functor
2d ago
We have had excellent success using lovable so that our sales staff/CSM can make mockups that are clickable and actually look good enough to show to clients. What used to take days for a UX/designer can now be done with a few prompts. Furthermore AI has been great at spawning feature ideas, and coming up with things to add. 90% of the ideas get tossed out but a few good ideas are worth their weight in gold.
Code that is boilerplate heavy has worked well with AI. We feed it the SQL-schema and we get the controllers, validators and repository functions. Getting this part consistent and getting it to use globally defined constants instead of hardcoding values took a decent amount of tinkering.
Claude does a good job of code review, however it doesn't understand the requirements and the bigger picture. It can tell if the code is good, not whether the code solves the business case.
AI is efficient at generating tests.
The main issue that I see with AI is that it is exceedingly difficult to maintain a well structured project over time with AI. I want it to use the same coding standard throughout the project. I don't want magic numbers in my code. I only want each thing to be defined once in the project. Each block of code it generates may be well written but the code base will spaghettify faster with AI. Unless the context window becomes the size of my codebase or a senior devs knowledge of it this is inevitable.
AI summaries instead of manually writing commit messages. We now get a proper summary instead of "fixed bug".
It is clear that we can't take the human out of the loop. The human will do less and to a greater extent feedback the AI. A 20% productivity gain is reasonable within the next couple of years. Add a few more percent due to better languages, cloud services, libraries, hardware etc and output can probably increase 25% from 2023 to 2028.
High productivity growth is excellent for the industry and the main reason why tech is so successful.
functor
4d ago
China has some of the best legal frameworks in the world for trade, Britain is a terrible jurisdiction for world trade.
China doesn't really care about how you conduct your affairs as long as you aren't openly provoking China. They have no issue doing business with the Taliban, questionable mining companies in Africa, Russians, or Americans. If you can pay you can do business. They don't give a toss about your ESG rating. Wearing a free Tibet shirt when going to court in China isn't advisable but neither is wearing a IRA t-shirt in England.
Wokeism is the opposite of slave morality. It is a tool of the elite to beat its own population. It is a way for a corrupt oligarchy to claim that their subjects are evil, undeserving and morally reprehensible. Wokeisms purpose is to invert noblesse oblige.
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