joduplessis

This feels like a stupid investment given it's autocratic quasi-religious undertones, on top of diminishing product differentiation.

You deserve an upvote - if only to base it in reality.

There isn't a difference there in my experience. That "eye" is the taste, and before you start studying/practicing/training/doing - most of the time you won't know the "why it works" either. I'm not sure what "vulgar taste" would be.

This article is filled with pseudo self-help advice for people who now think they need taste to level-up their the LLM skills.

> it’s a trained instinct. The ability to see beyond the obvious and recognize what elevates. It’s why some designs feel effortless.

This is not really what "taste" is.

Some designs feel effortless because someone practiced/trained so they could execute on their taste. Taste is extremely cheap - execution is still very hard.

That's a load-bearing statement.

Sol is so good, honestly - the sweet spot for me. I've only ever found it stumbles when you don't give enough direction. But for idea execution - Sol is the GOAT.

Ah, I miss the days of NoSQL vs. SQL debates.

Same. Sol was actually the reason I upgraded my plan to the $100 one. Hoping GPT-6 Sol is the same.

It is strange how people who say they are "often wrong", never quite sound like they take that into consideration when delivering opinions or thought pieces - I see it fairly often in tech. Anyways; nothing against Boris, but Anthropic/Claude has certainly been the first company (& product) too annoying for me to use.

Microsoft executives levelling "tone-deaf" up in realtime.

I've come to utterly hate conversing with Claude. I don't care if it's right or wrong, my job is challenging enough - I don't need a tool (that's meant to help) making my life harder. I think I've mentioned this as well - but turns out a lot of the AI fatigue came from having to digest Claude's monologues - because that shit ain't meant to be read by humans.

This doesn't seem to be a big issue with Codex. Claude, yes - I have from time to time said "ffs one liner please".

Anthropic, the company employing "treat them mean, keep them keen" as a marketing tactic. Pass.

And are the agents argumentative and condescending I'm wondering.

I think, if the bubble pops, LLM assisted coding is here to stay. It's novel & useful enough to offer a real advantage, but can also be misused easily by folks who think software is now "solved" obviously. Either way - the middle ground is the sweet spot, and I think you're probably just looking at the disappearance of the bottom layer: grunt work, templates, straightforward SaaS apps, tooling, utils, etc. Job-wise though, I think juniors & interns are the ones who's caught in the storm unfortunately.