Tyler Ham

Via taxes (and Bezos) you also get government too.

Processes and practices matter even more. I worry for industries with lower tolerances: eg medical & aerospace.
On the plus side we can write 100% code coverage and have time to do more manual testing or shift budget to more testing.

Nitpick but relevant: the North end of this map is very roughly 15 miles south of the Salesforce tower.
Even between the parks and agriculture there's space for density.
It's most of the cities and voters in all the Bay cities keeping down density, and the owners properties prices up.

A home or car can get painted with a paint sprayer, roller, or spray can and then someone can enjoy the process and end the product.
Then still go back and do accents with a brush and enjoy that too. These are not exclusive.

But a corporation will expect the most cost & time effective methods.

Are there masses of actual hands-on-code developers at various size companies and consultancies that are saying they're actively given the choice and *don't* use LLMs? I haven't seen any.

A similar one people use IRL:
"Have the day you deserve."

What stands out to you in their Bluesky history? (Current job seeker here.)

ChatGPT is not ideal for coding but I wonder if he both:
1. used a native Coding platform (Cursor, Antigravity because it's a familiar IDE) or Codex, Claude Code, or Gemini TUI.
Or even just start with Copilot.
2. Also if he used voice and dictated to it as if it were a junior or remote engineer.

I can think of only one legitimate reason to do this, which aligns with the statement that not many people used it:
If the assembly of the Mach-E now excludes the plastic liner and assembly of the frunk there's a little bit (not $500) of savings.

You wouldn't STEAL a CAR? (Hilarious anti piracy commercial) YouTube video by PopMov

We need to bring back the term freebooting for copyright infringement.
Model training and distillation is freebooting and TOS violation but not theft unless you agree with the "you wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy ads from years ago. youtu.be/PLzy-IJg4_4

IQ that couldn't even boil water.

I'm amused that the people talking about this are using this app, the phones and OSes which all have code written with LLM assistance.

In the 2000s it was neat to read coverage by Ars Technica of studies/research about the productive and useful length of copyrights. IIRC it was 15-40 years. Unfortunately the rich holders (eg Disney) have the incentive to push that.
Why are we following the copyright law set by the rich companies?

Our definitions of copyright and theft are coming from from laws: written and as observed & refined by courts & case law.

This is backwards and needs to evolve.

Laws are old and slow to change. Case law slightly less quick.

Not saying it should be a free-for all.

Limited environments is level 4, Unlimited environments is level 5. For better or worse, SAE doesn't distinguish or define anywhere between the wide range of limited vs unlimited.

Is this different from an existing driverless robotaxi?

"Books" is a pattern of a barrier to entry for the quality of the content. I have found a similar thing looking for reviews of products: magazines and YouTube videos are high barriers to entry and those don't have as much slop or SEO as review websites.

Good recipes are likely in books.
The creative, incentive, and innovative recipes will hopefully stick around, and be first in forums/Reddit and later on passion project blogs that don't need or want ads or SEO.
Later they can be in books too.

Google made it even more obvious when you click over to "AI mode" it's noticeably better if slightly slower.

I think this was my consultant-speak coming out 😂
"It depends" was another thing I learned early as a consultant.

Fair! To be clear, I don't believe Microsoft when they sell .NET or Azure. I read a variety of sources and make a pragmatic decision. Even so far as to possibly go Polycloud.
Likewise I don't believe Ford or Tesla but I do enjoy reading Consumer Reports or Car & Driver. Etc.

But it is worth evaluating how AI assisted coding may help speed upskilling, training, debugging and understanding the specialties. Each business can make the ongoing evaluation as the tools and business changes.

Fair, but what is your plan for when a specialist gets hit by a bus?
Is it so specialized it takes months to hire and train if someone quits?

In this case, perhaps the slow down tradeoff is in the long term interest of the business. Nobody is claiming these tools can do absolutely everything.

Globally distributed teams have similar considerations: when my coworkers in India write code, I will be working with it and adding to it hours later while they sleep. And vice versa.

One of the things that I learned as a SWE consultant taught me is that the code you write will always eventually be owned by someone else. Your time there will come to an end. Therefore the code has to not only be readable & understandable but the sooner the entire team owns all the code, the better

I'd love to see an estimate of how many hours of work a coding agent saves, then it would be easy to calculate calories and then energy & water savings from a standard diet.

Ofc, you're not actually saving energy but it'd be like taking a car a long distance vs walking the same place.

I'm aware of the appeal to authority fallacy but as I look for writing and discussion from authors, people who have written languages and frameworks, etc, I have found the balance to be in favour of LLMs for coding. Not universal and some caution but overall more for than against.

There just ends up being a lot of code to do all these simple things. It's not very difficult there's just a lot of the same repetitive types of coding:
- move data center to cloud
- backend API for a smart oven
- code to set up AWS infra
- zip up music files
There's just a lot of that in the world

I think this may be one of the reasons why we're disagreeing: I totally can see how ML and academic research is novel code that's not well written by LLMs.
Most of the code that I've seen is almost boilerplate and not overly complicated:
Move this data here to there. Make a website to do this.

This is true! It's like hands free cruise control available in many new cars. The person in control always needs to be 100% responsible for all actions and may be lulled into distraction, which is the most dangerous time.