Well, we have seen AlphaFold solving a decades old protein folding problem. There's no reason for me to believe, with all the AI advancements I've seen in the meanwhile, that we will not solve other problems in this…
I appreciate the details, very interesting. So from a quick glance my understanding is that exacycle is a task partitioning and dispatching system built on top of existing google infra runtime (borg). Tasks are units…
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I'm not sure what you mean by "running a job that ran a worker". Running the system is vastly different than building and maintaining one. I work on highly available and distributed systems spanning multiple data…
I made a parallel with similar complexity and ambiguity that can be found in SWE discipline too. I tried not to make any hard claims but I did present my opinion on the topic - I don't see a reason why drug discovery…
Did I say anything wrong?
Did you read the article?
I'd take your overly dismissive words as credible (but still wrong) only if you did the career in both disciplines which I assume you didn't. You're wrong, and your view of SWE discipline is a great example of DK…
You largely explained a day in life of a SWE working in a complex codebase spanning (tens of) millions lines of code. In complex products we always deal with a great degree of uncertainty and due to the ambiguity and…
Few years back many SWE people would say, including me, that the bottleneck is not in coding. We were all very wrong.
Yes, I do. My comment was a general sentiment saying that sole inexistence of something is not a proof that that something has to be very complex. Pharma is no different when it comes to people relationships and/or fear…
> And if it was simple, it would already exist. Not necessarily. Many things are simply gatekept behind the door.
Where all of this people have come from? Fresh from University? Other jobs? Out of nowhere?
> and avoid even the appearance of the idea that Claude came up with it de novo. If we s/Claude/Few Meta engineers/, would de novo still hold?
> it neatly compiles into a single portable executable. Not quite the advantage in the AI era. Quite the contrary. Dynamic linking is something Rust will have to solve.
Dropping human-in-the-loop reviews is inevitable - it's just a matter of time. You cannot design a Ferrari and then let the driver crawl its speed by manually pushing it down the road. And all the "real" companies I…
That is not the quote parent comment was about wasn't it or am I missing something? In case of your comment, I could have agreed to some degree but what you say is also not necessarily true since we don't actually know…
Well, Anthropic used model A to output the version 1, and then used model B to rewrite the version 1 into version 2, so the handoff was machine to machine and not human to machine. I read that part of an article as if…
While companies are heavily incentivized to speeding up, cutting costs, etc. I expect that friction imposed by the humans is not going to go away that quickly.
Where exactly do you see human creativity and spark in the loop or fresh, new, bold, creative ideas in > We asked it to rewrite the whole thing, and with no further instructions They simply asked the model to rewrite…
I thought that they are already really good at software engineering but I guess that greatly depends on how one defines the "quality".
This is too vague for me to answer but I'll try - effective organization is the one whose revenue and net-profit per employee is higher than their competition. And fastest moving organization would be relative and…
That reads as an example from GoF era. In practice, especially with complex software engineering codebases, which I thought you were implying by saying "large", these patterns barely exist because the problems being…
Now instead of the AI agents swarm you let 100 engineers making the changes on that large codebase. How do you keep the code "quality", which is a very subjective thing, while at the same time, as you say, keep the…
They almost certainly don't review the generated code, or at least not with the common techniques we used so far (human review), otherwise their development would be largely bottlenecked by the review process - and I…
Well, we have seen AlphaFold solving a decades old protein folding problem. There's no reason for me to believe, with all the AI advancements I've seen in the meanwhile, that we will not solve other problems in this…
I appreciate the details, very interesting. So from a quick glance my understanding is that exacycle is a task partitioning and dispatching system built on top of existing google infra runtime (borg). Tasks are units…
[dead]
I'm not sure what you mean by "running a job that ran a worker". Running the system is vastly different than building and maintaining one. I work on highly available and distributed systems spanning multiple data…
I made a parallel with similar complexity and ambiguity that can be found in SWE discipline too. I tried not to make any hard claims but I did present my opinion on the topic - I don't see a reason why drug discovery…
Did I say anything wrong?
Did you read the article?
I'd take your overly dismissive words as credible (but still wrong) only if you did the career in both disciplines which I assume you didn't. You're wrong, and your view of SWE discipline is a great example of DK…
You largely explained a day in life of a SWE working in a complex codebase spanning (tens of) millions lines of code. In complex products we always deal with a great degree of uncertainty and due to the ambiguity and…
Few years back many SWE people would say, including me, that the bottleneck is not in coding. We were all very wrong.
Yes, I do. My comment was a general sentiment saying that sole inexistence of something is not a proof that that something has to be very complex. Pharma is no different when it comes to people relationships and/or fear…
> And if it was simple, it would already exist. Not necessarily. Many things are simply gatekept behind the door.
Where all of this people have come from? Fresh from University? Other jobs? Out of nowhere?
> and avoid even the appearance of the idea that Claude came up with it de novo. If we s/Claude/Few Meta engineers/, would de novo still hold?
> it neatly compiles into a single portable executable. Not quite the advantage in the AI era. Quite the contrary. Dynamic linking is something Rust will have to solve.
Dropping human-in-the-loop reviews is inevitable - it's just a matter of time. You cannot design a Ferrari and then let the driver crawl its speed by manually pushing it down the road. And all the "real" companies I…
That is not the quote parent comment was about wasn't it or am I missing something? In case of your comment, I could have agreed to some degree but what you say is also not necessarily true since we don't actually know…
Well, Anthropic used model A to output the version 1, and then used model B to rewrite the version 1 into version 2, so the handoff was machine to machine and not human to machine. I read that part of an article as if…
While companies are heavily incentivized to speeding up, cutting costs, etc. I expect that friction imposed by the humans is not going to go away that quickly.
Where exactly do you see human creativity and spark in the loop or fresh, new, bold, creative ideas in > We asked it to rewrite the whole thing, and with no further instructions They simply asked the model to rewrite…
I thought that they are already really good at software engineering but I guess that greatly depends on how one defines the "quality".
This is too vague for me to answer but I'll try - effective organization is the one whose revenue and net-profit per employee is higher than their competition. And fastest moving organization would be relative and…
That reads as an example from GoF era. In practice, especially with complex software engineering codebases, which I thought you were implying by saying "large", these patterns barely exist because the problems being…
Now instead of the AI agents swarm you let 100 engineers making the changes on that large codebase. How do you keep the code "quality", which is a very subjective thing, while at the same time, as you say, keep the…
They almost certainly don't review the generated code, or at least not with the common techniques we used so far (human review), otherwise their development would be largely bottlenecked by the review process - and I…