They don’t, they just push garbage, someone else quickly looks over it (or asks another llm to review for him), and merges.

So finding out information was fun for you. Would it be also fun if said LLM write your essay for you based on your semi-coherent idea?

Maybe, but probably not. For me, an early goal of writing is to get my thoughts in order. A later goal is to discuss the writing with people, which can only happen in a high-quality way if my thoughts are in order. Achieving goals is fun.

Whether the LLM could do a better job than me at writing the essay is a separate question...I suspect it probably could. But it wouldn't be as fun.

Considering how much work at Boeing is given to consultants and other third party contractors (eg famous MCAS), some piece of work after moving through the bowls of multiple subcontractors will end up in the hands of a under-qualified developer who will ask his favourite slop machine to generate code he doesn’t exactly understands purpose of.

Sounds like so much work just not to write it yourself.

Getting it right definitely takes some time and finesse, but when it works you spend 30 minutes to get 4-24+ hours of code.

And usually that code contains at least one or two insights you would not normally have considered, but that makes perfect sense, given the situation.

An agent didn’t do very good job

It’s perceived, and perception varies across developers and time. These tools are not guaranteed to deliver anything.

Is that your actual believe? That non-formal, natural human language explaining the task will replace formal programming?

Things seem to be heading in the direction of using formal languages to define deterministic behaviour and natural languages to express matters of human taste.

If you zoom out, it does seem like the most natural thing - why should humans with finite memory and context better than an all knowing machine?

Don’t worry, it’s not. Just people doing busy work and spending time struggling their “tools” to make something useful.

Coding isn’t the first profession to be disrupted by automation and it won’t be the last

Wait until automation is itself automated.

My personal beef with Thinkpads is the screen. Most of the thinkpads I’ve encountered in my life (usually pretty expensive corporate ones) had shitty FHD screens. I got too spoiled by retina screens, and I can’t comfortably use anything with lower DPI.

FWIW if you buy new from Lenovo, getting a more high-res display has been an option for years.

I'm on the other side where I've been buying Thinkpads partly because of the display. Thinkpads have for a long time been one of the few laptop options on the market where you could get a decent matte non-glare display. I value that, battery life and performance above moar pixels. Sure I want just one step above FHD so I can remote 1080p VMs and view vids in less than fullscreen at native resolution but 4K on a 14" is absolute overkill.

I think most legit motivations for wanting very high-res screens (e.g. photo and video editing, publishing, graphics design) also come with wanting or needing better quality and colors etc too, which makes very-highly-scaled mid-range monitors a pretty niche market.

> I got too spoiled by retina screens, and I can’t comfortably use anything with lower DPI.

Did you make a serious effort while having an extended break from retina screens? I'd think you would get used to it pretty quickly if you allow yourself to readjust. Many people do multi-DPI setups without issues - a 720p and a 4k side-by-side for example. It just takes acclimatizing.

I have a 14” FHD panel (158 dpi) on an old (7 year) laptop and there’s more issues with low resolution icons and paddings than with font rendering. I wouldn’t mind more, but it’s not blurry.

I just learned on Reddit the other day that people replace those screens with third party panels, bought from AliExpress for peanuts. They use panelook.com to find a compatible one.

If you buy a X1 from Lenovo the screen is definitely going to be better. if not, you can simply change the screen from most of the other models.