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New comment by mr_roboto in "Cisco gives engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite legacy code"

mr_roboto — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 17:29:56 +0000

It is for internal use and so far so good. We are finding bugs and we just point the models at it with a strict red-first TDD approach and they've done very well fixing them. It certainly isn't perfect but the issues are very similar to what you get with a team of humans doing the same thing.

The main takeaway though is we had one person, in a single month, do the equivalent of at least a couple years of work for a small team. We view bugs and performance issues as a currently inevitable part of the process and we are dealing with them with models just like we do with humans on every other project already. Overall though it is representing an absolutely massive speedup. If you work in an environment where the models make egregiously more mistakes than your human counterparts then I am quite jealous.

New comment by mr_roboto in "Cisco gives engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite legacy code"

mr_roboto — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 15:37:44 +0000

He'll pull it off, get feature complete, and spend a year or two with better models as they are released ironing it out. We just did an experiment, in four weeks generated 3500 commits, 200k sloc with a 1:1.15 ratio of production to test code and it all works very well. We are well on our way from 10x to 100x.

New comment by mr_roboto in "Redesigning source control at Anthropic"

mr_roboto — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:50:13 +0000

Maybe they are using the next gen model. The current one is better than most already.

New comment by mr_roboto in "Eye of Sauron: Long-Range Hidden Spy Camera Detection (2024)"

mr_roboto — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 18:01:26 +0000

Who calls cameras spy cameras? They must be angling for government contracts.

New comment by mr_roboto in "Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge"

mr_roboto — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 20:06:45 +0000

We'll only find out what the courts think when this happens to someone with a lot of money. It takes a real legal fight to push it high enough to become precedence. She'll be pushed to plea out.

New comment by mr_roboto in "Measuring the sloppiness of code"

mr_roboto — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:04:35 +0000

I've found I can produce 10x more code than I could otherwise, of lower quality than I would otherwise, but the speedup is worth it. Extensive testing is what makes it work, with every bug becoming a red first test with a fix. High level compartmentalization keeps everything on track, you don't let it do the big picture architecture, but you let it do each component as decided on and work through the bugs later. I've seen much worse from teams of humans and I've accepted the drawbacks that are slowly going away with each new model.

New comment by mr_roboto in "Measuring the sloppiness of code"

mr_roboto — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:48:06 +0000

You come across as someone who has never worked on a real software project. Humans create tons of bugs on a regular basis. AI is already better than most programmers.

New comment by mr_roboto in "U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective"

mr_roboto — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 20:24:13 +0000

The democrats introduced the patriot act...

New comment by mr_roboto in "US data centers tripled annual water consumption to 17B gallons"

mr_roboto — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 14:06:08 +0000

Yeah in a lot of areas water is the opposite of scarce, practically free, and your bill is 98% infrastructure fees.