You said “all” as in “all” developers on those projects. You haven’t spoken to all of them to make that claim. You’re just making stuff up. That’s what I was pointing out.
If you are suggesting that we can call the Chromium project a work of LLMs because some developers may or may not be using LLMs on the project it let’s just stop the conversation right here.
This is becoming a classic case of LLM brain rot. I hope you come back to your senses.
Let’s not forget we are talking about a world changing technology here. So when you tell me “some people working on some projects are using it”, I’ll pretend you didn’t say “all” because that’s untrue, you haven’t asked all of them, and the company that got bought out by Anthropic did their “rewrite-in-rust” meme, do you think it’s unreasonable to incredulous?
8 months ago I asked this question, I will ask again:
Where are your browsers?
Where are your compilers?
Where are your databases?
Where are your operating systems?
Can you point me to literally anything useful that works and was created by this world changing technology? All I see is dead project after dead project.
Incredibly cringe. Literally every single medium mode problem for a team is framed as a groundbreaking achievement. These people snort their own farts.
I understand and of course I am familiar with the hypothetical you are trying to set up here but I was specifically pointing out a logical fallacy I see banded round all the time by people who should know better or educate themselves.
I will say that if “good engineering practices” comes up in your root cause analysis for a failure to launch a product you are not thinking critically.
Survivorship bias, you don’t know of all the failed projects that couldn’t get off the ground because of incompetent development team and practices that lead a product to its demise, or a product that is possible within constraints that otherwise could have been a success, but not realised by sloppy work and incompetence.
Furthermore the dependencies you choose to build your product are presumably filtered for engineering practices or world class engineers. So given the choice you yourself prefer top quality engineering, so do your customers. Much in the same way you are a customer of your projects dependencies. Difference being, as developers we get to see how the sausage is made, our customers only see second and third order effects.
I’m sorry, what’s the question? Genuinely not sure.
I’ll rephrase, Zuckerberg would certainly enjoy agentic coding to be a wild success because it means less staff and more products he could fail to create.