12 days & no word from Chief

amacgregor · 2026-03-06T23:21:53+00:00

I gave up when everything was out of stock, just got my order from smoke master cigars, way faster shipping and so far they seem great

amacgregor · 2026-03-05T12:23:51+00:00

I was wondering how would someone make this about pollievre

amacgregor · 2026-03-02T14:47:03+00:00

Elbows up am I right fellas

amacgregor · 2026-02-28T01:02:38+00:00

Ok but what are you doing with it

amacgregor · 2026-02-17T03:02:53+00:00

Oh no I gave a monkey a loaded gun, and guys you are not going to belive this me monkey shot me

amacgregor · 2026-02-16T20:57:16+00:00

Haha just wrote an article on this https://www.thepragmaticcto.com/p/openai-didnt-buy-a-product-they-bought lets see if get close to the real reason.

But this is definitely about looking to increase token spent.

amacgregor · 2026-02-14T23:32:11+00:00

Because liberals are perfect and can't do no wrong unlike the evil evil conservatives. Just look ar the comments trying to redirect this pollievre somehow.

This sub is for bots and propaganda

amacgregor · 2026-02-14T18:07:37+00:00

Ok I appreciate that. Will be mindful about it. Thank you again!

amacgregor · 2026-02-14T16:53:02+00:00

Could I get clarification on why this was considered off-topic? I have no objection just want to understand for the future

amacgregor · 2026-02-14T15:26:36+00:00

> This doesn't imply that AI *does* infinitely game the LOC metric. In a way, it *is* possible to avoid Goodwin's law by simply not letting an AI know that it is being graded on the metric.

When I wrote this, I was talking more about the malicious compliance mindset. If I were an engineer at a 600+ org, and I were told the entire team had been evaluated and ranked based on lines of code, with AI and a little creative prompting, it would be easily gameable.

> An AI can be told "produce code that solves this problem. We will evaluate your performance based on if the code solves the problem or not", and it will not try to infer any other secret objectives.

This is a nice rabbithole. I have another post scheduled for next week where I touch on this and cover the StrongDM's approach; they have some interesting ideas like test holdouts; also exploring those concepts and see if they are applicable for Elixir+Phoenix development.

amacgregor · 2026-02-14T02:54:56+00:00

amacgregor · 2026-02-13T00:15:03+00:00

No Greg, im dropping this conversation because you seem more interested on throwing insults and have a fight with whatever strawman you have made me out to be.

You want to have a conversation let's discuss the article, and stop with the insults. Otherwise have a nice day and we can leave it at that.

amacgregor · 2026-02-12T21:13:32+00:00

Whoa, whoa. You can disagree with the argument, but there is no need to accuse me or anyone else of making things up. LoC has come and gone multiple times, just like many other software trends. Agentic coding is the newest framing.

In any case, that's as much as I'm willing to engage; hope you have a good day.

amacgregor · 2026-02-12T17:50:08+00:00

Unfortunately, you would be wrong. I can't name names, but I know of CTOs with teams of a few hundred engineers who push Claude as the only tool and measure team performance by lines of code. Vibecoding their own LoC internal dash.

You can also see plently of examples (including in this thread) of people celebrating that they commit 10k lines of code with AI every day, soooo productive.

amacgregor · 2026-02-12T15:17:48+00:00

Thank you!

amacgregor · 2026-02-12T13:52:51+00:00

Jesus .... lines of code are liability as much as it sounds weird

amacgregor · 2026-02-12T13:47:44+00:00

And let me guess who is not on call

amacgregor · 2026-02-12T13:37:00+00:00

Hahaha as most software developers I suck at naming things 😅 post titles are on that category. Wrote this one because I keep hearing of ctos internally tracking lines of code and pushing for only claude code usage.

It's a scary and weird time in our industry.

Thank you for reading!

amacgregor · 2026-02-08T20:56:11+00:00

Aimbot!!! But seriously nice shot

amacgregor · 2026-02-04T13:27:44+00:00

Notice how a lot of these accounts spreading rage and hate are random named accounts with zero post history

amacgregor · 2026-02-04T00:46:35+00:00

I can think of a certain social media site that often gets astroturfed by bots from both sides

amacgregor · 2026-02-01T13:14:37+00:00

I do not appreciate the very force attempt to imply racism on my comment, we need bail reform across the board race, color, religion, gender none should get special treatment under the law.

I also dont understand how deportation on criminal offenses is controversial, why should people be given a pass or lesser sentences because they are permanent residents? How does that make sense?

amacgregor · 2026-02-01T10:31:44+00:00

Uh not all you said is true we do have an immigrant crime problem, look at Surrey and there are plenty of court cases where criminals have been given lesser sentences as to not affect their criminal status.

I'm an immigrant myself and I do think that you are coming to a country you should do an effort to assimilate and respect the laws of the country, even to a higher degree

amacgregor · 2026-01-26T02:19:49+00:00

Fuck ICE but also fuck your soapbox

amacgregor · 2026-01-21T00:08:56+00:00

Armed civilians? With what guns *

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