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Neranja

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Noodleface said:
The higher ups think this will be solved if we just 'train it on the codebase' but it isn't that simple
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This is one of the fundamental problems of AI: You cannot train AI on what are essentially niche problems, as current AI technology is technically just averaging data and building probability vectors from it.

Niche problems and are niche for a reason, and you can't pad the training data with stackoverflow answers. Also, your codebase will never modify the underlying model.
 
TJT

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As I said before. AI is fantastic when the problem you need to solve exists in a vacuum. The simpler the codebase and the less external dependencies the better. Once you start adding on the dozen external dependencies and loosely connected systems that define modern software development AI starts sucking hard.

It needs to be given small size problems in general.
 
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TJT said:
This year's is going to be way more complicated. Gaming it by code generation bloat wont be what gets you to "top performance" this year I am certain of that. The real marker is going to be how much of it makes it into feature branches that are merged to prod code bases. Which is also tracked. The engineering team already uses Cursor like 30% more than Copilot. I am happy its my team building all of this shit so I am certain to max it out though!
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I will add that the logical evolution of this concept is to measure this against sprint ticket time to resolution. This will be complete bullshit but it is coming.
 
Noodleface

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We started a scrum at scale initiative and I HATE it. Every chance I get I tell management how much time it's wasting.

Last week I overheard someone complaining to someone else that I (by name) didn't have X story in the sprint but this other guy was helping me and he did have Y story for that effort and they were gonna talk to me about it. When they came by I told them I didn't care and stop micromanaging me. I hate going against the current but i.dont need other engineers trying to gauge my work when they aren't even involved.
 
Haus

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TJT said:
This year's is going to be way more complicated. Gaming it by code generation bloat wont be what gets you to "top performance" this year I am certain of that. The real marker is going to be how much of it makes it into feature branches that are merged to prod code bases. Which is also tracked. The engineering team already uses Cursor like 30% more than Copilot. I am happy its my team building all of this shit so I am certain to max it out though!
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So essentially, you're automating Elon's repetitive "Send me a list of 5 things you got done this week" emails.. but with AI.
 
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Noodleface said:
We started a scrum at scale initiative and I HATE it. Every chance I get I tell management how much time it's wasting.

Last week I overheard someone complaining to someone else that I (by name) didn't have X story in the sprint but this other guy was helping me and he did have Y story for that effort and they were gonna talk to me about it. When they came by I told them I didn't care and stop micromanaging me. I hate going against the current but i.dont need other engineers trying to gauge my work when they aren't even involved.
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Make sure to start calling the people running the meetings "Scrumbags"
 
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