 3.5 til the end of the universe that 4.5 would one shot.
Exactly. There is a big difference in code quality with state-of-the-art models versus 6 months ago. I'm strongly resisting the urge to run Claude Code in dangerous mode, but it's getting so good I may eventually cave.
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#28> "Obviously, I didn’t clone the full Bloomberg Terminal — I built the subset I needed for Polymarket analysis. But here’s the thing: cloning the full terminal would probably take a day or two of token usage. Not months. Not years. Days." I have some experience with the Bloomberg Terminal and this was laugh out loud funny to me. This is like someone saying that they vibe-coded a rudimentary text editor with a spell c…
How would you rate OpenBB [0]? It’s touted as a Bloomberg Terminal alternative and it has most certainly been included in training for all SOTA models. 0. https://github.com/OpenBB-finance/OpenBB
I haven't looked at it much in a while, but this looks mainly like a frontend to a limited number of public data sources. Most of the value of the terminal (imho) is in the data and the chat. The data side in particular requires just a lot of ongoing operational support that an open source project isn't going to be able to provide.
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#29The post itself is AI (or co-AI) slop, which means it can be just ignored. > If an idiot like me can clone a product that costs $30k per month — in two hours — what even is software development? (...) The new software developer is no longer a craftsman. It’s the average operator, empowered If entire industries employee counts are decimated and/or commodified, this means the "new software developer" wont find people t…
There's a great Twitter/X post floating around that I saw a few days ago that I've come to agree with: "IMO it should be considered quite rude in most contexts to post or send someone a wall of 100% AI-generated text. “Here, read this thing I didn’t care enough about to express myself." - https://x.com/littmath/status/2010759165061579086?s=20 Rather than ignore it, I'd deem it rude that something as low-effort as an…
> I'd deem it rude that something as low-effort as an AI generated blog post was shared here.
The one that shares needn't be the one that wrote the piece, and it's not always obvious when something was AI-written.