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1. physicallyIllfr · 1790530514 · focus · HN ↗

   I havent used an openAI product since GPT 3.5 or Anthropic since 4.5 or 4.6. Everyone around me using these SOTA models doesnt really get anything done. It seems like they just feel like they are productive, a psuedo productivity.

   I write some code, spec a lot, and use fast models to fill in the middle. I outpreform everyone around me. Im not convinced these autonomous "swarms" or /goal are all that useful.

   I notice the people using them become dumber by the month (spend tons) and the quality of their work declining (they're also losing their jobs in some cases).

   And obviously the point of calling them rouge agents to offload the liability onto the agent. The number one economic value of agents will be offloading corporate liability. That's what they want to sell to enterprise, an algorithmic scapegoat.

   1. KellyCriterion · 1790532792 · focus · HN ↗

      Haha, what a bullshit:

      Esp. for "great to have but currently no time"-features this is completely wrong - e.g. we are using a Data Rendering component which was 100% vibe coded and is around 6000 LOC, nobody would have sat down to build this "just because its nice to have", with Claude it was just 30 min to get a production ready version that is now used by all users of the system. (Esp. since its a lot of repeating code, like usual in data rendering components: Window/Scaling/Databar/Panning/etc.)

      And this is just a superficial simple example; I could go on with more how we hadnt had to employ people because Claude/20 USD saved us so much hours.

      1. physicallyIllfr · 1790590841 · focus · HN ↗

         If you think you're replacing people with $20 claude code subscriptions, I can't take you seriously. Also.. There are many many fullt featured data "rendering" libraries in existence, not sure why you needed an llm to provide 6k LOC for this.

         For the thousandth time, not everything in software is toy webdev slop SaaS.

         1. KellyCriterion · 1790593778 · focus · HN ↗

            It isnt, Financial application in the background.

            We do not replace, that was a little too brief - we do not hire, instead. But basicly its the same: Headcount does not grow.

            > not sure why you needed an llm to provide 6k LOC for t because you dont know the details of the application....

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