"I saw her duck" - how much would you be willing to bet on the intended meaning of this sentence? English isn't a good programming language if you want to trust that the output will be as you want it to be. High level…
This is just pure vibe coding and trying to convince yourself it's quality work. AI can't be trusted to go from an English written spec to tests Here[0] we have benchmarks for AI writing tests for code that already has…
And engineers have a lot of leeway to just make shit up and the PM would have no idea until it blows up.
So you just click around the UI, assuming there is one? Can you break down for me exactly how the unit and integration tests are made? Do you ask the AI what to assert?
How do you test code that you don't understand? Black-box e2e testing isn't suitable, or practical, for a lot of applications. Unit and integration tests generally require you to understand the code you want tests for,…
Makes a lot of sense to me. If you're young and things aren't going so well then at least you can have hope that you'll be able to turn it around. You have time on your side. That all goes away when you start to get to…
Yeah, but you're not beholden to them. There are 100 different hosts you can use if you own your own domain. If a host changes in a way you don't like, just move your domain elsewhere. If you're using Gmail, you're…
Why is it an issue? I don't care what other people do with their email.
If it's not deterministic you can never fully trust it. In a deterministic abstraction I don't need to audit the lower levels.
It's not just work meetings. This is being taken to healthcare settings, also.
Register your own domain and use that for your email, and you'll no longer be held hostage by Google. Takes almost no effort and will cost you a few dollars a month.
They're different goals though. Someone selling software is doing it to put a roof over their heads and money in their retirement accounts. If you straight up replace that with working on passion projects and giving…
I wonder if you'd also be arguing for libre software to reject available funding? What's the difference? The Ruby on Rails foundation brings in a million per year: https://rubyonrails.org/foundation The Linux foundation…
Not really. A person will eventually drink dirty water if it was the only thing available in a desert. There's very little competition for SOTA models. The models themselves also weren't built by Claude. The current…
Even if this is right, by responding to the public issue here he's taking on some level of customer support. A simple "I forwarded the refund request to the relevant team and you should hear back from them" would be a…
> bad customer service seems firmly in the "better to stay and advocate doing better from the inside" category How about Anthropic agreeing to a $1.5 billion settlement for perhaps the biggest theft in history? Weird…
A real employee (bcherny) read the issue, responded that the bug was fixed, and then completely ignored the request for a refund.
I only see this being the case for throwaway code and prototypes. For production code you want to keep long term it's not so clear cut.
> skimming through an alien looking codebase, scratching your head trying to figure what crazy abstraction the last person who touched this code had in mind. Oh shit it was me? That made so much more sense back then…
I wish more was being invested in AI autocomplete workflows. That was a nice middle-ground. But yeah my hunch is "the old way" - although not sure we can even call it that - is likely still on par with an "agentic"…
I'd be very surprised if they're not already doing this.
Design is very hard to verbally describe, and AI doesn't have good judgement on what is easy to use or attractive.
Yeah I'm not a huge fan of it, either. Well organized CSS is much nicer to work with. On the other hand, I'd prefer Tailwind to badly organized CSS.
Figma's stock has been on a sharp downward trend over the last year. This isn't a notice-able change to their stock price at all. They're down 30% just in the last month, with many days being -5% to -10%. They're down…
"attractive things work better" There have been studies showing aesthetics matter quite a bit for UX - users perceive things that are attractive as being easier to use and less frustrating.
"I saw her duck" - how much would you be willing to bet on the intended meaning of this sentence? English isn't a good programming language if you want to trust that the output will be as you want it to be. High level…
This is just pure vibe coding and trying to convince yourself it's quality work. AI can't be trusted to go from an English written spec to tests Here[0] we have benchmarks for AI writing tests for code that already has…
And engineers have a lot of leeway to just make shit up and the PM would have no idea until it blows up.
So you just click around the UI, assuming there is one? Can you break down for me exactly how the unit and integration tests are made? Do you ask the AI what to assert?
How do you test code that you don't understand? Black-box e2e testing isn't suitable, or practical, for a lot of applications. Unit and integration tests generally require you to understand the code you want tests for,…
Makes a lot of sense to me. If you're young and things aren't going so well then at least you can have hope that you'll be able to turn it around. You have time on your side. That all goes away when you start to get to…
Yeah, but you're not beholden to them. There are 100 different hosts you can use if you own your own domain. If a host changes in a way you don't like, just move your domain elsewhere. If you're using Gmail, you're…
Why is it an issue? I don't care what other people do with their email.
If it's not deterministic you can never fully trust it. In a deterministic abstraction I don't need to audit the lower levels.
It's not just work meetings. This is being taken to healthcare settings, also.
Register your own domain and use that for your email, and you'll no longer be held hostage by Google. Takes almost no effort and will cost you a few dollars a month.
They're different goals though. Someone selling software is doing it to put a roof over their heads and money in their retirement accounts. If you straight up replace that with working on passion projects and giving…
I wonder if you'd also be arguing for libre software to reject available funding? What's the difference? The Ruby on Rails foundation brings in a million per year: https://rubyonrails.org/foundation The Linux foundation…
Not really. A person will eventually drink dirty water if it was the only thing available in a desert. There's very little competition for SOTA models. The models themselves also weren't built by Claude. The current…
Even if this is right, by responding to the public issue here he's taking on some level of customer support. A simple "I forwarded the refund request to the relevant team and you should hear back from them" would be a…
> bad customer service seems firmly in the "better to stay and advocate doing better from the inside" category How about Anthropic agreeing to a $1.5 billion settlement for perhaps the biggest theft in history? Weird…
A real employee (bcherny) read the issue, responded that the bug was fixed, and then completely ignored the request for a refund.
I only see this being the case for throwaway code and prototypes. For production code you want to keep long term it's not so clear cut.
> skimming through an alien looking codebase, scratching your head trying to figure what crazy abstraction the last person who touched this code had in mind. Oh shit it was me? That made so much more sense back then…
I wish more was being invested in AI autocomplete workflows. That was a nice middle-ground. But yeah my hunch is "the old way" - although not sure we can even call it that - is likely still on par with an "agentic"…
I'd be very surprised if they're not already doing this.
Design is very hard to verbally describe, and AI doesn't have good judgement on what is easy to use or attractive.
Yeah I'm not a huge fan of it, either. Well organized CSS is much nicer to work with. On the other hand, I'd prefer Tailwind to badly organized CSS.
Figma's stock has been on a sharp downward trend over the last year. This isn't a notice-able change to their stock price at all. They're down 30% just in the last month, with many days being -5% to -10%. They're down…
"attractive things work better" There have been studies showing aesthetics matter quite a bit for UX - users perceive things that are attractive as being easier to use and less frustrating.