519K lines of code for something that is using the baseline *nix tools for pretty much everything important, how do they even manage to bloat it this much? I mean I know how technically, but it's still depressing.
Can't they ask CC to make it good, instead of asking it to make it bigger?
What? We must have different internets, I agree in general, but the "AI is the second coming" crowd is louder than standing next to a jet on takeoff. I'm in the "AI is making me more productive but a worse developer" crowd, don't know what I count as.
You got shuttled into one bubble and the previous commenter into another advertising / news bubble. It's incredible how different the media experience is for people in different media bubbles.
I wouldn't trust those claims from any private companies, even public ones play the most insane tricks in earnings calls to inflate numbers or heck, just make up new ones.
I'm not saying they're wrong, but I don't take much stock in their words.
As others have said, the title is bollocks. For any mismanaged infrastructure you can make these crazy claims. If they did it today it would be ”saved $100/year”.
The thing is, if it took them a day with AI it would’ve been _at most_ a week without it. So why did they wait? Someone is not being responsible with the company funds.
Survivorship bias. For every success you describe there are nine or so failures.
Skill being involved doesn’t exclude being lucky, and I believe being lucky (some people call it timing) is of utmost importance.
Ya, I respect this view. It is not the view I have, but I understand how you can have it. Eg, this is how I feel about most famous portfolio managers. Really my comment is addressed to the other view -- if it _isn't_ luck, then I think we should put some weight in what the successful practitioners say, and the ones I've heard do endorse the lean startup & co.
But it doesn't make the survivors wrong about their experience. Two truths: their experience did happen roughly how they said it happened + they got very lucky.
Seems like all the other 9 that died insist on telling the one that survived that they were somehow wrong.
For sure, I do get that one can "do everything right" and still fail, I get that point, I get that there is no formula. But it seems like people want the reverse to be true: that everyone successful is only a lucky buffoon.
Sure, but I like it to my military service, I remember the good parts only, unless I start digging.
Nobody wants to read about normal life, either you claim success or you claim failure, in between sells no copies.
The people who were voted to power (across the globe, not just the US) to do something about it are stuck getting their dopamine kicks posting garbage on the same platforms.
It’s truly a terrible timeline we are in.
I mean agents as concept has been around since the 70s, we’ve added LLMs as an interface, but the concept (take input, loop over tools or other instructions, generate output) are very very old.
Claude gave a spot on description a few months back,
The honest framing would be: “We finally have a reasoning module flexible enough to make the old agent architectures practical for general-purpose tasks.” But that doesn’t generate VC funding or Twitter engagement, so instead we get breathless announcements about “agentic AI” as if the concept just landed from space.
Outwards communication and inside results tend to differ vastly. I’ve heard some true horror stories already from companies who claim they’re doing amazing things with great results.
You should be especially on guard if it’s a publicly traded company, selling AI usage is necessary to appease the market (and thereby C-level stock value).
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