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It's possible that the favicons it shows and the web pages that are actually retrieved are not the same

This is in Ireland, with a €2,400 grant. The non-subsidised cost would have been €10,000

That’s wild. I’m getting 12x 450kW panels (5.4kW) and a 10kWh battery installed on my roof this month for a grand total of like €7k.

That’s the total cost including all materials and labour from scratch to a fully functioning system.

> the police have alprs

> there's no violent crime there

Cause and effect, no? /s

No

I can’t tell if you’re implying that those with ADHD are more likely or less likely to think and act in a childlike way. Or whether doing so or not is what causes the over representation in high level positions.

Could you please elaborate?

My understanding is that ADHD would make you more likely to behave in childlike ways as an adult, but not that that would necessarily lead to holding leadership positions.

I’m genuinely very interested in your thoughts.

Color me sceptical but I’d say that’s a bold claim.

Can you give a concrete example of that being the case? I’d love to see the prompt and harness. And understand the scale of problem you’re talking about solving with a one-shot approach.

How long will it take to write the right spec? How will you know ahead of time that the spec is correct?

Which agentic guardrails do you mean? How can they be set up?

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I’d say the job of software engineering is still firmly being able to stand by the work you present and being reasonably confident that it’s correct according to yours and others’ understanding of the problem you’re attempting to solve.

An interesting question. We (humans) care about maintainability because the codebase will be adapted by teams of us for many years, based on new feature and bug fixes.

Rewriting from scratch is basically never an option after a certain amount of time.

Maybe the machines could just start from scratch each time and come at maintainability from a totally different angle

Genuine question, how else would they do it? And isn’t this practice the same as basically any agile-developed SaaS?

No, in that it's something inherently much more unstable than a bicycle and needs a trained human onboard to have any hope of getting anywhere without falling over spectacularly

If a computer is a bicycle for the mind I think LLMs are a unicycle for the computer..

That’s my own personal take on it anyway.

I’m guilty of using this approach too and noticed that an (obvious?) side-effect is that I get fewer wonderful, human, “aha” moments with my colleagues.

I mentioned this at a stand-up and only then did others think about it and notice the same of themselves.

This, to me, is one of the major downsides of all this: less collaboration, more individualism

> The customer won't be able to tell you "you're going too fast", but he will tell you that stuff break

This is what the GP meant. They won’t spoon feed you the “you’re going too fast”, but they will give you other signals that you can, and would benefit from, interpreting as “you’re going too fast”

Well kind of, or you just end up copying the poisoned version directly into your repo rather than having it as a dependency. Same outcome.

I suppose if you're running some security analysis on code in your own repo, the fact that you've copied the code in means that it'll run on your third party dependencies too, since they no longer appear to be third party.