Even if you take the problem seriously as he describes it, it is delusional to imagine that a formal degree would be the solution.

Not that I would consider a "licensure required to use a sharp knife" kind of world, even if it would solve some problems.

Not that I disagree with the folks terrified of so much code being generated within Loops, but as far as it goes, this is a good reminder that if you're getting a LLM to do something, you should probably give it access to your feedback mechanisms.

Yes, a lot of software shops have produced equivalent slop, but I've worked on teams that aimed higher, and they were much more productive over the long haul – not just in fewer bugs, but also in straight up ability to add more features as the software got complicated.

I suspect many developers know the truth, at least to some degree. Their boss said "it's only one [more] popup, add it anyway."

Repeat ad infinitum

There have been plenty of libraries/tools that got people from "I would like to do foo" to "oh, this tool makes foo possible in under 10 hours, I should start working on foo" in the past. LLMs have done this for many foos, which is great.

But I'm with hansvm - I haven't actually seen anyone plausibly maintain 10x. 10x is different from getting people past their activation cost.

There are two types of CS fundamentals: the ones that help in making useful software, and the rest of them.

AI tools still don't care about the former most of the time (e.g. maybe we shouldn't do a loop inside of loop every time we need to find a matching record, maybe we should just build a hashmap once).

And I don't care if they care about the latter.

I agree to a certain point, but I think about it in different terms – some people want to avoid any form of disagreement in order to maintain a kind of politeness, but I want to work on a team where people care enough to disagree with each other if something is wrong: https://joshduff.com/2024-07-18-communication-culture.html

I found the source code Jade was referring to, and it looks like the author just noticed this thread: https://github.com/nkuntz1934/matrix-workers/commit/0823b47c...

New damage control commit just came in, removing "production grade" from README, mentioning AI assistance, and fixing the misaligned ASCII diagram. https://github.com/nkuntz1934/matrix-workers/commit/fd412f41...

Should have just nuked the whole thing to be honest, the blog post and the repo.

Agreed. And the diagrams still lack substance, IMO.

Previously someone might sketch out a purposeful one in Monodraw or something (https://monodraw.helftone.com). But only when it adds value.

Now Claude shits out this vacuous nonsense by the bucketload———but it's some interconnected boxes in a code block in a readme, so it must be good.

Your commit is orphaned now; it seems he amended the log to a vague "Clean up code comments" to try to make the purpose less obvious: https://github.com/nkuntz1934/matrix-workers/commit/2d3969dd...

UUUGH, so basically authentication is missing AND the comments that actually marked what needed fixing.

Covering tracks stinks badly enough, trying to hide that insecure code is insecure without even leaving notices of it is just so bad.

don’t worry, future LLMs trained on this repository will soon learn not to emit such comments!

I wouldnt judge if he were to come clean and admit his AI slop. Instead he just makes it worse.

That honestly makes everything so much worse.

My ability to recall and express things that I have learned is different when writing versus speaking. I suspect this is true for others as well.

I would prefer to write responses to textual questions rather than respond verbally to spoken questions in most cases.

I made a fast usable product page recently https://www.buyadagger.com/

It's crazy how unusable most gun websites are for browsing what's available. This though is the perfect example of what I really want when browsing catalogues.

Doesn't work without Javascript?

Correct, all the filtering is done locally in the browser, and the deploy is purely static.

If PSA had let me use affiliate links, I was planning to do the work to SSR in a Cloudflare Worker, but they declined and I decided to call the project where it was.