Exactly the problem. It doesn't need to be good enough to work unsupervised in order to gain real adoption. It just needs to be a performance or productivity boost while supervised. It just needs to be able to take an AI-friendly FOSS dev (there are many), and speed them along their way. If we don't have even that, then where is the value (to this use case) that everyone claims it has? How is this going to shake the foundations of the IT industry?

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hobs 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Because convincing the owners of the house they have a shaky foundation and you have a cheap fix matters more than the actual integrity and the fix.

There's no question that the predictions around LLMs are shaking up the industry - see mass layoffs and offers for 8 figures to individual contributors. The question is will it materially change things for the better? no idea.

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jdiff 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Do you have any more info on the 8 figures? I hadn't come across that, but that's quite interesting to hear.

For the mass layoffs, I was under the belief that those were largely driven by the tax code alterations in the US.

	▲	hobs 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/13/meta_offers_10m_ai_re... Nah, big companies don't even care about that very much, they have a million tax dodges, its the smaller startups that are deeply impacted by that type of change.