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Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by mancerayder »

direwolf20 wrote: post #313
mancerayder wrote: post #304

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Re-read and think about what was written - the 2s aren'tcoming from the line managers, you're barking up the wrong tree in the stack ranking process. I just explained that stack ranking gets scaled and adjusted by the brass, and I just in this example rated everyone a 4 and 5. Again, as an older manager today, I can see myself in my 20s in the resistance and stubbornness to 'how corporations work' espoused in comment…

Do you think every group of people contains someone who is operating at 40%?

Nope! In fact I think stack ranking is horrible. But you missed the point I was making (and then re-made). I think you read 40% of what I wrote.

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by geetee »

g-mork wrote: post #318
aeldidi wrote: post #298

There's an odd trend with these sorts of posts where the author claims to have had some transformative change in their workflow brought upon by LLM coding tools, but also seemingly has nothing to show for it. To me, using the most recent ChatGPT Codex (5.3 on "Extra High" reasoning), it's incredibly obvious that while these tools are surprisingly good at doing repetitive or locally-scoped tasks, they immediately fall…

> it's incredibly obvious that while these tools are surprisingly good at doing repetitive or locally-scoped tasks, they immediately fall apart when faced with the types of things that are actually difficult in software development and require non-trivial amounts of guidance and hand-holding to get things right I used this line for a long time, but you could just as easily say the same thing for a typical engineer. I…

The difference is a real engineer will say "hey I need more information to give you decent output." And when the AI does do that, congrats, the time you spend identifying and explaining the complexity _is_ the hard time consuming work. The code is trivial once you figure out the rest. The time savings are fake.

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by toraway »

enraged_camel wrote: post #257
missingdays wrote: post #232

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there any evidence the opposite is the case?

It doesn’t work like that. The burden is on the person making the claim. If you are going to accuse someone of posting an AI-written article you need you show evidence.

It's a losing strategy in 2026 to assume by default that any questionable spam blog/comment/etc content is written by an actual human unless proven otherwise.

Besides, if there are enough red flags that make it indistinguishable from actual AI slop, then chances are it's not worth reading anyway and nothing of value was lost by a false positive.

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by arcologies1985 »

mancerayder wrote: post #239
croes wrote: post #229

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> if you want to build big things, involving many people, you need to be in management. No, you don’t. You need some kind of decision making and communication process but a separate management is not necessary.

Can you go into more detail?

I have worked at organizations where most engineering and many product decisions were made bottom-up, through written RFDs and ADRs, and horizontal conversations between lead, staff and principal engineers. The tradeoff is that it can take weeks, months or years to both agree or schedule work on larger projects, where other (especially small) organizations might take hours to weeks.

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by chrisjj »

geetee wrote: post #322
g-mork wrote: post #318

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> it's incredibly obvious that while these tools are surprisingly good at doing repetitive or locally-scoped tasks, they immediately fall apart when faced with the types of things that are actually difficult in software development and require non-trivial amounts of guidance and hand-holding to get things right I used this line for a long time, but you could just as easily say the same thing for a typical engineer. I…

The difference is a real engineer will say "hey I need more information to give you decent output." And when the AI does do that, congrats, the time you spend identifying and explaining the complexity _is_ the hard time consuming work. The code is trivial once you figure out the rest. The time savings are fake.

That real engineer knows decent. This parrot knows only its own best (current attempt).

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by chrisjj »

aeldidi wrote: post #298

There's an odd trend with these sorts of posts where the author claims to have had some transformative change in their workflow brought upon by LLM coding tools, but also seemingly has nothing to show for it. To me, using the most recent ChatGPT Codex (5.3 on "Extra High" reasoning), it's incredibly obvious that while these tools are surprisingly good at doing repetitive or locally-scoped tasks, they immediately fall…

> if it were really as good as a lot of people are saying there should be a massive increase in the number of high quality projects/products being developed.

The headline gain is speed. Almost no-one's talking about quality - they're moving too fast to notice the lack.

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by kylecazar »

aeldidi wrote: post #298

There's an odd trend with these sorts of posts where the author claims to have had some transformative change in their workflow brought upon by LLM coding tools, but also seemingly has nothing to show for it. To me, using the most recent ChatGPT Codex (5.3 on "Extra High" reasoning), it's incredibly obvious that while these tools are surprisingly good at doing repetitive or locally-scoped tasks, they immediately fall…

Matches my experience pretty well. FWIW, this is the opinion that I hear most frequently in real life conversation. I only see the magical revelation takes online -- and I see a lot of them.

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by yusufnb »

aeldidi wrote: post #298

There's an odd trend with these sorts of posts where the author claims to have had some transformative change in their workflow brought upon by LLM coding tools, but also seemingly has nothing to show for it. To me, using the most recent ChatGPT Codex (5.3 on "Extra High" reasoning), it's incredibly obvious that while these tools are surprisingly good at doing repetitive or locally-scoped tasks, they immediately fall…

At my work I interview a lot of fresh grads and interns. I have been doing that consistently for last 4 years. During the interviews I always ask the candidates to show and tell, share their screen and talk about their projects and work at school and other internships.

Since last few months, I have seen a notable difference in the quality and extent of projects these students have been able to accomplish. Every project and website they show looks polished, most of those could be a full startup MVP pre AI days.

The bar has clearly been raised way high, very fast with AI.

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by chrisjj »

ricardobayes wrote: post #15
aiobe wrote: post #5

what was the instruction to write and promote this post?

On that thought you got to ask yourself why almost every thread has 200+, some even 500+ comments now. Definitely wasn't like this a few months ago

This "AI" mind virus has spread.
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