This is just like when Paypal got started and was basically operating their own bank. Good luck doing that without getting in trouble. This is selling pharmaceutical drugs over the internet. You're playing chicken with going to jail they just happened to get lucky.
I just met a guy from Amazon this past weekend who was bragging, "We've got unlimited access to LLMs and our developers have 10 agents going at a time.". I tried telling him it wasn't all unicorns and rainbows but I didn't get the impression he cared and just kept crapping out skittles.
The impression I get from SWEs I’ve met throughout my life is that most of them don’t actually care about their job. They got in because it paid well and demand was plentiful.
I really enjoy Patrick Boyle's reports. Really high information content with very little fluff. I love how he sneaks in the deadpan snarky comment every once in a while.
I replaced all the light switches in my house with smart dimmers and have the lights dim in the evening. It happens in steps so it's noticeable and it's like a clock ticking down. I don't know if there's anything scientific about it but it's pleasant, like the house is going to sleep so maybe I should too.
I like to use the yellow anti-insect lights for the external lighting around my house as they tend to attract way fewer flying insects and fewer spiders as a result.
I also like them in lamps inside for illumination during the evening, with the added benefit of not requiring more IoT devices.
What does verifying code by hand even mean? Do we now have artisanal testing, lovingly hand crafted? I get the current debate about LLM assisted coding but this is mudslinging and not constructive discussion.
Verifying the code means, does it actually do what you said it does?
When you vibe code things, the AI often thinks it built something that does X, but when you actually test it/verify it, in fact it doesn't do that at all.
I've seen it this week with both Codex and Claude Code. I built something for scraping financial data from various websites. Claude Code said, yes I built this and it works. I verified the data and it wasn't accurate, it was data for the previous quarter.
I.e. if you're trusting that the AI built your RAG perfectly without testing it, you're probably mistaken.
I suspect that we are going to see managers say, "Hey, this request is BS. I'm just going to get ChatGPT to do it" while employees say, "Hey, this response is BS, I'm just going to get ChatGPT to do it" and then we'll just have ChatGPT talking to itself. Eventually someone will notice and fire them both.
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