Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%

Re:Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size... by SkyPuncher on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @11:20PM (#48031740)

Yes, it can. I do this regularly.

I have literally built and shipped multiple things that would have taken me many many months to do and I’ve done it in under a week.

Many of these are LLM heavy features where the LLM can literally self-evaluate and self-optimize. I start with a general feature, it will generate adverse, synthetic data, it will build a feature, optimize it the figure out new places to improve. 1 year ago, this would have taken an entire team months to do, now, it’s 2 or 3 days of work.

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Re:Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size... by audunw on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @03:23AM (#48033294)

The C compiler was a prime example of an application where the LLM can self-evaluate/optimise, with one of the best set of tests could imagine. Yet the end result was a mess.

I have experienced areas where high productivity can be had without much loss in quality. So I can believe it. But it really depends on what you’re doing and I firmly believe many companies will run out of easy stuff that we can blaze through with AI fairly quickly. At least that’s where we seem to be heading

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Re:Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size... by aprilthird2021 on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @04:02AM (#48033552)

What's an example of such a thing? Just curious

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Re:Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size... by sdevonoes on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @05:39AM (#48034249)

And your parents must be proud of you. You’re just another cog

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