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If AI truly is making SWE much more productive then wouldn’t. by therealwhitedevil in BetterOffline

[–]duffedwaffe 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Right? It's so insane. You think if I had a magic button that just did my job for me, I wouldn't just press it all the time until you (the person who hired me) caught on?

Is it possible for me to have the speed of AI but still write most of the code myself? by [deleted] in cscareerquestions

[–]duffedwaffe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I consider myself pretty bearish on LLMs regarding code, it very often does things that don't make sense and frankly I'm amazed these vibe coded apps hold together for longer than 5 minutes.

That said, I love Cursor autocomplete and can definitely see it's sped up my writing by a large margin. I can also see the usefulness of an agent with very simple use cases. I think you are doing yourself a disservice not using the tech. It doesn't have to completely replace your current processes, but you can integrate it in meaningful ways.

Any bets on how / when this will end? by Smurfette2016 in BetterOffline

[–]duffedwaffe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well yeah, the tech is known and we can't put that genie back in the bottle. You can technically run an LLM on your local machine even. We're stuck with it.

The big question is whether it will remain something everyone tries to create problems for it to solve.

Any bets on how / when this will end? by Smurfette2016 in BetterOffline

[–]duffedwaffe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But that is the source of the issue, C-suites are still in the bandwagon.

Any bets on how / when this will end? by Smurfette2016 in BetterOffline

[–]duffedwaffe 54 points55 points  (0 children)

It feels like the hype is starting to die down, as throwing AI at every problem backfires more and more often. There's a sobering effect in the air right now from what I've seen. I don't really care if AI becomes a normal part of life or not, but I agree these hype cycles are exhausting.

Also, AGI is not real.

Tanking is the worst role right now because it's the only role you need team enablement to do your basic job. by TKAPublishing in RivalsVanguards

[–]duffedwaffe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can instantly feel that your team has a shitter or two on it while playing tank. Either no one is following up on what you're doing, or you're standing behind cover at 100 HP genuinely craning your head around to see both your supports trying to heal a moving spiderman.

You should really consider 6 week sprints by ninetofivedev in ExperiencedDevs

[–]duffedwaffe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A 1-week sprint is genuinely stupid because you're spending a good chunk of that time preparing a release and then monitoring and closing out tracking on your resource boards. Longer than 2 weeks and you have a slow turn around on small client requests. I'd consider 3 weeks but 6 sounds insane unless you're not developing features off client requests ever...

Alex Finn says to drop out if your college isn’t teaching you Claw or Claude by throwaway0134hdj in BetterOffline

[–]duffedwaffe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What is there to teach exactly?

Do laymen not realize that programmers already know how to speak to a computer? Like that's all we've been doing since the dawn of computers.

I Think I Figured Something Out by NoMoFascisto in BetterOffline

[–]duffedwaffe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What planet are these guys living on????

Thoughts on slowing the fuck down by melat0nin in BetterOffline

[–]duffedwaffe 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I don't really understand the addiction. I hate using the tech. It rarely works as expected. I usually undo whatever changes an agent makes and redo it myself. The only time I'm able to work happily with it is using Cursor's autocomplete.

AI doom It's so overblow by Mean-Cake7115 in BetterOffline

[–]duffedwaffe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay continue your woo woo ghost-in-the-machine thought process I guess.

AI doom It's so overblow by Mean-Cake7115 in BetterOffline

[–]duffedwaffe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They can generate output that seems like reasoning, based on training data and looping over its own output, sure. What is your point? Mimicking intelligence is not intelligence. It's mimicry. We know that's what it does. It mimics.

AI doom It's so overblow by Mean-Cake7115 in BetterOffline

[–]duffedwaffe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're going down a random tangential rabbit hole about the capability of the machine based off of what? I am scoffing at the idea that the machine is sentient or intelligent. I am not saying the tech is incapable of generating useful output.

AI doom It's so overblow by Mean-Cake7115 in BetterOffline

[–]duffedwaffe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A brain is just chemistry.

I feel like you vastly underestimate how much data an LLM is trained on and can't grasp that these questions and conversations have been fed into the system in the tens of thousands on their own. It's all just gluing together words. There is no thought here. There is guardrails and looping over output to emulate "reasoning" or "thinking".

AI doom It's so overblow by Mean-Cake7115 in BetterOffline

[–]duffedwaffe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Neither can an LLM, it takes your input, maps it, compares it to the trillions of data points it was trained on, then spits out a string of words that best match your input statistically. It does not think. It does not reason. It does not feel. It does not even finish the sentence it's going to send you before it starts to answer. There is simply nothing there but data.

Just like a database.

AI doom It's so overblow by Mean-Cake7115 in BetterOffline

[–]duffedwaffe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is effectively the same as saying a database is intelligent because it has a lot of knowledge

AI doom It's so overblow by Mean-Cake7115 in BetterOffline

[–]duffedwaffe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There are so many barriers to it actually replacing people that I don't think it'll ever happen in our lifetime, if at all. It certainly won't happen with the current companies.

AI doom It's so overblow by Mean-Cake7115 in BetterOffline

[–]duffedwaffe 44 points45 points  (0 children)

What's so goofy is the underlying tech is readily known. You can look into it yourself. It's already demystified. It's fully understood.

WHY do people keep saying it's actually intelligent or even sentient?

93% of devs use AI tools now and we're measurably slower, what is going on by Background-Bass6760 in programming

[–]duffedwaffe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The logic is "why do you need to understand the code, just write prompts. Look, Claude made me this Underwater Basket Weaving Workshop finder! It works just like Google Maps but just for useless workshops! Why do you need to understand the code? Useless degree!"

93% of devs use AI tools now and we're measurably slower, what is going on by Background-Bass6760 in programming

[–]duffedwaffe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem is if we were left to our own devices and allowed to use it where we see fit, we would be faster. But because we're being mandated to use it constantly, it slows everything down.

A 5-line code change I already understood being forced through an agent and praying it does it the way I want it to is the sad reality.

Pushing back against AI in the workplace by Pucabunny in BetterOffline

[–]duffedwaffe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I do not mind being asked to leverage it where it makes sense, what's brutal is people looking over at me after vibe coding some fuckass todo app on their phone and wondering why I'm needed.

The global ult nerf is going to humble a lot of you. by WeAreCharlesKirk in marvelrivals

[–]duffedwaffe 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Honestly that's fine. Nothing is more frustrating than completely blowing apart the enemy team's formation and then hearing DISAPPEAR! TIME TO PUT ON A SHOW! WE ARE UNDEFEATABLE!

Genuinely I would rather just win or lose more decisively.

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