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The scary thing is that this is the worst this technology will ever be.
The media industry is cooked.
Get ready for $100 movie theater tickets, because the cost actual creative work is going to go sky high in the next few years
How do these findings compare to Codex, Claude code, and cursor
Microsoft is not an engineering company any more. Just look at their products. They placed ads in the start menu and file explorer. Azure is one of the worst clouds when it comes to features and reliability.
Microsoft is a dying company, and they are trying not to end up like IBM, but their fate is inevitable.
I disagree with your 2nd assertion. Even engineers who are less tech lead style engineers, can gain a significant boost in productivity by being able to quickly run through POCs and build an understanding of surrounding areas of their work, so they are able to contribute more.
For eg I am able to make React changes much faster and the changes are higher quality, given frontend dev has never been my job role. I’m able to spin up test harnesses, write throw away glue code, test against large datasets, etc
Dog! Use it and tell us how it is! Stop with this token maxing moaning. You have access to a new powerful tool.
Not really. Especially with LLMs. Most engineers have a backlog of reviews. I'd much rather focus on building great test infrastructure, and ways to verify test results.
Sounds like something else is wrong that if PRs need to be human reviewed to know if they would break critical infrastructure and systems.
Where is the inference running?
Naaah, no way anyone buying that for profit
This is what happens when companies are run by boomers who care more about building their orgs, instead of doing hard cutting edge engineering work.
Sucks for the author. Hope they land a good gig at a frontier lab.
Just generate a virtual credit card?
Can you explain this a bit more
No fashion forward person wears an Apple watch. Anyone, who remotely cares about what's on their wrist wears a whoop and a traditional watch.
Problem with the Apple Watch is it does too much. They should have never enabled Apps on the Apple Watch. Kept it super simple. I hope they'll come up with a new version with an improved form factor and better battery life soon.
Blame Dario, guy has been building something great, while selling snake oil.
Having great tools means more impressive solutions, not fewer blacksmiths.
How hard is it to fully migrate from Bitwarden to Apple Passwords / Google Passwords? I guess I'm going to have to spend 2 hours on this next weekend.
Didn’t even need AI for this one - https://www.elon.edu/u/news/2025/03/12/survey-52-of-u-s-adul...
You should look into how often people are using tools like WisprFlow and SuperWhisper. Voice is a very native mechanism. Most people working in open floor plans are wearing headphones any way. As long as you're not screaming, it's probably fine. Maybe, we'll move away from open plan offices in the bid for efficiency, which I would welcome.
Are my 70 year old parents regular people? They've never had tech jobs, and they figured out how to use AI once I installed ChatGPT on their phone. They provide it pictures, talk to it, and also use text input.
Nope, I work in deep infra, but I don’t knock down engineers.
Top 3 comments are so negative.
Here’s my optimistic take - Google is already supplying Gemini/Gemma models for the next generation of Apple Intelligence. It makes complete sense for them to enter the hardware market.
I’d be happier if they use more on device models by optimizing their hardware for the next generation of Gemmma models.
I don’t mean to be snide, but go touch grass.
Regular people will use AI for everyday things, not writing code and managing Asana boards
Yeah they’d have to use it to stand at the back of the unemployment line. Companies don’t care, someone more desperate will take the job.
Don't vibe code your critical business logic and infra.
Does using print() in Python means I need to understand the Kernel? This is an absurd thought.
Wait what? You don’t use the model to investigate new areas of the code you are unfamiliar with, because you can’t trust the model? How freaking bad is Gemini and internal tooling at Google?
With Claude code, or codex, I am able to build enough of an understanding of dependencies like the front end, or data jobs, that I can make meaningful contributions that are worth a review from another human (code review). You have up obviously explore the code, one prompt isn’t enough, but limiting yourself is an odd choice.
The UK (at least London) is cheaper than Seattle, and far cheaper than NYC.
Yup, you are correct to not generalize, because Austin is one of the cheapest "cities" in America.
Once every infowars article and video is on the onion, they will instantly make sense. How long does it take to retrain foundational models and SEO to understand that those articles are absolutely trash?
A redesign that gets replaced 2 years later is a catastrophe.
People forget how quickly Uber scaled, and the user impact of not being able to track your trips could be catastrophic to retention. There's a class of tech-influencer who think they can dissect past decisions on a blog post without being in the room when the technical constraints were being laid out. This is Monday morning quaterbacking at it's most grotesque.
I think X paid for itself, so it worked our for him.