Marczelloni

I agree when supplied with a broader context that he also said coding would be "solved" by now.

Sure LLM is good to develop a feature but in 90% of cases in my career the problems I was working on weren't just coding and in that part, LLMs can't do everything.

It's also important to know that a typical dev spends 400-1000$ on API tokens that aren't still profitable for them.

Sure AI's useful and it will reduce the demand for software engs. to a point, but it won't eliminate them. At least I hope. Same with other fields... let's hope?

I have zero stock or interest in Anthropic IPO, moreover I really hope open weights catch up price-wise to what Claude Max provides (tokens there are heavily subsidized right now), so that I can make a switch and not feed the beast.

I'd like to also use a model on my owm hardware, but alas, I'm relatively young in the industry and my wallet is not fat enough for a local AI stack.

You sir or madam, unfortunately, are right...

One can only hope for a damage to their reputation so significant, it encourages other companies to swtch providers, and the devs to stand up and develop competing solutions.

Since the release of Opus 5.5 I have more work than ever and it enables me to move out from the coding I never really enjoyed to a full stack product engineering.

I'm also working on transitioning from a classic SWE to a small independent team doing our own products.

Sure I won't make as much money for doing bullshit changes in some old legacy system but I will actually deliver things people will like using, and I'll be in touch with other people on a daily basis.

Really hoping it's a monumental fuckup that lasts through the weekend well into the next week.

The corrupted executives need to learn their lesson on consequences of their actions. Laying off the core of your system?. Say goodbye to triple-9 SLA.

I have zero sympathy for big tech

I think we're all a little neurodivergent round here. For me- it really bothers me, like... you have a bilion dollar product you've spent countless resources on and you botched the naming... you might as well made a typo in it and call it "Cabron"

care to elaborate?

I think the cat is out of the bag now.

Regulations of AI agency and commercial services will not prevent rogue agents still causing malicious activity.

Sure, it will reduce it, but it's not a guarantee that if the big AI companies start providing only regulated, "safe" agents, noone else will use the already existing models just to keep doing that from the comfort of their own rack.

The more I think of it (although I am just a mere person with no ordinary archievements), the only viable solution is to reinvent the internet to restrict anonymous, consequence-free access, sort of "taking ownership" of your digital footprint and then whoever allows an agent to do bad stuff needs to answer for it.

It would be an incredibly difficult and international effort to pull something like that off, but without that I feel we're slowly diving into sort of a Cyberpunk 2077 scenario, where outside of local intranets noone connects to "The" Internet as rogue AI agents can kill you there.