zibzob · HackerTrans

I think it's a lot harder than it sounds. First, nobody can estimate time well enough to know how long something would have taken without AI. And then, it's comparing apples to oranges - there's the set of things people did using an AI agent, and the set of things they would have done if they hadn't used AI, and the two are just not directly comparable. The AI agent set would definitely have more lines of code, that's all I could really say. Maybe it would also contain a larger maintenance burden, lower useful knowledge in humans, projects that didn't need to be done or could have been done in a smarter way, etc.

zibzob

5 mesi fadiscuss

It's not possible to tell if you're 10x faster, or even faster at all, over any non-trivial amount of time. When not using a coding agent, you make different decisions and get the task done differently, at a different level of architecture, with a different understanding of the code.

zibzob

11 mesi fadiscuss

For everyone complaining about the issues with app shortcuts when using Dvorak, the solution is to use a keymap that switches to QWERTY when you hold down the CTRL or CMD key. It is a bit unfortunate that common CLI commands (`ls` is the worst offender) and semicolon usage in programming languages are designed around QWERTY, but I still prefer Dvorak.

zibzob

2 anni fadiscuss

This looks pretty cool, but from the page I can't tell if there's any interactivity supported...there's a button example but it seems to have no click handler?

Okay, from the examples there's something like this:

   if (isMouseDown && !scrollbarData.mouseDown && Clay_PointerOver(Clay_GetElementId(CLAY_STRING("ScrollBar")))) {

zibzob

2 anni fadiscuss

Okay, I see what you mean now.

zibzob

2 anni fadiscuss

Why were lamplighters better off in the long run, is "lamplighter" a term that means more than just somebody who goes around lighting the streetlamps at night? Honestly that seems like a pretty decent job even today, if we still needed it to be done.

zibzob

2 anni fadiscuss

They have no leverage against Apple, so I'm not sure what options they have. They can drop off the service and lose all revenue, while affecting no positive change. Other struggling developers will just take their place.

zibzob

2 anni fadiscuss

I might be missing your point, but I'm not sure abolishing copyright would make much of a difference, in terms of increasing the number of people who can professionally make media. Supply and demand doesn't work properly in mass media, because one movie can supply the demand of everybody in the entire world, pretty much. We don't need a singer in every town, we only need a handful of talented people who can supply the music demands for everybody in the world - it doesn't really matter who they are. I'm exaggerating a bit, but that's how I generally feel about it.

(Having said that, this article is pretty much "old man yells at cloud" for me.)

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