Readit NewsI'm sure that is how many photographers felt about digital cameras and photo editing software when it first came. Now very few professional photographers work without digital cameras and photo editing software (even if it is just to tweak some colors). Yes, you will still have some artists making money with purely analog cameras without any touch up but they are a tiny minority of the photographers getting paid for their work (slightly more people use analog cameras as a hobby).
It's probably true in our industry too - I'm sure that when people started using programming languages instead of writing machine code people looked down on them too.
This will be another abstraction layer that MANY people will use and be able to accomplish things that would have been impossible to do in a reasonable amount of time in machine code.
Can I create an account with email on Kilo Code or only "Sign in with Google"? I couldn't see such an option.
Would you use GitHub auth?
Ah, I personally read it as "Use of good tools makes you more competitive",
but you're right that "I firmly believe that AI will not replace developers, but a developer using AI will replace a developer who does not." could have multiple other readings too.
Author and Kilo Code team member here - yes your interpretation is what I meant...but to be fair as you mention it could be read multiple ways.
Let's be fair - I made it intentionally a little provocative :)
AI isn't a stylistic preference or minor enhancement, but cognitive augmentation that allows developers to navigate complexity at scales human cognition wasn't designed for.
Just as the developer who refused to adopt version control, IDEs, or Stack Overflow eventually became unemployable, those who reject tools that fundamentally expand their problem-solving capacity will find themselves unable to compete with those who can architect solutions across larger possibility spaces on smaller teams.
Will it be used for absolutely every problem? No - There are clearly places where humans are needed.
But rejecting the enormous impact this will have on the workforce is trading hype goggles for a bucket of sand.
Author and Kilo Code team member here - this is a much better explanation of what I mean. And honestly, it's a quick phrase I've been using that is shorthand really for THIS much better-written take.
boleary-gl commented on Launch HN: Morph (YC S23) – Apply AI code edits at 4,500 tokens/sec · Posted by u/bhaktatejas922
Kilo Code team member here
Would love to chat about integrating the models into Kilo Code if you’re interested
You can contact me at brendan [at] kilocode [dot] ai
I wonder if Cloudflare's new plan for blocking AI from scraping the "real" sites...
boleary-gl commented on OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/swyx
The comparison table on the kilo site says "OpenRouter without 5% markup" and only puts a checkbox next to kilo.
Yes - with our built-in provider, we provide all the models that OpenRouter provides but without OpenRouter's 5% markup. We provide them at cost (the AI provider cost)
I would love to know if and how you disagree. I am (I thought obviously) making a jump here from her desire to make FLOW-MATIC human-readable. Also, I don't believe that AI will take developers's jobs, but I do believe a developer using AI will replace ones not using it...so I'm intentionally provocative there, yes.