[ianm218]

I think this is a false dichotomy. We’re getting lots of new productive output in some areas and in other areas it is too much slop.

[terminalbraid]

Your argument might carry some weight if you added any kind of argument past "lots of new productive output" and then silence.

[ianm218]

I feel like the topic has been discussed ad nausiem but:

* Software security - I.e. Mozilla blog post on using Mythos for software security [1]

* Algorithms - AlphaEvolve makes real progress on matrix multiplication [2]

* Open source - Backlog crushing in openvpn [3]

* Corporate - CloudFlare Oauth workers [4]

People are clearly using AI to ship real work that people end up using directly or indirectly. Projects like Godot are also in a weird spot though.

[1]. https://blog.mozilla.org/en/privacy-security/ai-security-zer...

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13131

[3] https://stanislas.blog/2025/12/claude-code-opus-open-source-...

[4] https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-oauth-provider

[cstdr]

[3] is not openvpn, just some install script a rando not affiliated with openvpn did.