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New comment by cglace in "An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force"

cglace — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 14:33:45 +0000

In my tests of using AI to write most of my code, just writing the code yourself(with Copilot) and doing manual rounds with Claude is much faster and easier to maintain.

New comment by cglace in "Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age"

cglace — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 23:08:08 +0000

So you can create a serious contender to Salesforce or Zapier in a week?

New comment by cglace in "Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age"

cglace — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 23:02:42 +0000

After spending a week coding exclusively with AI assistants, I got functional results but was alarmed by the code quality. I discovered that I didn't actually save much time, and the generated code was so complex and unfamiliar that I was scared to modify it. I still use Copilot and Claude and would say I'm able to work through problems 2-3x faster than I would be without AI but I wouldn't say I get a 10x improvement.

My projects are much more complex than standard CRUD applications. If you're building simple back-office CRUD apps, you might see a 10x productivity improvement with AI, but that hasn't been my experience with more complex work.

New comment by cglace in "How AI is creating a rift at McKinsey, Bain, and BCG"

cglace — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 21:18:27 +0000

Yeah, my job is now automating tasks using AI and code instead of automating tasks with just code. The code part has gone down, and the abstraction has moved up a layer, but I have more work than ever.

New comment by cglace in "How AI is creating a rift at McKinsey, Bain, and BCG"

cglace — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 20:50:33 +0000

In this article: https://medium.com/@takafumi.endo/how-ai-is-redefining-strat...

You can see how AI is already transforming consulting at the Big 3.

New comment by cglace in "Gemini Robotics"

cglace — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 20:47:15 +0000

This is the most level take I’ve seen.

New comment by cglace in "A bear case: My predictions regarding AI progress"

cglace — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 07:15:28 +0000

So what is your prediction?

New comment by cglace in "A bear case: My predictions regarding AI progress"

cglace — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 06:55:44 +0000

The thing I can't wrap my head around is that I work on extremely complex AI agents every day and I know how far they are from actually replacing anyone. But then I step away from my work and I'm constantly bombarded with “agents will replace us”.

I wasted a few days trying to incorporate aider and other tools into my workflow. I had a simple screen I was working on for configuring an AI Agent. I gave screenshots of the expected output. Gave a detailed description of how it should work. Hours later I was trying to tweak the code it came up with. I scrapped everything and did it all myself in an hour.

I just don't know what to believe.

New comment by cglace in "I've been using Claude Code for a couple of days"

cglace — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 19:27:25 +0000

Thanks for sharing. I hope you are right. It's hard to stay objective as things are changing so quickly.

New comment by cglace in "I've been using Claude Code for a couple of days"

cglace — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 14:04:27 +0000

In all of these posts I fail to see how this is engineering anymore. It seems like we are one step away from taking ourselves out of the picture completely.

New comment by cglace in "I've been using Claude Code for a couple of days"

cglace — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 12:32:46 +0000

Are you concerned that these tools will soon replace the need for engineers?

New comment by cglace in "Tesla sales crash continues in Europe, with Germany down 70%"

cglace — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 22:58:09 +0000

The market is currently valuing the stock based primarily on their robotaxi initiative and humanoid robots.

New comment by cglace in "Canada Retaliates, Puts Tariffs on $107B of US Products"

cglace — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:35:21 +0000

Trump said the trade agreement is terrible.

New comment by cglace in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

cglace — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 18:49:04 +0000

The word games I was referring to were your overly technical analysis of the term "illegal." In everyday conversation, people don't care about logical breakdowns of words. They find such arguments absurd and view those making these claims as out of touch. While you might see it as a justified position, most people perceive it as someone being pedantic/elitist with too much time on their hands.

I'm sorry that I assumed you belonged to a group on a political thread where everyone was trashing Trump. It was a dumb mistake to assume you are worried about the rise of the far right.

New comment by cglace in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

cglace — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 12:57:34 +0000

I don't care about political labels. These niche arguments are useless - they don't change anyone's mind. Both sides use these debates as examples to portray the other as extreme. I'm tired of discourse that claims to enlighten but only pushes people further apart, regardless of intent.

New comment by cglace in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

cglace — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 18:09:57 +0000

I'm sorry but these are the word games that drive the right. In essence, no one gives a shit. You are only signaling to other liberals and accomplishing nothing. Why not focus on a fight that matters.

New comment by cglace in "Show HN: I analyzed 1500+ job ads to find the most wanted skills by recruiters"

cglace — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 14:24:30 +0000

Makes sense. Thanks.

New comment by cglace in "Show HN: I analyzed 1500+ job ads to find the most wanted skills by recruiters"

cglace — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 14:08:40 +0000

What do you mean?

New comment by cglace in "Tesla was hit by a wave of protests, sales are crashing, insiders are waking up"

cglace — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 13:51:07 +0000

Most doge/musk things are disappearing.

New comment by cglace in "What happened when REM went mainstream"

cglace — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 21:29:22 +0000

Some other bands that list them as an influence are Pavement, Pearl Jam, Live, Collective Soul, Alice in Chains, Better Than Ezra, Liz Phair, The Decemberists, Wilco.