It's dying down now because unlike before, companies are paying out the ass for those tokens, where many companies now have token budgets enforced rather than the previous tokenmaxxing.
Lines of code got a better publicist
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#203Another writer, back in February[1], noted "Every major tech CEO is now competing on what percentage of their code is written by AI"
1 https://www.thepragmaticcto.com/p/lines-of-code-are-back-and...
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#204beautifully put, AI is changing the way we make software but the way we measure productivity is still in our hands. L'chaim!
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#205Earlier quoted context omitted.
> how little I know about technology. Probably because you smoked too much weed in school. Remember, this is the tech industry! An abject lack of knowledge is no impediment for people with boundless confidence in their assumptions!
Ya gotta start smoking weed after you're done with school, that's the way to success
And trash your short-term memory? Nah, smoking weed is straight up bad for most people.
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#206Earlier quoted context omitted.
They were reviewing perf designations, then pulling up PR count, then arguing against designation based on the number of PRs opened.
That still doesn't clarify: were they saying "many PRs→good" or "many PRs→bad" or "number of PRs is irrelevant" or...?
That PRs == impact.
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#207Amateurs. Using LLMs merelly to generate code. pfft... so 2026.... A few of my workflows now are: Use an LLM to generate code that generates code. "Second Order AI Software Engineering(TM)"
This is also called Spec Driven Development.
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#208Earlier quoted context omitted.
put simpler, you learned what not to build.
Shouldn't companies figure this out before wasting tens of millions in budget + working hours? All I'm reading is that corporations are not taxed enough if they are okay with such opulent waste.
Knowing what to build (and that it hasn't already been built or bought elsewhere in the company) requires bits of information / person-to-person networking / visibility into the state of the company that not all managers or VPs have.
In fact, most people don't have that knowledge, because they're busy with existing or "local" problems , or because they didn't know to ask Davis the DBA or Kris the Kafka Cluster Manger or Alex from accounting if we have our team can plug into and use. "Oh, yeah, El has one under their desk they kick occasionally, ask them to hook you up!"
If you solve this problem in a turnkey way Fortune 500 companies will write you very large checks to help them prevent such duplicate waste, and will in turn become the 15th system they need to integrate....
That XKCD joke about "how 14 standards becomes 15 standards" also applies to the class of "one system to integrate with and report from all other systems"
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#209Earlier quoted context omitted.
Will you though? I see this repeated, but I’ve almost never changed products because one has 10x more features than another. I usually buy and use products that are simple and effective, and that get out of my way to do the thing that I want to do. For email, I’m a happy customer of Fastmail and I’ve been paying them for years. I don’t care if they ever release a new feature and I’d never switch away from them to a c…
your personal experience is clearly in the techie bubble ai is more than delivering features fast (thats probably one of the lowest priorities for companies) right now its a race to automate work, especially back office. companies already are seeing 10M+ in savings and revenue growth and we're barely starting. workflows in sales, outbound, gtm, marketing, eng, operations, compliance, kyc etc consumer is a different b…
> right now its a race to automate work, especially back office. companies already are seeing 10M+ in savings and revenue growth
What? Where? Citations please. We're seeing big companies massively stall in all traditional sectors except AI which is a irrational market built off hype.
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#210Weird baseless push for AI on the end, with no reasoning, no goal, no claim of gain. "Just go and use AI, people, developers must adopt new things." It's not the first article I've read recently that is an ad for AI after a short context pretending to criticize it, with nothing connecting them.
AI is the new cloud. There's no market for people or companies who aren't committed to it. If you're a dev who refuses to use AI, no company will hire you; and should a company decide not to use AI they will have a hard time retaining devs (and they will need more devs). Their investors and big-ticket customers will also think twice before signing off on major commitments. So yes, use AI. Don't nitpick the costs and…
> So yes, use AI. Don't nitpick the costs and benefits. The world is headed this way; if you want to develop software for a living and afford to eat, you need to be too.
It's really saddening to see software engineers throw out all critical thinking and innovation out the window to behave like sheep and follow the trend line. The industry was trailblazed by people that refused to do just that and the same is going to be true in the future.