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

[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.