if your job is just writing boilerplate you're probably doing it badly.

if your app is so simple that really all you need to do is sling boilerplate then it might suffice but it's probably still the most unreliable way to develop that software.

if flakiness, bugginess and unreliability are all fine then yea, boilerplate away.

We have been programmed to believe that MBA wet dreams are inevitable because "$x hundreds of billions invested can't be wrong" but they very often are.

it'll pass, but until then we'll be subjected to a litany of dumb hot takes.

Or the ones that remind you that batteries are useless for seasonal storage.

Or that the wind doesnt always blow.

Yes, individually all of them have crippling flaws and all of them work best when combined with technology that has complementary crippling flaws.

Snowy 2 won't be used instead of batteries it'll be used alongside batteries.

Right now nothing comes close to beating its price / gwh no matter how much the cost overruns or how many people dump on it for being 7x cheaper per gwh than batteries instead of 10x.

More countries should be building one as well as building out grid level batteries. They complement each other.

jaywick is still the most deprived area of the UK.

From their perspective all this attention is probably better than being ignored even though the attention is for all the wrong reasons.

After all, what did nameless generic tory #4 ever do for them? what would labour do? Probably nothing much, just like farage.

lots of people confuse a $75-$120 / kWh cell price for grid scale battery installed price, which these days is about $300 / kWh.

1 gigawatt hour of installed BESS therefore at current prices is roughly $300 million.

Snowy 2 is 350 gigawatt hours, which would cost $105 billion in equivalent batteries which is about $150 billion in Australian dollars, or ~7x cheaper per gwh.

I noticed yesterday when browsing on mobile that there used to be a box where I could search reviews and it got swapped with a Rufus box. I guess somebody needs to juice their engagement numbers for an investor briefing.

honestly, Amazon doesnt even need AI it just needs a better UI, more metadata for its products and to make reviews less scammy.

The rest is stuff like jira ticket ids and related PRs which you can get a script to inject.

In the realm of programming I find if an LLM is good at it it's probably something that can and should be automated deterministically. It truly is e-duct tape.

Google should still be split, but along lines which are cohesive, financially viable and would level the playing field for competition, e.g.

- google workspaces / gmail / maps / search / chrome / youtube

- search index / cloud / datacenters

- youtube

- android

Theyve also been trying to gaslight everyone (especially investors) into thinking that software engineering is in some sense "solved" because otherwise the bubble goes pop and their share prices collapse.

Hiring pipelines that tested the wrong thing have existed for years but the problem is magnified 10x when you test for something that weakly correlates with ability at best which an AI can do better than a human.

This is leading to stuff like incompetent junior-level engineers being hired as principals.

There are definitely more apps developed these days but I haven't seen anything much vibe coded which actually seems to have staying power. Everything is prototype quality.

The only semi impressive vibe coded projects I've seen so far have been rewrites, though.

The least interesting content is "here is how I burn tokens to build mediocre software".