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I'll worry when that stops happening. Probably means I'm getting in my own way or not thinking big enough.
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Is it all just vapourware?
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Re: Is it all just vapourware?
#42It's August 9, 2026 and if you're a software engineer who hasn't had multiple "holy shit, I can't believe it just did that" moments, it's time to consider a new trade.
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Nah, for what was broadly avaiable, last year it was still in the area of better custom stackoverflow answers. A good search engine for code. Helpful, but I don't remember mindblown moments.
This year we have agents work with complex codebases. That was and still is mindblown to me.
Re: Is it all just vapourware?
#43It's August 9, 2026 and if you're a software engineer who hasn't had multiple "holy shit, I can't believe it just did that" moments, it's time to consider a new trade.
I did but it was followed by "holy shit now I gotta review this +3000 -500 LOC PR full of subtly wrong abstractions, needless diversions and incorrect assumptions". People keep repeating your sentiment here but I simply can't follow, are we even on the same planet? Or did everyone switch to just not caring about maintainability and code quality anymore? Or are your work tasks simply so mindnumbingly, stupidly simple…
Very, very senior dev here who has never taken a shortcut in his life. Don't mean to sound like a prick but you're doing it wrong. You have to find your own path through this stuff. It works, promise. I was in your shoes six weeks ago.
Re: Is it all just vapourware?
#44It's August 9, 2026 and if you're a software engineer who hasn't had multiple "holy shit, I can't believe it just did that" moments, it's time to consider a new trade.
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Don't make new accounts just to add snarky responses. If you're gonna do it, use your real account so we know who to flag.
Re: Is it all just vapourware?
#45It's August 9, 2026 and if you're a software engineer who hasn't had multiple "holy shit, I can't believe it just did that" moments, it's time to consider a new trade.
Not everyone is a web developer bub
I had DeepSeek 4 Pro do a very good job yesterday of loop-unrolling and SIMD-ifying (both SSE/AVX and ARM Neon versions) some very old scalar Col3f image processing and resampling/resizing C++ code I hadn't touched in 12 years or so.
It also wrote some unit tests that validated the kernel sampling weights, and wrote some Jupyter notebooks to go along with the kernel algorithms as comparisons.
It's not just web dev... It helps (a lot in some cases) if you ask very specific things rather than just "make this vague thing", but I'm more and more coming round to the conclusion it is now a useful dev tool (until two months ago I was a sceptic).
Re: Is it all just vapourware?
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
I did but it was followed by "holy shit now I gotta review this +3000 -500 LOC PR full of subtly wrong abstractions, needless diversions and incorrect assumptions". People keep repeating your sentiment here but I simply can't follow, are we even on the same planet? Or did everyone switch to just not caring about maintainability and code quality anymore? Or are your work tasks simply so mindnumbingly, stupidly simple…
Very, very senior dev here who has never taken a shortcut in his life. Don't mean to sound like a prick but you're doing it wrong. You have to find your own path through this stuff. It works, promise. I was in your shoes six weeks ago.
To be fair, a "very very senior dev" wouldn't tell me that I'm doing it wrong without telling me what I'm doing wrong.
Re: Is it all just vapourware?
#47It's August 9, 2026 and if you're a software engineer who hasn't had multiple "holy shit, I can't believe it just did that" moments, it's time to consider a new trade.
I did but it was followed by "holy shit now I gotta review this +3000 -500 LOC PR full of subtly wrong abstractions, needless diversions and incorrect assumptions". People keep repeating your sentiment here but I simply can't follow, are we even on the same planet? Or did everyone switch to just not caring about maintainability and code quality anymore? Or are your work tasks simply so mindnumbingly, stupidly simple…
People review PRs? LGTM.
Re: Is it all just vapourware?
#48It's August 9, 2026 and if you're a software engineer who hasn't had multiple "holy shit, I can't believe it just did that" moments, it's time to consider a new trade.
I did but it was followed by "holy shit now I gotta review this +3000 -500 LOC PR full of subtly wrong abstractions, needless diversions and incorrect assumptions". People keep repeating your sentiment here but I simply can't follow, are we even on the same planet? Or did everyone switch to just not caring about maintainability and code quality anymore? Or are your work tasks simply so mindnumbingly, stupidly simple…
Mr lucky over here with an agent that removes code!
Re: Is it all just vapourware?
#49I wonder if there is cargo culting afoot There are definitely guys in some companies just pointing an agent swarm at 50 Github tickets and saying "go get 'em boys" and hence need a lot of orchestration tools but for the rest of us do we really need the AI to do all the build steps and the testing steps... or do we just need the new feature that runs when the button is clicked and then we can check it out in the brows…
> just pointing an agent swarm at 50 Github tickets and saying "go get 'em boys" I still don‘t know if this is real. If it works like that, where are the companies that only kept every tenth, 10x‘d AI enhanced dev? They should have significantly higher margins. The companies that keep all devs and 10x‘d them, finally bringing that backlog to 0 should have exploding revenue and profit. Where does AI create value? I ca…
> They should have significantly higher margins.
I don't think devs are that expensive relative to a big company.
Airbnbs revenue last year was 12b. If they have 1000 engineers,maybe average 200k/yr that's only 200m. If they got rid of their engineers still only a fraction of of the revenue
Re: Is it all just vapourware?
#50It's August 9, 2026 and if you're a software engineer who hasn't had multiple "holy shit, I can't believe it just did that" moments, it's time to consider a new trade.
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Learning is lifelong, in most trades. What are you on about? Especially in something vast as programming/SW/ops.