codemog

How about you meet me half way and work 996 instead?

Don’t be an engineer who says “no” with zero alternative solutions. That’s not being a good engineer, it’s being lazy and trying to look good. Often times an engineer will put forth a solution that’s non-ideal due to legacy reasons, but required nonetheless. And no they can’t rewrite the entire system to “do it the right way”. You're not being some super high IQ genius by saying “no” or pointing out the solution is non-ideal.

Seems like you dodged a bullet. Hard to hear when you’re looking for a job, but not every job is a good opportunity.

GLM 5.1 is almost there. These guys should be scared. The valuations these companies have is insanity.

The amount of cope people have around Elon’s irrational drug addict behavior is insane. Was lying about being good at video games and getting caught also 8D chess too?

We’re in an age where, to be possibly a bit rude but blunt, pseudo-intellectuals are obsolete. A pseudo-intellectual prided themselves on being able to efficiently solve closed, man made problems such as leetcode, CTF problems, or even math Olympiad problems. They could do good in school by memorizing a rote technique and applying it to some test. They typically don’t have any real creativity and if you put them to work on a problem you can’t Google or isn’t a fake man made one, they fall apart incredibly fast.

They may as well be the human equivalent to what LLMs currently are.

I do not mourn these people, as they’re usually the most arrogant types. I hope for their sake they adapt.

The absolutely terrible rankings made me lose a bit of faith in humanity.

So is Anthropic and co finally admitting they need to make products (and money) and done with the “AGI is tomorrow bro just give us a few more trillion bro”?

Anyone read posts like this and picture someone who doesn’t actually do anything all day besides posture in meetings? Probably with a super inflated title and salary.

I doubt this is what the OP does, but there’s tons of developers like what I described and they seem actively proud at not actually building anything and playing politics all day.

A lot of people had this idea. You’re going to have to take a vague idea to fruition if you want the props you’re looking for.

What magical AI are you using? That’s not my experience at all.

There’s a lot of bleeding heart people like this. They add variety to the world. The downsides being things you mention, but it’s usually more palatable than someone on the other end of the spectrum.

Where’s the theory of how the human brain does what it does? Maybe these high dimensional structures don’t have a nice compact “theory”. Trying to fit these systems into a nice compact theory is a very human thing, but not everything works like that.

1. A better insurance process is clearly out of the scope of a hn comment, and I have trouble believing you don’t know that too.

2. I’m almost certainly talking about health insurance, made obvious by you even mentioning that. There’s a HN guideline about discussing in good faith.

3. I find it humorous you hand-wave away our inhuman healthcare system as “for a variety of reasons”.

4. I see your career is in hedge funds, defense, and big tech. Best of luck ;)

Making the most convoluted and idiotic insurance process on earth and then delegating that process onto an AI that requires huge buzzing data centers.. Is there an option to respawn in the non-clown world universe? It was funny at first but it gets tiring eventually.

Exactly. Why would people willingly do this kind of tedious grunt work by hand instead of having a machine do it? I guess some people enjoy it, but it was always one of my least favorite parts.

Everyone who writes this kind of stuff skips the boring parts: science and engineering.

Yep, benchmarks, comparisons of with/without, samples of generated code with/without. This kind of stuff matters, and you may be making your agent stupider or getting worse results without real analysis.

Also this prose reads like the author has drunk the Google kool-aid and not much else.

The law exists to protect the elite and punish the underclass. We’re not in a Hollywood movie. Nothing will happen.

I think the OP is in for a rude surprise when the task is “finished”.

You’re going to make this a gender and party issue huh? Surprised skin color wasn’t brought up too. Yep, we deserve what we get.

Ah yes, also known as C++ enjoyers.

And the Kimi team broke the Anthropic ToS by training off Opus outputs and… nothing happened?

Are you kidding me? Who’s going to align synergy and hold accountable KPIs and vision plan the 3rd quarter and.. and.. other MBA talk. Certainly AI could never.

Jail time for execs. Only way things change.

A lot of this advice is good or at least interesting. A lot of it is questionable. Python is completely fine for the backend. And using SQLite for your prod database is a bad idea, just use Postgres or similar.

I love the small few who take the time to do crazy stuff like this. Very entertaining.

Stupid regulations are why we have an idiotic cookie banner on many websites.

I would guess OpenAI Codex and Claude Code are well into the millions subscriber range at this point. I would venture to guess the majority of them run in yolo mode. I have only seen a few horror stories on reddit. The same way any time you drive a car you can crash and die (many times through no fault of your own).

All that said, no way in hell I’m giving either access to production databases or environments.

This cope is insane. Even simple projects generated by Claude are riddled with bugs. And there’s no way in hell it could generate a larger scoped project without a lot of manual human intervention. But yea, TODO apps and trivial calculators are effectively “solved”. Same with leetcode. I guess that’s probably the limit of many people’s imagination these days.

Author mentions working on product people hate, GitHub Copilot. Honestly it ain’t too bad. Definitely better than a lot of “enterprise” software.