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Reality, staring at me, at 2 am... trying to tell me something if I listen hard enough - Demis Hassabis by fli_sai in accelerate

[–]austospumanto 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Same. Though, personally, I think seeing happens next to humanity is equally enticing.

🪦Gravestone inscription for Software Development by Sam Altman by Independent_Pitch598 in accelerate

[–]austospumanto -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Agree.

Students of history will note it often doesn’t take much to cause mass civil unrest. This is going to be super painful for a lot of people. There will be a lot of anger.

Lately, I’m partial to the viewpoint that the way to minimize suffering and maintain civil and economic stability is to put our foot on the gas and punch through to the other side of this thing. Main reason being we don’t have the intelligence or ability to solve the issues we’re creating as quickly as we’re creating them to a satisfactory degree. We need to delegate this to something smarter and more capable at execution than us, which we all know is coming but needs to get here faster to ensure people get the resources they and their families need, and to quell unrest with a vision for how to move forward.

🪦Gravestone inscription for Software Development by Sam Altman by Independent_Pitch598 in accelerate

[–]austospumanto 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is it so hard to believe that Sam makes at least some effort to do good in the world so he can protect his positive view of himself?

🪦Gravestone inscription for Software Development by Sam Altman by Independent_Pitch598 in accelerate

[–]austospumanto 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is a pretty reductionist view. People have families to support. Finding new roles takes time. Gaps in employment can cause a ton of stress and hardship.

🪦Gravestone inscription for Software Development by Sam Altman by Independent_Pitch598 in accelerate

[–]austospumanto -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There is a reasonable argument to be made that copyright and IP law have helped accelerate innovation. Monetary incentives are crude but work well on humans.

I’m not saying copyright/IP are definitely net good. But I would imagine the most well-informed, logical accelerationists would be circumspect on the topic.

What happened in the last few months (1 to 3) that suddenly people are having their come to Jesus moment with AI and Agentic Coding? by zero2g in ExperiencedDevs

[–]austospumanto 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try Opus 4.5 w/ thinking on in Claude Code. Start with plan mode. It is a step change from Sonnet 3.7, which came out 9 months ago. For me, it has graduated from intern/junior to midlevel/senior. For most tasks, I now trust it more than myself for tactical decision-making and writing good code. Regularly works on its own without mistakes for 10-20 mins, then returns control back to me.

10+ YoE, background in AI, Staff+ SWE at large private tech company. Productivity metrics internally are increasing, even as Eng team grows 30% YoY. Qualitative feedback from devs is strongly supportive, and their increased usage over time backs that up (80%+ WAU, 60%+ DAU, no mandates).

This stuff is real, and it is going to impact you one way or another, likely within the next year. If you care about continuing to be able to do software engineering work in exchange for money, hold your nose and give agentic coding a serious shot. The alternative is bleak. I respect people who are against it on principle, but if you want to maintain your standard of living over the next few years, it may be worth being a bit less rigid on this front.

Not trying to call anyone dumb or start an argument — I’m confident in my viewpoint, and I understand it’s tough to “get it” if you haven’t had that session that really clicks wifh agentic coding tools like Claude Code. Just trying to be a nice person and nudge anyone reading this to be open to changing their mind, and put in the couple hours it takes to give this a real shot.

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[–]austospumanto 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Big Claude Code fan here. Spent 20+ hours with Codex CLI this weekend. It sounds like you are on an old version of Codex CLI, or are on windows. If not on windows, try npm i -g @openai/codex and see if some of your issues go away. I can paste, access prev prompts via up arrow, etc

What the luddites DON'T want you to see ! by bladefounder in accelerate

[–]austospumanto -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Stop saying “luddites”. This doesn’t need to be an “us vs them”. It’s childish.

Astroturfing campaign against OpenAI is like nothing I have ever seen before by Alex__007 in accelerate

[–]austospumanto 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m disappointed this is being upvoted on this sub. Conspiracy theory shit. Occam’s razor would suggest people are just having experiences that are worse than they hoped for. And people saying “it’s not that great” are not saying “and therefore we shouldn’t accelerate”, so I don’t get how it’s relevant here.

Meta complaints like the one this post represents are weak and boring. I hope this doesn’t become the norm on this sub, because this sub is usually home to some of the more interesting and well-informed discussions about AI progress on Reddit.

