Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉Feb 27

What happened at Block will likely happen everywhere else - companies now find themselves with an overstock of talent, and they are not structurally ready to absorb additional capacity.

People will achieve more with less - but this also opens the doors to building entire new businesses.

Show threadMiguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉Feb 27

Some folks are under the mistaken impression that our industry builds careful, handcrafted solutions.

Most of the software industry was slop already. AI solutions are an improvement over the previous low quality slop.

Show threadGlyphFeb 28
@Migueldeicaza no argument that AI did not invent low-quality software, but, citation needed on the “improvement” bit? my personal experience and every bit of quantitative analysis I have managed to dig up (which is, admittedly, of uniformly low quality, but speaks pretty clearly in aggregate) seems to suggest otherwise.
Show threadMiguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉Feb 28
@glyph I can vouch for the hype. It is insanely good. The world is vastly different now than it was 3, 6, 9 ago.
Show threadGlyphFeb 28
@Migueldeicaza Unfortunately I cannot respect "vouching" as evidence, even from people I would otherwise implicitly trust, because the one thing that LLMs seem *amazing* at is hijacking the subjective assessment of their performance. They've even fooled me a dozen or so times, which is one reason I've sworn off of them for good. Have you seen a real-world impact with a preregistered rubric, independent of any subjective judgement?
Show threadMiguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉Feb 28
@glyph every day.
Show threadGlyph
@Migueldeicaza Very mysterious! I remain skeptical but I look forward to seeing the results thereof at some point
Feb 28 at 4:57amWeb
Show threadMiguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉Feb 28
@glyph oh sorry I misunderstood you. No, I haven’t seen one, I don’t follow that space close enough.
Show threadGlyphFeb 28
@Migueldeicaza Ah. OK. Bummer! If you ever manage to do that sort of measurement I'd be curious, but I understand that this is pretty expensive science that there's not much of a budget or motivation to do in most places