Comment by badgersnake
17 hours ago
I’m increasingly finding that the type of engineer that blogs is not they type of engineer anyone should listen to.
17 hours ago
I’m increasingly finding that the type of engineer that blogs is not they type of engineer anyone should listen to.
The value of the blog post is negatively correlated to how good the site looks. Mailing list? Sponsors? Fancy Title? Garbage. Raw HTML dumped on a .xyz domain, Gold!
on a .xyz domain
That's a negative correlation signal for me (as are all the other weird TLDs that I have not seen besides SEO spam results and perhaps the occasional HN submission.) On the other hand, .com, .net, and .org are a positive signal.
The exception is a front end dev, since that's their bread and butter.
Can you say more? I see a lot of teams struggling with getting AI to work for them. A lot of folks expect it to be a little more magical and "free" than it actually is. So this post is just me sharing what works well for us on a very seasoned eng team.
As someone who struggles to realise productivity gains with AI (see recent comment history) I appreciate the article.
100% coverage for AI generated code is a very different value proposition than 100% coverage for human generated code (for the reasons outlined in the article).
it is MUCH easier for solo devs to get agents to work for them than it is for teams to get agents to work for them.
that's interesting, whats the reason for that?
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It's just veiled marketing for their company.
Even some of the comments here can't help name dropping their own startups for no actual reason.
Badgersnake's corollary to Gell-Mann amnesia?
I find that this idea of restricting degrees of freedom is absolutely critical to being productive with agents at scale. Please enlighten us as to why you think this is nonsense
Wearing seatbelts is critical for drunk-driving.
All praise drunk-driving for increased seatbelt use.
Finally something I can get behind.