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Will It Mythos? 30 days ago

To me it feels like they're basically tweaking these things around the edges. I'm not seeing any difference in capability just preference. This has been the case for a while.

What does older mean in this context? Because some people still think the year 1996 wasn't that long ago. Modern Renault cars are fine and reliable enough. I've had 4 in my life time and had zero issues myself. I see a ton of them here in the UK and, again, they're fine.

Claude Fable 5 1 month ago

It's the real deal. Before Fable nothing I tried worked. It has finally helped me finish my teleportation device. I can't show you or anyone the proof but trust me it's true.

This seems pretty unlikely. If it turns out to be true then you don't need a junior or senior dev you can just get a random person from the street and they could do the job.

You can apply this same argument to everything. Code is deterministic but what is being made is often not because people don't know what they want to make. Society can choose just to make everything boring and deterministic so that computers can do everything.

Google I/O 2 months ago

It's gotta be booking a flight or restaurant or something. They demo this every year and it never works.

I do this all the time but then you end up with really over engineered code that has way more issues than before. Then you're back to prompting to fix a bunch of issues. If you didn't write the initial code sometimes it's difficult to know the best way to refactor it. The answer people will say is to prompt it to give you ideas. Well then you're back to it generating more and more code and every time it does a refactor it introduces more issues. These issues aren't obvious though. They're really hard to spot.

I have an app which is fairly popular. This release cycle I used Claude Code and codex to implement all the changes / features. It definitely let me move much quicker than before.

However now that it's in the beta stage the amount of issues and bugs is insane. I reviewed a lot of the code that went in as well. I suspect the bug fixing stage is going to take longer than the initial implementation. There are so many issues and my mental model of the codebase has severely degraded.

It was an interesting experiment but I don't think I would do it again this way.