Why are people so surprised? Attention Is All You Need was authored by Googlers. It’s not like they were blindsided.. OpenAI prouctionized it first but it didn’t make sense to count Google out given their AI history?
Huh? They absolutely were blindsided and the evidence is there. No one expected ChatGPT to take off like it did, not even OpenAI. Google put out some embarrassing products out for the first couple of years, called a code red internally, asked Sergey and Larry to come back. The fact that they recovered doesn’t mean they weren’t initially blindsided.
People are surprised because Google released multiple surprisingly bad products and it was starting to look like they had lost their edge. It’s rare for a company their size to make such a big turnaround so quickly.
Anecdata but I’ve found Claude code with Opus 4.5 able to do many of my real tickets in real mid and large codebases at a large public startup. I’m at senior level (15+ years). It can browse and figure out the existing patterns better than some engineers on my team. It used a few rare features in the codebase that even I had forgotten about and was about to duplicate. To me it feels like a real step change from the previous models I’ve used which I found at best useless. It’s following style guides and existing patterns well, not just greenfield. Kind of impressive, kind of scary
Same anecdote for me (except I'm +/- 40 years experience). I consider my self a pretty good dev for non-web dev (GPU's, assembly, optimisation,...) and my conclusion is the same as you: impressive and scary. If the somehow the idea of what you want to do is on the web in text or in code, then Claude most likely has it. And its ability to understand my own codebases is just crazy (at my age, memory is declining and having Claude to help is just waow). Of course it fails some times, of course it need direction, but the thing it produces is really good.
Scary is that the LLM might have been trained on the entire open source code ever produced - which is far beyond human comprehension - and with ever growing capability (bigger context window, more training) my gut feeling is that, it would exceed human capability in programming pretty soon. Considering 2025 was the ground breaking year for agents, can't stop imagine what would happen when it iterates in the next couple of years. I think it would evolve to be like Chess playing engines that consistently beat top Chess players in the world!
I'm seeing this as well. Not huge codebases but not tiny - 4 year old startup. I'm new there and it would have been impossible for me to deliver any value this soon.
12 years experience; this thing is definitely amazing. Combined with a human it can be phenomenal. It also helped me tons with lots of external tools, understand what data/marketing teams are doing and even providing pretty crucial insights to our leadership that Gemini have noticed.
I wouldn't try to completely automate the humans out of the loop though just yet, but this tech for sure is gonna downsize team numbers (and at the same time - allow many new startups to come to life with little capital that eventually might grow and hire people. So unclear how this is gonna affect jobs.)
I've also found it to keep such a constrained context window (on large codebases), that it writes a secondary block of code that already had a solution in a different area of the same file.
Nothing I do seems to fix that in its initial code writing steps. Only after it finishes, when I've asked it to go back and rewrite the changes, this time making only 2 or 3 lines of code, does it magically (or finally) find the other implementation and reuse it.
It's freakin incredible at tracing through code and figuring it out. I <3 Opus. However, it's still quite far from any kind of set-and-forget-it.
Yes of course. You can get paid anything from $5 to $1000 per hour depending on how good/lucky you are at sales and connections. Not through upwork. My current contract is a full time for over a year now so five figures is expected per month
Liquid Glass is horrible on my iPhone SE 2020. Slow and looks weird on the smaller screen. I tried to turn most effects off but it still is just worse in every way
That’s on point - it really reminds me of a Linux distro that someone went a bit too overboard on customizing. The inconsistencies are so familiar from cobbling different OS and window themes and icon sets etc together. One more reason to move away from MacOS since they don’t have that anymore either
While I agree, I think that's still incomplete. To me good comments have always been about "what is being done AND why".
Or to put it another way: to provide the necessary context for figuring out why a particular piece of code is written the way it's done. (Or what it's supposed to do.)
I agree with that as well, the "why" explains the business logic and that makes much more sense to me. Otherwise, I might end up explaining the algorithm (the "what") instead of the business behind it.
It’s natural for these type of communities. It’s not really a cult in the traditional sense, there is enough evidence that some medication/chemicals are gatekeeped they are effective while there’s just enough evidence to prove how dangerous it can be.
It can be understood as hobby group that focuses on drugs instead of another topic. It’s a fine line between reckless and leading edge that most don’t follow imo but it’s a community with its own rules.
I would also recommend Mint Cinnamon for anyone. Everything worked out of the box, super fast and simple. Just a breath of fresh air compared to the bloat of the big corporation OSes these days. It’s like being back in simpler times with Windows XP where things are snappy and it doesn’t get in your way
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