I once rewrote a large component in our codebase, which was the right move because it was unmaintainable. When I was done, I was quite proud of myself and I also think that i designed it nicely and extensible (coherent pipes) while keeping the constraints of the rest of the system in mind. Then the slop commits came in and you could watch it deteriorate so fast it is insane and sad. And additionally, I stopped caring, which is an additional loss

I get discouraged a lot of times seeing others just generate in some days what would have taken me months. But your point is what I keep in mind and it encourages me again. You can either stand still and externalize your brain to the cloud (trend) or actually develop it on your own (timeless).

Yeah we shouldn’t forget that they probably don’t care about stealing, they are criminals. In their head they probably justify it somehow. And even if there will ever be legal consequences, they probably pay a fine and move on. Even if their dataset were ever leaked and everything was exposed, we would not be surprised and say “told ya!” and they would look into the camera like ¯_(ツ)_/¯ (shrug) and a laughtrack starts playing

But what exactly is the skill here? Even if you do some mental gymnastics and count prompting as a skill, this is just going to get easier and easier, there is no skill. I have accepted that this is going to essentially replace programming as we know it. But I do not want to be part of that. I can feel the cognitive decline already, how bad is it going to be in 10+ years…

I have the theory that this is also why the models recently got so good, because they have all these proprietary code bases and knowledge from very large companies in their datasets, must be a dream for Anthropic et al.

You can hook it up to a saleae logic analyzer via plugins. And for oscilloscopes, there are remote controllable ones, so that’s cooked too. A colleague of mine now really just sits in front of the hardware and does what claude tells them to