[mdonaj]

One of the comments in the article says: "I don't see how it's not a net negative tech," to which Marcus replies: "That’s my current tentative conclusion, yes."

What is the negative effect I'm not seeing? Bad code? Economic waste in datacenter investment? Wasted effort of researchers who could be solving other problems?

I've been writing software for over a decade, and I’ve never been as productive as I am now. Jumping into a new codebase - even in unfamiliar areas like a React frontend - is so much easier. I’m routinely contributing to frontend projects, which I never did before.

There is some discipline required to avoid the temptation to just push AI-generated code, but otherwise, it works like magic.

[efitz]

I’ve been playing a lot with Claude Code recently and also making my first significant foray into front end development, and I think that LLMs are the tech that have finally made front end development broadly accessible.

[fouc]

I assumed it was a reference to the nonsensical memes of the AI compute resources causing damage to the environment, using up water and electricity etc.