Yeah, Vibe code more github!
Readit Newselzbardico commented on Another GitHub outage in the same day githubstatus.com/incident... · Posted by u/Nezteb
elzbardico commented on Luce: First Electric Ferrari ferrari.com/en-US/auto/fe... · Posted by u/kaizenb
The tablet interface looks cheap and low-budget. When you spend that much on a car you don't want the interior to look like a Model S.
This is not a car for tech bros with no culture, no traditions, and no past. This is a Ferrari.
I feel like most of the anxiety around LLMs is because (in the USA at least) our social safety net sucks.
I'd probably have way more fun debating LLMs if it wasn't tied to my ability to pay rent, have healthcare, or feel like a valued person contributing something to society. If we had universal healthcare and a federal job guarantee it would probably calm things down.
Don't let the hysteria and the astro-turfing get to you. Things are not nearly as close to what a bunch of hyper-excited project managers, average developers and labs propagandists like to say.
The more you use code agents, the clearer its limitations will appear to you.
Everyone selling them as some silver bullet is either trying to astroturf it, to ride the wave as a newly minted "expert/early adopter" or have no fucking clue about what they are talking.
We’ll miss creating something we feel proud of, something true and right and good. We’ll miss the satisfaction of the artist’s signature at the bottom of the oil painting, the GitHub repo saying “I made this.”
Just the right abstractions. Complicated problems reduced to perfectly legible structures, easy to read for newcomers, easy to extend when new problems arise.
Extracting that from an LLM just doesn't produce the same feeling, even when it produces the same results. And they don't reliably produce the same results yet even, just poor imitations, however functional.
On the other hand, when they work, I am empowered to produce code I would have never thought of. I'm empowered to bounce an idea off an oracle that knows all the answers, and can tailor its responses to my exact use case. I'm coming around to finding the joy in that. I have to.
I still nitpick it to death. If anything, I have more opportunities to nitpick code. LLM code is usually filthy: terrible abstractions, no care for complexity, cohesion, and coupling metrics.
Debugging with LLMs is also a mixed experience; they can identify plenty of hypotheses very well, thanks to millions of dollars spent in RL, but they lack a more profound understanding of causal chains. They will try to change more than one thing at a time, even when doing so will completely invalidate the experiment; they will get into bizarre loops and weird tangents. They can help a lot, but if you want to have good results, it is way better if you strongly take control of the steering wheel.
LLMs are basically the average developer, although with way more breadth. But still not much depth.
elzbardico commented on Software factories and the agentic moment factory.strongdm.ai/... · Posted by u/mellosouls
What’s to stop them? Competition.
Competition doesn’t magically waive costs, the investors expectations of return, neither debt serving obligations.
elzbardico commented on LLMs as the new high level language federicopereiro.com/llm-h... · Posted by u/swah
Not really, because when they are feed into agents, those agents will take over tasks that previously required writing some kinds of classical programming.
I have already watched integrations between SaaS being deployed with agents instead of classical middleware.
I've seen them too. They are not pretty.
elzbardico commented on LLMs as the new high level language federicopereiro.com/llm-h... · Posted by u/swah
Are these kinds of articles a new breed of rage bait? They keep ending up on the front page with thriving comment sections, but in terms of content they're pretty low in nutritional value.
So I'm guessing they just rise because they spark a debate?
Vibe coders are the new eternal september
elzbardico commented on How to effectively write quality code with AI heidenstedt.org/posts/202... · Posted by u/i5heu
Ironically, I use the time saved using agents to read technical books ferociously.
Coding agents made me really get something back from the money I pay for my O'Reilly subscription.
So, coding agents are making me a better engineer by giving me time to dive deeper into books instead of having to just read enough to do something that works under time pressure.
elzbardico commented on How to effectively write quality code with AI heidenstedt.org/posts/202... · Posted by u/i5heu
I wonder over the long term how programmers are going to maintain the proficiency to read and edit the code that the LLM produces.
There were always many mediocre engineers around, some of them even with fancy titles like "Senior," "Principal", and CTO.
We have always survived it, so probably we can also survive mediocre coders not reading the code the LLM generates for them because they are unable to see the problems that they were never able to see in their handwritten code.
Fun fact: I got to read the thesis of one my uncles who was a young professor back in the 90's. Right when they were discovering bosons. They were already modelling them as tensors back then. And probably multilinear transformations.
Now that I am grown I can understand a little more, I was about 10 years old back then. I had no idea he was studying and teaching the state of the art. xD
You can find tensors even in some niche stuff in macroeconomics.