manny_rat

“Most software that requires hiring and paying software engineers has low risk tolerance”

Is this true? I’ve worked in various software companies for over 20 years now and I’ve never had to worry about risk in particular, and the codebases were all somewhat bad in areas and buggy (as tends to happen when a codebase gets large and old).

The past 6 months LLMs have crossed into barely needing to check the output territory for what I work on, and generally write very similar code to what I was going to write. It needs some common sense to use it correctly of course, like going feature by feature and keeping the commits fairly small, but my job is easily 10x less work/time for the same results.

I’d be genuinely surprised if even 1% of software requires aviation levels of risk tolerance and testing, but maybe I’m mistaken and most people are working on much more mission critical things than I am?

Love it! OpenSCAD has very painful syntax. Is it possible to easily do bevels/chamfers or does it have the same limitations as OpenSCAD there?

I would love to hear more about this, did you use a GUI library? Does it perform well?

I’ve run into this exact situation several times recently. They were all tasks that I’m positive Claude Code could have managed in the past, but now it simply cannot get over the finish line a lot of the time, and Codex will one shot fix it just like the old Claude Code could. I’ve even tried having Code fix and implement some old tasks it had done correctly in the past and now it simply can’t.

My guess is that it is the fault of the model rather than the harness, I believe Opus to be much worse than it was for whatever reasons. Though I suppose it could be Code’s fault somehow. For the time being though Codex is much better which I never thought I’d be saying.

I plan to run tests using Pi so they have the same system prompt and harness, but I’m suspicious that it’s only the subscription level Claude Code that is worse and we’re not allowed to use that with Pi.

Agreed, it's very strange. I'm sure there are many projects that are like they describe, but it's certainly not all of them. I have worked as a game dev for over 20 years, and probably 75% of that time my team and I have been coding. AI has been an incredible game changer for me over the past 6 months or so (I was using it quite a bit before then, but the capability became much higher lately). I actually have some free time in my days now while still hitting milestone dates, instead of endless crunching.