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sadengineer22on How the Claude Code team does code review

I have heard from someone who works at Anthropic that they will have postmortems that sometimes devolve into "my claude says X" vs "well my claude says Y". Maybe this is the future of software engineering, but it seems pretty fucking sad.

sadengineer22on U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications

Yes, we should assume good faith, the Trump administration has a clear track record of being reasonable and sticking to their word.

sadengineer22on The Tariff Cost: analysis of the costs to Americans from new tariffs on Canada

It is AI slop, which has the veneer of sense without the substance. https://cymerys.com/w/im-becoming-ai-blind

sadengineer22on Running local models is good now

I used fable, and directly compared it against sonnet 4.8 and gpt 5.5 on various tasks. It was generally better, but still not perfect. Going back to sonnet/gpt has been perfectly fine.

sadengineer22on I'm going back to writing code by hand

Depends on what is meant by "fully responsible" I guess. At my company non-engineers push code to production where the only reviewer is frequently an LLM, if the code is broken they get an LLM to fix it. The human does not understand the code, they are not even trying to, this is pure vibe coding. We also have engineers who push code to production that they have not written, and not fully read, and has not been read by another human (at least not in detail).

I would say that counts as "not having that policy". Based on what management tells us, we are dead if we don't operate this way.