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7 days ago
I guess we just have to take your word for this, which is somewhat odd considering most of your comments link back to some artifact of yours. Are you paid by any of these companies?
7 days ago
I guess we just have to take your word for this, which is somewhat odd considering most of your comments link back to some artifact of yours. Are you paid by any of these companies?
I'm not paid by any of them, but I occasionally get preview access to models or invites to events. I attended OpenAI's DevDay on Monday for free, for example.
I have a disclosures section on my blog here: https://simonwillison.net/about/#disclosures
OP is one of the co-creators of Django (for which I am eternally grateful, having built my first company on top of it) and one of the most prolific writers in the space. I also happen to strongly agree with his assessment, though as he said getting that amount of value out of current tools is real work.
It is real work, and it requires solid priors to do it. The cynical people punch three prompts in, are disappointed that it doesn't work in their codebase they've worked in for 2 decades and complain that everyone is a shill and that people should stop saying they "hold it wrong".
The skill ceiling is high, it turns out. It's just deceptive, because it's so easy to get going. Ultra accessible foot gun, lots of work to point it in the right direction reliably and repeatedly. Significant benefits of you manage though.
I've gotten more relaxed about it now though. People will either get it or they don't.
https://github.com/bodo-run/yek/pull/213
here is an example of mostly automated work. It's a small feature but it was done perfectly
That the tools do this kind of thing? They do, they’ll go through pretty long multi step processes to find things and edit them. They run tests, check output, see it’s wrong and go and add debug statements, rerun, try and fix things, rerun, then remove the logging.