Comment by bodge5000

Comment by bodge5000 18 hours ago

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> No more AI thought pieces until you tell us what you build!

Absolutely agree with this, the ratio of talk to output is insane, especially when the talk is all about how much better output is. So far the only example I've seen is Claude Code which is mired in its own technical problems and is literally built by an AI company.

> Write your own code without assistance on whatever interval makes sense to you, otherwise you'll atrophy those muscles

This is the one thing that concerns me, for the same reason as "AI writes the code, humans review it" does. The fact of the matter is, most people will get lazy and complacent pretty quickly, and the depth of which they review the code/ the frequency they "go it alone" will get less and less until eventually it just stops happening. We all (most of us anyway) do it, its just part of being human, for the same reason that thousands of people start going to the gym in January and stop by March.

Arguably, AI coding was at its best when it was pretty bad, because you HAD to review it frequently and there were immediate incentives to just take the keyboard and do it yourself sometimes. Now, we still have some serious faults, they're just not as immediate, which will lead to complacency for a lot of people.

Maybe one day AI will be able to reliably write the 100% of the code without review. The worry is that we stop paying attention first, which all in all looks quite likely

Kerrick 16 hours ago

> Absolutely agree with this, the ratio of talk to output is insane, especially when the talk is all about how much better output is.

Those of us building are having so much fun we aren't slowing down to write think pieces.

I don't mean this flippantly. I'm a blogger. I love writing! But since a brief post on December 22 I haven't blogged because I have been too busy implementing incredible amounts of software with AI.

Since you'll want receipts, here they are:

- https://git.sr.ht/~kerrick/ratatui_ruby/tree/trunk/item/READ...

- https://git.sr.ht/~kerrick/rooibos/tree/trunk/item/README.rd...

- https://git.sr.ht/~kerrick/tokra/tree

Between Christmas and New Year's Day I was on vacation, so I had plenty of time. Since then, it's only been nights & weekends (and some early mornings and lunch breaks).

  • yojat661 9 hours ago

    Are these software popular? Are these maintainable long term? Are you getting feedback from users?

g8oz 17 hours ago

But simonw said that dark factories are the way forward /s

  • malfist 14 hours ago

    Lights out manufacturing is always the boogieman that's being built or coming tomorrow. Never seems to happen though. The Wikipedia article for it only cites two such factories, and at least one of them requires humans still and isn't fully lights out.