Guy at work proposed AI workflow enhancements…

His whole idea was to take a workflow and just replace a few roles…

Developer becomes “AI developer agent” Reviewer becomes “AI reviewer agent” Tester becomes “AI code testing agent”

Rinse and repeat until the only block that was human was “Marketing Engineer”. Guess what department the guy worked in…

Another thing is that it kind of instills a false confidence. Reviewers are getting lazy when the LLM gives a ‘LGTM’ and letting stuff through that bites us in the ass…

Yep, seen this.

Also, each iteration saying “ok, all problems are now addressed, the check should be fine, but running it just in case” (generates even more build errors than before). Rinse and repeat until my token quota is exhausted and I just code the good old fashioned way, no skin off my back. And I’m doing a ‘good job’ with utilization, despite having burned most of my quota on a failure that got thrown away.

Which is a stupid mindset.

“Go forth and burn tokens and your performance will be measured on that”

Looks like I’m going to make a for to ask for a for every word in /usr/share/dict/words. Look at all the tokens I burned.

It doesn’t reflect upon business value, performance, or education.

It’s even worse than the disastrous lines of code metric.

Their problem is they have no idea what to expect, so to signal affinity to hype, they just measure tokens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Light

So being drunk affects how you use light/dark mode?

I suppose he should have said “gay ewes would be hobbled” and lesbian sheep would be incapable of coupling up".

His quote shows that people say there’s no way of knowing one way or another, like you say, but Doctorow changed the language to be a bit more suggestive of certainty that the phenomenon exists.

But do you want to Morty your life?

But I appreciate your comparison, it really is analagous to an overconfident jr dev code scenario. Anyone who actually knows understands he’s lucky it’s still intact and cringes at his ‘rated for cross-atlantic’ statement. But it’s been fine so far, so he feels super vindicated into extrapolating to how awesome it’s going to be if he managed to get the basics this in order.

I went in prepared to be unambiguously appreciative of the adventuresome spirit, but turned to dismay as he spoke on what he thought the boat was capable of and close to being. Good job on the adventure, but need to have a bit more humility or he’ll be in over his head, literally.

No no, he said “rated for atlantic crossing”, so it’s got to be good, right?

Technically over a decade, but feels like that’s an understatement.

In the 1940s some people called a machine to play NIM as “Artificial Intelligence”. People talked about opponent AI in checkers games before most of us were born.

Certainly by the 80s using “AI” to describe the manipulations of enemy characters was all-in.

there is no ballast, not even a dedicated bilge space, and with the shallow draft, I am uncertain how the boat in OOP isn’t too top-heavy to stay up-right. Forget the “Sovereign Living” bit at the end, I’mma need to see some solid design and build data before listening to another word from that guy.

Don’t worry, he said up front it is “rated for cross-atlantic” so it’s all good.

Frankly waiting for the news story where he gets killed “proving” his concept…

The first warning bell was “rated for cross-atlantic”… “rated” by whom?

Of course then there’s the latter part where he talks about the next one is going to be super amazingly polished autonomous vessel with everything up to and including a sauna from the solar… And of course the sovereign citizen take…

Cool doing a project like this, but it smells of overconfidence in what it currently is and how trivial it will be to get to something much much more…

Welcome… to rapture!

Sometimes it just doesn’t pan out.

Had a junior dev that basically decided he would rather try to grift through instead of doing the job. Never seen someone work so hard at trying not to work at all. Every day it was a different excuse, a different other person to point to as to why he didn’t even try to do anything that day. I think at least 7 or 8 of his grandmothers died during his tenure. And management ate it up.

Until one day he lost track of things and blamed the manager asking him why things weren’t done. Said the manager never sent him some material and of course the manager had. Suddenly the manager believed the rest of us who had been saying he was lying for the last many months…

The key was he was cheap and was in theory supposed to be as good as a higher paid alternative, so management would have to admit to being wrong to ditch him…

Ideally in towing, the trailer is yanked where you want it to go, but if the towing vehicle doesn’t have the mass, then the trailer yanks the vehicle where the trailer wants to go.

Ok, guess I’m wondering what a B class license is in your geography.

Round my parts a class B license is more than 11,800 kg total mass with a trailer no more than 4500kg.

It was just funny to read “700 kg, almost the limit for B class” weighed against the context of what that means round here…

Think it was an "indulge the stupid executives dumb idea so he can say “innovation”.

Sure, but here you basically have to have an autonomous pickup truck following you. The question is if you need something about the size of a pickup anyway, why not just drive the pickup?

The diagram shows something impossible, a tiny little autonomous tow vehicle. The physics just don’t support it. Even a tractor is only acceptable for towing a big load by virtue of going at a relative snail’s pace. At speed the bigger mass will tend to dictate how the physics goes. So for decent payload, you’ll need basically a full on pickup truck.

So the usage scenario is “I want to rent something almost exactly like a pickup truck, but am not willing to actually drive the pickup truck”.

If the trailer had some steering/drive, ok. This illustrated concept of a “detached hitch” has some physics problems, since the trailer is just going to yank that thing all over the place.

I presume the concept is “you have need to tow a 5,000 pound trailer and you just have your Toyota Corolla”

To provide effective towing, your vehicle has to be rugged, powerful, and weigh enough to not get yanked around by your load, meaning even when not towing it’s a heavy vehicle. Instead this imagines a self-driving, passengerless truck that plays follow the leader and hopes it’s close enough to towing to be allowed.

Of course, the problem as illustrated is that they show a tiny little thing towing a big payload. The physics just doesn’t work (I suppose if the trailer is hollow aluminum and the tow is lead…)