poisonborz

I don't get this comment, you say it breaks trust because it's unknown who is accountable, and then you say you (the author) is accountable. So where is the trust broken?

Also your examples are wrong, regardless of pair programming or TDD, there is always a single committer, who is to be held accountable. How you achieve that commit in the past, copy-pasting from stackoverflow, or some auto-expand snippet automation from the IDE - so any tooling - does not matter. Agentic development is also such a tool, thus does not change trust.

The agent runner, or committer, a single human, is to be held accountable. That responsibility is - and always was - the most important role of a programmer.

- large enterprises, especially if their main business not software, are rather cagey about new contracts, and it can take 1Y+ to get a contract approved

- I'd never blow this budget to be dependent on a single provider that 1. can change contract prices or limits on a whim, 2. lives in a sea of competition, new models coming up every week that may be better for a certain workload.

Claude lovers tend to be either early adopters not well informed/lazy to experiment ("why, it's still the best, right?"), or millionaires or devs with unlimited budgets, who often ask on HN "why would you use anything else than Opus on xhigh".

I was handed 150$/mo budget and no subs, and while it was frustrating at first, with better tooling, context management and especially OAI models it's a breeze now and not even using 70% mostly while achieving a lot in a small team.

Having limited resources teaches you a lot.

I think I reacted exactly to this. What is "code as craft", or as often read, "code is poetry"? It is variable naming, structure, hierarchy, import logic, all patterns that can be strictly controlled still. Opinions vary if this still carries enough value - I like these details, exactly because I value the "craft" and the expectancy of human oversight these presume, but I could argue about it to some manager less and less (compared to what frontier models generate already).

So when all this can still be kept, "hand craft", the muscle memory of typing code, or, as OP said,"dev who liked more the micro parts", what is this other than some nice myth the industry wove for itself?

Apples and oranges. Hot take: fine details in an artwork are extremely important. "Fine details" in a codebase are either some pattern you can easily instruct an agent to follow, or deliver zero value.

Since you seem to be a high profile user, I wonder, do you not have a fear of basically giving away the keys to your kingdom to a corporate entity? That first, second, third parties or malicious actors in or outside the supplier chain might use this information against you, or the likes of you?

Both tasks seem to be like a job that in the older times could have been handled by a personal assistant / a human agent, probably way more expensive, but the threat vector seems to be so much simpler.

On a more philosophical note, I’m puzzled about what kind of society is being propelled by using and advocating for such* a service.

* emphasis on being remote-controlled/hosted, not AI in general

It amazes me how even smart, capable, well paid IT people give away their most private data "because it's cheaper".

There are talented and objectively nice software engineers working for Meta, Palantir, Flock, you name it. I knew some of them, warning about moving to the US at the early 2020s. They did not understand, just oblivious, happy about the comp, and that they could fulfill their "america" childhood dreams, mostly gathered from movies they watched on the 6th floor of scrappy socialist block building. They tend to complain about workplace tensions, high pressure... but evil things? No that's someone elses doing.

Was the art the act of typing out code? Everything else, the reasoning, remains in any depth you want. Since the same reasoning produces the sameish code I argue this is not the same as who holds the brush on the canvas.

Tailscale IS Wireguard. With all the reasonable management added. You can selfhost the control part via Headscale. Plain Wireguard can be a hassle for most - that bore Netbird, WG-Easy, Netmaker... out of those Tailscale got it the most right.

They are absolutely great except: - you need a beefier GPU for transcoding. It heats up fast under heavy load and most builds are fanless. - you start to have NAS requirements / +2 hard drives, RAID etc. There are a few chinese motherboards/minipc options now that do 6 SATAs or 4 NVMEs (via PCIE 3.0 x1) but you will be quickly constrained.

It is the perfect gateway drug setup though.

What I like is how most such vibed tools - self-aware how ubiquitous they are - don't try to capture audience or offer paid services. Everything is suddenly available without logins, share via a simple url, self-hosting is expected. While AI diminishes the power, influence and recognition of creators, I find it overall a great democratizing force in software.

Which of the rules specifically do you find silly?

Ok it'll be me to say this here: the core idea is great, but the "woman can't drive" trope is really off-putting, even if that wasn't the intention. The characters could have been anyone in any setting, yet they chose a young woman and an older brother teaching her.

> The joy of programming is dying. The joy of delivering results lives on.

This sums it up well and will ring true no matter which side of the argument you're on.