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Yup. If you’ve ever watched a 60+ minute agent loop spawning sub agents, your “one message” prompt leaves you several hundred messages in the hole.

You’re absolutely right!

That study is going to go down as the red herring it is. Shows little more than people with minimal experience using LLMs for dev do it wrong.

That’s just like, your opinion man.

No, that’s just one version. Other places work differently.

Because sixty percent of the time it works every time.

Yup, this and a few other things. But I expect that Zed is going to be a lovely editor in a few more years.

Every startup is now an AI startup.

This. Mozilla has long appeared to exist as little more than a vehicle to enrich management, with a vestigial browser project attached to it. Google did its job very, very well here.

More anecdata: +1 for “LLMs write all my production code now”. 25+ years in industry, as expert as it’s possible to be in my domain. 100% agree LLMs fail hilariously badly, often, and dangerously. And still, write ~all my code.

No agenda here, not selling anything. Just sitting here towards the later part of my career, no need to prove anything to anyone, stating the view from a grey beard.

Crypto hype was shill from grifters pumping whatever bag holding scam they could, which was precisely what the behavioral economic incentives drove. GenAI dev is something else. I’ve watched many people working with it, your mileage will vary. But in my opinion (and it’s mine, you do you), hand coding is an apocryphal skill. The only part I wonder about is how far up and down the system/design/architecture stack the power-tooling is going to go. My intuition and empirical findings incline towards a direction I think would fuel a flame war. But I’m just grey beard Internet random, and hey look, no evidence just more baseless claims. Nothing to see here.

Disclosure: I hold no direct shares in Mag 7, nor do I work for one.

If by doomsday you mean “power out for a few hours”, sure.

Friend, this IS them adapting.

Being gobbled by the hyperscalers may well be the plan. Reasonable bet.

This comment landed, well written.

If you’ve read this first here, mark the day. This is coming.

This is the way. Mass consumer activist action, hundreds or thousands of purchases that turn around and invoke statutory rights and refunds, as protest. It won’t change until we make them hurt.

Have you written a form of this up somewhere? I would very much enjoy reading more of your work. Do you have a blog?

A(Narrow)I is a cheaper form of labor already. I suppose it’s plausible that its General form may not be, but I won’t be betting in that direction.

Hopefully only massive civil unrest, riots, city burnings etc. But to save themselves the demagoguery may point across the seas at the Other as the source of the woe.

Correct. As a thought experiment, this becomes the most likely (non violent) way to stave off the mass impoverishment that is coming for the rest of us in an economic model that sees AI subsume productive work above some level.

Yes please

By handing over all your proprietary code. Read the terms.

Attestation

Thanks 1a527dd5.

Or deport them.

Yeeha!

They’re putting together a “cracked team”?

Anyone from Twenty care to comment on this?

Truly wonderful that this reads both ways

Ethics are what you say when there’s no money on the table.