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[JD @JD_code_]

A great reminder that X and other SM platforms are essentially a bunch of echo-chambers full of slop and couldn't be further away from how your average person feels about things.

[JD @JD_code_]

@BAO_ZAKERUGA21 Regardless of if he can recover or not, it is normal courtesy to wish him well and wish for better prospects for him.

I do not see anyone panicking, only people being saddened by the reality.

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

The creator of Clannad and Angel Beats, Jun Maeda, has been diagnosed with throat cancer

He has chosen palliative care over active treatment so he can continue working on his projects

[VISUAL ARTS Co.,Ltd. @VisualArtsUSA]

We would like to share an important announcement concerning our creator, Jun Maeda.
For details, please refer to the attachments.

[JD @JD_code_]

@Gavin_x1 @HubDEVsito "it's not made for money" <-> "god forbid author makes money"

Choose one.

[JD @JD_code_]

@xikhar All I see is 0 fps and a random plane with random assets placed all over it, you don't need AI to do any of this in 3 days.

Is what you are showing supposed to be positive or negative?

[JD @JD_code_]

@MetroCz 1. Studio is Ukrainian
2. Author was exiled from Russia for being anti-war of aggression
3. Game will be banned in Russia anyway

Než začneš psát sračky, raději si o tom něco zjisti.

[JD @JD_code_]

@CodeWithTamara "I wish people would stop being critical and would stop calling things for what they are"

Yes, everyone needs to start somewhere, but what you are saying is idiotic, how do you expect someone to get better when you don't criticise their work and tell them everything is perfect

[JD @JD_code_]

@EpsinyanNyan 1. Because they are letting their state do what it wants, it is the Russian people who are trying to genocide the Ukrainians.

2. You should look up something about the author before you talk about whose story it is

[JD @JD_code_]

@CrestonChi @TheOmniLiberal A 3 day operation that turned into years, with Ukraine holding back what was supposed to be the 2nd best military in the world.

How did they lose lol.

[JD @JD_code_]

@specialboy51965 @Martin_Adams I feel like people have no idea how large codebases that are interacted with with non-single dev teams work ngl.

[JD @JD_code_]

@Martin_Adams AI isn't free, the idea that you are constantly loading an entire codebase into the context once it gets tens of thousands of lines long asking the AI to fix it is hilarious way to spend a fortune.

Further, your "product" manager might now question it, your co-workers sure will

[JD @JD_code_]

It really does not matter and it has nothing to do with skepticism or agents, it's also stupid to use as a measure of productivity.

I could have millions PRs purely by requesting merges symbol by symbol.

By your metric that makes me a god, by my metric that makes me an idiot.

[lauren @poteto]

volume does matter
look, i get it. if you were an engineer before agents came along, you're rightfully skeptical about lines of code and number of PRs being used as a metric for any kind of productivity. and i agree! or at least, i used to. for ease of explanation i will talk about this from the perspective as being an engineer on a large team of at least 50.

volume didn't matter before because we focused on impact. you could have high impact even with a few PRs: for example you could make a one line config change and save the company millions of dollars.

but before agents, the times where i saw volume come into the conversation were for the outliers. on the negative end you might have someone who is struggling to perform, on the other end you might have someone who was a "coding machine" archetype. a coding machine was someone who could just lock themselves in a room and emerge with a stack of PRs that solve a huge number of problems. so volume did matter, but only at the tail ends of the distribution, and combined with impact.

if you've ever worked at a large tech company before, you'll get what i mean. the thing about agents is that big tech co problems are now small-medium co problems as well.

how do agents change this calculus? well, everyone now has the ability to become a coding machine. you have incredibly capable frontier models that can write code better than any of us, at a rate much faster than we can. in this world, if you're still producing the same number of PRs as before, why wouldn't you pause to wonder why you're not being more productive? alien intelligence is here, and yet you can't outship a human coding machine?

this brings me back to why i keep talking about trust (https://t.co/7fzYZV8LGH). if you haven't put in the work to trust your agent's output, it is very difficult to scale up your productivity.

and yes, this approach does require more tokens, but i think about this in terms of cost per intelligence. before agents, this cost was very high - you needed to hire many software engineers with high 6 figure salaries to do the work. tokens are still expensive today, but are likely to get cheaper over time (https://t.co/gTBZx7pl14) factoring in the cost of intelligence. what looks exorbitant today will likely be affordable in 6 moths to a year. a single engineer with agents can do the work of tens if not hundreds of engineers, at a fraction of the cost.

the reality that i don't think has hit yet is that job of the software engineer has truly changed. our job is not merely to produce software any longer (well tbh it was never only about the code, but bear with me for the sake of the explanation), but the machine that writes the software. this idea of a software factory, or a Michelin kitchen as i like to call it, is still a topic of research. and it's the type of stuff i like to share, not to flex, but to show you what's possible when you put a lot of rigor into using agents at scale

[JD @JD_code_]

@koshitantankohi @PunishedZulu Why do I need to sell them?

Your argument is "more jobs = always better", we will need billions of spoon diggers if we get rid of the machinery so way more jobs, less bums, more kids.

Or maybe just admit that the argument you are making is dumb.

[JD @JD_code_]

@andybalsa @RyvalFNBR @safomeART I feel bad for them and hope they find a place to stay but this is a situation they got into by themself, they took a "stranger's" offer to live somewere for free with 0 paper-trail without the property's actual owner knowledge let alone approval.

[JD @JD_code_]

@andybalsa @RyvalFNBR @safomeART So, someone who was living in the place let this person stay there for free without even telling the landlord, this person didn't sign anything and didn't pay anything.

Can you explain why it should be illegal for them to be kicked out? If anything they were there illegally.

[JD @JD_code_]

@LukasHozda "here is this thing I had LLM write, I didn't read over it, didn't test it, fuck, I don't even understand it"

That guy is a meme. Maybe even a lolcow because he got popular by shitty anti-AI takes and now is on the other side shilling AI nonsense.

[JD @JD_code_]

@stratvrs22 @vineerpasam No, build and ship projects/apps, improve your tech-stack (ideally into Python since that's used for LLMs). Use the AI but make sure you are not dependent on it, you need to understand what it's outputting.

That said, it's definetly considerably harder than it was a decade ago.