This is the right way to look at things now. It might not always have the right track record, but AI built coding is more likely to have all the right permissions in place by default, most likely to copy existing patterns in your codebase, most likely to use the highest performance patterns and on top of all that, the spec will match what was asked of it.

What magical AI are you using? That’s not my experience at all.

I use cursor on auto mode almost all the time. I switch to Opus 4.7 when I need I know it will go off the rails. But generally Auto mode "just works".

For my personal work on my own projects, Codex 5.5 because it's cheap at $20 / month and I get in about 10 prompts during my work day (would be more like 40 if I was not focused on work though)

Claude with the 4.7 model is getting pretty good.

there is a significant learning curve to using AI well. learning to stay skeptical and keep your brain on, developing an intuition of how much free reign to give it, writing ironclad specs and design docs and keeping them updated, making work easy to inspect, the tone you use talking to it, using one agent to critique another's work, etc.

basically, AI will produce slop if left unattended. but it's not really its fault.. it's a process failing, like not supervising the interns. using AI the Right Way(tm) is a mental workout, quite a bit slower, but extremely rewarding (ime.)

I can't even get LLMs to reliably use tool calls instead of bash, let alone follow existing patterns in a codebase.

What do your prompts look like?

Mine are pretty robust and articulate. I tend to write very lengthy instructions and include snippets of code, file paths, struct names, etc.

I sometimes get a spark when petting my cat

Get a humidifier, the air is too dry.

Code should be done same day, testing can take a while depending on how complex the product is. For example, some companies can simply have a unit test or integration test, but real products often need to run a 15 minute pipeline with multiple databases active and LLMs responding without errors, etc...

Our product is fairly complex, but most tickets are finished in a day.

My best friend built two public benches for his eagle scout project in the late 90s.

Here's one of them, can't remember where the other is (in the same park): https://maps.app.goo.gl/kSFyikeerp7i77oZ8

Does this increase in birth rate happen before or after the various classes teach you to switch genders? I imagine maybe when you get into your phd level classes, it starts going up again, but definitely a big dip in highschool and undergrad college.

It feels very 1980s for a magazine called "Nature" looking at African culture like this. Getting an ick feeling.

Ah yeah I've seen that video. What blows me away is that in the end all the accused did to get suspected for sexual assault was somehow made contact with her thigh

Seeing stuff like that makes me glad I left the anglosphere

Technically even an income of 50k is really high for a person that just needs to pay property taxes and food (house is paid off for example). And if they live in Missouri, they are probably reaching "upper middle" especially if they already have savings.

For work I do agentic engineering. As the code that I submit for a code review is hand reviewed by me. I know every line and file that I submit.

My side project is 80% vibe code. Every now and then I look and see all the bad stuff, then I scold Codex a bit and it refactors it for me. So I do see the author's point.