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"intelligence explosion", "are essentially AGI at this point", "ARBITRARY SQL + VECTOR ALGEBRA" etc. Casual use of hyperbole and technical jargon.

my charlatan radar is going off.

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What is hyperbole? We are collectively experiencing a software intelligence explosion (people are shipping good software at prolific rates now due to Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.2-Codex-xhigh). With Scry, you can run arbitrary SELECT SQL statements over a large corpus and have an easier time composing embedding vectors in whatever mathematical ways you want, than any other tool I've seen.

> shipping good software at prolific rates

I think your definition of good needs to be rethought

“The primary job of software engineers is to make software suck less.” - a university professor i had, 20 years ago.

Let’s not romanticize the past because it’s easier to ship (probably still buggy) code today.

its not though. the primary job of software engineers is to ship a product that produces income for their employer.

Does this definition work for SWEs who develop open source projects?

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