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ngl I think Anthropic need a good fuckin idea of what happens after this

I'm like n.1 defender of the Machines of Loving Grace, but they need to paint an idea of what the world looks like like yesterday

we still have not even seen actual productivity increase in the software industry, just garbage metrics like SLOCs.

more code doesn't necessarily mean more features. more features doesn't necessarily mean more economic value. more economic value doesn't necessarily mean more utility.

We humans have a tendency to want to master everything, regardless of whether it’s useful or not. But when the metrics for something useless go up, in a way, that boosts the metrics for what is useful.

I've seen it, personally. Do you talk to people who do business in software? It's a freakout over increased expectations

I'm a professional software engineer. I've looked at artifacts people are producing using this. Mostly it's generating a huge amount of noise and waste.

I've tried using it myself, and it's great for proofs of concept and toy projects but mostly it seems to be an industry-wide mental illness.

This is not my experience. Projects that previously projected to be completed in 9 months are done in 3, and if you work in software outsourcing, the issue becomes finding more projects because they don't pay more and clients are getting accustomed to that pace.