You guys are describing wonderful things, but I've yet to see any implementation. I tried coding my own agents, yet the results were disappointing.
What kind of setup do you use ? Can you share ? How much does it cost ?
What kind of setup do you use ? Can you share ? How much does it cost ?
(I built it)
You pay more to try and get above that noise and hope you'll reach an actual human.
The new "fast mode" that burns tokens at 6 times the rate is just scary because that's what everyone still soon say we all need to be using to get results.
Here I am mostly writing code by hand, with some AI assistant help. I have a Claude subscription but only use it occasionally because it can take more time to review and fix the generated code as it would to hand-write it. Claude only saves me time on a minority of tasks where it's faster to prompt than hand-write.
And then I read about people spending hundreds or thousands of dollars a month on this stuff. Doesn't that turn your codebase into an unreadable mess?
I am not kidding. People don't seem to understand what's actually happening in our industry. See https://www.linkedin.com/posts/johubbard_github-eleutherailm...
It's about as far as you can get from being able to work independently.
Yegge is an entertainer. Gas Town is performance art, it's not meant to be taken seriously.
And a senior director of Nvidia? He had several Mac Minis? I really gotta imagine a Spark is better... at least it'll be a bit smarter of a cat (I'm pretty suspicious he used a LLM to help write that post)
No time to think, gotta go fast?
Boosters tend to lay all different experiences at the feet of this last, yet I'd argue the others are equally significant.
On the other hand, if you want to get the best results you can given the first 3 (which are generally out of one's control) then don't presume there's nothing you can do to improve the 4th.
It works wonderfully well. Costs about $200USD per developer per month as of now.
This is in fact precisely what skills is meant for and is the opposite of an anti-pattern, but more like best practice now. It's explicitly using the skills framework precisely how it was meant to be used.