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if only programmers cared about functionality as much as syntax we'd be living in a lisp heaven

Why are there no good films is a better question. And we know the answer. Hollywood no longer employs based on talent.

Whether you think LLM's in coding are good or bad largely depends on what you think of current software dev practice. He only gets to this towards the end of the article but this is the main source of personal bias.

If you think the shoddy code currently put into production is fine you're likely to view LLM generated code as miraculous.

If you think that we should stop reinventing variations on the same shoddy code over and over - and instead find ways of reusing existing solid code and generally improving quality (this was the promise of Object Orientation back in the nineties which now looks laughable) then you'll think LLM's are a cynical way to speed up the throughput of garbage code while employing fewer crappy programmers.

Fluoride in water wouldn't be necessary is sugary drinks were taxed heavily (or just banned altogether) and dental care was affordable. But obviously that's considered communism if you're a typical american.

She's a scientist. Most of the people on here are writing software which is essentially reinventing the wheel over and over. Of course you have a different experience of LLMs.

this is exactly my experience

Welcome to 2025...

The upcoming AI crash is gonna be seriously big

So nobody would use code written in common lisp... but they will use code written in an entirely new language.... right...

It's a modern disease to seek "success" rather than mastery of a craft for it's own sake. one can lead to the other but not vice versa.

Enjoy your expensive garbage

All the smartest people are humble and realise the limits of their capability. as a result they automatically make decisions that reduce complexity. unfortunately software development is full of people who overestimate their capability with obvious results

Note to the Times writer if the obituary. you can't accidentally murder someone

No surprise here. People who care will always do a better job than people who are getting paid but don't care.

This is what you get when profit is prioritised over every other factor. i'm not sure why anyone finds this surprising. Social democrats recognise the role of government is to put in place regulations that temper this kind of behaviour. under Trumps 'slash and burn' approach to regulation expect things to get worse on every field

Are people all so useless now we need an app for this despite having all the tools we need already? No wonder innovation in software is dead when you can pump out the same crap over and over with shinier graphics

that's how funding used to work before the bureaucrats took control in the 1990's. it's no coincidence we mow have so much junk research

No, but intelligence usually correlates with attention to detail

while we're bitching about the bitwarden UI my pet peeve is that 99% of my accounts use my email as the username but i still have to type it in every time i create a new account. how about having auto-suggest?

Datomic

The USSR wasn't doomed by communism per se. it was doomed by prioritising ideology and politics over any other considerations. The US is now in the same doom-spiral.

Instead of worrying about how hard it is to give away their money effectively these billionaires should be working to fix a political system created specifically to funnel money to billionaires. Without fixing the actual problem giving away money is just virtue signalling.

It's well intended but it won't work. Just like every other form of censorship that's ever been tried

Terrible design. This is why I hate modern software. If the devs barely understand it how are the users supposed to.

The rest of us understood it

Even smart people completely over-rate “AI” it seems

No shit!

So the new head of people will help come up with a magic remuneration formula… right…

So big corporations love copyright laws when they can use them to make enormous profits - but then want exemptions when the exact same laws don’t allow them to make enormous profits. Welcome to the world we get when we let rich arseholes make all the rules.

This is a drop in the bucket. The real crime is rich corporations using “science” to enrich themselves. Examples: denying that smoking causes cancer. Demonising fat while promoting excess sugar in processed food, and look at how many organisations are denying man-made climate change…