> If I know the javascript ecosystem, and I think I do

You think you do, but...

What colors were you seeing? It's light white text on a black background for me-- both super common and plenty readable.

Higher level languages that abstract assembly code are deterministic. AI, on the other hand, is not.

Oh wow, is this Curtis Yarvin's HN account?

Someone making an argument needs relevant experience/context to substantiate their argument. Just because the end opinion is "correct", doesn't mean they arrived there in a reasonable way.

Relevant: https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/premise-data-confirms-sec...

Interesting. Seems similar to what Premise Data tried to do, and maybe would have succeeded had it not been for their slimeball CEO cratering their reputation https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/the-covert-gig-work-surve...

I probably review about 1k LoC worth of PRs / day from my coworkers. It certainly doesn't take me 33 hours (!!) to do so, so I must be one of those rockstar 10x superhero ninja engineers I keep hearing about.

Are your coworkers producing the code using LLMs? And what level of trust do you place in them?

For half my coworkers, their LLM code is better than their code.

That’s depressing. For 80% of my coworkers their LLM code is horrible. Only the seniors seem to use it well and not just spit out garbage

I think that goes back to whether they are programmers vs engineers.

Engineers will focus on professionalism of the end product, even if they used AI to generate most of the product.

And I'm not going by "title", but by mindset. Most of my fellow engineers are not - they are just programmers - as in, they don't care about the non-coding part of the job at all.

If you follow any of the programming subs on Reddit, especially the AI-oriented ones, there are a lot of people that at least claim to not code at all anymore-- 100% of their contributions are from prompts.

Curious how you came to that conclusion. Anecdotally, places where you can slur to your heart's content like /r/conservative seem far more inundated with bots than other areas of Reddit. I feel like that's really saying something too, because Reddit has a really bad bot problem overall.