Anthropic claims its engineers are shipping 8x as much code per quarter now as they did in 2022.

[ginoputrino@mastodon.social]

@angelastella @wwahammy "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We've known it for over a century.

[angelastella@social.treehouse.systems]

@ginoputrino @wwahammy

True. The window of uncertainty closed somewhere between the thirties and the sixties. (It took some decades to learn the differences between physical and abstract machines.)

[dp0@mastodon.social]

@tk @wwahammy @krutonium Yes, they do! Because capitalism turns everything into a commodity. They did so with food, our data, and our intellectual and creative output. And AI is now about securing a means to produce those commodities without needing any humans at all. This is what the so-called "leftists", which are actually humanists, were always fighting against. And that's the reason why capitalists tend to lean towards right-wing ideologies and, often enough, even outright fascism.

[andymoose@fedi.aiga.rocks]

@wwahammy @mike_bloxam I will never understand the “moar code” crowd. This is not a good thing. How about “moar quality”?

[nihkeys@mastodontti.fi]

@wwahammy "Well yes, but what if we just don't care about liabilities?"

(I do care)

[n_dimension@infosec.exchange]

@wwahammy

3 major errors in every 1000 lines of production code I think is the metric.

[dyrathror@mastodon.social]

@wwahammy
The 'number of lines' count as measure of productivity was already wrong in the 80's ...

[jkb@gotosocial.jkbockstael.be]

@wwahammy Sidenote: Anthropic claims many things all the time, many of which later turn out to be lies. I hope this one is a lie.

[woo@fosstodon.org]

@wwahammy Code that writes code, exponentially so.

[woo@fosstodon.org]

@wwahammy And power is only cheap in monetary terms, and money is just debt in the form of promises, from people who can't be trusted.

[aristot73@infosec.exchange]

@wwahammy it's only technical debt if coded by humans. AI agents create leverage

[Guest]

@wwahammy but bad makes money faster and cheaper and money makes big man amodei happy!

[marjolica@social.linux.pizza]

@dyrathror @wwahammy I don't program seriously these days but back in the day (1980s) I used to code in APL.
APL was famous for its one liners.
So if Claude rewrote my APL code in Rust would it take up less than 8 times as many lines, and would it be as efficient and easier to read?
Noting APL one liners were never very easy to read, which is why they were, or should have been, heavily commented.
Just asking.

[bhtooefr@snack.social]

@n_dimension@infosec.exchange @wwahammy@treehouse.systems That's assuming skilled programmers, not fancy autocorrect generating the code, though.

[bhtooefr@snack.social]

@wwahammy@treehouse.systems Suddenly reminded of this: https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html

[hedders@mas.to]

@wwahammy What was it Linus Torvalds said to Linus YouTube?

"Anyone who thinks lines of code is a useful metric is too stupid to run a tech company."

[kaasbaas@social.oevents.co.za]

@wwahammy

[n_dimension@infosec.exchange]

@bhtooefr @wwahammy

We don't know solid metrics for vibecode.