I think this goes along way to explain people's very defensive reactions when you are skeptical about Agentic Development.

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artnanika an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Those are two different things. Chatgpt being sycophantic while playing the role of a therapist with a teenager is much different from Codex being sycophantic while reviewing user feedback. The former is extremely dangerous for society.

	▲	LAC-Tech 10 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I make no societal judgments; just that the nastiness of the reactions I get suggests something more than technical choice is going on. I had one prominent "influencer" publicly challenge me to a coding competition over it. It was very weird.

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qarl2 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm one of the people who gets accused of this. I don't mind skepticism. But every time I turn around, someone's claiming nobody gets any value from these tools and anyone who says otherwise is deluded or running a scam. That gets really old.

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sidrag22 12 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I've had one conversation that was sorta like this, it was around the time some kid kept releasing videos of him interacting with a very bad TTS gpt model or something and it would give very very bad answers confidently.

Their frame of reference was that, and this was at a time when opus 4.5 was around. Hard to expect a reasonable conversation when one person has such a different view of what the tools are capable of.

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LAC-Tech 29 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

I can believe people get value out of them. I think I do.

But "OH MY GOD EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED THE OLD WAY IS DEAD 10X MORE PRODUCTIVE" - no. If that were true, we'd notice it in the software all around us.

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qarl2 8 minutes ago | parent [-]

I think we are noticing it. Are you not?

I've shipped three software projects in the last two months. I shipped zero in the preceding year.

Right now I'm building a system to decompile MAME ROM games into idiomatic JavaScript. It completes one game in about 3 days - complete with extensive commenting. I started it about 2 weeks ago.

I'm not sure "EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED" but if you're not seeing dramatic change, I suspect you're not looking.

	▲	Planktonne a minute ago \| parent [-]
		> if you're not seeing dramatic change, I suspect you're not looking If the people claiming that everything has changed were even a fraction as productive as they think, then it would be visible even to people who weren't looking. As it is, a lot of people are actively looking but still not seeing it.