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To the north is Santa Monica, its own city.

The obvious next step here is to do LA county, since so much sits outside the city limits.

Github's Octoverse report kind of gives you that evidence, no? Pull requests landed in 2025 were up 30% over 2024. This year it's going to be much higher.

> Why do only the poor quality LLM code generation users make PRs to open source projects, and never the engineers that know how to really use it correctly?

It could be that the engineers who are extremely productive with LLMs are landing PRs that look indistinguishable from good, hand-written PRs.

Your compiler created the bytecode that the CPU runs. How can you take pride in writing your Rust code?

When I'm building, and get approached by large customers who have specific needs for them, those needs go at the end of our backlog. There's a hard and fast rule that unless it's an issue with authentication or accepting money, nobody gets to jump the line. We re-evaluate our backlogs periodically, and treat large-customer requests similarly to small-customer requests; who is this going to serve, what additional revenue could this generate, will this increase retention. If there are other projects that, combined, will move the needle more than doing one project for one enterprise client, guess what, that enterprise client doesn't get to jump the line.

Toothpaste making did not completely take over the world's supply of plastic for caps.

Where were the shoes that you are currently wearing manufactured?

"If a local district starts losing funding, then it would have to close / shrink schools, and people from outside the educational system would be allowed to establish independent (secular) charter schools within the district."

There is zero incentive for "people outside the educational system" to do this. Kids will absolutely suffer because of this plan.

The answer to this, like always, is that teachers need to be paid more.

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If "we will opt everyone in because otherwise we won't get enough data because we know users won't opt in" is your business model, maybe it's time for a rethink.

Except you kind of do -- understanding data structures, understanding software engineering concepts, all of the things that you learn as a good engineer, those are ways that you help guide the LLM in its work.

> Another way to look at this is that AI coding agents take the fun out of a software engineer's job.

Completely backwards - the fun in the job should be to solve problems and come up with solutions. The fun in the job is not knowing where to place a semicolon.

Title clickbait for sure, but the process has radically changed in the past 6 months due to this new generation of models.

"Perfect code from the agent everytime" isn't really what the expectation is. Bugs are always going to be shipped into production, no matter who or what is writing the code. Where SDLC is really getting compressed is in the iteration phase.

For example:

- "This is a known good state; write tests to enforce this state" is something that takes minutes now instead of days. That is incredibly powerful for understanding and maintaining a system.

- Bugfixing is a matter now of an agent watching error logs, diagnosing traces, and immediately issuing PRs with suggested fixes, something that again would have taken hours at least and is now down to minutes (and can be a 24x7 operation, which for most businesses is a revelation).

- Engineers have the freedom to land enhancements that in the Before Times would have sat in the backlog for months and years on end because of the time commitment. That has knock-on effects of quality, features, and just overall improvements for users.

It is a very, very, very different world that we're operating in, and what used to be huge steps of the SDLC now take less time than checking your email in the mornings with your first cup of coffee.