| ▲ | skrrtww 3 hours ago | |
I think the only way to interpret a one million line LLM-generated diff with no proper reviews as an employee of Anthropic is that my company no longer has an interest in understanding, or even looking at, its own code. I'd be concerned that by jumping onboard with this sort of development process I'd lose touch with how to engineer software in a detail-oriented or remotely rigorous way. It also makes me question what sort of value the entire Bun project ever had if a drop-in replacement can just be thrown in here like it's nothing. Why do we need all these JS runtimes again? The AI bubble is so large that we've also forgotten how useless and dumb a lot of software engineering labor was even before LLMs came along. We were already in a bubble. All that is to say, I think it's useful to reframe some conversations about AI as, "if AI can accomplish this task, was it ever actually valuable?" I think for some specific things, the answer will be yes, but the tech industry has been huffing its own farts for so long I really don't think anyone has sight anymore of what's economically valuable in a ground truth sense. Much like LLMs themselves, this confusion pollutes the entire well of discourse about their economic utility. | ||