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> AI is not responsible for anything at the moment, except making existing senior developers reasonably more efficient for sleeve of tasks, but not the tasks that take the most time. I disagree. AI…

> No, we don't. It is Anthropic, Google, OpenAI et al. who need a fix for those problems today. Let them deal with it. I don't think you understand what an instruction files or a agent sk…

> True, that's fine. As long as people don't elevate these transient "standards" to the same level as something like basic security and accessibility. I don't think that&#x…

> Yeah, the entire suite of proposed "standards" catering to agents looks like a temporary measure to duct-tape over the limitations and token costs of today's agents. That's fi…

> Do you not need to use the debugger sometimes? Or can cc debug by itself A key feature of AI coding assistants and coding agents is troubleshooting. It turns out that LLMs excel at pattern matchi…

> (...) rules, and best practices that developers have built up over the decades. It seems you are not understanding that the reason all these "rules, best practices" had to be created in…

> The vibe coders have a key advantage you don’t: they don’t give a fuck. They blow through a task and move onto the next one. Management sees this as progress, and the vibe coders are rewarded. Th…

> it used to be that i pay your due at some enterpise and learn some corner of codebase really well and become go to person. that would give you job security.I I had the displeasure of working with…

> Some people have imposter syndrome. Others are actually just imposters. I'm sorry to say, but AI coding assistants paved the way to professional imposters whose only skill is prompting a mod…

> I know it's not, but darned if that doesn't sound like "it exploded real big, so build a bigger one!" To me it sounds like "alright, it's silly to waste time and ene…

> Crushing only because their cadence is so slow compared to SpaceX. Their process seems much closer to the highly risk averse methodology of traditional incumbents than to SpaceX's style. Fai…

> you cherry-picked like the nicest "rude" example to bolster your point. I didn't cherry-picked. The article lists 5 categories, including rude and very rude. I omitted very rude co…

> Isn't all this massively dependent on what they trained the llm on? The article is from 2025 and tested ChatGPT 4o. I haven't read anything suggesting it was trained any differently, an…

> English is not my native language. That's not it. It's the random word soup. PSP/TSP has absolutely nothing to do with the discussion.

> Maybe it's weird but I'd rather give up that 4% accuracy increase than roleplay a dickhead I recommend reading the article. What they classify as "rude" is statements such as:…

> Both RUP and PSP/TSP do stand on the ground of defect prevention. All sorts of defects, from incorrect sets of requirements to memory corruption. Was this comment generated by an hallucinati…

> Why not? Who says that? Who proved that system understanding is not just more complex pattern matching? Yes indeed. That's a perplexing statement considering that a central concept or softwa…

> Ah the classic thinking that 'code documents itself'. It does not. This is demonstratably false. Case in point: all the code that does not require comments for developers to understand …

> Then they should be rallying against totalitarianism and authoritarian policies, not broad and vague ideas of "communism" that most people cant agree on the definition of. You're n…

From the article: > Kyndryl said in a statement it was "extremely disappointed" about the decision. "The politicization of this process has overshadowed the clear and important benef…

> yeah that's how a simple algorithm that would fit on a napkin gets broken up into a soup of ravioli that I have no hope to understand. No, not really. You get spaghetti code by being unable …

> A full, whole, entire _minute_ ?! If you honestly had any concern about loosing focus and being forced to context switch, a 1 minute pause idling while waiting for something to happen would repre…

> The constant context changes, (...) After you put together a plan, today's models can take well over a minute to execute it. Also, your work shifts to code review and executing acceptance te…

> I think s/he meant that if you earn 30k it's easy to be tempted by crime because the numbers are big. I'm pointing out that this reasoning doesn't pass the smell test. A 30k s…

> congratulations on your soon to be coming burnout. Multitasking does not mean burnout. It just means you are not wasting time while idling. Multitasking was not invented for AI coding assistants.…

> If you can't understand why the code is done in a certain way from reading it then the code is missing comments or needs to be refactored. Code is never missing contexts. If what your code i…

> to pick on Eastern Europe for a minute, you're looking at the equivalent of ~$30-35k USD/year This is a disingenuous claim. Not only are there software engineers in rich western Europea…

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