"Forty years later, in September of 2018, I started working on this version of Space War. It's an animated GUI driven system with a frame rate of 30fps. It is written entirely in Clojure and uses the Quil shim for the Processing GUI framework." - Robert Martin
I work with others who have made this same claim. For those people, when I observed their work during demo days the unmentioned thing is that they were going to the AI for system design questions as well. This was framed as "just using it as a sounding board" but what was actually done was not merely a sounding board but instead was asking for solutions. Anchoring bias being what it is, these felt like good ideas and they kept them.
Its the feeling of having done a lot of thinking for themselves without having actually done so.
I actually have gone to the AI repeatedly for system design solutions.
Daily.
I think only twice have I agreed with it.
Like the way it will always give you code if you ask, even if the code is crap, it will always give you a design if you ask. Won't be a good design, though.
It definitely activates something within people. Maybe I'm just terminally online, but there is always _always_ someone who will say "Idiocracy isn't satire, its a documentary."
I don’t think that when people say “it’s a documentary” they mean that it’s literally a “documentary”, more like “this satire is so close to reality, that you can call it documentary”.
I mostly do this for work. These days I'm mostly building tooling for other devs. Observable memory system for coding, PR automation, CLI apps, dev coding dashboard, email automation. All of it integrating AI at various points (where intelligence is useful). All of that in the last two months alone.
Claude code skills represent a new type of AI native program. Give your agent the file system, let it build tools to sync and manage data.
So you think your experience building tools for other devs is the same as every other domain of software to the point that you would declare the whole field of software engineering is a solved problem?
Gamedev, systems programming, embedded development, 3D graphics, audio programming, mobile, desktop, physics/simulation programming, HPC, RTC, etc.. that’s all solved based on your experience?
Why are you building tools for other humans? Why are they programming in this world where you aren't programming but are also an insanely productive programmer?
But you don't actually do any of that, do you? Instead, you get tired and lazy and attempt to have the LLM solve those hard problems for you too. You just don't tell others about it.
What an odd bit of moralizing. GP said they enjoy doing the hard parts, in which case they probably do them, because it's fun. If they actually don't enjoy it, there's nothing wrong with them using the LLM, when it's up to the task, and then just checking to make sure the code is good.
I think they implied the following argument, or something along the lines
1. Assume that Amazon knows the future
2. Then spending $250M on Rings of Power is a bad decision
3. Therefore paying $28M to Trump is also just a bad decision, and not a bribery
I personally don't think that 1 holds, or that 2 implies 3.
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