You have misunderstood. I have a the cure for cancer. Simply kill the host. Does it work? Yes. Have you learned anything from it? No.
> Nothing is stopping these folks from continuing to study the problems My understanding is they are? And literally everything in this world is based around incentives. If you say “well you can continue to work on…
To be honest I didn’t get that much outrage here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662116 It seems like a lot of the issue here is that these problems aren’t interesting in and of themselves, but they lead down…
Do you work with other, potentially unmotivated devs/managers a lot? I wonder how much of this is an incentive issue. I don’t think refactoring itself is as much of an issue than working with 2-3 other engineers that…
My Eng lead has no coding experience, 25 years of management experience, yet has driven 3 separate projects into technical bankruptcy to date. He just accepts anything that Claude says as truth. He vibecoded over 60,000…
I don’t like the term taste, but the problem that I have is that LLMs don’t seem to work “good enough”. They seem to be able to solve the immediate problem, but stacking this on the scale of 3-4 devs over 6 months or so…
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This is true but also false. In my experience (scientific programming) AI is a giant multiplier for people with specialized knowledge. But it’s also a giant devaluer for that same knowledge as people with no idea what…
What I’m saying is that it often uses metaphors in ways that are subtly wrong or don’t make any sense.
Or in a way, nothing at all.
I think that’s just a fundamental tradeoff though. Being able to run Jupyter cells independently is a feature until it’s not. I’d say for most of my one-off work, it’s fine. But for stuff I want to share it’s not.
I just dont think LLMs are very good at judging importance or summarizing code. I tried experimenting with what is ultimately a treesitter based approach - https://github.com/0x007BA7/codebook And really liked it.…
I guess I’m thinking a lot of companies seem to be getting Claude code subscriptions. It usually takes some time and effort for an org to switch away from one solution. In the meantime a lot of workflows get more and…
I think anthropic with its enterprise strategy and google with its integration in everything have a bit of a moat. But I switched from ChatGPT to Claude 3 months ago because my account was down for like 6 hours. I…
Yeah I hope the links are helpful
I posted about my project below - https://github.com/0x007BA7/codebook But maybe you should checkout the tools it’s based on, sem - https://github.com/Ataraxy-Labs/sem and ultimately treesitter. They at least give a…
Codebook - https://github.com/0x007BA7/codebook It’s a better code reader built on top of sem (treesitter). I’m getting a lot of massive PRs at work now, and this has helped a lot with reading them. It decomposes the…
This has always been the fun part of programming to me. I know most people hate it, but I really don’t mind being on-call (ok I hate being woken up) and fixing weird bugs that users run into. All these small edge cases…
I do think people are seeing useful results, but it’s at least several orders of magnitude less than what is claimed. My metric is: how much code that I create today do I depend on in 3 months (incl learnings and one…
More generally, I think it’s more specialized knowledge. If you have particularly specific knowledge in pretty much any domain, combining that with AI can lead to huge gains.
> Sounds terrible, but is it? Yes > It incentivises high-impact research It incentivizes work that sounds impressive to laymen. Actual work tends to be technical and might not sound super exciting. If 20 years ago, a…
It doesn’t apply to what this repo is doing. Also the 70 odd single author preprints seems to suggest the author is in some deep AI psychosis: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Logan-Nye-2
Well the √t stuff looks like nonsense or way overblown, existing tools already do similar things, there’s pretty much a single commit with no follow up commits etc etc.
Lots of bad smells in this repo.
Tech “decision makers” are feckless lemmings. If the trends tomorrow change, then their decisions will change.
You have misunderstood. I have a the cure for cancer. Simply kill the host. Does it work? Yes. Have you learned anything from it? No.
> Nothing is stopping these folks from continuing to study the problems My understanding is they are? And literally everything in this world is based around incentives. If you say “well you can continue to work on…
To be honest I didn’t get that much outrage here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662116 It seems like a lot of the issue here is that these problems aren’t interesting in and of themselves, but they lead down…
Do you work with other, potentially unmotivated devs/managers a lot? I wonder how much of this is an incentive issue. I don’t think refactoring itself is as much of an issue than working with 2-3 other engineers that…
My Eng lead has no coding experience, 25 years of management experience, yet has driven 3 separate projects into technical bankruptcy to date. He just accepts anything that Claude says as truth. He vibecoded over 60,000…
I don’t like the term taste, but the problem that I have is that LLMs don’t seem to work “good enough”. They seem to be able to solve the immediate problem, but stacking this on the scale of 3-4 devs over 6 months or so…
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This is true but also false. In my experience (scientific programming) AI is a giant multiplier for people with specialized knowledge. But it’s also a giant devaluer for that same knowledge as people with no idea what…
What I’m saying is that it often uses metaphors in ways that are subtly wrong or don’t make any sense.
Or in a way, nothing at all.
I think that’s just a fundamental tradeoff though. Being able to run Jupyter cells independently is a feature until it’s not. I’d say for most of my one-off work, it’s fine. But for stuff I want to share it’s not.
I just dont think LLMs are very good at judging importance or summarizing code. I tried experimenting with what is ultimately a treesitter based approach - https://github.com/0x007BA7/codebook And really liked it.…
I guess I’m thinking a lot of companies seem to be getting Claude code subscriptions. It usually takes some time and effort for an org to switch away from one solution. In the meantime a lot of workflows get more and…
I think anthropic with its enterprise strategy and google with its integration in everything have a bit of a moat. But I switched from ChatGPT to Claude 3 months ago because my account was down for like 6 hours. I…
Yeah I hope the links are helpful
I posted about my project below - https://github.com/0x007BA7/codebook But maybe you should checkout the tools it’s based on, sem - https://github.com/Ataraxy-Labs/sem and ultimately treesitter. They at least give a…
Codebook - https://github.com/0x007BA7/codebook It’s a better code reader built on top of sem (treesitter). I’m getting a lot of massive PRs at work now, and this has helped a lot with reading them. It decomposes the…
This has always been the fun part of programming to me. I know most people hate it, but I really don’t mind being on-call (ok I hate being woken up) and fixing weird bugs that users run into. All these small edge cases…
I do think people are seeing useful results, but it’s at least several orders of magnitude less than what is claimed. My metric is: how much code that I create today do I depend on in 3 months (incl learnings and one…
More generally, I think it’s more specialized knowledge. If you have particularly specific knowledge in pretty much any domain, combining that with AI can lead to huge gains.
> Sounds terrible, but is it? Yes > It incentivises high-impact research It incentivizes work that sounds impressive to laymen. Actual work tends to be technical and might not sound super exciting. If 20 years ago, a…
It doesn’t apply to what this repo is doing. Also the 70 odd single author preprints seems to suggest the author is in some deep AI psychosis: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Logan-Nye-2
Well the √t stuff looks like nonsense or way overblown, existing tools already do similar things, there’s pretty much a single commit with no follow up commits etc etc.
Lots of bad smells in this repo.
Tech “decision makers” are feckless lemmings. If the trends tomorrow change, then their decisions will change.