Worry not, for I am using Claude right now. I would never question the doctrine of AI usefulness and productivity. Please scrap that J'accuse draft, sir, for I would never commit blasphemy against AI, I promise.
It's still early days, I'm hesitant to claim the death of software engineering. It's good now because LLMs were all trained on actual human output. One possible future is a slop death spiral.
I sure as hell am never again releasing human-authored open-source in a way that can be scraped. My Github is now relegated to the lowest quality slop from the cheapest models.
I stopped writing code manually more than a year ago. I've experienced the 100x, even perhaps the 1000x he mentions, and I still think he's fucking psychotic.
Not reading generated webapp code is one thing. Blindly commiting OS code is a whole different dimension, as is writing production code in a language you don't even know how to read.
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Not reading generated webapp code is one thing. Blindly commiting OS code is a whole different dimension, as is writing production code in a language you don't even know how to read.