Readit NewsSo I don't buy the engineering angle, I also don't think LLMs will scale up to AGI as imagined by Asimov or any of the usual sci-fi tropes. There is something more fundamental missing, as in missing science, not missing engineering.
When I was looking for a car I was looking for 3 things: 1. Low gas mileage 2. Cheap/Reliable 3. Not run by Elon Musk
So I got a used Corolla Hybrid and plan on driving that for at least 5-10 years. But I understand that I’m not a profitable customers to most car companies.
It makes everyone “produce more code” but your worst dev producing 10X the code is not 10X more productive.
There’s also a bit of a dunning Kruger effect where the most careless people are the most likely to YOLO thousands of lines of vibecode into prod. While a more meticulous engineer might take a lot more time to read the changes, figure out where the AI is wrong, and remove unnecessary code. But the second engineer would be seen as much much less productive than the first in this case
Personally, I’ve been seeing the number of changes for a PR starting to reach into the mid-hundreds now. And fundamentally the developers who make them don’t understand how they work. They often think they do, but then I’ll ask them something about the design and they’ll reply: “IDK Claude did that.”
By no means am I down on AI, but I think proper procedures need to be put into place unless we want a giant bomb in our code base.
Wow, so intellectual you are to say nobody can hold ideals.
And instead of owning up to that fact, saying “oh no, but that’s not what I expected, I expected these laws to affect someone else, not me”.
Protester: What do we want??
Crowd: High quality, double blinded, N of 100000, 20 year longitudinal, preregistered studies!!
Protester: When do we want it??
Crowd: Now!!!
Ironic to call people aware of this stupid.
If you truly believed that this was going to be the solution that governments were going to use, yes you’re still an idiot. Ok, maybe incredibly naive to be charitable. But still have you paid even the slightest bit of attention to pretty much anything a governmental institution has done in the last 15 years?