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halis
·2 месяца назад·discuss
This was a really good article. I typically code with Sonnet or Opus, but I'm going to start using Codex to review local changes before I do a PR. It does a great job at identifying issues and then patching them. I just feel weird having Anthropic review it's own code so this will be my workflow for now. For complex features I also use Opus to cook up an implementation plan ahead of time that a lot of the time I have Sonnet implement. I may also have Codex start devil's advocating the plan before I start too, just to catch issues earlier.
halis
·4 месяца назад·discuss
Actually, based on a google search apparently LLMs don't parse code into ASTs.
halis
·4 месяца назад·discuss
I suppose if you stored the code in ASTs and the LLMs all have to parse the code into ASTs when analyzing it, you could make it more efficient for them to work on code?
halis
·4 месяца назад·discuss
Don't worry, Grok will break the picket line and come in as a scab. Elon would fuck his mother for a nickel.
halis
·4 месяца назад·discuss
You forgot about crypto, 3D printing and games with virtual real estate.
halis
·5 месяцев назад·discuss
Nitrogen.
halis
·6 месяцев назад·discuss
If you don't use Excel (or Google Sheets in my case) it's my favorite way to do financial calculations because you can easily customize contribution amounts or withdrawals in certain years by having different columns.

Nice site though!
halis
·6 месяцев назад·discuss
I personally have settled in working at big companies, where expectations are really not that high of anyone. While I'm still highly productive at work, I don't go 100% as it will just piss all the other devs off. I give it about 50% effort and when the bell rings I just close the laptop. After all, it is just a job.
halis
·6 месяцев назад·discuss
I've had the opposite experience, but keep in mind that a lot of what gets worked on in large companies is glorified legacy CRUD apps. What I mean is, these applications have already been built with little thought about architecture, best practices and testing. These apps already have design flaws and bugs galore.

In these types of applications, there's already a lot of low hanging fruit to be had from working with an LLM.

If you're on a greenfield app where you get to make those decisions at the start, then I think I would still use the LLMs but I would be mindful of what you check into the code base. You would be better off setting up the project structure yourself and coding some things as examples of how you want the app to work. Once you have some examples in place, then you can use the LLMs to repeat the process for new screens/features.
halis
·7 месяцев назад·discuss
The people saying that AI can't write "their" code are probably the same engineers that work for FAANG and write like 10 lines of code a month.
halis
·9 месяцев назад·discuss
Just need to retire the us-east-1 region, it's becoming a meme at this point.
halis
·9 месяцев назад·discuss
I find that my usage varies based on a cycle of: 1) Using the LLM like crazy to help refactor code, extract components for re-use to speed up things in the long run 2) The refactoring has sped up the work significantly, but now I need to pause and address technical debt that the LLM introduced.
halis
·9 месяцев назад·discuss


  Very good article. I feel that corporate executives as a class are causing this huge mess from a simple lack of understanding of software engineering. Throw more bodies at the problem has never worked in software engineering, in fact that's a surefire way to make things worse and slower.
  Throwing more bodies + AI at the problem is even worse because the speed at which things get worse is much faster. If you have people that don't understand the implications of what they are doing, you're on the path of heading over a cliff some day.
  AI is a useful tool, when put into the hands of someone that is competent. They can fire junior devs and refuse to hire them as much as they want, this strategy will come home to roost sooner rather than later.
  If a C-level executive thinks that AI can replace their engineers, then I say do it now. Go all in and replace them all right now. Use only AI and a few VP-level AI whisperers and let the catastrophic failure that this will result in happen faster so we can get back to reality quicker.
halis
·10 месяцев назад·discuss
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halis
·10 месяцев назад·discuss
I’ve never used Next.js. To be honest, Express has always gotten the job done without too much hassle. In theory, what are the benefits of using Next.js over Express?
halis
·7 лет назад·discuss
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halis
·8 лет назад·discuss
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