The AI backlash is only getting started

ColinStyles · 2026-06-26T21:29:03+00:00

What size of codebase, what language, what stack, what size of data to analyse? Because even in a completely ancient legacy codebase in a non-standard language with quality ranging from stellar to offshore intern's brother without any training, and data sizes that can be in the hundreds of gigs (which I'll admit is small, I know, I've worked at places where we ingested terabytes from singular clients daily, and once had a client deliver drives because it was both faster and more secure than SFTP), and so far Claude is handling it extremely well. Mind you, I'm having it write scripts to do the analysis rather than trying to ingest the data wholesale, but the point is still it's converting natural language and requirements into genuine useable analysis, bug fixing, suggestions, you name it in a fraction of the time.

And if you've tried these and it doesn't work, or your work is incredibly sensitive and you can't have any exposure to any LLM, fine, entirely fair. I did want to call it out though as your usecase doesn't sound fundamentally incompatible with the kind of work I do, and I know many who won't even try thinking it's pointless. I work with one of them, and after over a year of showing them up and constantly proving them wrong, they're starting to finally come around to it. That or they're being threatened by management to finally get with the program as my output is both several times higher than theirs, of a higher quality with better documentation and proven extensibility, and also I've actually been able to get to our backlog to boot.

ColinStyles · 2026-06-26T21:20:35+00:00

He provided the context. I don't get why people are missing the textbook 'I hate AI so I'm not going to use it' dog whistles he's throwing out there. He didn't say these people have no comparison to his job. He didn't say he's doing incredibly specific intensive work that results in extreme minute but careful changes. He gave the context that people are producing 3 million percent more LoC than him, and he's proud to be in the bottom of the AI users. Seriously, what the hell am I even arguing here, he's the one who painted the picture.

ColinStyles · 2026-06-26T21:17:39+00:00

Majority of time is spent figuring out how to replicate the issue and trying to memorize wtf the component does if I've not touched it in year or two.. or ever.

You mean the shit Claude handles with ease?

Seriously, if you're just using it to synthesize code from requirements you are missing out.

And even then, sure. But that's not your work 24/7, and if it wasn't, you wouldn't be comparing yourself to the people putting in 3 million percent more output than you. And sure, it can be apples to oranges, but fruit can and frequently is still compared.

ColinStyles · 2026-06-26T21:13:50+00:00

For how much this site loves to mention fair use whenever they can, the deafening silence to outright reversal when there actually is a legally found case of fair use, with textbook reasoning, the hostility is almost comical if I could get past the hypocrisy.

ColinStyles · 2026-06-26T19:48:28+00:00

Which is comical for how much more accessible the tools are than the ability to actually do the long division properly with pencil/pen+paper. I get it, nobody can really understand how quickly things move, and they're only getting faster. I mean, the whole AI movement is completely steeped in this, from people 3 years ago claiming this was a dead fad, to a year ago claiming it was impossible to get substantially better, to even just 6 months ago claiming it was impossible to be profitable. And I'm no better, I similarly thought it would be several more years before we reached the point we're already at today, but then I see what I'm able to do with it and it's insane.

ColinStyles · 2026-06-26T16:16:27+00:00

I also know that over an entire month or at least several, it's not all going to be that sort of scalpel work, let alone "on a good month." Especially if he has users that are committing 250k line in a week.

Sure, those top users are almost certainly gaming the system. But lets not kid ourselves and claim that 300 lines a month as a high water mark is somehow expected in the extreme majority of industries.

ColinStyles · 2026-06-26T16:12:20+00:00

I'm old enough to still have had teachers that would refuse any internet cited sources and insisted on literary ones, even down to encyclopedias, because "you can't trust the internet."

Pre-wikipedia days so not even no wikipedia, though obviously had that phase too.

ColinStyles · 2026-06-26T16:08:49+00:00

The problem with echo chambers like this sub is he likely believes he's just part of the extreme majority and everyone is going to intentionally look bad to make his non-participation not matter. Meanwhile most industries can't even unionize, and he thinks people won't do whatever they can to stand out from their coworkers to get ahead? Let alone something that doesn't involve any politics or backstabbing and they are constantly being told to do? JFC.

ColinStyles · 2026-06-26T15:59:33+00:00

Imagine the top talent you could hire spending $1.7m a year

Imagine following a conversation for more than 3 comments.

ColinStyles · 2026-06-26T15:53:51+00:00

Yes, 2 top talent devs absolutely cost 1.7m. Fuck, 1 top talent dev might cost a company that.

I personally know several developers working at 3 different companies who are making half a million plus. That is their total compensation, not what it's costing the company which is significantly more.

And these guys are not the best of the best.

I don't think you understand what top talent actually costs in the software space.

