Ed Zitron right now:

Devin will be supervised by human employees and will handle jobs that engineers often consider drudgery, like updating internal code to newer programing languages, he said.

Good luck to the workers having to debug that shit.

Goldman is the first major bank to use Devin, according to Cognition, which was founded in late 2023 by a trio of engineers and whose staff is reportedly stocked with champion coders.

Being good at Codeforces contests surely translates to any other domain. I expect the Cognition guys to fully deliver on their promises.

I wonder where Edsger Dijkstra would fall in this table.

I’ve just finished reading it. Please make it a full post.

Apparently they are going to ship their development kits sometime later this year. He still sounds confusing AF to me and my BS indicator is going off all the time. He also makes incorrect statements (around 9 minutes in) such as

Neural nets came from energy-based models

which makes 0 sense historically. According to Wikipedia, EBMs were first introduced in 2003.

Some quality sneers in Extropic’s latest presentation about their thermodynamics hardware. My favorite part was the Founder’s mission slide “e/acc maximizes the watts per civilization while Extropic maximizes intelligence per watt”.

That’s a crazy lineup. I love how you can just say eggman/egghead on awful systems and I think everyone will know the person in question.

Of course it’s a React, Tailwind piece of shit hosted on Vercel.

Rick Rubin collaborated with Anthropic to bring us this quality piece of cringe.

Not even Ken Thompson wrote such high quality code in his prime.

Beff back at it again threatening his doxxer. Nitter link

I have to share this one.

Now don’t think of me as smug, I’m only trying to give you a frame of reference here, but: I’m pretty good at Vim. I’ve been using it seriously for 15 years and can type 130 words per minute even on a bad day. I’ve pulled off some impressive stunts with Vim macros. But here I sat, watching an LLM predict where my cursor should go and what I should do there next, and couldn’t help but admit to myself that this is faster than I could ever be.

Yeah, flex your Vim skills because being fast at editing text is totally the bottleneck of programming and not the quality and speed of our own thoughts.

The world is changing, this is big, I told myself, keep up. I watched the Karpathy videos, typed myself through Python notebooks, attempted to read a few papers, downloaded resources that promised to teach me linear algebra, watched 3blue1brown videos at the gym.

Wow man, you watched 3blue1brown videos at the gym…

In Munich I spoke at a meetup that was held in the rooms of the university’s AI group. While talking to some of the young programmers there I came to realize: they couldn’t give less of a shit about the things I had been concerned about. Was this code written with Pure Vim, was it written with Pure Emacs, does it not contain Artificial Intelligence Sweetener? They don’t care. They’ve grown up as programmers with AI already available to them. Of course they use it, why wouldn’t they? Next question. Concerns about “is this still the same programming that I fell in love with?” seemed so silly that I didn’t even dare to say them out loud.

SIDE NOTE: I plea the resident compiler engineer to quickly assess the quality of this man’s books since I am complete moron when it comes to programming language theory.

This truly makes me feel like the end times are coming…

Alright, I looked up the author and now I want to forget about him immediately.

A massive fan favorite in this community and CEO of a thermodynamics startup recently linked up with Grimes.

Nitter link: https://xcancel.com/BasedBeffJezos/status/1889072622409064649#m