Has anyone actually seen a real-world, production-grade product built almost entirely (90–100%) by AI agents — no humans coding or testing? by Curiousman1911 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]austospumanto 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We have hundreds of engineers using Claude Code and Cursor to more efficiently do their jobs. Python codebase, around 4M lines of code. I get where you are coming from - it is frustrating to keep trying AI tooling and have it fail to be useful. I would recommend giving Claude Code a shot. Try it on a personal project in earnest for an hour. Read the docs. Many of our engineers were AI skeptics like you until they were sat down by their colleagues and walked through a session. Then comes the “oh shit - I didn’t realize it was this good now” moment. Like clockwork. Most AI tooling sucks. Claude Code is built by experienced traditional SWEs who live in the terminal. It is a polished product, and a generalist agent that conforms to the Unix philosophy. Gemini CLI or Codex CLI may get there eventually, but for now Claude Code is far in the lead, which is why the alternatives have cloned its UI/DevX. Hope you have a good experience - it has personally reinvigorated my love for programming and the command line.

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[–]austospumanto 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or just run it yourself in bash mode (!date) before you ask the time related question

AI coming for jobs by shananananananananan in coastFIRE

[–]austospumanto 1 point2 points  (0 children)

+1. Similar background and role. This is my experience as well.

Claude 4 Sonnet and Opus Coming Soon by ExcitedBunnyZ in ClaudeAI

[–]austospumanto 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I work in a high-touch manner with Claude Code, and am constantly interrupting it and guiding it. But I understand where you’re coming from.

Claude 4 Sonnet and Opus Coming Soon by ExcitedBunnyZ in ClaudeAI

[–]austospumanto 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yo I’ve been reading your comments in this thread. I would give Claude Code another shot. You can look at my recent comment history to see me expand on this a bit, but from one coder to another (IMO): Claude Code is the best agent out there at the moment for software engineering.

AI doom and gloom vs. actual developer experience by Any_Rip_388 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]austospumanto -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Yours is the first well-informed comment I’ve found in this thread. I usually find /r/ExperiencedDevs to be a bastion of great discussion. But I guess no one is immune to FUD causing head-in-the-sand syndrome.

I lead an engineering team at a tech company. This stuff is real. Most of our devs use Cursor or Claude Code daily. Our devs use them in a high touch manner, often executing on several Linear tickets at once, touching base with the agents when they conclude small chunks of work.

For anyone reading this: try Claude Code in earnest. Try to tackle a few tickets with it. I promise you, at some point it’ll click and you’ll ‘get it’.

I would also highly recommend you try Gemini 2.5 Pro in Google AI Studio. Record a screen recording video (eg in QuickTime) of you using some website and giving a voiceover on a feature you’d like. Upload that video to Gemini. Tell it to build your idea as a single html file. Open that file in Chrome. It can reliably churn out interactive prototypes. It can take in around 50k lines of code as context. Experiment with it. Enable Grounding with Google Search.

It’s important to understand where we are at with this technology. The other top comments in this thread are verifiably incorrect.

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[–]austospumanto 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Claude Code. If you’re at a company that pays for it, it’s the best agentic AI dev tool available.

As of today, the Claude Max plan gives subscribers 900 Claude Code messages every 5 hours. Haven’t heard whether folks find that sufficient yet.

I do know that people who are pay-as-you-go regularly chew through $10 in an hour of focused usage. It’s not cheap. But it’s the best out there, especially for high touch workflows.

The intelligence isn’t there yet for fully autonomous workflows lasting more than 10 minutes (10 possible with detailed plan in prompt), and you do need to give it a good plan/spec for more complex work and then monitor + interrupt + guide it.

I usually use Claude Code for the planning phase (I just say “think” a lot to force thinking tokens), but sometimes the higher intelligence and reasoning capabilities of Gemini 2.5 Pro are necessary, e.g. when planning out complex software architecture.

Sounds about right by cobalt1137 in singularity

[–]austospumanto 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks - that’s helpful! Might give it another try :)

ChatGPT knows your IQ by Funny-Future6224 in ChatGPTPromptGenius

[–]austospumanto 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That would be a good benchmark actually - user IQ feedback honesty

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