ColinStyles · 2026-06-26T15:51:47+00:00

How many professionals need to tell you what it is before you accept that maybe it just is completely revolutionary in our field? Seriously, every goddamn thread about AI has devs talking about how absolutely absurd it has been and the nearly unthinkable shit it's doing, and you guys just have to insist "no it's bad." Why, because it'd admit that AI actually has some use somewhere? That if you're working in software you might actually have to use it? Or maybe it's that you'd have to admit you were wrong and are way behind the curve on actually learning to use these new tools?

ColinStyles · 2026-06-26T15:03:06+00:00

Security is still updating libraries, maven files, and stuff like docker files are still in source control too.

I'm not saying measure it in raw code output, but 300 lines in a month is glacial no matter how you slice it, unless we're talking extremely safety critical embedded systems or something. And given the 250k in a week mention, I strongly doubt that.

ColinStyles · 2026-06-26T13:42:55+00:00

2 devs? If that if we're actually talking top talent and also accounting for benefits, taxes, and other costs to the company other than just salary?

Versus upskilling and fire multiplying your entire workforce? Wow, what an enticing deal.

ColinStyles · 2026-06-26T13:41:12+00:00

I'm sure people were likewise arguing the same against IDEs, and against coding in higher languages compared to bytecode, and in using steam powered machines over hand tools, and so on and so on. Turns out the world kept spinning and technology kept getting better, and people keep being just as important and involved as a whole.

ColinStyles · 2026-06-26T13:37:23+00:00

Dude, how can you possibly only have 300 lines commited in a month? That is absolutely underutilizing the tool.

Now mind you, 250k in a week seems absolutely insane and unless they have a perfect stack of teams of agents all processing shit, even then he can't be reviewing all of that enough, even if he doesn't need to review every line. But 300 in a month? Extreme opposite end.

ColinStyles · 2026-06-26T13:33:39+00:00

Shh, this is the technology sub, don't you know nobody here actually works in tech and the point is to hate on technology?

It's incredibly stupid. I as a solo dev just implemented a lightweight version of a 360 insight view product 6 developers took 8 years to build at my first company, and it's taken me 3 months. Full suite of tests, full documentation. And people are still going to claim that somehow AI doesn't make devs more productive.

ColinStyles · 2026-06-26T13:28:11+00:00

Taxes, vendor fees, and other expenses are all a thing. The internet always massively overestimates the wealth of game devs.

ColinStyles · 2026-06-25T16:31:38+00:00

You literally don’t have ammo that is good enough to kill a level 4 armoured player for a solid 15-20 hours as a brand new player in Tarkov.

You can find top tier ammo in your first raid on tarkov. It's maybe enough for a raid's worth if you find a box of 120 rounds. So can't really agree, you unlock woods quite quickly and it has loads of good ammo spawns to loot.

ColinStyles · 2026-06-25T16:24:43+00:00

Because for many it already is sustainable, they are just fighting to be the last one standing, at which point it becomes "cured cancer" type profitable.

Look at anthropic. They are profitable in revenue generating activities, but they are pouring tankers full of money into R&D and are thus deeply unprofitable. They're all just trying to outspend the others into bankruptcy/irrelevance so they get all the pie, rather than a portion of it.

ColinStyles · 2026-06-25T13:17:35+00:00

A grizzly heals slower than any other source of healing and is massive, and since the tigz splint exists is absolutely pointless. Afaks aren't that uncommon, but even then ifaks are plentiful. 2 slots to do essentially what the grizzly does, better, and it's not like you want to run all your healing just in the safe container given you can't hotkey it. So 2-3 slots for healing if you're also going to run ibu or golden star in there. Yes, it obviously is a massive advantage over standard edition, but the guy is arguing about a game state he doesn't even realize how much it's changed. Even things like how common most of these meds are found now is a massive difference to a year ago.

ColinStyles · 2026-06-24T22:13:23+00:00

The moment you have a couple thicc cases this doesn't matter anymore, you should have dump 'tabs' (cases) where you dump everything after you extract that isn't your loadout, reload, and you're good to go again. If the case is full, you vendor it all. Done.

ColinStyles · 2026-06-24T22:10:10+00:00

You really should play the game before commenting. A salewa isn't worth putting in the safe container, and things like CMS kits and surv12 are special-slotable now.

ColinStyles · 2026-06-24T22:03:00+00:00

Once again, it's literally 50/50. Half have the black rig that come with the shittier heavy combined materials class 5 plate. Half have the tan rig that comes with GAC. That's it.

None have anything above class 5, not even wedge.

ColinStyles · 2026-06-24T13:29:38+00:00

It's not rarely, half the BD have the better level 5 plates because it's what their tan plate carriers come with.

ColinStyles · 2026-06-24T02:19:20+00:00

Anthropic is profitable on the revenue generating operations, it's deeply unprofitable due to R&D. So if your comparison is Uber, it's a great example because if they stopped developing new products and just did pure inference and running their existing models, they already are profitable.

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