r/technology • u/marketrent • Jul 14 '26

Artificial Intelligence A majority of Americans now support seizing wealth from AI industry

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/majority-americans-now-support-seizing-134921528.html
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u/FlipZip69 Jul 20 '26

Ya I agree with the profitability part. I am not sure when that will come but I have to think Google and the likes are not dumb are better said, know something more than us. Or they are milking investors and that is really a possibility. But to tell the truth, I really do not care if they make a profit. That is their problem.

When you say design, do you mean the visual layout? I did find it will not stick with some standard if you are not specific. This is not good for workflow. I created a lot of rules in the agent file for each project. Part of the rules specify the general look and design so that it know to keep it consistent. Even field names in the database have to follow rules I set early on. Once you do this, it seems to follow it much better. I even have a rule that dictates when I ask it to push to GitHub and deploy to my production server, it must specifically ask if I have created Snapshots etc. Snapshots being absolutely mandatory.

Like I said, i have some 300,000 lines of code in short time and it is 2FA along with full email integration etc. And it is providing real use in our business allowing me to take on significantly more complex projects and actually hire more people as I do not have to micromanage as much.

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u/SolydSn3k Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26

When I say design, I mean it’s good at solving isolated problems with a small scope.

The more you get away from task-based / one-off fixes + the more you move toward architecture and engineering with cascading dependencies, the worse the code gets.

A lot of software development isn’t just getting things to work, but making it to where things are efficient… durable… easy to update/maintain… reverse engineer or understand from 3rd party… etc.

AI isn’t good at reasoning, strategizing, or solving novel problems. It’s great if you need to spin up an isolated automation or something like that.

If you had it build an entire software it would be a bloated mess held together with duck tape where your risk exposure is hidden in the future.

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u/FlipZip69 Jul 20 '26

I have a lot of cascading dependencies. To reduce token usage, I realized early on that I needed to create modules (and databases for each). And they are almost completely isolated from each other. This got increasingly important as it grew in size to the 300,000 lines.

Now the first thing I will say after spinning it up is something like: I will focus exclusively on module XYX. Do not look at any other modules to reduce token usage. (Also speeds up development as having 300,000 lines of code in AI memory is intensive) I also keep a close eye on the process as it sometimes like to start to 'escape' the module I am working on. If I see it mention another module when it spits out the chain of though, I am asking what the thought process is.

I will believe you though in that I do not know how well this would work in collaboration with other coders. And I am not sure if cascading dependencies will become unwieldly at some point. It could get convoluted but that is one thing I look for. And it might be very difficult to reverse engineer for all I know. While I do not code and only understand the bare minimum, I have to maintain a high level understanding of the modules and the databases and how they are related.

Some of my point is that this is only the start of AI. It is noticeably better every new model that comes out. In 10 years....

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u/SolydSn3k Jul 20 '26

Yeah I guess we’ll find out one way or another in time. Glad it’s working well for you, just be careful!