It would have justified the price had they included this in the base model - this is the next best thing I suppose. Valve is really coming out as the good guy here in the video game industry and we should really support and applaud all that they're doing to hold the line for consumers and fans.
Has anyone found an executive, or director at any sizable organization who is expressly anit-ai? It would be interested to see what patterns emerged from that group of folks.
I had an Amazon agent tell me that I should go and take my misdelivered packages off my neighbor's porch. I told it that that may look bad and I didn't want to get shot or have the police called on me.
The AI agent and I went back and forth for like 5 minutes before I got a person (I think!). When the human agent got on the chat I pretended that I had traumatic brain injury from slipping and falling trying to retrieve my misdelivered items.
This has of course been featured on HN a fair amount , but it's always nice to be reminded of a good thing (especially since I just discovered it thanks to a brainstorm)!
I haven't decided where I land on this idea of pointing llms at mature, human-crafted software projects (again, assuming they are moderately mature projects).
It's clearly a win for 1-man projects and greenfield projects, but maybe not for what's described above ...__yet__.
If your spaceship is broken, you'd still be able to fly back to the moon on your own just like our forefathers did! /s
It feels like the arguments here are very "status quo biased" - Ok, sure - I guess for some shops the code is the source of truth for the org and you really have to be prepared/equipped to deeply reason around the code and these so-called-patterns.
Really it seems to me that the era of "agentic coding" has uncovered some uncomfortable truths. This is purely speculative, but it seems like most shops maintain little-to-no specification documentation for defining the code behavior - the code IS the documentation and that feels dangerous from a software engineering / architectural statdpoint.