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by stickfigure17 hours ago |

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by jacquesm16 hours ago|

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> High-quality laptops are still limited by the quality of the software developer.

For now it is exactly the same with the models.

by stickfigure16 hours ago|

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You're not wrong but the amount of leverage you get out of a better model dwarfs the leverage you get out of a better laptop. Almost to the point that these are different categories of thing.

Also... employment in some parts of the stack is genuinely going away. I don't even look at CSS anymore.

by jacquesm15 hours ago|

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> the amount of leverage you get out of a better model dwarfs the leverage you get out of a better laptop

To some degree, yes. But 'dwarfs' isn't really the term I would use. It is a bit slower, but the upsides are >> than the downsides for me. Not having Sam, Dario or Xi's minions looking over my shoulder matters to me more than any technological edge.

> Also... employment in some parts of the stack is genuinely going away. I don't even look at CSS anymore.

Yes, that's a fact, but that's orthogonal. I haven't touched either HTML or CSS in a long time now and yet I've cobbled together (I wouldn't claim ownership) a lot of stuff that 'just works'. I also would not expose that stuff to the world at large because I suspect it isn't nearly as secure as it looks.

by stickfigure14 hours ago|

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There is almost nothing you can do in CSS that has security implications. Not zero, but the footprint is small enough that I blindly trust the robots.

I pay attention to frontend code just to keep code quality up. Frontend work is relatively low stakes from a security perspective and I've never seen the robots do anything problematic. I don't vibe code React but I think you could get away with it today.

Backend is a totally different story.

That's still a lot of engineering getting displaced.