Well, the community never made it a very welcoming place... But, I think a part of this is that it's just faster to throw a Q into ChatGPT. There's no waiting for a response, a major bonus is the non-hostility +…
I think that assuming work can be done more easily in the future should not stop people from doing work that needs to be done in the present. (If a painter knew that the camera was coming out I would not want them to…
Hard agree on the prompting rabbit hole. I've done it a handful of times, I'll get a little ambitious... "Oh, 6.1 Sol can totally handle this" and have it spin up a project, keep going, keep going. Eventually, I get to…
Well... I think the converse to this is the companies that WOULD pay you (slightly less than they currently pay Atlassian) TO replicate those products. I expect some BRUTAL competition for these larger software…
Not picking a side, but do you really think that language models should have a political bias? I personally don't interface with AI in a way that engages political / social bias - but if I did I definitely wouldn't want…
To play devil's advocate, couldn't certain modifications to a heat pump damage the unit? I'm guessing they made "happy path" decisions thinking most people aren't going to modify cycle timing, or know how to do that or…
> the app owns the workspace, the editor, and the wire — it never assembles prompts behind your back. Thanks JetBrains, I assumed the app would assemble prompts behind my back, so I'm glad they clarified that. If they…
You're right - having many possible implementations is NOT the problem here, if a natural language spec covers all the 'necessary' functionality of a piece of software, the implementation does not matter (whether it's…
Yeah - I wish my team would adopt a "no AI prose" rule for team communication. It's one thing to say "please review this code that I used AI to generate". It's entirely different to say "Please read this 7 page document…
This is an interesting failure-mode to me, and I've been interested in how accurate it is since the inception of these models. My answer is still yes - I've got this personal concept that AI is sorta the "opposite" of…
Do you have a 'technical writers' assessment at how good AI writing is currently (and do you see it improving with new models or no)? I'm not great at writing, but this, I think, is one of the main shortcomings for me.…
I'm hoping that one day I end up looking like a junkyard cat. I don't know why, but I think it's pretty cool when someone is pretty banged up. I'm not a very careful guy, so my hands are all torn up, burns on my arms /…
Good points. I've stood by this position. "We'll just store prompts in VC and the agent will pick those up", "Code isn't going to exist anymore", "We will just write comprehensive specs of what the software is supposed…
Personally - I think most software is way more complex than it should be. Depends what you're working on, but from what I have seen software always gravitates towards "unmaintainable mess of complexity" - and our job is…
Sure - but this comment said: > anyone who can afford an assistant has one And that's just not true. I know some independently wealthy people who do not have an assistant / cleaner / lawn care professional. They don't…
I think some of this conversation is circling around the concept of 'allowable risk'... We have a couple of VMs that are not mission critical, and they don't hold sensitive data. We just inject the secrets into the…
This is a baseless statement. Sometimes, people just... like to do things themselves, or don't feel like it's too much of their "precious time" to learn something new. Example: I still do my budgeting / taxes /…
> One possibility is single-person startups, each with a human founder steering swarms of agents to rake in billions in revenue. I guess I'd be curious to see what this single-person startup is offering... I'm also…
Do you have any that you enjoy playing? I've tried a handful but every time my response is mostly... "Wow, really cool that someone made this." Then about a minute later I leave because... it's not fun and there's no…
You're saying I can't get a rack of H100s in my garage and play Crysis 3 on medium
Did anyone find out what numbers trigger something on that counter box on the left?
Dentists, orthodontists, periodontists... I feel the same. I'm a real case study, I was born without my 4 permanent lateral incisors (Top and bottom). First orthodontist applied braces too early in my life - also…
I think this is a bad plan B, but maybe just because I don't think a good plan B exists. Do you know what everyone has told me about the end of software? Get into the skilled trades. Become an electrician, welder,…
Why is it time to give it up? Are you putting out more features than them? Is your startup performing better than their company? I say this as a person who uses AI for my job, but if someone isn't doing what you are…
Lol - I'll say I do agree with you on this, but... Being the greatest [anything] alive probably puts you at an extreme risk of being "out of touch". Is LeBron James out of touch?
