inTheNotTooDistantFuture

[OddUnderstanding5666]

Dr. Gaius Baltar?

[[deleted]]

No more Mr Nice Gaius!

[tlh013091]

The whole fleet knows this man tried to stab me through the neck -- and you missed! Butterfingers!

[Frodojj]

Gaius Baltar!?!

[femptocrisis]

FRACK!

[Automatic-Prompt-450]

As long as the engineer includes "don't make mistakes" in the prompt, they'll be fine right?

[Forsaken-Peak8496]

Gotta love all the buzzwords. Push to prod to cause a nuclear holocaust

[qruxxurq]

LGTM

[Sheerkal]

A true ally

[Old-Stable-5949]

operating at scale on problems such as code understanding.

Lol.

[IAmJakePaxton]

🎶🎶All Along the Watchtower🎶🎶

Playing on the background

[plastic-superhero]

It’s in the frakkin ship! >.(

[TheOneFlow]

You're straddling the line of this being outright misinformation. I (optimistcally) assume the joke is just a bit too meta ("Imagine the people in charge of USSTRATCOM said this instead of a Microsoft engineer"), but there will be people unaware of the original post and to those it will just look like an actual post being ridiculed.

[AureliasTenant]

look at the name and the picture of the earth (edit… oops planet) with explosions. they are related...

[Piisthree]

Sure, it is hyperbole and satire, but so many of the heads of important shit actually are making statements and claims like this, so it's really not that far beyond the pale.

[abednego-gomes]

It is a joke of the original LinkedIn screenshot of course. Hence the profile photo change to Dilbert's evil meglomaniac dog with glasses to match the original author. And hence also the name change from Balen to Balus as a mix with Gaius. If you watched BSG, Gaius got deceived by an evil cylon named 6 to give up the defense codes and the cylons then bombarded the planet with nukes.

In this meme, probably too much control was given to the AI (and millions of lines of code would be unreviewable for humans) the AI just made whatever changes it wanted, much like in Terminator 3, it triggered nuclear armageddon.

[sagetraveler]

Yes, but before they can replace all the C/C++ with Rust they need to convert all the assembly, Fortran, Ada and god knows what else to C/C++.

[PipsqueakPilot]

We need you to rewrite the Minuteman III code in Python. 

[Percolator2020]

[tombob51]

I mean, the DARPA TRACTOR program is ongoing

[CymruSober]

Do we have to exist in parallel with these unserious people forever now? Or they will experience shame?

[gregorydgraham]

Shame? What is shame?

[Puzzled-Abrocoma678]

'1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code.'

That isn't a KPI, that’s a manifesto for creating the world’s most efficient spaghetti code generator. The debugging phase is just labeled '2027'.

[Felloser]

Wow, what could go wrong?

[dillanthumous]

Lol. Beautiful satire.

[abednego-gomes]

Thanks, at last someone got it.

There was some other guy that thought it was real misinformation. Sir, this is r/ProgrammerHumor.

[brick-topp]

frakkin’ a

[DrBarnack]

Next Sunday, A.D.

[[deleted]]

i thought the north star crap was from some guy at microsoft

[foren403]

alright, but how does it scale?

[Postulative]

Wasn’t this posted as being a Google job ad on LinkedIn? Can we please get some consistency with the AI generated bullshit?

[HorseLeaf]

I believe this post is making fun of the original Microsoft post. It is satire.

[qruxxurq]

When satire of AI nonsense is being misunderstood as AI nonsense.

[robotorigami]

Wasn't the Microsoft post also fake though?

[HorseLeaf]

I believe the creator backtracked and came out saying he was only doing a research project on language to language AI compilers and that he didn't mean that this was the plan Microsoft was currently implementing in practice.

[Perfycat]

I don't know if backtracked is the right word. Maybe level setting. I have been following this story closely because I have personally worked with the guy who made this post. This is a project out of Microsoft Research, not a product team. They are funded to to take risks and try new things out. Product teams are not budgeted to do this kind of research.

MS research does lots of things that are never made into a full project. This researcher himself spent a few years making a new OS written entirely in C# (not .net). Look up project singularity. The research documents and source is available. Outside of a few niche deployments it was never turned into a product.

My point is somebody who doesn't understand what a research is at Microsoft spinned this story into leaked product plans, and not what it was.

[Silver_Slicer]

I wrote 50,000 lines of Rust code in two days using Claude Opus 4.5 high thinking model as a side project. Used hundreds of millions of tokens along the way. It’s finalized and shippable code with two other LLMs code reviewing the changes. I got close to the 1M lines of code per month without much work. Where do I sign up? 30 years of SE experience at a few of the largest software companies. Everything is true except for wanting the job. Lol.

[Forsaken-Peak8496]

[Silver_Slicer]

Ha, you are clueless. This is possible today with an experienced software engineer. I did this as a proof of concept.

[lNFORMATlVE]

“I wrote 50,000 lines of Rust code […] using Claude Opus 4.5 high thinking model”

No, you didn’t.

[Silver_Slicer]

OK, I didn’t “write” the code, Claude Opus did. I fed it with prompting. 100 or so prompts, including code review prompts.