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Comment · 2 months ago
I expect a “Prettier” for AI generated text in the near future.
Comment · 10 months ago
Comment · 11 months ago
On a music blog, yes! Now go try to rewrite the firmware for your car.
Comment · 1 year ago
Kyla Scanlon is speaking from personal experience. It can be a great school if you put in the effort. Will the market will reward that effort with a job? Maybe.
Comment · 1 year ago
Working in microgrids and I completely agree. I use Claude Code every day. There’s so much we don’t know and so much that an LLM is not going to help you with.
Comment · 1 year ago
It depends on the job. T-shirts yes. I enjoy building microgrids. There are many unsolved challenges. When the robots start doing it maybe it’ll be boring. That’s a long way off.
Comment · 1 year ago
I don’t see a compelling reason for Apple to jump into the AI game. The MacBook Pro M4 is a dream to work with, and it works great with Claude Code. Creating quality products is a niche market, but that strategy still has merit.
Comment · 1 year ago
I grew up in the Amiga era when we would type code from magazines to write games. I learned a ton debugging those programs.
Comment · 1 year ago
It's safe to say at this point. The more Microsoft relies on Copilot to solve its security problems, the more problems Microsoft will have.
Comment · 1 year ago
The Microsoft tech debt dumpster fire continues.
Comment · 1 year ago
I completely agree with the author's comment that code review is half-hearted and mostly broken. With agents, the bottleneck is really in reading code, not writing it. If everyone is just half-heartedly reviewing code, or using it as a soapbox for their individual preferences, using agents will completely fall apart as they can easily introduce serious security issues or performance hits.

Let's be honest, many of those can't be found by just 'reading' the code, you have to get your hands dirty and manually debug/or test the assumptions.

Comment · 1 year ago
If he reiterates that comment to me after two beers in a relaxing bar I might believe him.
Comment · 1 year ago
I was thinking that too. He's a great programmer, and at this point I can't imagine he's having fun 'prompting' an LLM to write correct code.
Comment · 1 year ago
We wanted Aaron Swartz and we got Sam Altman.

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