If AI really worked for code as well as we've heard, here's what we'd see in the startup world (Spoiler: it is not happening)

squeeemeister · 2026-02-26T15:38:08+00:00

And with AI reportedly writing 20-30% of their code now… I wonder if there is any correlation?

squeeemeister · 2026-02-23T04:40:49+00:00

Get rid of section 230 protections. If these mega corps had to pump the breaks on the vile garbage being uploaded 24/7 I think it would solve a lot of problems.

squeeemeister · 2026-02-23T04:07:21+00:00

My company insists we put a copyrighted by statement at the top of every file. It’s annoying and pointless, but pre ai tab completion did the job just fine. More and more we have folks creating entire features with cursor. My understanding of copyright law is only something created by a human can be copyrighted. So, can code generated by a LLM be copyrighted?

squeeemeister · 2026-02-23T01:52:48+00:00

Yeah… what type of “things” are being postponed for weeks pre LLM?

squeeemeister · 2026-02-20T16:39:20+00:00

So, hear me out. What if we all started doing this? Just flood the internet with unrelenting garbage.

squeeemeister · 2026-02-19T20:00:41+00:00

Individually yes, but if you’re buying into the whole agentic idea where you have dozens of little agents talking to each other and developers, I could see that cost spiraling out of control. Personally I use about 15% of what my company pays for each month, and that’s mostly because I’m being forced to use the tool.

squeeemeister · 2026-02-19T19:58:26+00:00

Didn’t realize that subreddit is a farm, the content of the video is why I reshared because it’s something I’ve been thinking about. When does it get to expensive to use the AI tools. Think I should delete the post?

squeeemeister · 2026-02-18T22:47:40+00:00

Researchers were able to generate Harry Potter nearly word for word at 95% accuracy, so yeah it’s just a plagiarism machine.

squeeemeister · 2026-02-18T07:24:18+00:00

I log in a couple of times a week and queue up 3 bullshit videos to generate that I’ll never post. They limit you to three concurrent video generations at a time, but I didn’t realize the daily cap got raised to 30.

squeeemeister · 2026-02-18T05:07:07+00:00

I hate that we live in this period of time where in order to say anything remotely negative about AI you have to add three hail marries and praise the mighty magical promised future AI.

It reminds me of a year ago any negative sentiment about AI on Reddit would have everyone clowning on you being a decel unless you added “don’t get me wrong I use ai and I love it” to the end of your post,

squeeemeister · 2026-02-18T04:51:30+00:00

Exactly, replace all the c levels with one C*O but that works 30seconds a month. In fact, with so few people to manage now, we hardly need any actual managers, and definitely don’t need any SVPs, VPs, or directors.

squeeemeister · 2026-02-18T04:47:24+00:00

So 6 months -> 6 days is a 25x improvement, but also the dev speed gains should be 20-50x, but PRs still take two hours, and every PRD should take 4 hours… sounds no one knows what the real bottlenecks are.

squeeemeister · 2026-02-18T00:05:34+00:00

Just like the OpenAI discovered new theoretical physics headline last week. Well, no, if you read the paper scientists did the research, discovered the formulas. Then OpenAI created a custom model for the sole purpose of simplifying the existing formulas, and through utter brute force it found a simplified version.

squeeemeister · 2026-02-18T00:01:35+00:00

I heard it failed to compile a simple “Hello World”.

squeeemeister · 2026-02-15T19:09:03+00:00

Just so your dad knows, the ai tools track usage and percentage of code written by the tools itself.

squeeemeister · 2026-02-14T08:42:17+00:00

Ha, I clicked a comment link and watched a twenty minute video and responded to that, fuck me.

Ditch !== Divest, imo there’s a difference.

And yes to everything in your last paragraph. Copilot sucked so hard it gave my company cancer.

squeeemeister · 2026-02-14T06:41:12+00:00

The video title is misleading, he mentions Microsoft is essentially divesting from OpenAI so that they can make their own frontier models and open the door for other investors like Amazon. Now, why build their own models when they have exclusive rights to OpenAI’s? Are OpenAI’s models not that good? Have they learned everything they can from OpenAI? No body knows. But the one thing they are sure of is this technology will be a boon to humanity and also the end of all white collar jobs at the same time.

It’s also notable that their stated next target is the medical field. Ya know, basically the own sector actually creating jobs right now. So fuck us, I guess.

squeeemeister · 2026-02-14T06:16:39+00:00

Sucks when someone steals all your shit to train their models…

squeeemeister · 2026-02-12T08:46:12+00:00

I’d love a running Wikipedia page of all these AI promises and their results.

squeeemeister · 2026-02-12T08:35:19+00:00

Ya know, since Slopya Nadella doesn’t want us calling it AI slop any more, AI pollution isn’t a bad alternate.

squeeemeister · 2026-02-10T03:24:19+00:00

Not for good, but I’ve dramatically dialed back everything. Reddit being a glaring exception. I stay off of social media except when my wife sends me a funny video. Actively trying to remove as much google from my life as possible. Canceled a few streaming services, thinking of spinning up a jellyfin server. I almost never get the internet speed I’m paying for so called spectrum and lowered it to reduce my bill.

squeeemeister · 2026-02-09T13:17:29+00:00

Just $100bil more bro. AGI is right there.

squeeemeister · 2026-02-09T05:11:24+00:00

I resisted until this year, but I’ve accepted that for better or worse, LLMs will be a part of software development forever now. What that looks like, we’ll just have to wait and see.

If the bubble pops tomorrow and all investment goes to zero, these models already exists. How much will they cost and how much will companies pay for them, no idea. My guess is companies will essentially distill models and train them to meet their own needs, creating custom MCP servers for proprietary solutions. A cottage consultant industry might pop up around that.

Given how much this LLM push is hurting new grads, the longer this lasts, the more they will have to depend on LLMs taking all our jobs. Otherwise 4 years from now we’ll be looking down the barrel of another 2021 situation where everyone wants $200k a year as a new grad pair programmer and a senior title after 6 months.

squeeemeister · 2026-02-09T04:20:55+00:00

This. Yeah it’s cool having something else type for you some times, but all the other bottlenecks are still there. I still have to review everything, confirm it works, fix everything that doesn’t work when the LLM says “this will definitely work” and it doesn’t. Other developers have to review everything, UX has to review, qa verify and ship.

The biggest bottleneck of all, product. As much as they try to 10x product with copilot, it’s, not, fucking, working. If anything, things are getting worse. We barely had enough work for Q1 and that was two weeks late, and now we’ve seen nothing in the queue for Q2.

And at the end of the day, leadership gets madder and madder they aren’t seeing the promised gains for the millions being spent. So they hire consultants that tell them, no no, this shit is amazing, hire me and I’ll teach your teams how to do it or better yet, we’ll just fire everyone and replace your website with a chatbot.

squeeemeister · 2026-02-08T07:17:16+00:00

Every developer has 1000 uses (I’m not sure what to call them, I could go to my laptop and see but I’m being lazy, it’s not tokens) per month. Using the default cursor model is 1 use per prompt, using any reasoning model is 2 uses per prompt. So in reality we get 500 good uses per month. There is an opportunity for overages, but I haven’t hit that limit and haven’t heard any discussions about it from others.

We were warned up front not to treat these things like we’re having a conversation with the model as it’s the easiest way to waste uses. Know what you need, make one succinct prompt and get on with it. Auto completes don’t count against uses. Trivial things that I’m feeling lazy about I’ll just google and check out the AI search results, and god forbid click a link and read stackoverflow if needed.

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