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krainboltgreene commented on Some thoughts on LLMs and software development   martinfowler.com/articles... · Posted by u/floverfelt
sfink · 12 hours ago
Apologies for arguing from first principles, but for anything that spurs a lot of activity, the only alternative to a bubble is this: people ramp up investment and activity and enthusiasm only as much as the underlying thing can handle, then gradually taper off the increase and gently level off at the equilibrium "carrying capacity" of the new technology.

Does that sound like any human, ever, to you?

(The only time there isn't a bubble is when the thing just isn't that interesting to people and so there's never a big wave of uptake in the first place.)

krainboltgreene · 10 hours ago
If you were right then we'd have a lot more than a dozen listed bubbles on wikipedia.

That's an absurd framing for a cute quip.

krainboltgreene commented on Some thoughts on LLMs and software development   martinfowler.com/articles... · Posted by u/floverfelt
krainboltgreene · 12 hours ago
> All major technological advances have come with economic bubbles, from canals and railroads to the internet.

Is this actually correct? I don't see any evidence for a "airflight bubble" or a "car bubble" or a "loom bubble" at the technologies' invention. Also the "canal bubble" wasn't about the technology, it was about the speculation on a series of big canals but we had been making canals for a long time. More importantly, even if it was correct, there are plenty of bubbles (if not significantly more) around things that didn't have value or tech that didn't matter.

krainboltgreene commented on AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'   theregister.com/2025/08/2... · Posted by u/JustExAWS
throwawaymaths · 7 days ago
200k loc is not a failure state. suppose your b2b saas has 5 user types and 5 downstream SAASes it connects to, thats 20k loc per major programming unit. not so bad.
krainboltgreene · 7 days ago
That's actually insane.
krainboltgreene commented on 95% of Companies See 'Zero Return' on $30B Generative AI Spend   thedailyadda.com/95-of-co... · Posted by u/speckx
ninininino · 8 days ago
Advanced organizations (think not startups, but companies that have had years of decades of profit in the public market) might have solved all the low-hanging fruit problems and have staff doing things like automated quality audits (search summaries for swearing, abusive language, etc).
krainboltgreene · 8 days ago
I've worked at both. It is extremely rare that anyone ever does it.
krainboltgreene commented on 95% of Companies See 'Zero Return' on $30B Generative AI Spend   thedailyadda.com/95-of-co... · Posted by u/speckx
ch4s3 · 8 days ago
I would imagine OP is probably mining service call summaries to find common service issues, or at least that's what I would do.
krainboltgreene · 8 days ago
That's what everyone says they'll do and then it never gets touched again.
krainboltgreene commented on 95% of Companies See 'Zero Return' on $30B Generative AI Spend   thedailyadda.com/95-of-co... · Posted by u/speckx
alooPotato · 8 days ago
you want to be able to search over summaries so you need to generate them right away
krainboltgreene · 8 days ago
Pro-tip: You won't ever do that.
krainboltgreene commented on Show HN: We started building an AI dev tool but it turned into a Sims-style game   youtube.com/watch?v=sRPnX... · Posted by u/maxraven
thrown-0825 · 10 days ago
you seem to enjoy speaking in absolutes, that's a really bad habit
krainboltgreene · 9 days ago
You can't even put your name on the table, brother.
krainboltgreene commented on Show HN: We started building an AI dev tool but it turned into a Sims-style game   youtube.com/watch?v=sRPnX... · Posted by u/maxraven
thrown-0825 · 10 days ago
And many people don’t, there are already skyrim mods for this so your point doesnt really hold water.
krainboltgreene · 10 days ago
It’s so funny to reference a game that has like 12 editions and is on every platform including a refrigerator and think “this game is missing something”

By the way there are LLM dialog mods for Skyrim and everyone thinks they’re a joke because they suck.

krainboltgreene commented on Show HN: We started building an AI dev tool but it turned into a Sims-style game   youtube.com/watch?v=sRPnX... · Posted by u/maxraven
thrown-0825 · 10 days ago
Odd take, the stale dialogue and static quests of most rpgs could certainly benefit from llm enhancements
krainboltgreene · 10 days ago
Nah, they’ll still be stale. Many people play RPGs that haven’t changed in 30 years, so static isn’t an issue either.
krainboltgreene commented on AI is different   antirez.com/news/155... · Posted by u/grep_it
closewith · 13 days ago
> instead of only somewhat reliably fulfilling very narrowly scoped tasks that require no creativity or expertise.

This alone is enough to completely reorganise the labour market, as it describe an enormous number of roles.

krainboltgreene · 13 days ago
I promise you that your understanding of those roles is wrong.

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