In a way it does. Traditional coding then?
> with an implied connotation of right-wing politics
For many people that is not al all a bad thing as it also implies a distancing from all those weird left-wing fetishes which many people would rather see gone A.S.A.P.
While you seem to consider 'right-wing' to be something bad it really is not. Neither is 'left-wing' necessarily bad, it is just that so many bat-shit crazy things have been pushed by 'the left' for so many years that it often is hard to take those who claim support for such seriously. Most of the bad things which have been (sometimes wrongly [1]) associated with 'right-wing' politics are understood to be bad by nearly everyone while the looney 'left-wing' ideas tend to be left alone for fear of being labelled as an '-ist' or '-phobe'.
[1] wrongly as in not being limited to 'right-wing' politics. There's plenty of racism to be had in 'left-wing' circles for starters.
Because they are both conservatism, so that correlation is correct. Perhaps this is an opportunity to self-evaluate whether you've become too polarized, if that gives you pause?
Google is a direct competitor now, every major model company has an agentic coder, tons of people are putting out small enhancements and useful tools to augment all of these.
In terms of creating a viable business, I would (and have) position myself a step or two away from these obvious solutions. Further out in the ecosystem there's a ton of nuance around specific use cases, programming languages, development and deployment environments; all which will be revolutionized (again) in the years to come.
This is a huge hidden value add of using AI tools - you can vibe code replacements for SaaS dependencies and migrate off them.
kami23•2mo ago
The gaps between engineers using the tools and those not are continuing to grow, and I'm curious to see what tools we get to use internally and what we can't... I've been able to demonstrate significant speed up in development time for features with certain tools but the amount of control some of these companies want in contracts are things the company hadn't seen before, and made it too conservative to go in on.
I also see this space changing so much that I don't particularly care for the tools for individuals now as much as I care about the way I share the workload with my team. I need a way to keep everyone up to date and reviewing code without getting brain drained as fast. Review fatigue is real, and it sucks. I haven't really found one that I've liked in that regard and one that a Fortune N company would want to go in on.
dingnuts•2mo ago
Yeah, the ONLY place I hear this where it means "AI pushers are getting faster" is on this website, where half of your salaries depend on said belief.
When I go outside and talk to real engineers who I respect, in confidence and away from the suits forcing them to use AI, away from the hype of the industry telling them only one opinion is allowed, they all agree that "agentic coding" is simply not a meaningful improvement in quality or speed of publishing working software in the real world.
Maybe you like it, and that's fine. If you want to pay a lot of money for advanced IntelliSense and you can get your boss to do that for you, have fun. Just don't force it on me.
I don't believe you'll be meaningfully faster or produce better work than I can without the clanker's help.
If I get furloughed I'm going to get a new career working with my hands.
skydhash•2mo ago
https://jlouisramblings.blogspot.com/2013/04/acme-as-editor_...
It’s clear, informative, and even without reproducing it, you can still form an opinion about the tool.
All the AI pushers’s comments are either very vague or experiments whose sole quality is that it has been done with LLMs (often badly).
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n4r9•2mo ago
Curious to hear more about this. I can't help feeling such an attempt is fundamentally flawed just as software estimates are. Because you're never building the same thing twice.
globular-toast•2mo ago