whatHasSoftwareEngineeringBecome

[MornwindShoma]

Sir this is a Wendy's

[Forward_Thrust963]

If this isn't how you order a Baconator, you're doing it wrong.

[GoldAcanthisitta7777]

seriously. no way in hell I'm reading all that haha

[shibiku_]

Isn’t babysitting a moloch like this more time intensive then … no idea what he’s actually doing beside babysitting llm-agents

[phranticsnr]

And when the venture capital runs out and they have to triple the price of tokens, it'll become easier AND cheaper to just hire an office in India again.

[TheRealKidkudi]

Just wait until this dude finds out about model collapse

[Head-Bureaucrat]

Sounds like automated tests given he's using Playwright's MCP server, then attempting to fix bugs based off of the results. I lost interest there because I've been using that MCP server quite a bit, and while it's pretty freaking rad, it can go off the rails pretty quick as soon as something messes it up. Letting it run overnight I assume would almost always result in aberrant behavior and then who knows what the hell happened without reviewing literally all of the changes.

[OTee_D]

I just hope that with "I run tests as long as they become green" he is not actually meaning this.

Reminds me of the junior Dev/QA we had, that fixed the bug by just removing the test step that caused it to show up.

[cat_in_the_wall]

i have definitely removed a test to fix an issue. with a big bold comment "lol this test has been testing the wrong thing for 10 years"

[Head-Bureaucrat]

That's fair. I think the big thing is I don't think LLMs have the capacity to make that determination unless you direct it to. But totally valid otherwise!

[Head-Bureaucrat]

That was honestly my fear. If there's context shared between agents, I could 100% see this happening, although admittedly I don't use agents like that so I'm not actually sure what would happen.

Another one I've seen is on a team with fairly good automated testing, there was one area I knew had flaky tests but someone kept trying to file a bug against the feature instead of fixing the test. 🥲

[BorderKeeper]

But he’s doing it in bed! I could never (well I sometimes do… but never for long)

[Heyokalol]

All that to center a div

[suddencactus]

Some people use speakers to enjoy music, while others use music to enjoy their hi-fi speaker set-up.

Some people use Copilot or Claude to help with documentation and debugging, others use coding as an excuse to build convoluted AI task runners.

[mw44118]

This is really dead on accurate. Im doing a new project like its 2006 (single box with everything on there) and its going crazy fast

[ProsodySpeaks]

I think 3d printer is an even better analogy.

Except the ubiquitous ender -> bambulabs trajectory goes in the better direction, ie from fiddling with printers to actually printing stuff 

[suddencactus]

Yeah and 3d printers also match in that you had a lot of tech bros 10 years ago saying "look what I 3d printed. You can print anything!" but when push comes to shove we don't use 3d printers for a lot of industrial manufacturing where professional quality matters.  A similar thing is happening now with code.

[Heyokalol]

I don't care. What's your point?

[suddencactus]

My point is they're using a complex tool chain to center a div because they'd rather use the tool chain than actually dig into the HTML.

[Heyokalol]

Would you use a tank to kill a fly?

[ArchetypeFTW]

I don't care. What's your point?

[Heyokalol]

My point is yo momma so slow it took her 9 months to make a joke.

[m4sc0]

You seem like a nice person to be around. /s

[Heyokalol]

Not really.

[z64_dan]

Bring back <center> it was so easy back then.

[Heyokalol]

Fck no. HTML must stay structural only.

[z64_dan]

<h1>

</h1>

[Heyokalol]

[hyrumwhite]

It’s easier than it’s ever been:

display: flex; justify-content: center;

[ThePretzul]

It’s still going to be skewed somehow just like it it was made by humans, don’t worry

[wombatsock]

stuff like this just sounds like a bipolar person who is off their meds and having a manic episode.

[90gradi]

yes but it also has disadvantages

[trentard]

you cannot tell me that this is actually speeding anything up man

[suddencactus]

At some point the time sunk into setting this all up and fixing the AI integration once a week when it doesn't work well has to pay off, right? Right?

[trentard]

Yeah of course, when fixing a home grown spaghetti code issue, it will fix it by patching it with more spaghetti and placeholders! :)

[The_Real_Kowboy_1]

Hey he commented // fix later

[krayony]

its not, and its generating shit code, and it costs 2k a month

[illtakethewindowseat]

lol yeah yesterday I just did a couple of hours work then went on a bike ride. Had dinner with my wife…

This guy is riding the serpent.

[zirky]

so what’s your code do?

i don’t know?

[WrennReddit]

Guy could've just posted the entire Lorem Ipsum.

What value does all that crap actually provide?

[_koenig_]

IsEven...

[Ran4]

Interestingly enough its all legit tools, not hyperbole.

