If people are watching your work closely enough to document errors in it, and they care enough to make a wiki page, you’re doing truly great work.

I completely agree.

But as a person in charge of keeping a brand new (volunteer) FM station running smoothly, this is horrifying. I feel every technical problem physically in my body.

It's not them, it's me.

Yes exactly. And this is an incredibly short list. Great engineering over there.

To be fair, there is no way to know if the list is complete or not.

It almost certainly isn't. Some TV engineers are discovering the list right now and biting their tongues.

Preach.

And now compare to modern endless stream of junk that flows into oblivion.

Doesn’t this come under the banner of fraud?

That’s different from an agentic browser in a few key ways.

Most importantly it’s far more difficult for a bad actor to abuse language translation features than agentic browser features.

With a mailto: link.

Ironically that would probably work on phones, where most people probably have an app for email (Gmail, Apple Mail) - but not so much on computers, where many just use webmail rather than an email application?

That comes attached with a lot of spam though

If only there were some kind of tool that junior engineers could use to build portfolio pieces to differentiate themselves.

And if only there were some kind of tool that junior engineers could use to upskill themselves to mid-level.

Sadly we’ll have to wait until at least 2022 for that.

It is a shame that the author has to change to keep up, and I feel their pain but .. it’s also the price of progress. We all do things to keep up when change comes for our work and skill sets.

LLMs - like all tools - reduce redundant & repetitive work. In the case of LLMs it’s now easy to generate cookie cutter prose. Which raises the bar for truly saying something original. To say something original now, you must also put in the work to say it in an original way. In particular by cutting words and rephrasing even more aggressively, which saves your reader time and can take their thinking in new directions.

Change is a constant, and good changes tend to gain mass adoption. Our ancestors survived because they adapted.

I think you say that so easily because it doesn't actually impact you. It'd be absolutely pissed off if I had to constantly watch out how I naturally write because otherwise people will shame me for thinking I had used AI.

Put a tpyo in — that’ll keep them guessing.

You need to take yourself out of the loop. Give the agent tools (usually short scripts that the agent wrote for you) that let it check things like:

are we following the project’s architectural guidelines?

Is the right visual spacing on every page in the UI?

The better the agent’s tools are at finding problems and informatively (in English) recommending fixes to the agent, the more leveraged you will be.

Big thanks to you both Tom & Dan, this community has always felt friendly to me - even when someone was rude to me once someone else stepped in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43980034

Hope we have many more years of this greatness.

Expectations have gone up accordingly.

I think the real constraint must be market timing - as much work as people can do to meet the market (eg. Have the thing done by Christmas), that much will end up being done.

2021-2022 vs 2023-2024. Has anyone asked what Covid had to do with it?