> if something looks like crud, it probably is crud

Yes, technically, but you've probably meant cruft here.

The first powered aircraft fatality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hermann_W%C3%B6lfert and his mechanic Robert Knabe, 1897

Also there's Hyrox, newer and lighter than Crossfit.

> do you enjoy the "micro" of getting bits of code to work and fit together neatly, or the "macro" of building systems that work?

These are not toys. I want to make money. The customers want feature after feature, in a steady stream. It's bad business if the third or fourth feature takes ages. The longer stream, the better financially.

That the code "works" on any level is elementary, Watson, what must "work" is that stream of new features/pivots/redesigns/fixes flowing.

> RTFA

Sigh. Is there any LLM solution for HN reader to filter out all top-level commenters that hadn't RTFA? I don't need the (micro-)shitstorms that these people spawn, even if the general HN algo scores these as "interesting".

> Everyone updates their belief

Uh oh. How does frequentist model define "belief" and "updating a belief"?

I call out false dilemma. OP probably defines "code" as one of the languages precise enough to be suited for steering Turing machines. Thus, "code" is not the opposite of "prompt". They are apples and oranges.

Lawyers can code in English, but it is not to layperson's advantage, is it?

And for example, if you prompt for something to frobnicate biweekly, there is no intelligence today, and there will never be, to extract from it whether you want the Turing machine to act twice a week or one per two weeks. It's a deficiency of language, not of intelligence.

It's how a middle manager can improve its standing, so the Junior will be a thing in bigger orgs for quite a while.

Both the manager and junior are a cost center for the company tbh if there are fewer employees to manage. Already seeing it here on this side of the pond: https://www.reddit.com/r/developersIndia/comments/1rinv3z/ju...

Companies (C-suites) do not actually want for their worker pool (humans + agents) to stay constant in time, there is no reason for it to stay constant in time. C-suites have very different worries.

And "cost center" is a lie from Outsourcing Era, forget about it.

Useful enough to justify registering on HN. Thank you!

Yeah. Maybe we only need:

   BATCH=yes    (default is no)

   --batch   (default is --no-batch)

for the unusual case when you do want the `route print` on a BGP router to actually dump 8 gigabytes of text throughout next 2 minutes. Maybe it's fine if a default output for anything generously applies summarization, such as "X, Y, Z ...and 9 thousand+ similar entries".

Having two separate command names (one for human/llm, one for batch) sucks.

Having `-h` for human, like ls or df do, sucks slightly less, but it is still a backward-compatibility hack which leads to `alias` proliferation and makes human lifes worse.