Source: Gary Tan, who can write more code than Jeff Dean and John Carmack.
If you want to go really fast, you put a Ralph Wiggum dungeon. It's where you orchestrate a team of Ralph Wiggum loops together using subagents to win the economic Darwin Award which companies are handing out for who can burn the most tokens.
If you don't have that, now that writing code is basically zero-cost now (in terms of time), you'll still be slow.
The official AWS account posted a thread to promote their podcast interview with Charity Majors: https://art19.com/shows/aws-for-software-companies-podcast/e...
But they forgot that users who are NOT signed into Twitter don't see threads at all, so it looks to anyone who's follows the link that they just took an official AWS position at odds with the entire industry that they're trying to make billions of dollars from.
Here's the full text of that thread:
> More AI-generated code doesn't make your team faster. It might actually slow you down.
> The real bottleneck was never writing code. It's releasing it, debugging it, & keeping it running well. So when @Honeycombio CTO Charity Majors set a productivity target, she didn't chase 10x. She chose 2x, & built from there.
> Her team also skipped the mandates & built a set of AI values instead:
> "Every AI output has to have a human owner. If you don't want your name on it, it's probably not good work."
> Quality first, quantity second.
> Hear how @mipsytipsy built it on the AWS for Software Companies podcast.
I'm a huge fan of Charity Majors and the quoted line in the next tweet in the thread is one of our team's rules, too:
> Every AI output has to have a human owner. If you don't want your name on it, it's probably not good work.
Is this notable because AWS is commenting this?
The X thread shouldn’t’ve been posted here. If the podcast episode is worthwhile, a link to that should’ve been posted.
'Skipping tests doesn't make your team faster. It might actually slow you down.'
'Developing without requirements doesn't make your team faster. It might actually slow you down.'
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I thought he was some mad Karpathy-tier ML scientist or something.