17 pointsby mirzap3 hours ago4 comments
  • Kim_Bruning44 minutes ago
    I suspect ai adoption and development work will be driven by jevon's paradox for the forseeable future. It won't be exactly the same work as before, (see here: fixing software flaws found by an AI), but it'll be interesting.
  • mrieck2 hours ago
    And then Mythos found bugs in those patches, so another 1000 contractors were hired to patch the new bugs which led to more bugs and so on.
    • tonyedgecombean hour ago
      I remember an IBM study that showed you get a new bug for every two you fix.
  • anorphirithan hour ago
    perfect recipe for spaghetti code
  • url002 hours ago
    Why hire contractors if the AI is so good? Isn't the point to be buying tokens?
    • 80fj0348i2 hours ago
      Banking software is extremely regulated and controlled, both by governments and within the industry itself (one small mistake can wipe out entire institutions within a day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Capital_Group, banks are extremely risk-averse with technology). So likely they were comfortable using agents to _read_ their code but not to write it.
      • gopher_space2 hours ago
        So critical that the work is done in-house. Contractors are for audits. I wonder what’s going on here.

        The people who didn’t immediately reduce headcount are all busy rewriting their stack from the ground up and you won’t hear much from them right now.