The amount of negativity in the original post was astounding.

People were making all sorts of statements like: - “I cloned it and there were loads of compiler warnings” - “the commit build success rate was a joke” - “it used 3rd party libs” - “it is AI slop”

What they all seem to be just glossing over is how the project unfolded: without human intervention, using computers, in an exceptionally accelerated time frame, working 24hr/day.

If you are hung up on commit build quality, or code quality, you are completely missing the point, and I fear for your job prospects. These things will get better; they will get safer as the workflows get tuned; they will scale well beyond any of us.

Don’t look at where the tech is. Look where it’s going.

As mentioned elsewhere (I'm the author of this blogpost), I'm a heavy LLM user myself, use it everyday as a tool, get lots of benefits from it. It's not a "hit post" on using LLM tools for development, it's a post about Cursor making grand claims without being able to back them up.

No one is hung up on the quality, but there is a ground fact if something "compiles" or "doesnt". No one is gonna claim a software project was successful if the end artifact doesn't compile.

> What they all seem to be just glossing over is how the project unfolded: without human intervention, using computers, in an exceptionally accelerated time frame, working 24hr/day.

Correct, but Gas Town [1] already happened and what's more _actually worked_, so this experiment is both useless (because it doesn't demonstrate working software) _and_ derivative (because we've already seen that you can set up a project where with spend similar to the spend of a single developer you can churn out more code than any human could read in a week).

[1]: https://github.com/steveyegge/gastown

Spending 24h/day to build nothing isn't impressive - it's really, really bad. That's worse than spending 8h/day to build nothing.

If the piece of shit can't even compile, it's equivalent to 0 lines of code.

> Don’t look at where the tech is. Look where it’s going.

Given that the people making the tech seem incapable of not lying, that doesn't give me hope for where it's going!

Look, I think AI and LLMs in particular are important. But the people actively developing them do not give me any confidence. And, neither do comments like these. If I wanted to believe that all of this is in vain, I would just talk to people like you.

>If you are hung up on commit build quality

I'm sorry but what? Are you really trying to argue that it doesn't matter that nothing works, that all it produced is garbage and that what is really important is that it made that garbage really quickly without human oversight?

That's.....that's not success.

It is hard to look at where it is going when there are so many lies about where the tech is today. There are extraordinary claims made on Twitter all the time about the technology, but when you look into things, it’s all just smoke and mirrors, the claims misrepresent the reality.

What a silly take. Where the tech is is extremely relevant. The reality of this blog post is it shows the tech is clearly not going anywhere better either, as they seem to imply. 24 hours of useless code is still useless code.

This idea that quality doesn't matter is silly. Quality is critical for things to work, scale, and be extensible. By either LLMs or humans.

People that spend time poking holes in random vendor claims remind me of folks you see video of standing on the beach during a tsunami warning. Their eyes fixed on the horizon looking for a hundred foot wave, oblivious to the shore in front of them rapidly being gobbled up by the sea.