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| ▲ | handfuloflight 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | They are enforcing rigor, on agents, the same way they would on humans. Do people think Stripe's engineering team would have been able to progress if each individual (human | machine) employee was not under harness and guardrail, and just wrote code willy nilly according to their whims? Vibe coding is whimsical, agentic engineering is re-applying what brought and brings rigor to software engineering in general, just to LLM outputs. Of course, it's not only that and there are novel problem spaces. | | |
| ▲ | dakolli 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | bot ass comment. | | |
| ▲ | handfuloflight 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | You're absolutely wrong! @dang, I really did write each letter by hand! Lt. Dang, ice cream! | |
| ▲ | stareatgoats 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Isn't there a rule against this - i.e. accusing commenters for using LLMs (the offensive language aside)? Implicitly there is [0], because I can't see how it adds to the conversation. So what if it sounds like an LLM? Soon you won't be able to tell the difference anyway, and all that will be left is some chance that you are correct. Comments should be judged their content merits, not on whether the commenter is native English speaker or not. [0] > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.
Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
Don't be curmudgeonly. Thoughtful criticism is fine, but please don't be rigidly or generically negative. etc: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html | | |
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| ▲ | kypro 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Exactly, 1000 PRs per week probably equates to around ~100 engineers worth of output. Hard to do an exact ROI, but they're probably saving something like $20,000,000+ / year from not having to hire engineers to do this work. | | |
| ▲ | qudat 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | They still need someone to review and hopefully QA every PR. I doubt it’s saving much time except maybe the initial debug pass of building human context of the problem. The real benefit here is the ability for the human swe to quickly context switch between problems and domains. But again: the agent can only move as fast as we can review code. | |
| ▲ | echelon 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | And they're not the only company doing this. Financial capital at scale will begin to run circles around labor capital. |
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