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The only people who are going to put in the time, are people who care enough to. The problem is you have people who didn’t care before who were equipped with a
by yakattak 4mo ago
The only people who are going to put in the time, are people who care enough to. The problem is you have people who didn’t care before who were equipped with a garden hose. Now that they have a fully pressurized fire hose they can make more of a mess faster.
- risyachka 4mo agoThis is so on point that I want to cry.
- senordevnyc 4mo agoThen they should be easy to defeat. Why are you complaining?
- yakattak 4mo agoDefeat in what aspect?
- senordevnyc 4mo agoCompete with, for jobs, customers, investment, etc.
- yakattak 4mo agoMaybe. But it depends on the metric. It seems like orgs are focused on PR count and token usage. Issues caused by poor code are often lagging indicators so it’s asymmetrical in that aspect. Write lots of code now and statistically look great, while the impact won’t be felt for a much larger range of time. With the job search and whatnot then yeah, caring becomes a lot more important. That’s true.
- themgt 4mo agoAs an author of fine literature, these million monkeys on typewriters simply upset my sense of dignity. And to imagine the impoverished prose so many readers shalt forthwith be perusing!
- Daishiman 4mo agoHard disagree. LLMs are fantastic for fixing bad architecture that's been around for a decade because nobody was willing to touch it. I can have it write tons and tons of sanity checks and then have it rewrite functionality piece by piece with far more verification than what I'd get from most engineers. It's not immediate, it still takes weeks if you want to actually do QA and roll out to prod, but it's definitely better than the pre-LLM alternatives.
- yakattak 4mo agoYeah but you care which is my exact point.
- Daishiman 4mo agoHow is this different from every single technological iteration?
- salawat 4mo agoBecause there is a certain point where barrier to entry prevents meaningful competition once winner-take-all power laws start kicking in, and stability hitherto has been predisposed on having a plurality of non interrelated competitors to ensure no one man's quirks drives too much of societies theoretical output. AI will make this dynamic worse, and it's got the extra danger of the default banal way of applying the technology in fact encourages it's application to that end.
- Daishiman 4mo agoI don't really see it that way because most software companies overestimate the importance of fantastic software vs merely adequate software, and most times good sales development, support, and negotiation skills are what helps actually sell. I also don't think that the commodification of programming is a substitute for things like understanding your customers, having good taste for design, and designing software in a way that is maximally iterable.