2026-02-07 21:55 UTC
@nolan@toot.cafe @matt@toot.cafe Even today your mileage depends on what you're using them for. I don't expect today's tools to beat me at navigating hairy technical/political problems at work, but there's lots of my day to day that's annoyingly mechanical—but just out of reach of a shell script—that I've already been able to completely automate away in the past six months.
Consider where we were in 2014 (and what that implies for 2038): https://xkcd.com/1425/
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@danieldk@mastodon.social 2026-02-08 08:43
@numist@xoxo.zone @nolan@toot.cafe @matt@toot.cafe that doesn't say much tough. It's hard to say if development is following an exponential curve or a sigmoidal curve. Sigmoidal curves far more common and if we are on a sigmoidal curve, where on the curve we are. We'll only know longer term, perhaps 5-10 years. For now I'm very happy that an LLM writes a lot of the boring parts of a project (easily 10x). However, for more complex parts it either needs a lot of guidance or I need to step in (slight improvement or slower).