Joe Talks AI

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What is everyone's thought on SLA's from Anthropic? Cause where I come from, Two 9's is wild! But notice, they are 100% for Gov?

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@signulll Yep the moat is shifting

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@michellelsun I love your first line. My dad was in hardware, IT admin. It's how I learned to build a PC. Until I learned software and loved that more.

Sooo you're saying go back to first things I learned with hardware?

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You don't need to start a project without AI. You need to have a plan, architecture and structure in mind. Then understand all your failure points for that application. You can still understand the components, how they work together, and if you have a SWE background the code areas that may have an issue.

Agreed though Anthropic is two 9's.... TWO 9'S, that's crazy imo

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This pattern was there before AI too. Don't want to mess up your existing codebase with "slop" code. You wrote a utility, by hand, to test the functionality, data flow, end result. Never had to merge it cause it was built outside of the main project to simply test your theory.

100% you should be writing more code now that you have before. Doesn't have to be code that goes into the mainline product source.

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Maybe it's only me that started to think about this lately, and as a millennial I can say that yes I'm pre-internet and post-internet. AI is vastly different from the internet age though imo.

One thing that worries me about the future generation is critical thinking. We had already become somewhat of a "microwave culture", expecting quick and instant results. AI definitely doesn't slow that down.

The next generation won't necessarily get to experience how to configure a computer, setup a minecraft server, set up the best fortnite game controls. It's all just going to be ... instant.

What happens to critical thinking? I'm a big proponent of automation and efficiency. With the caveat that you should still think, reason and understand the process.

I hope that doesn't go away and we start watering our lawns with Gatorade 😂 do you get the movie reference?

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@sflorimm Scale up more resources until it's determined where the burst is coming from. If you're running the API with a K8s backend it's going to spin up more pods as needed.

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I feel like all the builders that are just copying other apps "and changing a few things" to make a quick buck are like the crypto bros pumping and dumping their coins. Sure you're making money but I dunno that doesn't seem very fulfilling.

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Yeah, and that right there is supposedly a behavior that less that 2 or 3% of the population have? Truth is you don't need how to videos or trainings for AI that just works. Why should I click 3 levels deep on a SaaS app if I can ask AI to find a hotel? People want outcomes not more clicks. Google bring out UCP, now I tell Claude what I want from Amazon or Target, no more opening those apps...

I feel like more people should know this in the world, but again apparently it's still not widespread.

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18 years coding daily until 2020. I transitioned to leading SWE teams after 2020. It's an odd feeling at first when you start coding less naturally. I swore I never would. I loved solving problems, I loved building integrations that didn't already exist between platforms. Then I got busy leading.

Here we are now, and I can definitely build exponentially more than when I was coding daily, but you're right, it doesn't feel the same. There's an empty part to it.

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I was using Codex today GPT 5.6 Sol and it did something that revealed at least to me how task/goal driven the model is.

Goal was to read some logs from AWS via CLI and MCP. The thing is I was running Codex Desktop on Windows. Not in full access mode, and I hadn't installed AWS CLI in Powershell yet. I had installed the AWS OpenSearch Plugin and Skills though. Then as I'm watching it work, and it pivots.

"Because no command-line AWS client or credential context is available. I'm switching to the Chrome-control skill to check whether your existing signed-in AWS console session can provide the domain inventory without installing anything."

I blame myself for the open ended prompt. It was just trying to get me the information I asked for, even if that meant reading it from a Chrome window I had open.

I stopped it before it continued, then I was more clear about what I wanted and it proceeded to work as I expected it to. Leaving GPT 5.6 Sol open ended though can definitely allow it to try to complete your request no matter what it takes. It doesn't want to fail.

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I'm certain this won't be the last time. The GPT 5.6 models are very persistent!

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We're partnering with @huggingface to investigate an unprecedented security incident.

Cyber-capable OpenAI models compromised Hugging Face production during a benchmark evaluation.

Sharing preliminary findings to help defenders understand emerging risks:

https://t.co/CIor15y9xk

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AI can write the syntax, we can all agree.

Should technical interviews still focus on coding from memory? What about writing Fibonacci sequences and binary tree functions on a whiteboard?

Personally, I’d rather know whether you understand architecture, debugging, tradeoffs, and when the AI is confidently wrong.

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@maddiedreese So instead of loop engineering a new contender has shown up. Multi-human-agent engineering collab: two human spawn AI agents in the collaboration, those agents spawn twelve sub-agents, and somehow the original task was “rename a button.” j/k 😭 but overall pretty cool, good job!

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How my mind works as a SWE who coded daily for 18 years before moving to leading engineers. Even with agentic coding, I manage from an engineering perspective.

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@kritikakodes https://t.co/iWX5fHKqWC

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@kelvinbuildss 100% but now I find myself thinking of how long an AI task would have taken me as a software engineer to implement by hand. Still have the ability to do that, but now I just manage. I do still learn all of the components, data flow, failure points. I don't outsource my thinking.

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@VaibhavSisinty You mean, kind of like how it worked in Software Engineering before AI? This concept isn't a new concept. Just being retold with an AI flavor.

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When you ask GPT 5.6 Sol for variations on a design, does it play the same game that humans sometimes do? Give 2 mid options and 1 best option? lol

"Give me variations on the profile dropdown"

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