thepasch (u/thepasch)

thepasch commented on OpenAI Frontier openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/nycdatasci

paradite · 5 days ago

Okay now this is gonna trigger mass layoffs, if it works.

thepasch · 5 days ago

It's not going to "trigger" mass layoffs; it'll be used as a convenient scapegoat for mass layoffs that were always going to happen anyway to make room for more stock buybacks. Business as usual. Same shit, different hat.

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thepasch · 5 days ago

Sometimes it feels like the advent of LLMs is hyperboosting the undoing of decades of slow societal technical literacy that wasn't even close to truly taking foot yet. Though LLMs aren't the reason; they're just the latest symptom.

For a while it felt like people were getting more comfortable with and knowledgeable about tech, but in recent years, the exact opposite has been the case.

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grigri907 · 5 days ago

After 10+ years of stewing on an idea, I started building an app (for myself) that I've never had the courage or time to start until now.

I really wanted to learn the coding, the design patterns, etc, but truthfully, it was never gonna happen without a Claude. I could never get past the unknown-unknowns (and I didn't even grasp how broad is the domain of knowledge it actually requires.) Best case I would have started small chunks and abandoned it countless times, piling on defeatism and disappointment each time.

Now in under two weeks of spare time and evenings, I've got a working prototype that's starting to resemble my dream. Does my code smell? Yes. Is it brittle? Almost certainly. Is it a security risk? I hope not. (It's not.)

I want to be intentional about how I use AI; I'm nervous about how it alters how we think and learn. But seeing my little toy out in the real world is flippin incredible.

thepasch · 5 days ago

> Is it a security risk? I hope not. (It's not.)

It very probably is, but if it's a personal project you're not planning on releasing anywhere, it doesn't matter much.

You should still be very cognizant that LLMs will currently fairly reliably implement massive security risks once a project grows beyond a certain size, though.

thepasch commented on Qwen3-Coder-Next qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3-cod... · Posted by u/danielhanchen

gordonhart · 7 days ago

By the time that happens, Opus 5 and GPT-5.5 will be out. At that point will a GPT-5.2 tier open-weights model feel "good enough"? Based on my experience with frontier models, once you get a taste of the latest and greatest it's very hard to go back to a less capable model, even if that less capable model would have been SOTA 9 months ago.

thepasch · 7 days ago

If an open weights model is released that’s as capable at coding as Opus 4.5, then there’s very little reason not to offload the actual writing of code to open weight subagents running locally and stick strictly to planning with Opus 5. Could get you masses more usage out of your plan (or cut down on API costs).

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nialse · 8 days ago

”I don't care deeply about this code. It's not a masterpiece. It's functional code that is very useful to me.” - AI software engineering in a nutshell. Leaving the human artisan era of code behind. Function over form. Substance over style. Getting stuff done.

thepasch · 8 days ago

“Human artisan era of code” is hilarious if you’ve worked in any corporate codebase whatsoever. I’m still not entirely sure what some of the snippets I’ve seen actually are, but I can say with determination and certainty that none of it was art.

The truth about vibe coding is that, fundamentally, it’s not much more than a fast-forward button: ff you were going to write good code by hand, you know how to guide an LLM to write good code for you. If, given infinite time, you would never have been able to achieve what you’re trying to get the LLM to do anyway, then the result is going to be a complete dumpster load.

It’s still garbage in, garbage out, as it’s always been; there’s just a lot more of it now.

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ryandrake · 14 days ago

I noticed the same thing, but wasn't able to put it into words before reading that. Been experimenting with LLM-based coding just so I can understand it and talk intelligently about it (instead of just being that grouchy curmudgeon), and the thought in the back of my mind while using Claude Code is always:

"I got into programming because I like programming, not whatever this is..."

Yes, I'm building stupid things faster, but I didn't get into programming because I wanted to build tons of things. I got into it for the thrill of defining a problem in terms of data structures and instructions a computer could understand, entering those instructions into the computer, and then watching victoriously while those instructions were executed.

If I was intellectually excited about telling something to do this for me, I'd have gotten into management.

thepasch · 13 days ago

> I got into it for the thrill of defining a problem in terms of data structures and instructions a computer could understand, entering those instructions into the computer, and then watching victoriously while those instructions were executed.

You can still do that with Claude Code. In fact, Claude Code works best the more granular your instructions get.