CodeClarity: Dev Transparency & Culture Bridge

It is extremely frustrating that the people who actually make these decisions are pretty shielded from the consequences, but I have learned to never take anything a billionaire says at face value.There's basically no consequences for lying when you get to that level, and many incentives to (let's say) embellishing. Jack Dorsey is looking to make billions of dollars because of this announcement. If we find out that the AI reasoning was a bold faced lie (e.g. a leaked email or voicemail or something), I doubt that the stock price will go below what it was priced a week ago as a consequence.It

This is huge. I have worked at startups where employees feels animosity towards the dev team. "What do they even do?" people ask, given we roll in at 11am and don't ever seem to fix any of the things that are broken for them.Of course we are always saying "no" to every passing request - last thing we need is scope creep and to take on more tasks than we can reasonably accomplish. Of course we think we're busy, and we are, but we can't satisfy everyone. There is tons of appeal in just buying some software to "get the job done."And we are so averse to buying third-party Enterprise Software Packa

This author has a ton of axes to grind and a poor grasp of computing history or how industry works. Pretending like it’s strange or even bad that industrial datacenter builders with tens of billions of leveraged capital can outbuild the GPU capacity of chronically underfunded grant dependent universities whose mission is not to create industrial scale compute resources is like complaining local technical school auto-mechanic program isn’t out-producing Ford’s auto manufacturing numbers.But then as soon as the author rolled out complaints about DEI and ethics, you knew what was going on. Okay,

I agree with knowing what's happening! But taking things at face value from tech companies, especially when they are at an early stage and maximizing for attention just doesn't feel right to me.At the end of the day, bad things will happen and there's little that can be done about it. Just look around and see how things just take the path of their own whether it's violent or peaceful.I'm not advocating for it to really show it's dangerous. I do not want yet another harmful weapon to exist. But, I think we knew what we were walking towards in the first place. So, acting surprised and then being

> Companies should be doing their own training for their jobs, and university can be freed up to actually be about intellectual pursuit rather than economic pursuit.This would be great of course, but the reason that 'what actually happens' is so different than 'what should happen' are the usual economic incentives. How can we change the financial calculations to separate formal education from job training in a way that drives the ship in the better direction.One way could be to regulate degree requirements to only jobs that really require them like engineering, nursing, etc. Another might be a

https://wstyler.ucsd.edu/posts/r_word.html> forcing language change seldom works, and ultimately, all they’re really doing is ushering us onto the next euphemism. They may banish “the R-word”, but soon enough, you’ll walk by a middle school playground and overhear “That movie was so developmentally disabled”.I'm using "retard" because the term has extensive cultural baggage and everyone here has childhood memories of bullies labeling their victims as "retards". It hurts to have the label applied to you. For that reason I think these comments are going to stick with people once they leave this

The AI is pretty good at debugging and fixing it. It's quite a bit better at it than writing the code, to be honest.And, you're right, I used to enjoy my job a lot more before AI. But in the end, the paychecks keep coming, and I can produce a lot of acceptable code quickly with little skill.

Do you not enjoy talking with other people during your day?CS reps? No. You must be very lonely, yourself, if your mind went there in the context of this conversation.Have you never experienced the resolution of complexity or ambiguity from a person that is intimately familiar with a product, its documentation, or internal processes?Yes, and it's universally something that should have been possible online without talking to anyone, AI or human. That's my real hope.Stage 1: Corporations replace impotent CS reps with AI.Stage 2: Corporations gradually empower the AI to interface with their ex

> published a crappy article in Nature because it would never have passed editorial muster at something like DAC or an IEEE journal and now have to browbeat other people who are calling them out on it.I don't think it's easier to get into DAC / an IEEE journal than Nature.Their human baseline was the TPU physical design team, with access to the best available tools: rdcu.be/cmedXand this is still the baseline to beat in order to get used in production, which has happened for multiple generations of TPU.TPU is export controlled and super confidential -- multi-billion dollar IP! -- so I don't se