@dessaigne You had an LLM write this thread. I'm sure it took you no time at all, but it also has no value.
The real trick is finding customers who genuinely don't care about quality, and will accept anything, I guess.
@ID_AA_Carmack For frontier models, optimizing for *more* convolution makes more business sense.
It requires more tokens to parse, which increases income. Code that's so obtuse a human can't understand it ties you to using an LLM.
So you'd be looking to local LLMs to simplify code.
@mosyaseen@ThePrimeagen I'd take responsibility for the version I wrote. I would refuse to take responsibility for the version you wrote without a thorough review.
LLMs can generate code in such volumes that they'll never be thoroughly reviewed.
@AnthropicAI At a 75% success rate (assuming no one reviewed the mountain of output) that means the failures produced by Claude now exceed twice your normal code production.
And that's assuming the remaining 75% is good code, which is suspect.
@ThePrimeagen The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch. A thief and his gang get into trouble.
If you want something that takes a while: Tales of the Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson. 10 books of doorstop (military) fantasy on an epic scale.
@AI_GPT42@edzitron@Microsoft Greedy? They were running at a loss. Presumably, this is simply what it costs.
Once other companies decide to stop losing money, they'll increase prices as well.
@s8mb@davemaney@jackclarkSF That prediction was bunk. Source: am a software developer.
It's like having an industrious, motivated, dimwitted intern. It can ship lots of terrible software that mostly/barely works.
@sameandnot@yegor256 Agents don't write that much code.
There's a lot of hype, sure, but ultimately there's a limit to how much slop you can push to production and still have functional software.
@garrytan Datacenters themselves don't create any jobs.
You yourself claim to be doing 10x the work by yourself, so that's excluding people from doing the work.
@jarredsumner@appfactory Any insights into how much code has been out could be replaced by library functions, or violate Rust's language idioms?
I'm assuming it's not going to replace the original as-is, but getting things to work is usually the easy part of software development.
Still impressive!
@morganlinton How is your company going to weather the shift to token based billing?
Once they stop offering subsidized plans, every major provider is going to be as expensive.