Re:AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive
by simonw on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @12:11PM
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That's a great example. (Also I love Cog.)
The training cutoff comes into play here a bit, but 95% of the time I'm fuzzy searching like that I'm happy with projects that have been around for a few years and hence are both more mature and happen to fall into the training data.
I know that a whole bunch of people will respond with the exact set of words that will make it show up right away on Google, but that's not the point: I couldn't remember what language it used, or any other detail beyond what I wrote and that it had been shared on Hacker News at some point, and the first couple Google searches returned a million other similar but incorrect things. With an LLM I found it right away.