andrekandre

could be, or the one where dr pulaski becomes an old lady...

wait till they get the 'war on carpet' on, no one will be spared...

  > I think people like AI tools when it's their choice to engage with them and they set the terms.

exactly, stop shoving ai in my face and let me go to it when i want/need it

  > That makes your product stickier, and lets you charge more too.

not for jira, that things ai is garbage and gets in the way most of the time (and same for a lot of companies imo)

yes! i just did this today as well. the product direction at apple is completely messed up imo

  > you're supposed to ask Rufus now

completely off-topic but the names they give these dumb ai tools is so cringe

  > totally forego critical thinking

if there is anything i've learned working in this industry is that everyone hates thinking; they want a rote formula or pattern they can repeat for every project and every functionality... and ai mania is perfect cat-nip for this type imo

if its like anything i've experienced in multiple places, they are just implementing scrum and calling it a day.

meanwhile the business runs on quarterly projects that have to be done by a certain marketing date, so its usually scrum + waterfall over and over

  > fired half of them

always a winning strategy...

isnt it how marketing is done these days? people/companies buy views, clicks, articles, posts on social media saying how great something/someone is or how its changed their life etc etc.

it really becomes hard to separate the wheat/chaff for alot of these things...

its definitely the playbook: screw up the govt then make the point that cant do anything right

true, though for me it’s an ipad mini, just small enough to fit on my pocket but big enough to read a whole page of code (and it only goes for a few hundred bucks vs thousands)

A newly discovered presentation of the Demon's Souls prototype version and planning documents showing first-person gameplay as well as many other small differences from the final product.

  > Any recipe R that uses LOOKUP automatically works with all the data structures that LOOKUP works with, even though R itself may be a specific recipe for a specific data structure of its own.

this seems similar to protocol extensions + associated types as used in swift maybe?

https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/documentation/the-swift-pr...

i wonder if people who use llm's for business critical documentation would have the same opinion, and if so why?

its almost as if we over-financialized our economy...

  > Bubbles are not good. They are harmful.

bubbles are bad for society too; families get thrown out on the street, big players/individuals buy all the cheap/discounted assets furthering economy divisions, and depending on the size civil unrest etc....

  > gained something as high as 20% gains

all other things being held constant, i suppose it should be as easy as +20% profit rate? tho im not an executive so what do i know...

it may just be actually incredible what they are doing. on the other hand it could also be absolutely insane...

  > “hey, do you REALLY want me to use this local privilege escalation bug so I can download your Google Drive file?”

yes, this exactly

but, there is a fatigue that sets in and i've experienced it myself.

- is it ok to run script xyz?

- allow permission to edit abc?

- allow to request blablabla?

over and over.... click click click

something will get in there that is dangerious and then its whopsie our keys are now on github

  > What seems like a manageable margin suddenly starts growing and destroying everything

probably where the 1 trillion+ dollar valuations are coming from.... lots of thick saas margins they can siphon/skim from the whole industry.

  > And that is how almost every successful company that uses AWS eventually ends up paying six-figures or more annually.

the best thing to do is avoid the first cigarette (but everyone at the office smokes, and if you want a promotion you'll smoke with them too)

  > The ROI is besides the point. It's about breaking the spirit of engineering labor with irrational decisions made outside of their control.

it may be where you are at (not disagreeing at all with your experience), but where i am the management really are 'true believers' so to speak... they are all-in and mesmerized by the tech (call it fomo or whatever)

i've seen this kind of thing nearly first hand and have similar sentiments...

btw, my manager in that conversation later said "it doesn't matter, all code will be done by ai, so we better get on board"; i think there is a lot of fomo/cult-like thinking going on (its impressive technology with alot of capital behind it so who can blame them i guess)

  > just because the UI frameworks are too hard/unfamiliar

i'm not sure if thats the biggest issue. working at a few large companies that had to support multiple platforms, the management was always looking for ways to deduplicate work with things like flutter, kmp etc; they just want one codebase to manage and qa because 2 or more gets to be hard for them to handle (hiring is also easier)

i take it even with ai companies will still do this, whith exhibit a being the electron-based codex app from openai...

  > You can't rely solely on technology to solve problems rooted in human nature.

i just reply to highlight this; so many people don't get this...

  > it mostly turned into animated brochures instead

just my crazy opinion but it was inevitable unless there was some law to prevent commercialization (in the ad sense) of the internet (keep it a public good for individuals only)

your argument is basically: the industry is moving to it so we should get on board or be left behind

it would be more convincing if you had concrete examples of technical merit and quality/speed improvements that worked for you or your team that justify going all-in

this matches my experience at $work with others as well...

when i brought this up with my manager they just said "you need to engineer a better harness" and "aren't you cultivating your agents.md file? thats probably your problem"

which is to say, apparently we're holding it wrong...

  > They update the docs every year.

it doesn't help that docs are utter garbage... the fact everything is slopped into a video is so annoying