Netlify CTO Dana Lawson: Writing code is no longer the job(thenewstack.io) |
Netlify CTO Dana Lawson: Writing code is no longer the job(thenewstack.io) |
The fact this doesn't appear to be happening suggests something different is in play.
This got me thinking on a new way to improve the news: Instead of reporting on the empty words people say, only report on what they have done, example:
a) Elon Musks says SpaceX is the best thing ever worth the most money ever because he is greatest person ever.
as opposed to:
b) SpaceX, run by Elon Musk, is currently Making $X per quarter, they do this by ......
Otherwise it's just sparkling AI-Cheerleader.
There are large areas of software where the quality of code is measured by the mental model of its human maintainers. For these areas, LLMs are a net negative because their use degrades the mental model of the human maintainers.
Even just reading the code, their ability to ingest colossal amounts & answer questions in incredibly useful. Once you hook them up to observability, DAP (debug anything protocol), a repl, devtools... their ability to augment and accelerate practitioners is amazing.
There can be a lot of oral history that is lost, for sure, that helps illuminate why things are built the way they are, what the intent was. I've always favored a written culture, that has artifacts that help explain the past. Engineers move projects, move companies: trusting the mental model to live in people's heads has a lot of risk and downsides to it.
So we will have a billion new hello world, stock checker, Calendar, Todo apps, and ...? Just because you have a way to write code fast, doesn't mean you are going to come up with billions of new ideas of what to do with that code, and to be mean about it, most people don't think they are creative enough to come up with ideas and are just fine watching sports all day on tv.
The apple app store currently has 2,362,917 (https://42matters.com/ios-apple-app-store-statistics-and-tre...) apps in the app store, and a lot of those are the same thing, so 0.236% of a billion.
but to be fair, with Cluade I've written at least 10 apps I use every day. If everyone in the world (8.3 billion people) would do this, then we might get close to that billion new apps.
We’ve been trying to do the hands off autoremediated, guardrails on code quality platform for a while now. It turns out it’s really hard.
A lot of the AI hyping sounds like the cloud and serverless hyping. I remember I had a VP of engineering at a company a while ago I got into a fight with about cloud. Their argument was that cloud economics were such that on-premise was dead dead. My argument was that it could still be considered an engineering question. And while im not saying on-prem is winning; It’s not a forgone conclusion as 37signals has discovered.
"Out of touch elite"? a MAGA-like populism view in a place where MAGA is (rightly) looked down on.
I was managed by a fair share of those that had absolutely no fucking idea of how I did my job.
I've seen plenty of both, and I'm sure everything in between exists too.
What a tiring world.
He tried to bail me out of some very deep trouble i got myself in. Didn't end up working out, but he was good folk for sticking his neck out for someone on the engineering team when customers were screaming at him over the phone because of my screw up.
Rest of the time, they've been a networking contact of the CEO who has "some tech stuff" on their resume. Last one screwed me over and fucked three years worth of work in one fell swoop (and he admitted he did this for his own gains over slack when challenged on one of my last days at that job). still not over that one.
Good description; that's been the my majority of companies unfortunately.
- Has history with the bank (trust)
- Is willing to put their neck on the line
AI in the current form has no ability to put its neck on the line.