have you seen our rails, roads and bridges?!? 50 year old ones in many places are being referred to as “new ones” :)

the only reason any “maintenance” on them is expensive is corruption which at municipal level rivals current administration in some places

I’d actually prefer if all of them looked and worked the same, especially useful if you have elderly family members you need to teach how to use app for XYZ. all government websites (especially functional ones that citizens use to do something on) for instance should be exactly the same

Joseph Biden

I was being facetious but in all fairness he was anything but when he was in the Oval

if it catches a lot of bugs maybe you’d be better of letting it write it in the first place :)

It also writes lots of bugs which it'll catch some of, in an independent review chat.

This is bogus. If you think LLMs write less buggy software, you haven't worked with seriously capable engineers. And now, of course, everyone can become such an engineer if they put in the effort to learn.

But why not just use the AI? Because you can still use the AI once you're seriously good.

This is definitely not correct in my opinion. You’re essentially saying, instead of a person actually getting better at the craft, just give up and let someone else do it.

IME, not really. When you prompt it to review its own written code, it will end up finding out a bunch of stuff that should have been otherwise. And then you can add different "dimensions" in your prompt as well like performance, memory safety, idiomatic code, etc.

Nono, that is the reverse centaur. Structure your own thoughts, that's the human work.

this is exactly right, I don't manage agents anymore (and have spent countless hours before learning how to do so, now this is a skill like my microsoft access skills (which were amazing back in the day...)

> More and more, people without smart phones are locked out of parts of society.

You and me and everyone should push against this. The authenticator has non-phone alternatives and everything generally should have non-phone alternatives as well, you can be the one to start a class-action lawsuit and get rich (or your attorneys :)

> I'm not sure how someone with a dumb phone can function on their own without leaning on others with a smartphone

100% doable. My Dad functions perfectly and has never owned a smartphone. I also know two other people in my circle of friends, in 30's and 50's without a smartphone. Hassle and inconvenience here and there but the freedom you get is worth it for some people. I have gotten rid of all social media years ago but hard to part with smartphone (though I see it in my future....)

Claude with "out of a job" coders and designers and carpenters and plumbers... :)

[1] is so bad, like the worst imaginable thing you can think of... like if this is the possible fuckup all bets are off what other fuckups you might need to deal with. I got hit with this problem several times and I was like "well this is just impossible..." absolutely mind-blown

comments like these is probably while significant contingent of HN talks heavily about AI bubble. burning that kind of cash always ends up like the right move, godspeed :)

I work for a consulting company, we know exactly how much each billable person makes the company and whether the ROI is worth it.

We don’t have to measure “productivity gains”.

I personally don’t come close to that and neither do I suspect most of us. Between using my $20 a month ChatGPT subscription with Codex and the amount of time I spend on Zoom calls “adding on to what Becky said” and “looking at things from the 1000 foot view”

On another note, the grunt work I use to delegate to a junior consultant, I now can get Claude to do in a fraction of the the time. They were making a lot more than the worse case of $72K a year fully allocated. But honestly most of that work is done with my $240 a year ChatGPT subscription + maybe $600 in Claude at the current prices/limits

you asking a bot if it is a bot? :)

haha no im not a bot, but starting to realise i sound like one. need to be less cynical.

exactly what the bot would say lol :)