OpenAI argues that copying the style of a movie studio, rather than of a living artist, is allowed. (I imagine Disney would not support this argument.) Yet other artists in the United States are already suing OpenAI, and other A.I. companies, for training its tools on their artwork and infringing on their styles
Understanding that AI can only generate what its been trained on, I think its quite obvious that all AI have a Copyright problem.
I’m 4 days into an afternoon project … Like Icarus, my codebase is irrecoverable. A tangled heap of wing fragments and melted wax, dripping with half-baked ideas and unsupervised AI chaos. My grand vision of outsourcing grunt work to AI had sent me soaring, but the sun of reality burned away any hope of landing gracefully.
I feel you nemo. This silly little micro blog I thought I could whip up with AI (the api gateway portion). But alas it took me fragmented hours over several weeks before I finally understood enough to accomplish what I want.
I am increasingly distressed by the race to replace human developers, particularly the more junior ones, with AI assistants. … Companies are jumping on AI as a way of removing those messy (and expensive) humans from the process of developing software.
I think the best observation is that “people don’t know what they want”. If AI Coding is the proverbial horse, then everyone wants a faster horse; no one will ask for the car. Most research I find and post here indicates a 10-20% overall productivity improvement, but really as Dave points out that efficiency will be filled with more ambitious work.
When I got stuck with a problem, I had two options: PRINT commands and a lot of dedication, or back to the library. Debugging at that time meant: running, hitting an error, searching, adjusting, and running again with fingers crossed. But in my view, this is just the next step in a long evolution of developer tools.
Eclipse, Firebase, and Stack Overflow haven’t replaced developers, and AI won’t make us obsolete either. Instead, it creates some space for what really matters in software development: creativity, innovation, understanding what the customer wants, and solving complex problems. You could even say that productivity doesn’t increase, but expectations do. … AI functioned as a private tutor who could communicate exactly at my level.
googling [has] became an Olympic sport of dodging SEO sludge, sponsored links and clickbait… Here’s an easier list to draw up: what Google Search is still good for. For starters, links to any webpage you already know exists.
I agree totally with the former, the latter seems harder and harder to find items I’ve read. Nothing beats clipping it out myself, hence this site.
Quote Citation: Joanna Stern, “I Quit Google Search for AI—and I’m Not Going Back Ads and search-optimized junk made a mess of the go-to engine. Now ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude—and even Google’s own AI—do it better.”, March 26, 2025 at 5:30 am ET, https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/google-search-chatgpt-perplexity-gemini-6ac749d9?mod=djem10point
It’s like a wood chipper fueled by dollars. It can power through shockingly impressive tasks, using nothing but chat. You don’t even select context. You just open your heart and your wallet, and Claude Code takes the wheel. It even helps keep you in the loop by prompting you every eight seconds to ask if it can use basic read-only commands that you would allow anyone, even North Korean hackers, to run on your machine.
Claude’s curiosity and character is in part the work of Amanda Askell, who has a philosophy PhD and is a keeper of its personality. She concluded that an AI should be flexible and not appear morally rigid.
Short history of Anthropic’s founding and split from OpenAI. Whether it succeeds in creating a benevolent AGI, it has for now at least created a useful coding tool.
Quote Citation: Steven Levy, “If Anthropic Succeeds, a Nation of Benevolent AI Geniuses Could Be Born”, Mar 28, 2025 6:00 AM, https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-benevolent-artificial-intelligence/
Though each experiment is noisy, when data is combined across three experiments and 4,867 developers, our analysis reveals a 26.08% increase (SE: 10.3%) in completed tasks among developers using the AI tool. Notably, less experienced developers had higher adoption rates and greater productivity gains. … We find that Copilot significantly raises task completion for more recent hires and those in more junior positions but not for developers with longer tenure and in more senior positions.
SA: I mean, my basic assumption is that each software engineer will just do much, much more for a while. And then at some point, yeah, maybe we do need less software engineers.
Lots of ink spilled on the nature of software engineering. I find it hard to believe that we’ll need fewer engineers… but flaged this as a ‘prediction’ so I can check back later.
Quote Citation: Ben Thompson, “An Interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman About Building a Consumer Tech Company”, March 20, 2025, https://stratechery.com/2025/an-interview-with-openai-ceo-sam-altman-about-building-a-consumer-tech-company/
As coding becomes easier, more people should code, not fewer!
Oft repeated, AI won’t take your job, but someone using it probably will.
Quote Citation: Andrew, “DeepSeek-R1 Uncensored, QwQ-32B Puts Reasoning in Smaller Model, and more…”, March 12, 2025, https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-292/
