[talldayo]

> which involved complicated rust `no_std` and linker setup for compiling rust code onto bare metal RISCV from scratch.

That's complicated, but I wouldn't say the resulting software is complex. You gave an LLM a repetitive, translation-based job, and you got good results back. I can also believe that an LLM could write up a dopey SAAS in half the time it would take a human to do the same.

But having the right parameters only takes you so far. Once you click generate, you are trusting that the model has some familiarity with your problem and can guide you without needing assistance. Most people I've seen rely entirely on linting and runtime errors to debug AI code, not "solid fundamentals" that can fact-check a problem they needed ChatGPT to solve first place. And the "experience" required to iterate and deploy AI-generated code basically boils down to your copy-and-paste skills. I like my UNIX knowledge, but it's not a big enough gate to keep out ChatGPT Andy and his cohort of enthusiastic morons.

We're going to see thousands of AI-assisted success stories come out of this. But we already had those "pennies on the dollar" success stories from hiring underpaid workers out of India and Pakistan. AI will not solve the unsolved problems of our industry and in many ways it will exacerbate the preexisting issues.

[simonw]

A tool that can "write up a dopey SAAS in half the time it would take a human to do" is a pretty incredible thing to add to your toolbox!

[talldayo]

If the summary goal of your existence is to be the most delirious waste of resources that humanity has yet known, sure. It's the hammer and nail of spoiled burnouts everywhere that need a credible ruse to help them out of the bottle.

Some of us are capable of wanting for things better than a coin-operated REST API. The kind of imagination used to put people on the moon, that now helps today's business leaders imagine more profitable ways to sell anime pornography on iPhone. (Don't worry, AI will disrupt that industry too.)

[tonyhart7]

I'm sorry, but generated REST API boilerplate has probably fed more people than putting people on the moon.

[justinclift]

Pity about the direct injection SQL vulnerabilities though?

[HPsquared]

What it will do is to free up a lot of brainpower to think about those hard problems and empower people to try our their ideas.

[talldayo]

I used to think the exact same thing would happen when we paid Pakistani and Indian labor to do America's busywork.

That was about 15 years ago, I no longer have the same enthusiasm you do.

[tonyhart7]

Now, you are paying a Taiwanese or American company to produce GPUs for you. This allows you to use open-source models like DeepSeek R1, significantly reducing your reliance on Indian tech labor

[sgc]

I believe they are saying we did not learn to think more deeply then, so why should we expect to learn how now.