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Re:AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems on Saturday September 05, 2026 @05:43AM (#49574863)
Still, basic debuging and trouble shooting is where LLM generally shine. Any model can bisect git history and isolate newly introduced bug.

If model can not automatically reproduce bug, while human manually can... you got a problem in CI.

> Luna Max performing better than Fable 5.1 High

Perhaps you are reading too many benchmarks.

Edit for answer :

I agree Luna is great cheap model.

But if Fable was hitting security limits, yet was still included in benchmarks...

What flies better? Elephant or paper plane. You can make objective benchmark about that. But not much value for logistics company

Re:AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems on Saturday September 05, 2026 @05:38AM (#49574838)
It just follows instructions you give it.

Some asian devs will go for weeks without asking for help, all while giving amazing fake status reports. Loosing face etc...

Re:AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems on Saturday September 05, 2026 @05:35AM (#49574829)
I am former java enterprise dev, so yes I often code this way. Unit testing, decomposition... Some projects CI refuse to merge commits with 20 line loop and duplicated code...

But that is not a point. Claude can code tight compact loops, it just needs to be instructed to do so! If it does "enterprise code", it means it had no instructions about code style.

If your documentation, spec, agent.md does not have proper guidance on coding style... yet another red flag!

Re:AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems on Saturday September 05, 2026 @04:58AM (#49574653)
If the solution is so simple, why claude did not found it? At this point we can assume, it is better than 90% of engineers (including me).

After three decades of outsourcing to lowest bidder, I do not buy that humans are somehow better!

> patient, old school troubleshooting

I usually see similar arguments around systems with major red flags (no docs, poor CI, decade ago no CVS...). And engineers with private stash of workarounds for job security!

Claude does not do anything special.

Or perhaps claude was misconfigured, it had no access to relevant part of system, and it tryied to work within its limitation. Often it means decompiling binaries in desperate loop...

Re:I Want a Wife (1971) [pdf] on Saturday September 05, 2026 @04:30AM (#49574429)
> most people would want a wife

Are you sure about that? Maybe that was true in 1970ties or even yearly 2000, but today stats are pretty clear: most men do not want a wife!

Modern women have ethical troubles with making even simple sandwich. Tons of legal risks. 60% people today are overweight and on mental medication...

And fathers in families today are portraited as a homer simpson!

All the stuff wife brinks to the table, can be easily automated or outsourced at minimal cost!