Really interesting product. A ton of these sandbox companies recently but it feels like no one has really nailed the experience for application builders yet.
disclosure: i run a startup that will most likely be competitive in the future.
I welcome more innovation in the code forge space but if you’re looking for an oss alternative just for tracking agent sessions with your commits you should checkout agentblame
In the case where a human edits a previously AI-generated line we simply track that as a human-produced line of code. We are thinking of making this a distinct subcategory because there's a lot of useful info in that data.
Regarding performance we haven't done rigorous benchmarks but we've been using this internally and haven't noticed any problems
Do you have examples of any of these ideas being implemented? In general I agree, there’s so much opportunity for these “knowledge augmented” algorithms
This seems weirdly hostile. He laid out a bunch of points but you’re grabbing on to this one to make it seem like he’s using classic corporate-speak. Do you find it so unrealistic that the CEO of Sourcegraph has heard from devs that their managers asked them to try to clone or investigate the product before buying? That seems pretty likely
> While some will praise Satya Nadella and hero-worship Sam Altman, breaking OpenAI into two parts will slow down momentum for LLMs and research while handing even more power to the Cloud and Azure in its future
Except that Microsoft nor Sam is responsible for the breaking of OpenAI. It was the non-profit board. Instead now Sam and co will have access to the Microsoft war chest, funding for more compute, chip design, and datasets so if anything they’ll probably move even faster than before.
> Microsoft taking Sam Atman and his followers in, is like shutting down your best investment just for a short-term benefit. These stories don’t usually end well for big corporations.
Again this makes little sense and its very clearly obvious how this makes long term sense for Microsoft. Also they did not initiate this move by OAI
> It’s the job of Venture Capitalist to praise Microsoft, Satya Nadella, and Sam Altman to vilify OpenAI’s board in all of this.
No it isn’t
> Microsoft eating OpenAI and poaching their talent, is the worst possible scenario for the startup that was just beginning to get momentum.
No firing the beloved CEO of the fastest growing tech startup in a decade and ignoring warnings from 80% of employees that they would quit is the worst scenario for a startup regardless of what Microsoft does
This whole post seems like really bad pattern matching by someone who is anti capitalism and tries to frame every scenario they see in business through that lens
Can you be more specific about what was “solved” in the 90s? The platforms upon which apps are run now and the technologies as well as the expected capabilities of those apps have drastically changed. Not all UI development has changed just for being shiny.
I see little reason why building a UI today cannot be a superset of what was solved in the 90s so I’m curious to know what that solved subset looks like to you
I am negative for the Celiac blood test (got tested three times) but I am absolutely allergic to gluten. Starting three years ago randomly I became allergic and severely ill for months - losing up to 30 lbs in a matter of a month - before isolating the problem to gluten. I have also on multiple occasions accidentally eaten gluten without realizing and immediately felt the symptoms. None of the tests I've taken show gluten as an allergen or problem in my body but cutting it out removes all my symptoms. Our tests are not nearly good enough and I suspect many people deal with chronic inflammation and other health issues due to food they can't eat and don't even realize
Just a personal blog with some essays that I post occasionally to get myself in the habit of writing. My next post will be about living with chronic illness as a SWE and how to get through it
Companies have been gathering data for over a decade now and storing it in massive data warehouses with often no plan for how to effectively use it. I would not be surprised if turning those warehouses into a source for various LLM applications becomes the dominant use case for the industry very quickly. I expect we'll see some of the big incumbents like Snowflake roll out first-class vectorization of existing warehouses in the coming months.
Inflation has been remarkably low since 1980 though… and that graph doesn’t mention prices. Theoretically if more is being produced then you don’t need wages to keep up to afford the same luxuries. In fact all the stats I’ve seen shown that we can and do afford a lot more these days
Whenever I read articles like this I have a lot of sympathy and also a little confusion. Maybe it's because I DO have an adblocker but this just isn't my experience on the web. It feels so easy to use the web and generally avoid the deluge of shit OP talks about. I pretty much only go to sites on my bookmarks. I don't read the news (maybe that's a big part of this), I read blogs, forums, and then do some shopping. The rest is just work related stuff. The only time I'm ever really exposed to this sort of crap is Twitter but I curate who I follow and I try to stay on my chronological follower-only feed. Yet every time I see my parents using the internet it looks like an entirely different experience. It's unfortunate and sad
Don’t know why this is being downvoted when it’s objectively true. Parent says wealth inequality is less in Europe therefore being “poor” is more desirable which makes no sense. The US could have higher inequality but that could just mean the richest are richer and the poor have the same standard of living. It could mean the poor are poorer in the US and the richest are even. It could mean the poor AND the rich are richer and better off than their EU counterparts. Just looking at inequality numbers doesn’t tell you anything about quality of life between the two continents…
I actually completely agree with the author. I remember coming across my first unless statement while trying to find the source of a nasty bug and I spent probably 5 minutes just trying to decipher the behavior of the unless block because my brain had some roadblock with the double negatives. This has become a lot easier to understand as I’ve used Ruby more but it still seems like a massive opportunity for cognitive complexity and errors for little gain
Really excited to try this one out