> In some sense, all programming is boilerplate expansion because computers have (until now) been unable to be programmed with anything approaching natural language. Maybe sometimes, but not always. When you need to…
I’m sure there are many of those, but like everything, there are tiers. I’m sure we’ll get something similar in SWE, but my hope is that you’ll still be able to choose to be a high tier engineer if you wanted to
I may be mistaking, but I doubt it digs through thinking tokens of previous runs, not to mention previous sessions
People, sometimes weirdly called by their animal name, humans, do have memories of their thought process. We can reach back to those memories to explain why we made a decision. Sometimes we don’t remember and speculate…
In my experience it’s impossible to foresee all the micro decisions that reality will demand. IMO it’s one reason to not use waterfall, which is very similar to what you described
Claude won’t tell you why it did something. Instead, it will generate a probable explanation. The two are very different
What are you there for then?
You really put my thoughts into words, thank you!
Yes you can. Sometimes it’ll find them, sometimes it won’t. I find myself having to use Claude to untangle its own mess piece by piece, a as it charged full steam ahead with the design we made together. However, not…
Are you working on complex systems that serve many users in production? Do you actually save time?
As a developer you are more akin to a car mechanic, who’s still expected to know how the engine works even a century after it was invented, rather than a driver, who is just the user in this parallel.
Your vouching for centralization of knowledge, and even understanding, which I think is a very bad idea. It’s not like the rest of us are becoming specialized at something else - knowledge, in the broad sense, is the…
What's happens to the price of construction when the state suddenly commissions millions of homes?
For the West
> ... prolonged Gulf conflict that at this point seems to serve no point whatsoever for anyone except perhaps Israel. Dominating most of global oil and gas traffic is indeed very much a point that the US is trying to…
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> Progress on software security used to be limited by how quickly we could find new vulnerabilities And so was malicious vulnerability research.
I agree with all of that. However, that’s not to say that many designer jobs will be going away, simply because for many cases, cost beats quality. We’ll just have more things with a much lower quality. You can compare…
I don’t know. With the core programming skills atrophying, who’s going to have the skills to audit AI’s work?
> this won't replace Figma or designers If every designer takes less time to do their job, you need less designers. There’s no getting around that simple math.
Can you give an example of how such a redesigned process might look like?
I don't watch, I talk to real people who are first hand witnesses. Second, Israel doesn't own any media empire, what exactly do you mean? Third, Hamas doesn't need to dismantle any media organization, they got Qatar…
These populists, so called leaders, don't represent everyone and are hated by many. In war everyone loses, and you seem to ignore the fact that there are two sides here. Normative people don't wake up in the morning…
Ok, so the Iranian regime itself published this news? And you don’t even question it? Seems like we’re on such polar ends, there’s no hope in discussion.
No, the condemnation is real…
> In some sense, all programming is boilerplate expansion because computers have (until now) been unable to be programmed with anything approaching natural language. Maybe sometimes, but not always. When you need to…
I’m sure there are many of those, but like everything, there are tiers. I’m sure we’ll get something similar in SWE, but my hope is that you’ll still be able to choose to be a high tier engineer if you wanted to
I may be mistaking, but I doubt it digs through thinking tokens of previous runs, not to mention previous sessions
People, sometimes weirdly called by their animal name, humans, do have memories of their thought process. We can reach back to those memories to explain why we made a decision. Sometimes we don’t remember and speculate…
In my experience it’s impossible to foresee all the micro decisions that reality will demand. IMO it’s one reason to not use waterfall, which is very similar to what you described
Claude won’t tell you why it did something. Instead, it will generate a probable explanation. The two are very different
What are you there for then?
You really put my thoughts into words, thank you!
Yes you can. Sometimes it’ll find them, sometimes it won’t. I find myself having to use Claude to untangle its own mess piece by piece, a as it charged full steam ahead with the design we made together. However, not…
Are you working on complex systems that serve many users in production? Do you actually save time?
As a developer you are more akin to a car mechanic, who’s still expected to know how the engine works even a century after it was invented, rather than a driver, who is just the user in this parallel.
Your vouching for centralization of knowledge, and even understanding, which I think is a very bad idea. It’s not like the rest of us are becoming specialized at something else - knowledge, in the broad sense, is the…
What's happens to the price of construction when the state suddenly commissions millions of homes?
For the West
> ... prolonged Gulf conflict that at this point seems to serve no point whatsoever for anyone except perhaps Israel. Dominating most of global oil and gas traffic is indeed very much a point that the US is trying to…
[dead]
> Progress on software security used to be limited by how quickly we could find new vulnerabilities And so was malicious vulnerability research.
I agree with all of that. However, that’s not to say that many designer jobs will be going away, simply because for many cases, cost beats quality. We’ll just have more things with a much lower quality. You can compare…
I don’t know. With the core programming skills atrophying, who’s going to have the skills to audit AI’s work?
> this won't replace Figma or designers If every designer takes less time to do their job, you need less designers. There’s no getting around that simple math.
Can you give an example of how such a redesigned process might look like?
I don't watch, I talk to real people who are first hand witnesses. Second, Israel doesn't own any media empire, what exactly do you mean? Third, Hamas doesn't need to dismantle any media organization, they got Qatar…
These populists, so called leaders, don't represent everyone and are hated by many. In war everyone loses, and you seem to ignore the fact that there are two sides here. Normative people don't wake up in the morning…
Ok, so the Iranian regime itself published this news? And you don’t even question it? Seems like we’re on such polar ends, there’s no hope in discussion.
No, the condemnation is real…