A classic hype merchant sales pitch: believe me, I was a doubter just like you, but I saw the light thanks to [insert latest model]!
(Which for anyone familiar with your long comment history as a regular HN poster, is comically absurd to imply. You've been reliably adamant that AI will demolish this or that entire industry overnight for years at this point).
GP commenter got my attention during the last few days. Judging by their claims of productivity, they should have been a billionaire already. I'm curious to know their motivation behind making such outrageous claims.
I’ve seen their outrageous comments so often I wonder if it’s Sam Altman’s alt account. Probably the biggest AI snake oil merchant on the forum these days, with a sadistic pleasure at seeing people losing their job to AI.
> You've been reliably adamant that AI will demolish this or that entire industry overnight for years at this point
We'll see who's right. I never said "overnight". Let's check in at the decade's end.
Y'all dunked on me in 2019 when I said AI was coming for Hollywood. Have you seen Seedance 2.0?
It's coming for us too. I've written five nines, active-active systems that handle billions of dollars of money movement daily. These systems can work in those contexts. I didn't think we'd be here this soon, and I actually thought LLMs were a dead end. I was wrong.
I'm not trying to sell Claude Code. I hate the concept of hyperscaler companies. I want there to be viable open source coding models - there just aren't. I'm merely reporting on my findings.
I sit at my machine for hours now in a prompt, review, test cycle. It's addictive. I'm getting more done at a faster rate than any time in my professional career. I'm excited, and I'm also worried. I don't know what happens after this.
If you've seen how much I praise AI, then you've also seen how much I rail against monopolies. I am worried these giant companies are going to take the means of production from us. I don't think enough people are freaking out about this. It's a very real possibility.
I'm just going to keep building. But you should pay close attention to what's happening.
You're not wrong in principle, but you've made some specific extraordinary claims. If you're really that productive, generating useful work product at a rate of 20 kloc/day by yourself, people would pay just to learn how you're doing it!
Y'all dunked on me in 2019 when I said AI was coming for Hollywood. Have you seen Seedance 2.0?
Being right at the wrong time is often worse than just being outright wrong, I've found.
You are reviewing 20kLOC per day, which is about 0.7 LOC per second in an 8 hour working day, assuming literally doing nothing else but reviewing? Pardon me but I don't find that very believable.
I don't completely disagree with what you are saying -- but there's no way you produce and review 20k lines a day. That part is clearly false. Even if Claude generated it in 10 seconds and it needed no changes you probably still couldn't review that much sensibly.
I used Claude a lot on a recent project where it probably wrote 15-20k lines in a month, and it was overall excellent.
So you now have 400Kloc of Rust code? Doing what? How much of that is "new"?
I can't get Augment / Opus 4.5 to edit a few C++ files from within VSCode without going off on a wild goose chase or getting stuck in an infinite loop after I tell that it should be doing this: "oh, you're right, I need to do X", "To do X, I must understand how to do Y", "I see now that to do Y, I should look at at Z". "Let me look at Z", followed by: "oh, you're right, I need to do X"..
My point is that C++ is a tarpit, famous for nerd sniping and leading otherwise intelligent people into Wild goose chases.
Have you read Alexandrescu’s “modern c++”? It’s like a piece of modern art but completely not self aware. There’s just something about C++ that lures intellectuals in; like ice age mammoths to a tar pit.
Small wonder LLMs also fall victims to C++’s deranged ways.
To do what, exactly, and are people paying you for your output or are you just making things for yourself?
Building things at a mature company with a market is a lot different than hacking together your own tools. There are a lot more people you can let down at scale.
That’s the same definition of reviewing code as saying watching the movie is the same as reading the book it’s based on.
No human has ever reviewed 600k lines of code in a month, ever. It’s hard to find someone who can even read and understand that amount in that time.
> They just need to put all of the engineers on HN out of work.
I think you've crossed the line from being an AI maxi to just rage baiting. This comment is a pointless anecdote at best, please take your ridiculous FOMO takes elsewhere.
I’m convinced these “guys you gotta believe me I’m a seasoned veteran and this shit is the real deal” posts that show up in every AI thread are either coming from Sam Altman or a bot.
As divided as the US is right now, there's a bunch of things like this that every American seems to agree on without even realizing that it's not the same in most of the world.
For example, "work ethic". Correct me if I'm wrong, but you could write "worked very hard every day" on someone's tombstone, and almost every American seeing it, regardless of politics, will think "That was a good person". Someone to look up to.
Not "did good work", not "their work helped many people", definitely not "lived well". Even "was very productive" sounds too suspicious - being productive is great and all, but a productive person might be doing 10h worth of work in 5h and then call it a day, and that's just unacceptable, so that's not going on your tombstone either.
Just... work hard. The protestant ideal. Going on vacation and being too sick to work is literally the same thing, because it stops you from working hard.
There's a pretty big generational divide on this point, I think. I don't think many people under the age of 45 or so still see the "never took a sick day" thing as a laudatory statement.
(Also probably a regional divide too. I worry that I'm wrong about this when it comes to some places on the coasts, but I think it's accurate for most places in the country.)
Anecdotally (under 45; American), I agree that "never took a sick day" is indeed not a laudatory statement, but I also strongly believe that working hard is a prime virtue.
How many days off do you take per year? For context we get ~43 legally protected paid days of leave per year in Australia, sounds like the UK is about the same.
Although to be fair, nothing above regular (that I'm aware of, it's been a while) requires infinite space, just unlimited space... you can always make a real Turing machine as long as you keep adding more tape whenever it needs it.
It's not about not knowing about an optimization. The challenge is to know when to apply it, so that it does not cause regressions for cases that can't benefit from it. It may be less risky in specialized systems, like BI systems typically don't need to worry about regressing OLTP workloads. Postgres absolutely needs to be careful of that.
I believe that's one of the reasons why it took about ~8 years (the original patch was proposed in 2017).
I don't think anyone would be investing `billions and billions` into AI if their endgame wasn't putting an expert salesperson right in front of every human in the world. Someone who knows all about them and who can not just sell things, but make the target think it was their idea all along.
I get that transforming a bunch of facts into prose is boring.
As a reader, I can't get over the fact that I'm supposed to read a text that nobody could be bothered to write.
I wonder how often we waste energy nowadays by telling an AI to turn a one-sentence-prompt into a full e-mail, only for the other side to tell the AI to summarize it in one sentence.
Yeah, that's the one problem I'd have with stickers.
I'm personally not interested, but I also would never make fun of people expressing themselves.
On the other hand... mandatory fun, mandatory self-expression, any anything that takes something very personal and turns it into official or unofficial company policy makes me sick. I'm glad it's not too common here in Germany.
It's like HR forcing you to listen to punk songs because the company wants to promote a rebellious spirit as long as it's compatible with "disruption". It's also a bit like being asked "why are you so quiet" by someone who said everything worthwhile 5 minutes after getting out of bed but never stopped yapping.
