Are LLMs Insufficently Lazy?

About this episode

The episode discusses the implications of high productivity claims in software engineering, featuring insights from guest Gregorein.

Brogrammer Garry Tan has been boasting about "writing" tens of thousands of lines of code each day as the paragon of productivity. Is this really the right way to think about building systems? Bryan and Adam were joined by Polish software engineer, Gregorein, who took a closer look into what Tan was generating to discuss what was found. In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal , our guest (who we introduced a mere 4 minutes in) was gregorein . Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them: Gregorein's twitter thread Bryan's blog: The Peril of Laziness Lost PRs needed! If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar . We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!

People in this episode

Hosts: Bryan Cantrill, Adam Leventhal

Guest: Gregorein

Topics covered

• productivity
• software engineering
• code generation
• laziness
• system building

Keywords

• LLMs
• productivity
• code
• software
• engineering
• Garry Tan
• Gregorein

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Oxide Computer Company

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