Just woke up from half my nights sleep to see what HN is talking about at 1 am pst on a Friday.
Oh look more useless arguing.
People who do things care about the doing more than how the sausage was made.
I do not care how software gets built. Only that it works. Results is the only thing that matters and I hope everyone in this thread internalizes that fact.
> I have nothing to hide. The metrics speak for themselves.
What metrics? Where are the amazing new projects and features you built? Where are the amazing products and features you built that are better than existing ones (run faster, consume fewer resources etc.)?
For a person who "has nothing to hide" somehow none of your comments ever mention what projects you work on, what you ship, or what metrics you employ.
Then I upgraded my 10 year old hand written framework to a new version that supports sqlite and postgres on top of existing MySQL support https://github.com/Divergence/framework
But then I was like eh lemme benchmark every PHP orm that exists just to check my framework's orm....
A brand new task manager written in C for Linux that supports a plugin architecture with an event bus. It's literally the best gui Linux task manager ever. Still working on it.
I'm not even talking about my paid job. This is me just fucking around.
If you’re killing it, do your thing and be happy. I didn’t say you were a bot.
What I said was: what is AI bad at?
Let’s start the conversation there. Can you one shot a new Linux kernel with AI? Does “new project, are me GTA 8!” Work?
No.
That is hard reality, disconnected from any ridiculous hype BS people are living in.
You need to start the conversation with: I acknowledge, AI is not good at some things.
Now, if you can accept that baseline reality that you live in you can ask some hard questions like:
Are the things I’m doing things I could do without AI?
Am I actually more productive?
Is what I’m building actually working?
Are the things that other people are claiming to do, things that it can actually do?
Is it the right tool for the next thing I’m going to work on?
Maybe you don’t care; but, if you don’t like people asking those questions; why?
This is genuinely great tech. No one is denying that; it’s effective and productive to get certain stuff done.
What scares me is people who you cant even have this conversation with. What’s AI bad that?
Nothing!
Thats AI psychosis.
Take a look at your own opinions and why you take it personally (it seems) when someone calls out a case where AI did a bad job, or someone who failed because they relied too hard on AI.
Seriously man, if those things are upsetting you, because, literally, they have nothing to do with you, other than the tiny voice in your head telling you that “critiquing AI is critiquing me”… then have a good think about that.
It’s not a good place to be.
Build things. Be happy, be proud. Coming here and ranting like you’re doing? It’s not good. It’s realllly not good.
>I do not care how software gets built. Only that it works.
I mean, I agree on a very high level of abstraction. But my problem is that I need to understand how software gets built so that I can have confidence in my ability to maintain and evolve the project.
I need to understand whether a feature is easy to add or requires a wholesale rewrite of the entire codebase, which comes with risks. I need to understand how new features affect existing users.
I also need to understand the economics of the process and the economics of my industry. That means I have to care to some degree about how software gets made, not just whether some specific program works at the present moment.
If you give me a choice between an implementation that is 100 LOC I can understand and an implementation that is a million LOC that I can never understand, I'm going to chose the former, even if both implementations pass all tests.
I may be able understand any given line of code but not necessarily all of them. The capacity of AI to generate code will quickly exceed human capacity to read and understand it.
Also, code quality matters for AI as well. Maintaining a million lines of code requires more tokens than maintaining 100 lines of code.
Oh look more useless arguing.
People who do things care about the doing more than how the sausage was made.
I do not care how software gets built. Only that it works. Results is the only thing that matters and I hope everyone in this thread internalizes that fact.