Stephen Johnston

Principal Engineer at Black Airplane, Founder @PubWiseIO. Principal at

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@zuess05 Never focus on things that can be looked up in an LLM.

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@systemdesignone Ok, you have listed negatives. What are the positives? Now, what alternative has those positives, and doesn't have those negatives? Now you know why people use docker. Congrats.

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@netspooky Learning how to use LLMs. That's called learning.

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@TotherAlistair Can you show me one instance in modern LLM workflows where the code gets regenerated each time? It doesn't happen to any modern workflows in mature systems. With the exception of a few boundary 1 out of ten thousand edge cases.

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@Raynerdtech Sort of, but the distinction of quality is more my point.

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@housecor It was all that ever mattered. "Readability" was a means to assisting verification.

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@EOEboh Everything is a queue which delays under enough load until failure. Look at CPU load, query queue, connection queue, etc.

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@zuess05 Primarily because it can't.

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@plainionist Reading code has always been harder than writing. This deficiency in developers has been papered over by primarily reading things the dev wrote. If your AI writes code you can't read and don't understand it's likely a deficiency of the reader.

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@lmt2683 @bcherny New benchmarks

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@xoaanya Define "yours" or "mine" in this context.

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@AdiPolak What if validation has always been the bottleneck?

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@digitalshane_ Why is the assumption that everyone's experience with AI the same as your own so prevalent? YOU are wasting tokens going in circles. This means nothing for the rest of us. It's a dynamic system. Break out of this thinking. Ask why YOU ended up in that loop.

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@Stone_Tao Validate value delivery not code.

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@SergioRocks A lot of work was already done this way. Startups, innovation centers, labs, POCs, etc. AI definitely didn't create it. It didn't quite reveal it either. It expand it. Shift out, vs shift left.

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@nbaschez Once the plan looks good to you. No ambiguity, but that's not the same as "complete" stop asking for input and start implementing.

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@housecor There is a lot of conversation in this thread with opinions but we also have zero indication of what the goal is and what other accommodating system they have in place.

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@dansemperepico WIP Limits like we always have...

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@hoseakidane_ @bcherny The business world is full of quick exploratory calls...