@liam_fallen Because for coding it doesn't make sense to dictate a spec
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Drew Stephen
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Drew Stephen
@archidapp
Senior engineer @circle | formerly @interop_labs, @phi_labs
Toronto Katılım Nisan 2023
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@GergelyOrosz Funny how desperate people are for engagement they just make things up. 🤔
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Cannot help but see the concept of code reviews fading away
Talked with a rock-solid, v experienced engineer who, until recently, reviewed all code their AI generated… till Fable. And figured it’s pointless to do the review, so is stopping doing it, unless it’s for key parts of the product
And this is someone who has always reviewed their and everyone else’s code their whole career
Still unsure what to replace it with as something needs to come instead if code review!
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@anah_sahh I'd trust the one that doesn't need to analyze my entire conversation history every time it needs to reply.
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@ThePrimeagen Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
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Have you ever had a loop that, that, um, that you had, uh, that you had to, you could, you do, you wit, you wanted it to run so much, you could prompt so much you could ship anything
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@webdevcody Clearly this is rage bait, or you haven't thought through the consequences
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at this point there isn't a single terminal command you should be typing by hand
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@Variety If only "easier" was necessarily "better", then the progress attribution would actually make sense
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George Lucas says AI makes it "much easier for us to make movies" and "there’s nothing you can do about it. That’s progress, it’s the future.”
“Artificial intelligence means it’s much easier for us to make movies. It’s very much like sitting here saying, ‘Well, I believe the horse and the buggy is really where it’s at. These cars, they break down, they need gas, there’s all kinds of problems with them and pretty soon they’ll be making them into tanks, and then they’ll be killing people. It’s terrible.’ There’s nothing you can do about it. That’s progress, it’s the future.” (via A Rabbit's Foot)
variety.com/2026/film/news…
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@phuctm97 In plan mode the agent can only touch the plan. This restriction really does produce interesting results because it's much easier to steer.
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Remember plan mode?
It’s ancient tech now. You’re an uncle/aunty if you’re still using it. 🧓
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@ben_sage I'll never write my own posts again.
I got 100s of likes, and honestly people didn't even realize in the comments. It honestly feels so easy.
Why are X users often so easy to bait?
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@IamAroke Tech debt is accumulatimg faster than ever in the AI assisted coding paradigm. We're trading productivity now (speed) for delayed learning we still have to do later (quality).
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@kellycucca It only gets worse, but you can gradually earn more money for it 🙈
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@mitchellh Are you seriously arguing the size of Ghostty, Vagrant, Terraform, and Vault, can even be remotely compared to how big Spotify is?
It is pretty clear that no amount of "consumer satisfaction reports" from even the largest of companies using AI will convince you that it's real.
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Goalposts keep moving by people who have never shipped software this big.
Mitchell Hashimoto@mitchellh
Amongst my friends, Spotify is the lowest quality consumer app we still pay for. It certainly hasnt gotten noticeably better in the last couple years (arguably worse). So, this is not the positive look Ant and Spotify are spinning here. Bigger picture, this is the problem with a lot of AI reporting. It reports completely meaningless metrics like deploys per day or LoC. Why don’t we start reporting consumer satisfaction reports? Actually end state research results. All the no nuance AI people always come out and think that this is anti AI. Again, I think AI is great and Claude is great. But this is bad marketing and makes both look like clowns.
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@ClaudeDevs @ClaudeDevs sat down with Opus 4.8 and asked it to create even larger numbers for their fake stats, but then they were too large so they changed the the percentage stat to 73%
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Boris sat down with Spotify VP of Engineering Niklas Gustavsson.
Spotify ships 4,500 production deploys a day, and 73% of PRs are now AI-assisted.
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@0x45o Rehashed Milton Friedman's "pencil analogy" for brainless views 🤔
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2002: I'll google it
2015: I'll uber over
2026: I'll GPT it (???). I'll claude it (???)
Why haven't we picked the dominant verb for AI yet?
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@TheStalwart The same will also be true of off-loading our reading comprehension to soulless AI summaries.
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Unfortunately, I think that in the near future, not using LLMs to write for you will be like someone refusing to use Google Maps for directions in a new city. A bizarre idiosyncratic choice that's just completely incomprehensible to the vast majority of people.
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@RyanPCooke What's wrong with having human reviewers. You don't realize the irony of calling humans silly, when you can only view the argument in terms of 2 extremes?
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silly humans who still think they are better at coding than datacenters full of PHDs, resorting to sabotage
Mitchell Hashimoto@mitchellh
Got em. I poison my AGENTS.md (and other things like code comments) all over the place with prompt injections like this to find people who don't review their code and sling it off to another human. Catches folks all the time and then its an instant ban. As I've said, I don't care if you don't review your own code. But if you're submitting code to an OSS project and crossing a human boundary, it is simple courtesy to do some human review.
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@falconerd This post is the same as saying "writing isn't hard".
Might be a good strategy for churning out soap operas and pulp fiction, but good luck trying to create the next Ulysses
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Programming isn't hard.
They made it hard. They taught you to care about class hierarchies, design patterns, and philosophical concepts that have zero overlap with the code required to solve the problem.
Look at what a program actually does.
Data comes in. You transform it. Data goes out.
That's it. That's the entire job.
Everything else is optional. And most of it is wrong.
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@jonathan_wilke Because interfaces for the AI era are text based, obviously
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I don't get the hype around CLI coding tools like Claude Code.
Human-computer interaction evolved past the terminal 30 years ago for a reason. UIs won.
Why are we regressing?
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