4 pointsby e2e48 hours ago3 comments
  • simonw8 hours ago
    I'm fascinated by this idea of not reviewing AI generated code. On the surface it sounds absurd - we know these machines make mistakes all the time, so how could we ever responsibly move ahead with code they have written without closely reviewing every detail?

    Then I remembered the times I've worked at large companies and depended on code written by other teams. I didn't review every line of code they had written - I'd trust that they had done a competent job, integrate with that code myself, and only dig into the details of their code if I run into bugs or performance issues or other smells that something was wrong.

    Trusting humans is obviously different from trusting AI - humans have reputations, and social contracts, and actual intelligence as opposed to multiplying matrices and rolling a dice. But... I do think an AI model can still earn trust over time. I've spent enough time with Opus 4.5 and 4.6 that I trust them not to make dumb mistakes with the common categories of code that I use them for. Of course now I need to rebuild that trust with 4.7!

    I think the most interesting challenge here is to figure out how to have coding agents demonstrate that the code works without actually reading every line of it yourself - in the same way that I might ask an engineering team I haven't worked with before for a demo and then interrogate them about their testing strategy before relying on their work.

    • _aavaa_4 hours ago
      The distinction here that keep getting glossed over in such comparisons is accountability.

      If the engineering team fucks up somehow they can be kept accountable. An AI cannot be held accountable.

  • turtleyacht8 hours ago
    Hardware--physical hardware, not servers--could become commodities like the cloud: rent bipedal robots by the hour, lidar-equipped vans, and managed drone fleets.

    The SaaS companies disrupting today could become utilities offering mechanized leases tomorrow.

    With agents as a singular "swarm brain" (per machine, not a global hivemind) just seems like a natural course of abstraction.

  • classified3 hours ago
    I'd file this under "creative marketing" and move on. If it were real, I really don't need to know why a religious fanatic decided to turn off their brain.