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Complaining about the monotony of Corporate Memphis while forcing your own engineers into the physical monotony of an onsite tech-hub commute in SF or Atlanta is an incredible paradox.

Hard to paste in 2k words of context when you're talking. I don't think voice is the solution for most people who need to communicate heavily with AI.

Haven't had a chance to test astra vs 5.6 in these reviews yet. I've seen mixed feedback on astra generally so have hesitated in the upgrade. Have you tested and found any difference?

> Typically they are lower level code issues that humans would not have noticed

The author does not triage the feedback. Review bot assesses priority and agents fix the issues the automated review discovers. Nothing is blocked by the bot, humans can ignore if they think the feedback isn't helpful.

We use AI heavily in development but everyone has their own setup and way of approaching use. AI in PRs provides a consistent review layer beyond what the engineers do themselves, and catches a previously undiscovered issue in about 75% of the PRs.

We totally use it in CI. We were thoughtful in how we built our review bot and it catches a lot of issues before humans lay eyes on the code. Typically they are lower level code issues that humans would not have noticed. It's not the comprehensive review solution, which is why we still require some level of human attendance to the code, but it's very much worth using. We do set limits on PR size and description quality as well to mitigate the harsher AI slop issues.

No, only 2x-ish weekly. 20x 5 hour limit.

I've been using both for a few years. OpenAI's limits have always lasted much longer for me (depending on whether a monkey got in their machine or not). Aside from not lying about limits they also don't assume I'm developing some kind of nerve agent and lock me out when I ask basic questions in my domain or nag me about my late night work hours. There was a time last year when I strongly preferred using Anthropic models, but at some point something about the responses (or maybe the company) changed and I now find them particularly offputting relative to OpenAI. Hope they fix it because the industry needs more competition.

I downgraded from the 20x today after learning that 20x only applies to 5 hour usage. I have barely used Claude/Claude Code in the last month and am considering downgrading further, even after this update.

It doesn't make much sense as compute isn't all that scarce (relative to other commodities) and will be less so in 15 years.

I find after 4 or 5 rounds of targeted feedback and requests to tighten the text AI can produce exceptionally readable documentation.

You are heavily discounting the human side of the generation effort. The first output from an AI might be slop but once you start injecting your own ideas and desires it lands much further away from what any AI would output on its own. (Not that there's no zero-effort slop around - there's a lot).

Claude Opus 4.7 responds with walk for me with and without adaptive thinking, but neither the basic model used when you Google search or GPT 5.4 do.

I work with some 'legends of programming' and they're all excited about it. I am too, though I am not a legend. It really is changing the game as a valid new technology, and it's not just a 'slot machine'. Anthropic is burning their goodwill though with their lack of QA or intentional silent degradation.

You should not be downvoted for expressing your concerns.

I'm not inclined to be a guinea pig for these. I suspect maybe later in my child's life they will have been proven long-term safe (or not). I'll be old or dead at that point. I'm really wary of putting anything not known to be standard food or medicine into my body.

Good god

Meta couldn't vibecode a competitor themselves? WTF are yall doing over there?

Hiring is incredibly complicated when done well. If 'limited fuzzy Boolean windows' over 'complex interpersonal dynamics' is vibes, then we will need to accept vibes.

They should have had an open convention. I said this on reddit before the elections and was heavily downvoted for whatever reason. People don't want to face reality. Trump's election this time around was much easier to explain and both parties have now lost the trust of the people.

It's confusing and messy, like most of American history.

Have been using Gitlab happily for a decade, though I have never had to directly worry about the cost for larger teams.

Didn't that anti-corruption agency end up being corrupt too? Hard to follow all this stuff.

We get around this a bit when using it to write code since we have unit tests and can verify that it's making correct changes and adhering to an architecture. It has truly become much more capable in the last year. This technology is so flexible that it can be used in ways no eval will ever touch and still perform well. You can't just rely on what the labs say about it, you have to USE it.

I haven't run a business in a while but when I did I found I was actually more comfortable because the interactions are typically more scriptable and the dynamics are clearer than when you're dealing with peer employees. When you're dealing with customers, you're interfacing on behalf of the business and can adopt a 'business' persona while speaking about things you are expert in. Often you deal with people in bursts and don't need to interact with any given individual too often; with peers it's a lot more vague and confusing, and you're with them basically all the time for years so it's much more exhausting.

I was lucky to have a great AP Biology teacher in high school. I ended up minoring in the field and it has shaped my career. Now my child is a little biologist. It is a fascinating subject and so core to everything we are and everything we do.

That's the most charitable possible reading of this strategy. There are many others.

Give AI its own virtual world to live in where the problems it solves are encodings of the higher order problems we present and you shouldn't have to worry about this stuff.

All the companies in this space go out of business. Who in the Midwest is doing well?

Hah. I'm a pretty good coder and have been accelerated with AI, but it's definitely not ready to make me capable of redesigning the US federal government.

Bitcoin's utility is that you can both hold it in your hands and send it across the world in 10 minutes with no intermediaries. Can't do that with gold.

There are early bitcoin holders who are now billionaires continuing to hold their highly liquid bitcoin.