Well, the community never made it a very welcoming place... But, I think a part of this is that it's just faster to throw a Q into ChatGPT. There's no waiting for a response, a major bonus is the non-hostility +…
I think that assuming work can be done more easily in the future should not stop people from doing work that needs to be done in the present. (If a painter knew that the camera was coming out I would not want them to…
Hard agree on the prompting rabbit hole. I've done it a handful of times, I'll get a little ambitious... "Oh, 6.1 Sol can totally handle this" and have it spin up a project, keep going, keep going. Eventually, I get to…
Well... I think the converse to this is the companies that WOULD pay you (slightly less than they currently pay Atlassian) TO replicate those products. I expect some BRUTAL competition for these larger software…
Not picking a side, but do you really think that language models should have a political bias? I personally don't interface with AI in a way that engages political / social bias - but if I did I definitely wouldn't want…
To play devil's advocate, couldn't certain modifications to a heat pump damage the unit? I'm guessing they made "happy path" decisions thinking most people aren't going to modify cycle timing, or know how to do that or…
> the app owns the workspace, the editor, and the wire — it never assembles prompts behind your back. Thanks JetBrains, I assumed the app would assemble prompts behind my back, so I'm glad they clarified that. If they…
You're right - having many possible implementations is NOT the problem here, if a natural language spec covers all the 'necessary' functionality of a piece of software, the implementation does not matter (whether it's…
Yeah - I wish my team would adopt a "no AI prose" rule for team communication. It's one thing to say "please review this code that I used AI to generate". It's entirely different to say "Please read this 7 page document…
This is an interesting failure-mode to me, and I've been interested in how accurate it is since the inception of these models. My answer is still yes - I've got this personal concept that AI is sorta the "opposite" of…
Do you have a 'technical writers' assessment at how good AI writing is currently (and do you see it improving with new models or no)? I'm not great at writing, but this, I think, is one of the main shortcomings for me.…
I'm hoping that one day I end up looking like a junkyard cat. I don't know why, but I think it's pretty cool when someone is pretty banged up. I'm not a very careful guy, so my hands are all torn up, burns on my arms /…
Good points. I've stood by this position. "We'll just store prompts in VC and the agent will pick those up", "Code isn't going to exist anymore", "We will just write comprehensive specs of what the software is supposed…
Personally - I think most software is way more complex than it should be. Depends what you're working on, but from what I have seen software always gravitates towards "unmaintainable mess of complexity" - and our job is…
Sure - but this comment said: > anyone who can afford an assistant has one And that's just not true. I know some independently wealthy people who do not have an assistant / cleaner / lawn care professional. They don't…
I think some of this conversation is circling around the concept of 'allowable risk'... We have a couple of VMs that are not mission critical, and they don't hold sensitive data. We just inject the secrets into the…
This is a baseless statement. Sometimes, people just... like to do things themselves, or don't feel like it's too much of their "precious time" to learn something new. Example: I still do my budgeting / taxes /…
> One possibility is single-person startups, each with a human founder steering swarms of agents to rake in billions in revenue. I guess I'd be curious to see what this single-person startup is offering... I'm also…
Do you have any that you enjoy playing? I've tried a handful but every time my response is mostly... "Wow, really cool that someone made this." Then about a minute later I leave because... it's not fun and there's no…
You're saying I can't get a rack of H100s in my garage and play Crysis 3 on medium
Did anyone find out what numbers trigger something on that counter box on the left?
Dentists, orthodontists, periodontists... I feel the same. I'm a real case study, I was born without my 4 permanent lateral incisors (Top and bottom). First orthodontist applied braces too early in my life - also…
I think this is a bad plan B, but maybe just because I don't think a good plan B exists. Do you know what everyone has told me about the end of software? Get into the skilled trades. Become an electrician, welder,…
Why is it time to give it up? Are you putting out more features than them? Is your startup performing better than their company? I say this as a person who uses AI for my job, but if someone isn't doing what you are…
Lol - I'll say I do agree with you on this, but... Being the greatest [anything] alive probably puts you at an extreme risk of being "out of touch". Is LeBron James out of touch?