alt Hacker NewsYeah, it’s pretty wild. Even pg is tweeting stuff like
“An experienced programmer told me he's now using AI to generate a thousand lines of code an hour.“
https://x.com/paulg/status/2026739899936944495
Like if you had told pg to his face in (pre AI) office hours “I’m producing a thousand lines of code an hour”, I’m pretty sure he’d have laughed and pointed out how pointless that metric was?
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He is a Lisper too, making it more ironic. Lisp the power to heavily reduce cruft by heavy customization with macros.
They need to keep the musical chairs going.
Technical debt is increasing by 1,000 lines an hour.
Hm, I do not read the statement as a hyped "this is how everyone should write code now" rather as a statement of fact. "A experienced programmer he knows uses LLMs to generate thounds LOC/h". That does not say whether those lines will actually be shipped anywhere or just exist for testing purposes/prototyping.
We all know that a thousand parentheses would be better metric.
Enshittification comes for us all
It’s all virtual virtue signaling. If you were to say this shit in the office, you’d be walked out pretty fast.
I don't understand how some people decide here, who the good programmers are. A lot of people reminded me a guy from West Palm Beach, who votes on elections solely on the principle of who has more "fame". Paul Graham is famous for sure (at least in HN circles), but I never considered him an exceptional or good programmer at all. So I always interpreted his words with a hefty amount of grain of salt. And sometimes some comments have a list of "good" coders, then half of them is like these famous, but not good ones.