This is true, but if you use a file system that does scrubs (and you should use such a file system for a NAS), and if you keep the NAS on 24*7, this won’t be an issue.
Not sure how this works for y’all. On my team, they would get blocked to merge on code review until they met quality bar, and if this happened enough they would be having a performance issue that would be dealt with (they would be given multiple chances to course correct - polite talk from team lead, polite talk from manager (doc trail begin), not polite talk from manger, bad perf review / no raise + no RSU year, PiP, fired)
I’m always struck by a bit of wonder at comments like this. It seems everyone’s experience is all over the place. Curious, what types of things are you working on where you see these results?
I’m at 90%+ code AI generated by stats. I work in embedded systems. It still goes off the rails all of the time and needs a heavy hand to guide it. It does not currently feel like it will ever be truly able to operate independently. It’s a very useful tool, but it’s just not there yet in my day-to-day.
I feel like it was the dot com boom. :s/"Make everything online"/"Make everything use AI"/g
In a similar story, AI makes sense for some stuff but not other stuff. The stuff where it does not make sense for is gonna do bad when the bubble pops.
The first trend of AI was "use as much as you can! You must use AI!!!". Hence the rise of tokenmaxxing leaderboards and KPIs on token use.
The second wave, happening right now, is "use it, but control cost". All the cool kid CEOs are now talking cost-control, rate limiting, and metering. If your management is a "follower" they are bound to hop on the trend.
LEO satellites are the size of a car and are spaced apart by the size of a state. They also all are in slowly decaying orbits and will fall out of the sky on their own accord in 10 years or less (they are designed with intentional structural weak points to break apart and burn up on entry). The concerns you have are valid and very real, and shared by the people designing these things.
That sucks. If GLP-1s work for you, more power to you.
Curious: how big of a calorie deficit did you run, and what was your macro (protein/fat/carbs) balance.
My personal experience is going low on carbs (especially added sugars) and high on fiber and protein made running a deficit suck much less in terms of feeling satisfied.
Also, a 10% deficit was okay (I was hungry but could mostly ignore it). A 25% deficit was very annoying and about as much as I'd care to do.
Most embedded code is security / safety critical, so it gets looked at by auditors. So, then.
Also, when something invariably doesn’t work (maybe I told Claude “delay 1 sec after each swing of the axe the robot makes if the proximity sensor trips to avoid the puppy that walks across the ax’s path once every month”, and meant to type “2 sec”), I still have to go down to the level of the code sometimes. I’m sure the counter argument is “well then that just means your testing wasn’t good enough”. Sure, but I’ve never seen any project with hardware in the loop where the testing was good enough 100% of the time. Sometimes it’s hard to test once in a month type events in a regression test suite.
FWIW I hover around 80-90% code AI written these days. I still look at every line of code it makes.
I’ve had multiple people say “you don’t work on code anymore, that’s for the AI. You work a level of abstraction above that. As long as you prove it works through testing, the code doesn’t matter anymore. It’s like looking at the assembly the compiler spits out now - who cares?”
These are the people who spit out an incredible volume of code with AI, to the point reviews simply can’t keep up.
The last person who said this to me works in embedded, where we look at the assembly all the time. Scary.
To be fair, before AI I had my fair share of coworkers throwing stuff over the fence who only cared about closing tickets and collecting credit.
You all know the feeling: you see a code review from _that person_ and you know its gonna be a long day. And you know they are going to fight you every step of the way and say “but it works” when you leave a comment about their code being hard to maintain.
HPV spreads even when condoms are used - any skin to skin contact can spread it. So yeah, not everyone, but it’s exceptionally prevalent. Luckily most strains are relatively harmless.
I don't know. Even the frontier models do dumb things sometimes. Being able to iterate (and iterate quickly) is really important. If you get 1 try a day, you're probably back to it being better to just code by hand. Also, you're going to get absolutely outpaced by anyone who uses AI that goes faster.
So maybe for a hobby project this is fine, but for something you have to take to market and compete with... I think it'd be a really rough sell.
EDIT: also, just to be clear: if there was a practical path to using local AI, I'd take it in a heartbeat. I hope it gets to the point that it's better to use local than paying someone $200/mo. But right now, that $200/mo is the clear best option. I get making compromises for ideology but the compromises are too big for me right now.
to play devil's advocate, having a credit card does not tell Anthropic anything about your country of citizenship, which the US is pushing them to gate keep access on.
This argument has been beaten to death in the courts for hundreds of years at this point.
Why does everyone think that they are some kind of arm chair lawyer who magically knows the right way to read it, and everyone else is wrong?
As a country, we need to have a serious conversation about guns. This argument just makes noise and gets in the way of actually talking about the real issues.
The two real questions are:
1. what types of guns do we want people to be able to own - where do we as a society draw the line on what’s okay for people to have and what we want to keep in the domain of the government control. This is an incredibly difficult question, especially in a country that was founded in an armed revolution and also suffers mass shootings
2. Under what conditions do we remove someone’s right to own guns?
Let’s talk about that, not beating the wording horse to death for the millionth time.
I live in Texas (Austin). The biggest downside day-to-day is the weather in summer. The politics are also a valid concern.
That said, it’s not some dystopian hellscape. Day-to-day it’s not that different than any other place.
Also the cost of living is a lot less than the big tech centers (Bay Area and Seattle). A similar house to mine with a similar commute in a similar quality school district is 4x the price in the Bay Area. I can give my family a better life here.
Kind of surprised they didn't already pull this on Opus when Anthropic was having it's last spat with the DoD - I mean the tech is used heavily by the US military, it seems they have a path to actually claim national security interest (and stick it to Anthropic for not playing ball)?