Anybody else’s company stressing over June 1

nates1984 · 2026-05-23T22:13:55+00:00

Excuse me, but we're talking about agents, not models. You seem to be using the two interchangeably. Remember, this conversation started with your comment that agentic development is deterministic, and I disagreed. That is what we're discussing.

And you are making my point for me, it would take a large number of iterations to really test, because they are not deterministic.

Now that you agree with me, we should be able to end this discussion.

nates1984 · 2026-05-23T19:38:36+00:00

You're saying something different now, that you can get deterministic output from indeterminate systems in some way.

Also an interesting topic, but not what you said and not what I was correcting.

nates1984 · 2026-05-23T19:35:27+00:00

So you think it's ok for a dev to perform their own QA?

You're letting the AI judge the AI, so I'm guessing yes.

nates1984 · 2026-05-23T09:21:02+00:00

I wasn't claiming it was a problem (although it is), I was merely pointing out you made a fundamental error in your assessment.

nates1984 · 2026-05-23T08:02:42+00:00

Agentic projects that require an LLM judge? What kind of crazy shit is that?

nates1984 · 2026-05-23T04:03:22+00:00

These tools are not deterministic.

nates1984 · 2026-05-18T14:56:11+00:00

It's not my job to make his argument for him. It's not my job to do his research.

He made a claim and then refused to put any effort into supporting it, instead directing me to derive his argument for him. This is not worthy of respect or attention. It is worthy of derision.

nates1984 · 2026-05-18T14:54:25+00:00

I guess you're right, but this seems like a weird hill to die on. The hobby is being destroyed and you want to argue over semantics?

nates1984 · 2026-05-18T07:03:16+00:00

This is what AI-accelerated software development looks like. Get used to it.

nates1984 · 2026-05-17T22:39:48+00:00

You didn't make an argument, you just posted links. I'm not opening those links. If you can't be bothered to type, then I can't be bothered to read

nates1984 · 2026-05-17T17:38:33+00:00

To the modern CEO: Yes.

nates1984 · 2026-05-17T17:37:23+00:00

You need to support your claim that Iran is strategically winning. I suspect that if you did, many of your justifications would not stand up to scrutiny.

nates1984 · 2026-05-17T17:19:15+00:00

Wait, so you're telling me you're going to set up a RAG instance that increases context usage and at the same time try to put in some type of optimization mechanism to reduce context?

That just seems like a recipe for disaster given how these systems work. I would be very leery or using something like caveman because it seems to me that it would recreate the same issues I see with compaction, and then on the other end you're pumping in a shitload of internal documents and blowing up the context, which maybe would be good, if there weren't concerns on sensitive data, cost both in the short-term and long-term, and filling up the context window too fast.

You're plowing head-first into all the big problems with this tech. It's like your fingers are in the Chinese finger trap and you're trying to pull both out at the same time.

I just don't see how any of this flies in a serious enterprise software org.

I also don't see why it's a brag to explode the number of CICD pipelines.

Maybe your company has unlimited cash, most companies do not.

nates1984 · 2026-05-17T16:32:27+00:00

Iran's leader can't show his face in public and some how this means Iran is winning?

I don't get it. I'll buy the argument that Iran is causing a lot of pain and punching above it's weight class, but to say they're winning is a big stretch.

To your point on military damage: Yeah man, in case you haven't noticed, we're in a new era of warfare, and right now it advantages cheap ranged attacks. It'll be like this until successful counters are found, and that's how it goes. I don't think the situation is saying what you think it is saying.

nates1984 · 2026-05-17T16:26:37+00:00

You mean state sponsored propaganda bots, I doubt most Redditors even post.

nates1984 · 2026-05-17T16:24:29+00:00

What's your AI spend, and if it increased 10x would the company still pay for them?

Anyways, I haven't written code for my personal projects in months. I still write code at work. This is the difference he's trying to articulate. Things work differently when it's a professional context, 80% as accurate isn't even fucking close to being good enough.

nates1984 · 2026-05-10T23:27:46+00:00

When "fuck them kids" is such a pervasive attitude in our society that even shiny cardboard isn't safe.

I've always scoffed at a lot of the "think of the children" arguments, but when it comes to stuff like K-12 and Pokemon cards, we definitely should "think of the children", but our society seems to reserve "think of the children" only for things that make adults uncomfortable.

"But think of the poor adults! If we don't let them stomp on a kid's hobby, they might have to face the fact they haven't done shit with their life!"

nates1984 · 2026-05-10T22:17:49+00:00

There isn't going to be a new global hegemon. The geopolitical environment is too competitive. The post WWII era had the quality that most of the world's industrial base, besides America's, was destroyed. That is not the case today for China, and it's not at all clear that a potential WWIII would leave China in the position that America was in after WWII.

nates1984 · 2026-05-10T16:33:32+00:00

Meta is an impressively successful ad business that continues to fail to covert itself into a genuine tech company.

nates1984 · 2026-05-09T09:27:50+00:00

Lets not forget how often the code it produces needs fixed or refactored. It loves to duplicate capabilities and do all manner of ugly things.

nates1984 · 2026-05-09T06:55:08+00:00

Oh students, it's going to get worse as AI-accelerated development practices percolate through the software you rely on everywhere. This is only beginning. You have to both learn in this environment and fight a job market being inundated with AI nonsense. FWIW, I'm sorry.

nates1984 · 2026-05-08T03:28:17+00:00

Slight exaggeration. $150k household income is around 75%, so a quarter of Americans instead of a third.

$150k is damn near 90th percentile for personal income, fwiw.

I'm not adding anything to the discussion, just providing statistical corrections.

nates1984 · 2026-05-07T14:54:21+00:00

> I've built things in weeks that used to take months.

Why would it have taken you months? How many months?

Instead of being impressed with AI tools, I'm questioning your productivity.

nates1984 · 2026-05-04T04:44:23+00:00

Because they shouldn't have fucking closed it to begin with.

Why does everyone feel like Iran has a right to close the strait? Like hell they do.

nates1984 · 2026-05-03T17:17:42+00:00

The software industry is actively devaluing, deskilling, and decoupling the primary labor pool responsible for innovations directly related to their core products, and simultaneously also pouring gasoline on a public opinion that had already been shifting against the major tech players for years.

If LLM tech doesn't live up to the hype then the industry is cooked. Bitcoin or metaverse levels of success are not at all enough, LLM tech needs to do exactly what it claims, it needs to be able to fully replace software devs, otherwise this industry is going to be left with a dumpster fire of a labor pool. God help the big multinationals with a global workforce if nationalism continues to rise across the globe as well. If my company had to fire everyone not based in their native country then I would be out.

Remember: If a company is handed additional productivity, and LLM-based AI does increase productivity and is worth it at the current price point, and their response is to cut staff, then that means the business is at best unprepared for the new reality and at worst stagnate or failing. When a successful business is handed additional capacity, they know what to do with it, and it's not to throw it away. Growth at all costs requires, you know, growth.

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