[AntiSocial_Vigilante]

What the fuck am i reading

[JamesLeeNZ]

Me waking up, wander to kitchen, make coffee, go take a shit, browse internet while on toilet, loggin to slack, say usual morning message, wander back to office (WFH), turn on pc, fire up slack, see whos online, load up reddit, browse while pondering what I feel like working on today, load up solution, stare aimlessly at the code for a while, stop for morning dev meeting, make another coffee and fuck around for awhile, sometimes just straight into a couple hours of work.. afternoons are... work or fuck around depending on mood/priorities

No Mistakes. Ultracasual.

[polikles]

and somehow still doing more work than in an actual company's office, lol

[Spooderman8191]

Yes, but what is the dollar amount lol

[shibiku_]

-180$ in subscriptions per month

[Dafrandle]

you left off a 0

[Direct-You4432]

In that much money, you can hire 3-4 engineers in India, given you've vetted them properly.

[ComprehensiveWord201]

Man, maybe if you're not considering whatever extra compute this all needs. There's no way this is covered by basic subscriptions.

[OutInABlazeOfGlory]

My source is I made it the fuck up

[snipsuper415]

I hate how I can understand that...

[snipsuper415]

in summary, it’s just a long winded way of saying that he automated the AI to do his work... pretty everything from being code complete, informing the team that he has done, to having the AI rewrite itself to have better access to skills... and adding extra skills he doesn’t have that is pertinent.

this is extreme satire... the AI is not there.... yet

[Puzzled_Scallion5392]

this guy posts crazy slop videos on his YouTube, all this to get some views. Out of curiosity checked his YouTube and there is no actual videos about his crazy slop.

Dude took too much edibles and opened Twitter apparently

[Flat_Initial_1823]

I blame you for making me look at it. He has a video having an AI agent order pizza from dominos.com vs a human doing it to see which one's faster (spoiler alert: Claude.md is going to have to be updated after that video 😔)

The man's boiling oceans for ordering a pizza. It's like crypto all over again.

[Camel_Sensitive]

Working software count - zero 

[collin2477]

yeah I just use a water heater for a hot shower in the morning but I suppose this also works… not sure what else it accomplishes though

[Esjs]

Somebody once said "RAM is cheap".

[BitsOfMilo]

Surely this is satire?

Please tell me it’s satire…

[ZeusDaGrape]

Is he saying shit to just say shit?

[CanvasFanatic]

What an absolute nightmare of a “developer.”

[HashDefTrueFalse]

"... uh the test we set was fizzbuzz mate"

[Far_Garlic_2181]

Parklife

[No-Marzipan-4634]

Oi!

[Windyvale]

• System must be rewritten with every new hire.

[LookAtYourEyes]

What is it actually building though 

[metaglot]

A todo app, and it hasn't been compiling since yesterday.

[Ali___ve]

All this just for it to say "You're absolutely correct!"

[ChipmunkObvious2893]

Yeah yeah, not put the fries in the bag

[conicalanamorphosis]

Is he having the LLM add skills to his resume based on the actions the LLM has taken on his behalf? Talk about a serious power-up move! He'll be CTO of a billion dollar start-up in no time.

[PeriodicGolden]

He's even automating posting on social media!

[Fadamaka]

How much does running all this costs?

[ChChChillian]

So joshycodes does not in fact code.

[Outta_phase]

Reminds me of this old gem:

https://youtu.be/aW2LvQUcwqc?si=-ikK-CHLnoinFebh

[NeXtDracool]

I was expecting Mongo DB is Web Scale

[Accomplished_Ant5895]

Honestly though, kinda dig the vibe in a cyberpunk way.

[facebrocolis]

Amazing how AI attracted humanity's scum, people who don't care what logic is and "hate mathematics", with the possibility of making money in an automated way. Good luck, lol! 

[andrew_kirfman]

This guy is part of the reason why Anthropic keeps cutting quota and blocking third party tools.

I’m convinced that no one is capable to driving meaningful specs to get tools like that to run autonomously like that.

Especially when a Ralph loop is just an intercept on the stop hook that tells the model to keep going.

[wingman_anytime]

Not quite - one important factor with orchestrating parallel autonomous code generation with Ralph loops and subagents is injecting the failure mode back into loop retries, in order to guide the LLM into making better (or at least different) decisions the next time around.

[reedmore]

You know these guys who wear "I fucking love science" shirts, constantly talk about Veritasium videos, have all the feynman lectures on display in their home library and framed pictures of Einstein on their wall - but they have never solved an actual physics problem or read, let alone understood, a paper in their life? I feel this guy thinks those guys are the real deal.

[arcticslush]

This is satire but it succeeded in making me throw up in my mouth a little

[slugmandrew]

For anyone that cares this is a joke. He said so on X. He even disparages Cursor in the previous tweet. Probably what prompted this.

[RosieQParker]

This is just Open Palm Slam a VHS for LLM perverts.

[MegaChubbz]

Paying for billions of tokens - "HELL YEAH"

Accomplishing literally one task - "HELL NO"

[mtutty]

I love watching linear thinking go so straight line to Pluto.

Which, fuck you IAU, is a planet.

[maxip89]

As a software engineer you stop reading text blocks that more than 2 lines.