You can’t abstract away the need to capture requirements in a symbolic language. It doesn’t matter which programming or formal language you choose to specify your requirements in, but it cannot be natural language.
When people install npm packages, they typically only install ones the community trusts. These packages have clear APIs, open source, good docs, test coverage, security checks, and, importantly, usually no undocumented…
The first sentence is easily verifiable, but the second carries the burden of proof.
For the record I’m fully on board with slopification being a bad thing. My point is that businesses don’t seem to care at this time.
> It's your job to explain to them the consequences of shipping code faster than the people whose job it is to understand it can do so. The problem we’re collectively running into is that nobody knows if this actually…
Time. The limit is time. With or without agents there’s an X number of lines of code my brain can digest per work day. But rate of production of code is effectively unlimited or heavily influenced by people who let go…
Proponents of LLM coding agents would claim you don’t need reproducibility. As long as the final output passes tests/lint, it’s (allegedly) good to go.
Nobody solved the navier stokes problem, Jesus. A subproblem was possibly solved (still being verified) based on context in an actual mathematician’s chats with ChatGPT. These models on their own are still incapable of…
Absolute cinema - measuring software engineering productivity by lines of code in 2026.
Trying to turn it around by once again claiming that ai is an existential threat and will take everyone’s job right before brutally murdering every human. These companies don’t appear to give a single fuck about public…
> I've found I can produce 10x more code than I could otherwise, of lower quality than I would otherwise, but the speedup is worth it. The speedup of slop production being “worth it” is what we, as a society, are having…
There is, however, a question of scale.
And yet those companies aren't collapsing because it became easier to rewrite their software, but because llms themselves have replaced a core part of their business (such as translation or simple art). Seems like so…
It’s not just math. Anecdotally, LLMs struggle the same way with software engineering where the code they write is correct (compiles and passes tests), but reasoning is wrong often enough to eliminate most trust in…
They score 99% but then can’t explain _why_ their solution works with any accuracy. Not as useful for learning as one might think.
It was this way well before vibe coding. Over a decade of zero interest rates combined with talent wars and other anticompetitive behaviors by large tech companies did the industry in.
> Now back to AI for software creation. "Review is the bottleneck because EVERYTHING must be judged by a human." No. It doesn't. We just need to build AI review systems, that will do reviews better than (or at least as…
The challenge with comparing these things to humans, is that humans learn. A newbie might not respect your organization’s set of policies on day one, but what about 3 months in? Or 3 years? Meanwhile there’s still no…
I think the issue is that obtaining empirical proof of AI or manual coding being more efficient is very difficult, since true costs and outcomes aren’t known for months and often years. AI _is_ faster at producing short…
Hopefully everyone? Else your job could have been outsourced or replaced by a junior with access to Google and StackOverflow way before LLMs (it just wasn’t due to zero interest rates and proliferation of bullshit jobs…
> Significantly increased my productivity as a software engineer. You’re going to have to define productivity as it applies to software engineering. With LLMs we’ve primarily seen the number of PRs over time being…
Yes that’s the right source. There would be no recovery in SWE market after the higher interest rates killed it if LLMs had any major impact on SWE employability.
> The real risk isn't that some 19 year-old vibe coder is going to replace you, it's that there's simply less need for more experienced engineers. The market is shrinking. That last sentence is verifiably false if you…
Always has been tbh
Back in the day, you couldn’t ask stack overflow about your specific business or project. You were forced to build at least some level of understanding of what you were doing on the job or risk your lack of knowledge…
You can’t abstract away the need to capture requirements in a symbolic language. It doesn’t matter which programming or formal language you choose to specify your requirements in, but it cannot be natural language.
When people install npm packages, they typically only install ones the community trusts. These packages have clear APIs, open source, good docs, test coverage, security checks, and, importantly, usually no undocumented…
The first sentence is easily verifiable, but the second carries the burden of proof.
For the record I’m fully on board with slopification being a bad thing. My point is that businesses don’t seem to care at this time.
> It's your job to explain to them the consequences of shipping code faster than the people whose job it is to understand it can do so. The problem we’re collectively running into is that nobody knows if this actually…
Time. The limit is time. With or without agents there’s an X number of lines of code my brain can digest per work day. But rate of production of code is effectively unlimited or heavily influenced by people who let go…
Proponents of LLM coding agents would claim you don’t need reproducibility. As long as the final output passes tests/lint, it’s (allegedly) good to go.
Nobody solved the navier stokes problem, Jesus. A subproblem was possibly solved (still being verified) based on context in an actual mathematician’s chats with ChatGPT. These models on their own are still incapable of…
Absolute cinema - measuring software engineering productivity by lines of code in 2026.
Trying to turn it around by once again claiming that ai is an existential threat and will take everyone’s job right before brutally murdering every human. These companies don’t appear to give a single fuck about public…
> I've found I can produce 10x more code than I could otherwise, of lower quality than I would otherwise, but the speedup is worth it. The speedup of slop production being “worth it” is what we, as a society, are having…
There is, however, a question of scale.
And yet those companies aren't collapsing because it became easier to rewrite their software, but because llms themselves have replaced a core part of their business (such as translation or simple art). Seems like so…
It’s not just math. Anecdotally, LLMs struggle the same way with software engineering where the code they write is correct (compiles and passes tests), but reasoning is wrong often enough to eliminate most trust in…
They score 99% but then can’t explain _why_ their solution works with any accuracy. Not as useful for learning as one might think.
It was this way well before vibe coding. Over a decade of zero interest rates combined with talent wars and other anticompetitive behaviors by large tech companies did the industry in.
> Now back to AI for software creation. "Review is the bottleneck because EVERYTHING must be judged by a human." No. It doesn't. We just need to build AI review systems, that will do reviews better than (or at least as…
The challenge with comparing these things to humans, is that humans learn. A newbie might not respect your organization’s set of policies on day one, but what about 3 months in? Or 3 years? Meanwhile there’s still no…
I think the issue is that obtaining empirical proof of AI or manual coding being more efficient is very difficult, since true costs and outcomes aren’t known for months and often years. AI _is_ faster at producing short…
Hopefully everyone? Else your job could have been outsourced or replaced by a junior with access to Google and StackOverflow way before LLMs (it just wasn’t due to zero interest rates and proliferation of bullshit jobs…
> Significantly increased my productivity as a software engineer. You’re going to have to define productivity as it applies to software engineering. With LLMs we’ve primarily seen the number of PRs over time being…
Yes that’s the right source. There would be no recovery in SWE market after the higher interest rates killed it if LLMs had any major impact on SWE employability.
> The real risk isn't that some 19 year-old vibe coder is going to replace you, it's that there's simply less need for more experienced engineers. The market is shrinking. That last sentence is verifiably false if you…
Always has been tbh
Back in the day, you couldn’t ask stack overflow about your specific business or project. You were forced to build at least some level of understanding of what you were doing on the job or risk your lack of knowledge…