Tu Quoque AND false equivalency. Impressive.

We should all care how resources are used, even if don't own them. That investment is going to make things more expensive for everyone. See RAM, SSD, and GPU prices.

Probably less about direct enforcement, more about after the fact. Ebay doesn't want to deal with charge backs for hallucinate purchases

Yeah, they're hedging against "AI purchases". eBay has already been dealing with automated/bots for years.

> Ebay doesn't want to deal with charge backs for hallucinate purchases

A charge back doesn’t mean buyer always wins. Imagine if credit card companies also pass a rule - “LLM or AI purchases are non-refundable”.

On a different note - once I tried to cancel an eBay order within a minute, both eBay and seller declined. It’s so fked up with them.

Verifying behavior is great and all if you can actually exhaustively test the behaviors of your system. If you can't, then not knowing what your code is actually doing is going to set you back when things do go belly up.

I love this comment because it makes perfect sense today, it made perfect sense 10 years ago, it would have made perfect sense in 1970. The principles of software engineering are not changed by the introduction of commodified machine intelligence.

i 100% agree - the folks who are best at ai-first engineering, they spend 3 days designing the test harness and then kick off an agent unsupervised for 2+ days and come back to working software.

not exactly valuable as guidance since programming languages are very easy to verify, but the https://ghuntley.com/ralph post is an example of whats possible on the very extreme end of the spectrum

What an amazing place to run a business.

Absolutely no one is seriously clamoring for the old team name. It's an issue that DFM. But of course, because it's on the agenda of the day we need to drop everything.

This is no better then switch from master to mainline. They're both idiotic and performative.

I find it laughable we still make statements like "blurred lines".

This is 100% crony capitalism. Any suggestion to the contrary is naive at best and intentionally ambigious at worst.

We call it spoon bread in the east. True spoon bread is baked in an old tin can. Not sweet.

Darts an old one. At least since my parents age.

I think the only thing that's going to change is expectation around deliverables.

I don't need an L4 to crack out some dirty code now, I'll let an agent do it so the L4 can level their skills up grinding harder problems.

Yah I'm not really getting why that was chosen. Maybe not 100%, but something closer to 75% would be totally workable

I'm so fucking tired of people who had no interest in software development telling me software development is dead.

The author repeatedly states they have little knowledge of the tech they're using. But they're CERTAIN in what the industry will be in future.

Hubris

Right?

“Oh you’ll never have to do this tech stuff ever again! How amazing! Ai all the things!”

Like, ok great. Good for you. Leave the rest of us out of whatever mission-to-replace-some-thing-you-don’t-like.

Or even better, if you don’t like, go away and do something else. I’m not big into jogging, but I don’t go around telling runners that their hobby is redundant and that “nobody will run now that we have segways”.