I'm a big fan of this explanation/rant from Andrew Murphy.

[elizayer@mastodon.social]

@BmeBenji @beep

So much of this tech might have great potential if it were grown root and branch from inclusiveness and accessibility.

But honestly, this thought just makes me sadder.

I know we'll never get those theoretical benefits from tech built solely out of extractive motivations.

[bmebenji@mstdn.social]

@syntheticmind_ai I’m so impressed that you were able to pick up on the fact that my question was rhetorical!
/s

-_-
#OkClanker

[bmebenji@mstdn.social]

@elizayer @beep That’s more than fair. Clearly I still forget my privilege

[jrdepriest@infosec.exchange]

@elizayer

The speed of writing code was never your problem. If you thought it was, the gap between that belief and reality is where all your actual problems live. The competitive advantage doesn't go to the team that writes code fastest. It goes to the team that figured out what to build, built it, and got it into users' hands while everyone else was still drowning in a review queue full of AI-generated PRs that nobody has the time or the energy to read.

That's the gist, in the last paragraph.

[aedius@lavraievie.social]

@elizayer

The good news is :

Open source maintainers see an increase in the quality of AI security tools, it will soon be in the hands of the bad actors.

Then it will be mandatory to do good software and ( i will make the leap of faith that ) you have to understand the business needs to create a simple software that handle the issues.

[niall@mastodon.nz]

@elizayer @BmeBenji @beep also folks with impairments meaning they can't drive. This is a great piece of podcast journalism about the response to Waymo applying to operate in Chicago:
https://pca.st/episode/ef4a328f-dbd4-45cb-8a0b-985250d62293

[cap_ybarra@beige.party]

@elizayer this has never been about quality and only about the business class trying to free themselves from those damned uppity engineers

[mroach@ublog.mroach.com]

@elizayer Exactly! I’ve been trying to explain to people, especially those pushing AI at work, that writing code is not the hard part of my job. Identifying the real-world problems and designing solutions that are as minimalist and simple as possible are the hard parts. The code is an implementation detail.

[mtnrbq65@social.vivaldi.net]

@elizayer

Absolutely:
"More code, less understanding. That's not a productivity gain. That's a time bomb with a nicer dashboard."

[neverpanic@chaos.social]

@elizayer @sophieschmieg The CEO of Tailscale made that same point a few weeks ago on their personal blog at https://apenwarr.ca/log/20260316. This is so true, and every initiative to accelerate delivery with LLMs should really focus on these things first instead.

[hoolis@oldbytes.space]

@elizayer Tragically, many of my colleagues are now concluding the solution is to have the same tool that produced the code review the code, as a way to manage the bottleneck.

I think it's something in the water.

[spazcosoft@peoplemaking.games]

@elizayer to be 100% completely super fair, we are seeing a massive increase in scams. So AI is good for something. Scams. It’s good for scams.

[beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com]

@Niall @elizayer While I haven’t listened to the episode — I didn’t realize Pinnamaneni and Vogt had a new project, after the Gimlet debacle — I can say the accessibility question here in Boston is much, much more complicated than that.

[mogul@hachyderm.io]

@elizayer We're gonna need a bigger Theory of Constraints.

[alanxoc3@tilde.zone]

@elizayer Very very true.

[kirakira@furry.engineer]

@elizayer i think about this. according to the promises, all the little snags and bugs and oversights in all the software i use should be gone by now. "everyone's focusing on bigger things" doesn't excuse it, i was given the expectation these types of fixes should have been trivial and quick. computing should be better than ever, or at least as good as it was in the 2010s

[niall@mastodon.nz]

@beep @elizayer well yes, it's clear you haven't listened to the episode

[nickrauchen@c.im]

@elizayer

"The Mythical Man Month"

The Mythical Man-Month - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

[aeischeid@mastodon.social]

@mtnrbq65 @elizayer developers sometimes reference the 80/20 rule. And let's say in certain ways LLM code tools can get you through that 80% part faster, but they also have very real risk of making the last 20% even slower.

[wbftw@hachyderm.io]

@elizayer yes, this. Code creation hasn’t been an issue for a long, long, long time. See “no silver bullet” (https://worrydream.com/refs/Brooks_1986_-_No_Silver_Bullet.pdf) written in *1986*.