I use AI heavily. But my #1 productivity tool is still a custom code generator I wrote 15+ years ago. It routinely generates about 90% of the code needed to write a biz application. So using AI to write productivity tools is a great way to go IMHO.
I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis
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At Nvidia, we have no limit for Anthropic or Open AI models (for now) and are heavily encouraged to use them as much as possible.
The fact that they've started promoting using the Caveman mode tells me that the unlimited usage policy is taking its toll.
What is Caveman mode?
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> hoping the agents will get so good in near future, that there won't be the need for understanding the codebase Agents might get better. But who will own the code and take responsibility for it? The AI agent? The company who created the AI agent? If e.g. a car crashes and does not deploy its airbags because the AI agent made a mistake in the airbag code, will the manufacturer be able to shift the blame to OpenAI or…
The developers signing off on this will be "Human crumple zones" to protect the company from liability. Be very cautious if asked to sign off on anything like this.
This is why nearly all people that write code are not engineers, no "Software Engineer" would be willing to sign off on their code like this, yet this is level of safety guarantees real engineering is about.
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Another possibility is that the hype continues, growing and growing and sucking up more and more resources, and the piper has to wait yet another day to be paid, until someone figures out how to pivot to the next big thing and all the debt (financial, social, environmental) gets carried forward and we keep going. In other words, BAU for the last few thousand years.
Paypal Mafia -> Crypto Mafia -> AI/LLM Mafia -> I'm calling Biotech/BCI Mafia, WW3 Military Industrial Mafia, or Energy Mafia next.
IIRC they're already in the Military Industrial Complex with companies like Palantir, Anduril, and others.
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#985Company I just left is reportedly now using Claude to analyse the metadata generated from the company MDM that tracks actual laptop use, and then pulling people up if they're not working "enough". They're also reportedly now giving staff AI-related "homework" in an attempt to force staff to use AI more.
Interesting. Were those Windows or MacOS laptops?
Both
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In my experience, its the opposite. The AI is very good at writing code, but it is unreliable at any kind of design. I use it as a fancy form of autocomplete. I give the broad strokes: "add a method here and change all but this one caller to use the new method", "Apply this design pattern here for this change but don't do this other thing". It completes the task reasonably well and sometimes even remembers to run the…
Can you pro-AI people at least agree on what is it even useful for? Every thread is endless back-and-forth between the "AI works great and vibe coding is the future" and "no, AI works great as long as you don't vibe code" camps.
Can developers agree on what the best programming language is? The best framework? The best OS?
AI is a diverse technology and will work differently for everyone, just like JS is a really, really bad technology for many, yet widely used.
On top of that it (as coding agent) is brand new, just a few years old. Looking at the history of technology it will probably take a few decades for it to settle into some sort of stability. Which does not mean it does not provide value during this time of exploration, however there is no trodden path leading you there.
Re: I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis
#987I’m at a FAANG and we have $300/day token quota. Personally I don’t use that much of it but management is pushing really hard for it. “the quota has been raised for a reason, use it”. Any task: “have you tried working on it with Claude?”. Every meeting “now engineer x and y will show you what he did with AI”. It’s not all useless but most of the days I think I would be more productive if some processes were streamlin…
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> He wants to push it just because he lost a bragging contest. That is an uncharitable interpretation, IMO. The CFO heard of a novel technique used by his peers in other companies, and they reported good results. He wants to try it within his organization too. As an executive, he is paid to (among other things) keep abreast of such developments in the industry and ensure that the organization he is leading is not cau…
Peer-pressure driven management style. Fantastic.
Right right, I'd prefer management lock themselves in a closet and not engage with the outside world.
Re: I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis
#989I’m at a FAANG and we have $300/day token quota. Personally I don’t use that much of it but management is pushing really hard for it. “the quota has been raised for a reason, use it”. Any task: “have you tried working on it with Claude?”. Every meeting “now engineer x and y will show you what he did with AI”. It’s not all useless but most of the days I think I would be more productive if some processes were streamlin…
300 a day?? 7K dollars a month? No wonder they need to lay people off!
I by myself use now more than 15 accounts combined of all providers + API as well for external providers, more than 50K$ equivalent a month in API tokens, my team is doing the same thing, it's not really that much once you figured out the real automation loops and workflows, solving 300 issues a day with guarantees is common.
I feel that a lot of users are still stuck on Claude code or tools like this and don't really have a real argument about why they are even following the thread at all, everything has to be async for serious automation, you shouldn't even be seeing what Claude or any other model is replying (everything has to be digested with another model to increase relevancy and accuracy of the message so you can read faster (like a bot)), it's irrelevant, only human in the loop when a decision must be made, the rest has to be loops with all model, typical e2e, regression, computer use test, video into frames into all model loop and so-on.
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> $300/day token quota Are companies using per-token billing? Why - is there some reason they can’t buy the $200/mo Claude plan for every employee?
Max 20x is for individuals only. (could probably have emps get it themselves, and reimburse)
Most startups do this (multiple accounts per employee).