[josh2600]

This is sick, in the 90's Tony Hawk sense of the word.

I love that people can just bang stuff into existence now.

There were times in my life where I would wait for an engineering team to change the color of a button for a day to a week.

We are not in the slow times anymore.

[shajsiisiss]

You think technology was the bottleneck?

Your button was not important and should not consume resources of any kind and definitely not engineering resources. It taking a week was a feature, not a bug. It meant engineering properly evaluated the priority and urgency of tasks.

Your magic slotmachine will enable a level of shit-producing and warped perception of engineering effort of breathtaking scale. It will have consequences.

[left-struck]

For years almost all the engineering effort at all the tech companies went into engineering things which grab as much human attention as possible. Almost any use of engineering time, or AI or whatever would be better than that.

[frollogaston]

Sometimes latency matters more than throughput. A simple change can and should go in quickly if the manager wants to see it. Except sometimes it can't because the team is strangled with red tape.

[Perz1val]

> if the manager wants to see it

Exactly that's how prioritising works

[tuwtuwtuwtuw]

How is it warping the perception?

[scotty79]

> You think technology was the bottleneck?

Well, evidently.

[linsomniac]

>I love that people can just bang stuff into existence now.

I need to see if it can build me a fabulous todo app.

4-5 years ago I spent around a year refining a paper-and-pen daily planner, and I went 100% into it and liked it. The paper planner though had a non-ideal workflow, and so I wanted to look into some automation of it. I got a Kindle Scribe hoping they might grow its capabilities. It had a great "it's like paper" experience, but no automation or tools or apps seemed to come along. So then I tried a fairly high end Boox, I got it and then used it only a couple weeks and then stopped doing that daily planner process entirely.

But if Fable could build a Boox or reMarkable app, that might be a big win.

I've tried task warrior, and todoist, and in the end I just keep going back to a straight text file I edit.

[nonethewiser]

The funny thing is, making the input/output mechanism is way less impressive and especially way less useful than the underlying LLM tech that hackernews loves to deride.

[Yeask]

If a team takes a week to change the color of a button... is not because changing the code is hard.

Were you the PM on those project btw?