Yes this is pretty common in large enterprise-ey tech companies that are successful. There are usually a small group of vocal members that have a strong conviction and drive to make a vision a reality. This is contrary to popular belief that large companies design by committee.
Of course it works exceptionally well when the instinct turns out to be right. But can end companies if it isn’t.
There is no free lunch. The amount of prompt writing to give the LLM enough context about your codebase etc is comparable to writing the tests yourself.
Code assistance tools might speed up your workflow by maybe 50% or even 100%, but it's not the geometric scaling that is commonly touted as the benefits of autonomous agentic AI.
And this is not a model capability issue that goes away with newer generations. But it's a human input problem.
My team has been prototyping something very similar with encoding business operations policies with LEAN. We have some internal knowledge bases (google docs / wiki pages) that we first convert to LEAN using LLMs.
Then we run the solver to verify consistency.
When a wiki page is changed, the process is run again and it's essentially a linter for process.
Can't say it moved beyond the prototyping stage though, since the LEAN conversion does require some engineers to look through it at least.
But a promising approach indeed, especially when you have a domain that requires tight legal / financial compliance.
I am not a creative. But I do play the piano from time to time. It’s an old 15 year old Roland electric piano. I wouldn’t like to see it crushed. Even if it is obsolete. I bet a lot of actual creatives do have sentimental values attached to their tools.
Destroying things needlessly is very much off brand for Apple.
I have a young child. For me, this news over a year ago has significantly curbed sharing of baby pictures/videos through iMessage/WhatsApp etc.
I don’t even record as much video of our son since everything is backed up to iCloud and Google Photos. I have an auto-adding album where any picture taken of our son goes directly into a shared album with my parents and my wife’s parents.
My wife wanted to record us giving our son a bath because it is cute how he plays with the water. We didn’t do that because of this worry that it might be construed as CSAM.
I can’t have my Google account be suspended because I use the same account for most of my freelance work.
The whole situation seems to be a huge violation of the principles of privacy.
I understand this is intended to protect children from terrible evils. But still, I don’t feel this is the best way to do it.
Above a certain level of expertise, ICs are far harder to hire than management-like positions.
This is definitely surprising to younger ICs in the industry - who seem to want to become engineering managers any way they can.
The ceiling of genius you can possibly spike to as an engineer is far higher. I’ve seen single engineers at smaller startups perform the work of entire teams at big companies. And these folks get paid maybe 3x-4x the standard engineer salary. Huge savings. But hard to hire these folks.