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IshKebab • today at 5:32 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

I dunno. You still have to test, but in my experience if I noticed unreliability during high load I could just tell Claude "I noticed unreliability during high load" and it would easily have set up a high load benchmark, discovered this broadcast channel issue and fixed it.

It definitely improves the results if you do think but I don't think "you still have to think" is a safe space that's going to save us from unemployment.


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B56c • today at 5:38 PM

Author is saying that some decisions aren't as obvious as "my code should be reliable under high load". Some decisions are tradeoffs that require you to have domain/technical expertise to answer.

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catlifeonmars • today at 6:25 PM

> It definitely improves the results if you do think but I don't think "you still have to think" is a safe space that's going to save us from unemployment.

Who said anything about saving people from unemployment?

> I noticed unreliability during high load

This is pretty ambiguous. You still need to provide more context, such as which failure modes you are trying to benchmark.