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The question is if you already had intuitive understanding of what those things “are”. The languages and systems have been easier to learn once you picked up a couple. Same applies here as well.

The question is, how quickly does a junior with no experience builds intuition without trial and error.

The examples I gave, and the arguments that usually support them don’t really translate into “building complicated systems”. I was talking about the arguments in support of variable naming flamewars, etc.

I’m not proponent of AI generating everything without any supervision as of now. But willing to change my mind when it gets better.

Most software engineering jobs are not cutting-edge tech, or research, or solving unsolved problems. Integrations, APIs, figma-to-react pipelines, devops and etc. is what people get hired for. All those can be done much faster in the same-or-better quality by an experienced person with the supplement of AI. It’s hard to imagine any company would go against the grain and slow things down on purpose.

Just to go on record, as of today, I’m a big believer that a person that knows all that stuff is much more productive with AI-coding than a person who doesn’t.

I have no idea how we can get people motivated to learn these through trial-and-error when AI coding exists though. I remember the days of spending hours on stupid bugs that AI can resolve within a minute. But I recall learning heavily from those experiences. Oh well…

“AI coding is a fad” is not just one big camp of similar-minded people. Different groups have to give up on their pre-existing beliefs in order to be ok with AI coding.

Think of people who were very strict with variable names. People who pushed for multiple-levels deep of abstractions for a single API logic that’s not going to be reused. People who believed that coding is craft, rather than just a process to get to the end during work hours. This makes most of these people’s points more-or-less moot.

I was in some of those camps, but I’ve seen coding evolve in the last 15 years. So I understand that these priors need to be updated, as most arguments don’t apply to today’s world.

Yes, you can. There are multiple inference providers out there. The problem is, it’s hard to beat the Chinese providers in cost. And you also have to compete with frontier model providers’ subsidized offerings.

My friends and I have 14+ year group chat, and we sometimes get drunk, scroll back, and make fun of ourselves. Worth every penny.

Pretty much every young person whom I know who says “AI bad”, also uses it for work/personal reasons. Which, i think, isn’t wrong. But just funny.

Most understand how LLMs are handy in a lot of scenarios. Pretty much every single person I know in the age range of 12-70s use one app or the other. It doesn’t even matter how much we like it, as if it’s somewhat useful, it will be enshifticated, and profits will soar.

People said the same about Facebook, Netflix/Spotify, Uber/Instacart/etc. Eventually ads will be injected everywhere to turn it into profits.

> They're getting sued and they're losing.

This means nothing if there are no real consequences in terms of change in behaviour. Every country has their own priorities, and looks like the US decided to move on from pax-Americana.

If it can still be resold online, it won’t mitigate scalping much for on-demand shows. You can see that on any scalping-heavy items that require a person to be there physically to purchase the item (cards, collectibles from restaurants, and etc.).

Above-face-value ticket resale is illegal here and it helps a lot. But you need to make sure this gets prosecuted hard.

Doesn’t have to. It’s a big bet, with a huge payout for Anthropic.

With the amount of applications running on Bun? I’d say enough.

Heavy implications on how the future will be formed if things go well with this port. It would prove a lot of people wrong if things go well 3 months down the road.

Well, the thing is, and people won’t like hearing it… almost everyone has a social media account outside of very small niche groups. Socially speaking, not having an account at all in any SNS (not saying an active poster, by the way!) would be negatively viewed. People don’t care about privacy, data and etc. as much as we would want them to.

That is insanely awful take. Why would anyone review something negatively without actually checking it out?

> Most venues and places are slowly going away from closed gardens.

They are? Honestly, first time hearing about this. I've noticed only big events get posted outside of the IG/etc. Even in Tokyo, a simple thing like checking if a place is open on a public holiday is to check their Instagram.

Most companies signing up to the idea that GitHub will fix their issues, rather than going through operational pain of migration. Everyone that I know jokes about GH downtime, but have zero internal talks about migration. Obviously small data point, but GitLab going this route shows not a lot of people are switching.

There's 'big money' and, there's also "BIG MONEY". Former doesn't always win against the government, the latter pretty much overrules anything.

Sure, but let me flip the question - how would the user react if they knew the said prompt-crafted image is AI generated? Industry will need to do better to sell it to the young generation, which is usually the tastemaker for the future. It is considered "low class" to use AI-generated images. If the game is "conceal that it was AI-generated", then... lol.

Arguing in good faith - could you link me to some "good AI art" that's supposed to change average person's mind? I personally shrug off AI-generated image, and always think it's lazy cope-out. Because "it feels that way", but also, it technically is true?

Funnily, I only apply this logic to AI-generated images for the masses. If someone does it in one of my group chats, I'd think of it as "ok you spent some time for a small audience, i respect that, here's your well-deserved chuckle". It might be my age speaking out, as I grew up in "organic free range internet, full of ridiculous under construction gifs". But I really struggle to imagine a future where most adults would say AI-generated art can generate any emotions.

We’re not managing fleets of agents. They’re not productive for our workflows yet. It’s usually a couple of CC CLIs running and going back and forth on specific tasks we closely control.

I commented this yesterday, I’ll repeat it again - what do you guys think organizations that have heavily leaned into AI are shipping nowadays?

Most devs aren’t working on cutting edge, low level, mission critical systems. AI is great for that. Every company I personally know have been fast shipping features that are being used daily by millions of people for the past 7 months.

We have the same thing on my team, and we also understand the limitations of AI generated code. If you’re more or less experienced, you can easily see the “good” and “bad” sides of it. So you kinda plan it out in a way that you can “evolve AI generated software”. I wouldn’t say the same thing in 2025 January, but it’s much different times now. Things are already working.

> health insurance were de-linked from employment most people would flee the job market

That would be visible in all major markets outside of the US, no?

For my team, it has been easy. We deal with infrastructure for the entire org, so have tickets created for every request. We also gave our own backlog for internal project, so can see burn rate, and etc. Team hasn’t changed, a lot of similar/same tasks that have taken half a day has been completely automated to a point where we just do PR review after an initial ticket is created by other teams.

There are a lot of little things we’ve tracked, and it’s just faster to implement things now. To be fair, everyone on my team has decade+ professional experience (many more non-prodessional), and we understand limitations of AI fairly well.

I’m a bit curious with these takes. Arguing in good faith - is the general assumption that people who use AI/agents/harnesses don’t ship features? We’ve been all in Claude Code since ~Septemberish, and have been able to successfully track the boost. Like the features that we ship that get used in production. Both from infrastructure side, and business logic implementations. Frontend and backend.

I don’t think people are wasting too much time. Although, I do agree most of these posts are just bs, including this one. But AI-development has been a thing across a lot of companies in the world.

How did people organize pre-Internet times though?

Just wait 6 months for something new to come up and everyone will forget about harnesses.

At no point in time companies were so desperate for developer attention. It feels like the general consensus is it is a “winner takes it all” race, and everyone has to add as many dark patterns as possible to increase stickiness.

Reminded me of Club Penguin days.

All these developments show that:

1) Despite what people say about security and privacy, most are willing sacrifice both for the sake of potential convenience

2) Our priorities for the past decades have been wrong, or the times have changed and we should reevaluate them all

Watch them make a deal with Anthropic.