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theptiptoday at 8:31 PM3 repliesview on HN

Agreed, all of the staff/principal engineers I work with are ~99%+ AI generated code, and increasing business value delivered as a result. This is on planet scale infra not CRUD apps. (And yes, you do need to carefully review the output and give steers/corrections. It’s still faster.)

At this point if you can’t get the agent to write good code then either I) you are in a very specific niche (like Karpathy trying to write NanoGPT) that is extremely out-of-distribution, or II) skill issue, you need to learn how to prompt better.

It’s fine to have a skill gap! Just don’t delude yourself that the tools are bad and everyone claiming they are good is wrong.


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pikertoday at 8:39 PM

How is a GPT implementation “extremely out of distribution” but “planet scale infra” isn’t? That’s got me totally confused about your point that I was taking seriously.

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tripleeetoday at 9:32 PM

it's really cool how in the past measuring developer productivity was incredibly difficult, but now its become easy if someone's making a point about LLMs

oasisaimlesslytoday at 9:16 PM

btw, your last paragraph makes you sound like an ass.