> You missed the part where he is consistently unimpressed by the failure of LLMs to do the task he hands to them...Not really, those are exactly the things said by people who dabble with LLMs a little and turn to "breathless naysaying" without any effort to really figure out this new technology. I mean, the series literally ends with "maybe I'll try to code with it."
> Yes. It ignores the "infinite nuances involved" such as maintainability, infosec soundness of the work product, the completely untested legality of "license washing" to name a few.
Not really, I did say "Is it good or bad? I don't know!" and literally mentioned the infinite nuances. I did not want this to become a tangent about those nuances (that's what I hoped would be in TFA) but I do know that being able to write or rewrite entire projects single-handedly is tremendous utility.
> Yeah, I figured that you would be unable (or unwilling) to understand this one.
Not really, just that I've already discussed all the points in that piece in past comments with way more studies on "empirical evidence on LLM coding impact" with way more nuance. If you want to follow the threads in the comment I linked, you'll come across some of those comments.
> You'll get better returns from working on strong software development fundamentals than from forcing all your programmers to use Claude for everything, and that's a repeated message in basically all the major literature.
Not really, the repeated message in all the latest reports like DORA and DX and CircleCI (which your link mentions but glosses over) very clearly indicates that using LLMs with strong software development fundamentals (what I called "discipline") is a huge force multiplier. See point 3 of this link as a representative example: https://www.thoughtworks.com/en-us/insights/blog/generative-... For these teams, productivity will literally be proportional to their tokens rather than their devs, because each dev is so highly leveraged.
> If LLMs do turn into a revolutionary world-changing silver bullet giving everyone coding superpowers, you'll be able to just adopt them fully when that happens.
Yes, but at this point it's unlikely to be a silver bullet, and I never claimed it would be. What I am saying is that it is a huge accelerant, but needs steering by skilled operators, engineers who know the discipline but also understand how to work with AI.
And in my experience it takes a surprising amount of time and practice to learn how to leverage AI effectively.
Which aphyr clearly has not done. Which is why this series is such a disappointment.