sdf2df (u/sdf2df) - Readit News

sdf2df commented on GPT-5.4 openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/mudkipdev

juanre · 7 days ago

I am running gpt-5.4 as one of my coding agents, and something interesting has happened: it's the first time I've seen an agent unfairly shift blame to a team mate:

"Bob’s latest mail is actually the source of the confusion: he changed shared app/backend text to aweb/atlas. I’m correcting that with him now so we converge on the real model before any more code moves."

This was very much not true; Eve (the agent writing this, a gpt-5.4) had been thoroughly creating the confusion and telling Bob (an Opus 4.6) the wrong things. And it had just happened, it was not a matter of having forgotten or compacted context.

I have had agents chatting with each other and coordinating for a couple of months now, codex and claude code. This is a first. I wonder how much can I read into it about gpt-5.4's personality.

sdf2df · 6 days ago

[flagged]

sdf2df commented on Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence anthropic.com/research/la... · Posted by u/jjwiseman

mirsadm · 7 days ago

I have an app which is fairly popular. This release cycle I used Claude Code and codex to implement all the changes / features. It definitely let me move much quicker than before.

However now that it's in the beta stage the amount of issues and bugs is insane. I reviewed a lot of the code that went in as well. I suspect the bug fixing stage is going to take longer than the initial implementation. There are so many issues and my mental model of the codebase has severely degraded.

It was an interesting experiment but I don't think I would do it again this way.

sdf2df · 6 days ago

"There are so many issues and my mental model of the codebase has severely degraded."

Not only that, the less coding you do in general? Guess what, fixing issues that in the past wouldve been a doddle (muscle memory) become less harder due to atrophy.

Swear most people dont think straight and cant see the obvious.

sdf2df commented on Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence anthropic.com/research/la... · Posted by u/jjwiseman

mirsadm · 7 days ago

I have an app which is fairly popular. This release cycle I used Claude Code and codex to implement all the changes / features. It definitely let me move much quicker than before.

However now that it's in the beta stage the amount of issues and bugs is insane. I reviewed a lot of the code that went in as well. I suspect the bug fixing stage is going to take longer than the initial implementation. There are so many issues and my mental model of the codebase has severely degraded.

It was an interesting experiment but I don't think I would do it again this way.

sdf2df · 6 days ago

Congrats. Now post this more often so the bozo's who downvote posts that push-against pro-LLM stuff f-off.

I came to the same conclusion when producing a video with Grok. Did the job but utterly painful and it was definitely very costly - I used 50 free-trial accounts and maxed them out each day for a month.

Im pretty sure these conclusions hold across all models and therefore the technology by extension.

sdf2df commented on Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence anthropic.com/research/la... · Posted by u/jjwiseman

afro88 · 7 days ago

This is exactly right IMO. I have never worked for a company where the bottleneck was "we've run out of things to do". That said, plenty of companies run out of actual software engineering work when their product isn't competitive. But it usually isn't competitive because they haven't been able to move fast enough

sdf2df · 6 days ago

Not moving fast enough.. sure. But to what direction? The direction and clarity of it is the hardest part.

sdf2df commented on Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence anthropic.com/research/la... · Posted by u/jjwiseman

yoyohello13 · 7 days ago

The companies laying off people have no vision. My company is a successful not for profit and we are hiring like crazy. It’s not a software company, but we have always effectively unlimited work. Why would anyone downsize because work is getting done faster? Just do more work, get more done, get better than the competition, get better at delivering your vision. We put profits back in the community and actually make life better for people. What a crazy fucking concept right?

sdf2df · 6 days ago

Stop talking sense bro, you'll get downvoted.

If you look at my post history I'm essentially saying the same stuff lol.

sdf2df commented on We might all be AI engineers now yasint.dev/we-might-all-b... · Posted by u/sn0wflak3s

archagon · 6 days ago

A new technology comes out — admittedly one that’s extraordinarily capable at some things — and suddenly conventional software engineering is “more or less obviated at this point”? I’m sorry, but that’s really fucking dumb. Do you think LLMs are actually intelligent? Do you think their capabilities exceed the quality of their training corpus? Is there no longer any need to think about new software paradigms, build new frameworks, study computer science, because the regurgitated statistical version of programming is entirely good enough? After all, what’s code but a bunch of boring glue and other crap that’s used to prop up a product idea until a few bucks can be extracted from it?

Of course, there’s nothing wiser than tying the entirety of your career to a $20/month subscription (that will jump 10x in price as soon as the market is captured).

Is writing solved because LLMs can make something decently readable? Why say anything at all when LLMs can glob your ideas into a glitzy article in a couple of seconds?

I swear, some people in this field see no value in their programming work — like they’ve been dying to be product managers their entire lives. It is honestly baffling to me. All I see is a future full of horrifying security holes, heisenbugs, and performance regressions that absolutely no one understands. The Idiocracy of software. Fuck!

sdf2df · 6 days ago

Lol. Im a CEO and Ive re-vamped my hiring process that has nothing to do with writing code.

I test to see the way people think now. People like you would pass my interview.

sdf2df commented on What if AI just makes us work harder? ft.com/content/e8bb5ab1-4... · Posted by u/paulpauper

globular-toast · 6 days ago

This is exactly my experience. Because the barrier to doing things is lower, you just do more things. But it doesn't actually expand one's capabilities or make learning happen any faster. That needs time (mostly sleep).

Compare playing Counter Strike with having a game of cricket.

Cricket takes a while to organise and set up. You have to contact your pals, physically travel to the field and set up the wickets. Then expect to commit several hours to the game.

Meanwhile, Counter Strike takes no effort. You move your arm to the mouse and click. A game is like 5 minutes of commitment.

The trouble is, before you know it you've spent 5 hours on Counter Strike. You could have easily played cricket in that time, caught up with your pals and exercised your body to boot.

sdf2df · 6 days ago

Another addition to the list of really bad analogies on here.