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Thanks, that’s the nature of any business. Founders see a way to take existing knowledge and expertise, combine it in some novel or interesting way, and produce a new product

Pretty awesome! Just curious are you vibe coding this?

Curious when slop becomes, not slop. Revenue? Profit? At what point do detractors throw in the towel? Honest question.

For example DHH shipped an entire vibe coded Linux distribution. Should we all roll of eyes at that?

Weird times.

You should not feel guilty at all. These tools belong to the people, and should be fully free. It was after all, the hard work of people’s lives that was stolen and used without permission for training.

Totally agree. AI has gone completely off the rails with weird language, that is frankly hard to follow. It's suggestions are often quite difficult to reason about and I think that has more to do with the models choices than with our distance from the code. It could make much simpler, clearer, more helpful suggestions but often makes convoluted suggestions that might be technically right but make no sense.

There are TONS of VR shooters. What subgenre interests you most?

“blast radius” for me

Any good over ear headphones you’d recommend to someone who is generally skeptical but curious of the audiophile world? Cost being no issue, what would you recommend?

It’s all just cognitive dissonance. Anyone claiming optimism around salaries is just flat wrong. I see non-engineers contributing to production code and it’s simply a matter of time until leadership feels comfortable with downsizing and or lowering salaries.

+1 if they can also scoop the human feces and power wash the sidewalks in SF.

How to maximize productivity with AI. Sounds like this wouldn’t be a skill but I’d argue at the limit, it is.

Any other side effects? I’ve never even heard of this.

Lets go California! Way to be the 71st Country. So glad our leaders are staying on top of this stuff.

lol this is getting so ridiculous... every single model is TOO DANGEROUS...

do they think we're stupid? it's obviously a marketing stunt.

I'm right there with you. Been in tech for close to 20 years, mostly in SWE roles but last few years of been hybrid SWE/Management.

Check my bookcase and you'll find ~60 thick books all about programming languages and frameworks. I've learned something like 9 languages at a professional level, and I've worked up and down the stack all the way from bare metal firmware, to mobile, to web, and server.

AI has gutted my passion for software development. It seems people in this industy can be loosely bucketed as follows:

* Went into software because you love writing code to solve problems, where the actual design and writing of said code is as important as the outcome.

* Went into software purely for the outcome, love building things, don't care how it gets built.

At the end of the day I'm a craftsman. I became passionate ~20 years ago about the design and architecture of software, and it fueled a beautiful career. Now, what?

I've spent the last year just throwing prompts at claude and seeing how well it does. Despite having built more in the last year than would have ever been possible before, I feel empty. The outcomes work, they work well, but I didn't write the code. I explained some high level directives to claude, maybe jumped in here or there with a technical angle to fix something when claude got stock... but by and large... the skills I've built over the last 20 years don't really apply anymore.

Yea, I'm not honestly not sure what is going to happen. Your comment about dreaming to be homeless really resonated with me. I either need to find a joy in this AI coding, or I don't know what will happen with me.

My Mom once said something to me as a kid that resonated deeply, even then. Human beings' most valuable skill is adaptation. If you cannot adapt, you will die. As long as I can enjoy this fight, this life, this grind, this mystery... then I will make it my priority to adapt and to reframe my thoughts such that joy is possible again.

It doesn't have to be the end if I don't want it to be. The world will always change, it's on me to change with it.

I think they neutered Fable. When it first came out it was indeed revolutionary. But what we have today, is not what we had before the ban.

> We will deliver success through a flatter organization that is built around makers (individual contributors focused on building), player-coaches (leaders who remain deeply involved in the work while developing their teams), and directly responsible individuals (DRIs) who own key decisions and outcomes

Fascinating. The death of management is happening all throughout software.

Interesting point… and I suppose for the most part, I agree. A rare case of a mostly free lunch.

Do you honestly believe in the so called “free lunch”? I mean there are MANY substances you can presently take that make you feel way better, but always come with a cost or a downside. Why should we believe GLP-1 class drugs are any different?

And you’ve opened wireshark and verified the model is sending absolutely nothing? Not caching and sending later, etc?

Thanks. I went looking for how to actually verify myself as I would love to get access to Fable again. This post confirmed it, it's not relate to Fable at all and has been around. Thanks.

Interesting perspective but don't you think it's too late? Opus 4.8 can already replace most developers. Companies are already cutting the bottom half of the work force, since Opus on a cron can churn out bug fixes.

Maybe there's some hope that if we stop here, we'll still need senior level developers to guide the models and step in where they (occasionally) fall short? Maybe Mythos/Fable was the first time where that was no longer really true?

I'd disagree. I saw plenty of really mediocre work from Fable, especially in various niche programing endeavors (graphics comes to mind). It doesn't strike me as the "end to all programmers" yet... though fast forward 10 years and it seems inevitable that all of our salaries will be halved, if not more.

I was a highly active boy, who really struggled in my youth to find interest in school and therefor found studying hard, etc.

At multiple points I was told I had ADHD but I knew that wasn’t right at all.

I have tons of interests and no struggle to focus on those. Ask me to sit and learn about something irrelevant like Native American basket weaving and I will tune out.

Also missing for boys is physical exercise. 1 hour of PE twice a week in high school is absolutely ridiculous. All that energy has to go somewhere. Pills work but at what cost?

I doubt it. There’s a very hungry work force ready to take any job available.

You will literally build nothing but the most primitive of devices unless you accept black boxes. In fact I'd argue its one of humanities great strengths that we can build on top of the tools others have built, without having to understand them at the same level it took to develop them.

There is a huge difference between greenfield development and working with an existing codebase.

I'm not trying to discredit your experience and maybe it really is something wrong with the model.

But in my experience those first few prompts / features always feel insanely magical, like you're working with a 10x genius engineer.

Then you start trying to build on the project, refactor things, deploy, productize, etc. and the effectiveness drops off a cliff.

I totally get these are very hard problems so solve and that we're on the bleeding edge of what's possible but I can't help and wonder when someone is going to crack real video understanding.

sure, maybe it's still frame-by-frame but so fast and so often that the model retains a rolling context of what's going on and can answer cleanly temporal questions.

"how packages were delivered over the last hour", etc.

Is there anything unique here happening for the video aspect or is it just taking snapshots over and over?

I’ve been looking for a good video summarizing / understanding model!

Can someone explain what one might use this model for? As a developer with a casual interest in biology it would be fun to play with but honestly not sure what I would do

Don’t have to prove it to me… I was asking genuinely.