‘I have two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one is working’
I guarantee the astronaut’s computer had both Outlook Classic and New Outlook. Instead of releasing New Outlook with all features, they decided to just push it with missing features and let people use both of them. Not just that but they decide to make it available on everyone’s devices making it a confusing mess to the average person
IT admins need to jump through fucking hoops just to disable new one because there’s no option for one or the other. But I haven’t jumped through them because doings manually also give me job security lol
Love how incredibly obvious it is to everyone except management that this whole AI thing is going to blow up in everyone’s faces
No we can’t pay you a raise for a third year in a row.
Here you go, half of your salary in LLM tokens, why aren’t you more enthusiastic about AI?
Management and those hoards of bloggers on hacker news telling up how they are 10Xing their workflows.
When you write 10x the code, you have to maintain 10x the code, and that is 100x the work.
My goal is always to keep everything as simple and barebones as possible. Our entire company runs on like 10,000 lines of Python code I’ve written lol. I know exactly what ever line does, and have open source libraries I maintain for any glue related code so it can be reviewed by other users of that software.
Yeah, you can’t beat concise code
It’s so much easier to get someone spun up too.
I had a junior start last month and within like 2 weeks they already knew where everything lived and could see the overall structure just from reading all the code.
Some of the quotes from the article even imply that the providers themselves understand this.
It’s ridiculous that they are pushing shit into production when this code is, if anything, only worth it for internal tools or prototyping.
Everyone who knew that was
too expensiveI mean, too negative, not a good culture fit
No ‘actually kinda’ about it
A good PR removes tons of code. You’re supposed to start a project with tons of small bespoke solutions, then start trimming and abstracting it down until you have a clean model that can be applied generally to whatever you’re doing.
Anyone can churn out a million lines of code when every other line is just doing the same thing in a slightly different way, the difficult part is making sense if the noise. Which ironically, LLM tools can be really good at (I’ve seen some cool static analysis stuff that supplements linters and test suites to find stuff based on reading the AST/CST).
I’ll be impressed when these guys start publishing really clean, well written, and internally constant libraries that you can actually read. Until then this is just building a house by heaping mortar in a pile.
