The archetype of the "jerk engineer" is over, because it turns out coding isn't all that valuable anymore. We now need "engineers" who understand much more than coding.

Wholly disagree. This a comment made by a person about an AI topic. Not an AI bot commenting on an article, which (as I understand it) is what “no AI comments” is saying.

Plus it’s a test that gives varied enough performance across multiple LLMs that it is a good barometer for how well it can think through the steps. Never mind the fact that most people can’t draw a bike from memory. The whole thing is hilarious!

Are you saying I write comments here using an LLM? I don't do that.

How does a quick benchmark of a model "add no value" to the post about the model?

We like the pelican posts.

I think it added plenty of value!

I think mandates are irrelevant. Unless you work at a monopoly or cutting edge domain, I don’t see how anything other than a “software factory” wins.

https://openai.com/index/harness-engineering/

lowercasing doesn’t obfuscate the stench of LLM

Ai shit post

Does anyone have any solid patterns they can share around the “scenarios”/holdouts concept from the Dark Factory, where you create external system(s) to verify your main one?

So bdd essentially?

I largely agree with you. And, given your points about “not going back” — how do you propose interviewing SWEs?

I have thought about this a lot, and I have no idea. I work for an "AI-first" company, and we're kind of required to use AI stuff as often as we can, so I make very liberal use of Codex, but I've been shielded from the interview process thus far.

I think I would still kind of ask the same questions, though maybe a bit more conceptual. Like, for example, I might see if I could get someone to explain how to build something, and then ask them about data structures that might be useful (e.g. removing a lock by making an append-only structure). I find that Codex will generally generate something that "works" but without an understanding data structures and algorithms, its implementation will still be somewhat sub-optimal, meaning that understanding the fundamentals has value, at least for now.

A lot of people here like this guys writing.

For a longer and more biting critique of SF one should read

Private Citizens (2016) by Tony Tulathimutte

“ Capturing the anxious, self-aware mood of young college grads in the aughts, Private Citizens embraces the contradictions of our new century: call it a loving satire.”

I picked up Rejection, he has a keen sense of observation and understanding of people. Still, I found the variations-on-a-theme stories to be a downer, or at least repetitive. By the 3rd story I was hoping for another direction.

The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday, during Chinese New Year