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Re: AI and Home-Cooked Software

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good code is explicit about its assumptions and enforces them; good companies set hiring bars so as to filter out developers that can't write good code. There's no such thing as bulletproof, but there is definitely such a thing as knowing where your vital organs are and how to tell when they've been hit.

> good companies set hiring bars so as to filter out developers that can't write good code. And the others are going to be replaced by one engineer and an AI of equivalent caliber.

that's right, all your coworkers are incompetent but YOU have the secret

Re: AI and Home-Cooked Software

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post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> good companies set hiring bars so as to filter out developers that can't write good code. And the others are going to be replaced by one engineer and an AI of equivalent caliber.

that's right, all your coworkers are incompetent but YOU have the secret

Aside from what you think that I think of myself, do you have a disagreement and actual counter argument to what I said?

1. Many developers are currently employees who objectively produce code of equal or lower quality than AI as it currently is.

2. It is cheaper and more productive to higher fewer, more competent, people and replace the less productive ones by AI (possible due to 1).

3. Short of regulations preventing it, companies will follow through on 2.

Re: AI and Home-Cooked Software

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post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

that's right, all your coworkers are incompetent but YOU have the secret

Aside from what you think that I think of myself, do you have a disagreement and actual counter argument to what I said? 1. Many developers are currently employees who objectively produce code of equal or lower quality than AI as it currently is . 2. It is cheaper and more productive to higher fewer, more competent, people and replace the less productive ones by AI (possible due to 1). 3. Short of regulations prevent…

> Many developers are currently employees who objectively produce code of equal or lower quality than AI as it currently is.

what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence

Re: AI and Home-Cooked Software

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Ah, another "Now that we have AI, people can do [thing people could do for decades]" article. If there was something you wanted a computer to do, that it did not yet do, you programmed it. And if you didn't know how, you learned. BASIC was always there. But the industry as a whole moved away from the idea that end users are to program computers sometime in the 80s or 90s (the glorious point and click future was not e…

Member of Golgafrinchian Ark Fleet Ship C here.

I like to make stuff, hack on projects. I code, I woodwork, I solder, I build. I love AI in the same way I love a router and dovetail jig in the workshop.

My son and I were playing minecraft, and we wanted to build a massive egg, just for fun. (My son is 5).

We try, we fail, we try again. We start learning about spheres and how to draw circles, this is peak project-based-learning. But we still can't build an egg that looks good, and now it's becoming less fun and there's no drive to keep trying.

So I spin up claude after hours and in ~30 mins I have an parametric egg-generator in 3d space, mapped to voxels. There is no universe in which my child would be interested in the many years of training to get to the point of building this himself. I also don't have 20 hours free to learn and implement my own 3d voxel rendering systems, just to build an egg in minecraft as a silly teaching exercise.

That weekend we try to use this tool, and we see it's really hard to just see an egg model and build it, so 15 minutes later it can now show us a sliced layer-by-layer view.

The weekend, my son built a massive fucking egg in Minecraft and he's been talking about circles and radiuses and eggs and coding software ever since. He was SO excited to see that we could take a running program, something "real" in the world, and then directly change it. (And now he's trying to learn about code and graphics and stuff. Again, he's 5 - this is the passing interest of curiosity in a child, he's not studying 50-hour courses to learn low level skills)

Are you saying that's not a massive win for everyone involved?

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