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pydry commented on Software factories and the agentic moment factory.strongdm.ai/... · Posted by u/mellosouls

coffeefirst · 14 hours ago

Like this?

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/google-microsoft-pay-creator...

pydry · 13 hours ago

There's about a hundred new posts on reddit every day that im sure are also paid for from this same pile of cash.

It feels like it really started in earnest around october.

pydry commented on Software factories and the agentic moment factory.strongdm.ai/... · Posted by u/mellosouls

nine_k · 15 hours ago

$1k per day, 50 work weeks, 5 day a week → $250k a year. That is, to be worth it, the AI should work as well as an engineer that costs a company $250k. Between taxes, social security, and cost of office space, that engineer would be paid, say, $170-180k a year, like an average-level senior software engineer in the US.

This is not an outrageous amount of money, if the productivity is there. More likely the AI would work like two $90k junior engineers, but without a need to pay for a vacation, office space, social security, etc. If the productivity ends up higher than this, it's pure profit; I suppose this is their bet.

The human engineer would be like a tech lead guiding a tea of juniors, only designing plans and checking results above the level of code proper, but for exceptional cases, like when a human engineer would look at the assembly code a compiler has produced.

This does sound exaggeratedly optimistic now, but does not sound crazy.

pydry · 14 hours ago

It sounds exaggeratedly crazy.

pydry commented on France's homegrown open source online office suite github.com/suitenumerique... · Posted by u/nar001

harvey9 · 20 hours ago

You use emacs so why should anyone else need MS Word? A large number of people use word processor software because it has advantages over typewriters or handwriting for their purposes rather than because they lack training in something more esoteric.

pydry · 20 hours ago

To be fair ms word is rooted in a world paper once ruled and the paper/document metaphor is becoming increasingly less relevant.

I used to use it all day every day and now i use it once a year maybe (often for government related things, coz theyre often the only ones still asking me to fill out and sign PDF forms).

Most office functions are better supplanted with a decent cms, spreadsheet, email and something to let you create forms for people to fill in.

pydry commented on Claude Code for Infrastructure fluid.sh/... · Posted by u/aspectrr

akst · 3 days ago

In macroeconomic, you have an aggregate production functions that represents output for a country or something. In many of these function you'll have a parameter for technology, it acts as a multiplier over inputs, so the greater the measure of technology the greater the output. Quite a few of these also exhibt a characteristic where output drops if technology increases too fast. To illustrate this, imagine a scenario in real life that kind of looks like a rapid evolution of some kind of technology of home phones, to cell phones, to smart phones at a rate faster than people know how to make use of them, while also spending money adoption making the intermediary adoptions quite wasteful.

I think we see an aspect of this here, a lot of things we took for granted are changing, shared assumptions are being challenged and it's a period we're all relearning new things. To some extent spending too much time diving on the current iteration of AI tooling might be for nothing if gets invalidated by another sudden jump.

With all these new tools people are building, I can't help but feel they are building foundations on moving soil.

pydry · 3 days ago

With the industrial revolution extra demand for industrial overcapacity was created in the form of war.

After the war the US created extra demand in the form of consumerism.

China is creating extra demand for infrastructure overcapacity with its belt and road initiative.

I wouldnt underestimate the abililty of the country to creatively create demand to counter oversupply.

pydry commented on French streamer unbanked by Qonto after criticizing Palantir and Peter Thiel twitter.com/Ced_haurus/st... · Posted by u/hocuspocus

gruez · 3 days ago

If that were true you'd see much more people getting banned than one streamer with 44k subs.

pydry · 3 days ago

You seem to be assuming that this is a large bank.

pydry commented on French streamer unbanked by Qonto after criticizing Palantir and Peter Thiel twitter.com/Ced_haurus/st... · Posted by u/hocuspocus

gruez · 4 days ago

Gawker was a well known website with 23 million visit per month, and a Wikipedia page. This guy has 44k subscribers and no Wikipedia page. It's a stretch to go from "Thiel had a vendetta against Gawker" to "Thiel had a vendetta against this guy".

pydry · 4 days ago

By contrast this involved flipping a switch. It was extremely easy.

pydry commented on French streamer unbanked by Qonto after criticizing Palantir and Peter Thiel twitter.com/Ced_haurus/st... · Posted by u/hocuspocus

bethekidyouwant · 4 days ago

Yes, as the comments point out, he has 11 K followers and this is most likely a coincidence

pydry · 4 days ago

I was about to agree with you until i noticed that the bank was backed by peter thiel.

It seems pretty in character and it's not like there is another more plausible reason being offered.

pydry commented on The Codex App openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

holmesworcester · 5 days ago

> You don't casually give up massive abstraction wins

Value is value, and levers are levers, regardless of the resources you have or the difficulty of the problem you're solving.

If they can save effort with Electron and put that effort into things their research says users care about more, everyone wins.

pydry · 5 days ago

That's like a luxury lumber company stuffing its showrooms full of ikea furniture.

pydry commented on Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction arstechnica.com/science/2... · Posted by u/ck2

estearum · 5 days ago

99% of every person's beliefs are driven by what "the right people told them," of course.

That's not really the point nor the problem, because some people choose to listen to very stupid or malicious people and others are (by chance or by skill) more susceptible to being steered by more credible people.

Half the country is in thrall with a uniquely malicious and moronic force, and the other half is vaguely in alignment with the vague directional gestures of expert consensus (even though it's sometimes wrong!). These are not at all the same, even if they both are technically "believing what people told them to."

pydry · 5 days ago

>half is vaguely in alignment with the vague directional gestures of expert consensus

Their beliefs are driven by a different set of oligarchs and imperial mandarins who have their own set of self serving reality distortion fields.

The companies which donate to both sides and the countries which collect enough komptomat are often able to set up bipartisan reality distortion fields.