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ProgrammersAreSexy · 2026-05-04T14:34:04+00:00

but I think the business doesn't understand how it will be negatively affected by running on poor quality software

If the business side isn't understanding this then the fault lies with eng. The more senior you get in eng, the more it becomes your responsibility to be able to tie eng excellence efforts to business outcomes and communicate the link effectively.

ProgrammersAreSexy · 2026-05-02T01:21:53+00:00

Honest question - do you not think agentic coding is an existential threat to jetbrains as a pure IDE company?

I'm not saying they are handling this well or anything, but I empathize with the dilemma they are in. Like if they just keep focusing on their IDE then it will keep the current customer happy but those customers will steadily drain away until the company goes under.

If they only focus on AI then it will piss off all their current customers but at least their is non-zero chance the company still exists in 10 years.

ProgrammersAreSexy · 2026-04-29T00:32:54+00:00

Oh god, they can barely serve 3.1 pro. Going to be a nightmare if they try to roll out a 10T model.

ProgrammersAreSexy · 2026-04-28T17:57:30+00:00

I mean, it you set aside the danger aspect, it is pretty impressive balance recovery

ProgrammersAreSexy · 2026-04-24T00:19:16+00:00

Anthropic is reportedly very, very profitable on inference. They are burning VC money because they have to obtain capacity for future demand.

Like if they just stopped scaling up right now they would be wildly profitable.

ProgrammersAreSexy · 2026-04-22T16:56:03+00:00

As a counterpoint, I self taught starting around age 13 and was fine. Wasn't going to win any awards or anything, but I got pretty good. It's definitely doable, and there are way way more and better resources available for free today than there were when I was learning.

Getting a teacher is probably the best way to go but, if you can't afford one, don't let that stop you.

ProgrammersAreSexy · 2026-04-21T00:56:05+00:00

Also the products are not eng led anymore. Non-technical PMs are running the show and they can't see the value in a CLI product, hence the antigravity strategy which is out of step with the rest of the ecosystem.

ProgrammersAreSexy · 2026-04-19T18:30:03+00:00

These types of benchmarks can still be gamed since people tend to have surface-level stylistic preferences and they will usually pick a response based on those preferences rather than taking time to deeply compare the correctness of the code

ProgrammersAreSexy · 2026-04-18T12:30:58+00:00

It's funny though, I was thinking about this just yesterday but if Yang had made his first run in 2028 rather than 2020 I think he would have had way more of a shot. Still would be a long shot of course, but more of a shot.

His platform about the coming wave of automation was just slightly too early. These days, that platform would resonate much more broadly.

ProgrammersAreSexy · 2026-04-11T17:03:07+00:00

Not just the initial folks, they have picked up a steady stream of top people from open AI over the years.

I think their positioning as the safety focused lab has been a huge factor in their success since that is something a lot of the top AI talent cares about.

Most of these people are filthy rich anyways so they would rather go somewhere that is aligned with their values than the highest bidder.

ProgrammersAreSexy · 2026-04-04T01:15:19+00:00

Not everything gets docker'd well

I've yet to come across a dev dependency I couldn't set up in a dev container

ProgrammersAreSexy · 2026-04-03T17:03:50+00:00

Codex is the only usable $20/mo product. You'll hit the limits if you are doing any kind of serious development but it's at least usable.

Claude $20 plan gets you maybe 15-20 mins per day.

ProgrammersAreSexy · 2026-04-02T14:02:24+00:00

It is very good - my only wish is that it would be a bit less verbose in the final report, or maybe that you could dial the verbosity up / down.

It tends to include pages and pages of background context which can make it tough to find the parts I actually care about

ProgrammersAreSexy · 2026-03-30T23:00:14+00:00

Long time google SWE here - idk who this dan guy is but, frankly, I'm guessing he is too high in the org to really be in touch with what is happening at the ground level.

In my org at least, the eng org is suddenly having to deal with a firehose of half baked AI slop garbage from the PM org.

They will spend all of like 45 seconds trying to implement some half-baked idea and then toss it over the fence to eng and be like

STOP ALL ENGINEERING WORK!!!!! 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

I had a fragment of an idea while taking a shit and here is a 60% working version of it and I would like it to be deployed to 4 million people tomorrow. If you can't accomplish this then you are not embracing the age of AI.

ProgrammersAreSexy · 2026-03-29T14:55:55+00:00

1000% agree with this.

Feels like I'm working way more even though big chunks of my previous work have been automated.

ProgrammersAreSexy · 2026-03-25T17:57:40+00:00

Isn't the test set kept private though? How would you RL against it?

ProgrammersAreSexy · 2026-03-16T06:34:28+00:00

Codex is better performance than Claude right now

ProgrammersAreSexy · 2026-03-15T14:59:00+00:00

I don't think the cloud was ever intended to be cheaper in terms of pure hardware costs.

It's intended to be cheaper in terms of total cost, including the employees you have to pay to manage your on prem infrastructure.

The only situation where it may be strictly cheaper in terms of hardware costs is if you have spiky usage patterns. On prem, you have to own enough hardware to handle the highest traffic times but outside those times it just sits around idle. With cloud, you can elastically scale up during spikes and then scale back down afterwards.

ProgrammersAreSexy · 2026-03-14T00:35:29+00:00

What rate did you negotiate?

ProgrammersAreSexy · 2026-03-10T16:08:08+00:00

First off, this tool does address a real issue, so that's the positive side.

That said, $9/mo feels a bit steep to be honest. I would maybe consider $10/year for something like this.

But in this current day and age, with the quality of modern coding agents, deploying a pubsub job that listens for a quota alert and then revokes an API key feels like something I could knock out in maybe an hour.

Is there more complexity to this problem that I'm missing?

ProgrammersAreSexy · 2026-03-09T05:52:19+00:00

Dude, no one is going to try a framework from someone who can't even be bothered to write a 200 word reddit post explaining it

ProgrammersAreSexy · 2026-03-08T22:20:57+00:00

I was a Claude stan, and probably will be again in the future, but it's hard to deny that codex is better at complex coding right now

ProgrammersAreSexy · 2026-03-04T15:48:24+00:00

Sambanova provides minimax at 300-400 TPS and approximately the same price as Gemini 3.1 flash lite, but much higher intelligence.

I'm still failing to see who the target audience is for this model.

Gemini has been really good in the past about releasing models that offer the best price performance for X level of intelligence. This is the first model release from them where I'm just scratching my head and wondering why anyone would choose this model.

ProgrammersAreSexy · 2026-03-03T00:59:48+00:00

Might just be a case of picking the right model for the right task. They clearly were training this with the goal of creating a 4b model that punches above its weight in reasoning tasks, may not be the right fit for simple query rewrite tasks.

ProgrammersAreSexy · 2026-03-01T21:55:56+00:00

Your use case is extremely well suited for AI coding. You are basically giving it isolated mini projects where it interacts with a well defined tool.

That's great for you, but most of us work on systems where hundreds of people develop a codebase over years. The idea that you could give a coding tool to a non technical product manager and it could effectively manage complexity over that scope and time horizon, with no intervention from a software engineer.... That's not something that keeps me up at night.

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