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(Which for anyone familiar with your long comment history as a regular HN poster, is comically absurd to imply. You've been reliably adamant that AI will demolish this or that entire industry overnight for years at this point).
We'll see who's right. I never said "overnight". Let's check in at the decade's end.
Y'all dunked on me in 2019 when I said AI was coming for Hollywood. Have you seen Seedance 2.0?
It's coming for us too. I've written five nines, active-active systems that handle billions of dollars of money movement daily. These systems can work in those contexts. I didn't think we'd be here this soon, and I actually thought LLMs were a dead end. I was wrong.
I'm not trying to sell Claude Code. I hate the concept of hyperscaler companies. I want there to be viable open source coding models - there just aren't. I'm merely reporting on my findings.
I sit at my machine for hours now in a prompt, review, test cycle. It's addictive. I'm getting more done at a faster rate than any time in my professional career. I'm excited, and I'm also worried. I don't know what happens after this.
If you've seen how much I praise AI, then you've also seen how much I rail against monopolies. I am worried these giant companies are going to take the means of production from us. I don't think enough people are freaking out about this. It's a very real possibility.
I'm just going to keep building. But you should pay close attention to what's happening.
Y'all dunked on me in 2019 when I said AI was coming for Hollywood. Have you seen Seedance 2.0?
Being right at the wrong time is often worse than just being outright wrong, I've found.
Only one of this can be true. It's not a shame to say you don't bother reviewing it, in the future that may well be the norm.
I'm prompting every change set, reviewing the outputs, then reviewing the total changes.
I'm sitting at my PC all day doing this - I used to be productive in short bursts, now I'm productive all the time. It's addictive.
I used Claude a lot on a recent project where it probably wrote 15-20k lines in a month, and it was overall excellent.
I can't get Augment / Opus 4.5 to edit a few C++ files from within VSCode without going off on a wild goose chase or getting stuck in an infinite loop after I tell that it should be doing this: "oh, you're right, I need to do X", "To do X, I must understand how to do Y", "I see now that to do Y, I should look at at Z". "Let me look at Z", followed by: "oh, you're right, I need to do X"..
Have you read Alexandrescu’s “modern c++”? It’s like a piece of modern art but completely not self aware. There’s just something about C++ that lures intellectuals in; like ice age mammoths to a tar pit.
Small wonder LLMs also fall victims to C++’s deranged ways.
Reviewing 1k lines of code an hour is a breakneck pace, are you spending 20 hours a day reviewing code?
Building things at a mature company with a market is a lot different than hacking together your own tools. There are a lot more people you can let down at scale.
If you're generating 20kLoC per day, you definitely aren't reviewing it!
I think you've crossed the line from being an AI maxi to just rage baiting. This comment is a pointless anecdote at best, please take your ridiculous FOMO takes elsewhere.