Why?
Im not even casting shade - I think AI is quite amazing for coding and can increase productivity and quality a lot.
But I'm curious why he's doing this.
It was basically cost prohibitive to change anything significant until Claude became able to do most of the work for us. My cofounder (also CTO of another startup in the interim) found himself with a lot of time on his hands unexpectedly and thought it would be a neat experiment and has been wowed by the results.
Much in the same way people on HN debate when we will have self driving cars while millions of people actually have their Teslas self-driving every day (it reminds me of when I got to bet that Joe Biden would win the election after he already did) those who think AI coding is years away are missing what’s happening now. It’s a powerful force magnifier in the hands of a skilled programmer and it’ll only get better.
But if it can do 90% of the work for you, it is a serious force magnifier.
Well, we could characterize a Tesla as doing 90% of the work but it's not at all a force multiplier. Your "10%" supervisory contribution takes just as long as doing 100%.
Oh it can't do 90% of the work for you. It CAN type 90% of the work for you, but someone still has to read the code and know what the best course of action is, supposedly...... I suppose some people never learned to use their IDEs or to touch type so as to find LLMs such a crazy productivity boost.
The actual number of such vehicles produced is two orders of magnitude less.
You’re right that it doesn’t happen every day but that doesn’t change the point, you all are debating whether something can happen after it already happened.
Plus, the idea that every single Tesla has this option is just your rought estimate, right?
My goalposts have always been on levels 3 and 4.
Elon Musk has been promising level 4, sometimes level 5, this entire time.
It has not already happened. The cars are level 2.
What Tesla is selling now is the worst of both worlds. You still have to pay attention but it's way more boring so it's really hard to do so. Well until it suddenly decides to ram a barrier at highway speeds.
Wake me up when I can have a beer and watch a movie while it's driving.