Bryan Cantrill

You can write off LLMs.

I guess that's true.

It's more limiting.

You're so spot on.

And I think my experience has been like a unproductive

Uh, like not empathetic, uh, colleague, like that's fine.

Like if I can run faster than you, I can keep up.

Like, I'm going to, like, you're not going to outrun me.

I don't need to like, worry about kind of diverting you in the wrong places, a highly productive, unempathetic, uh, careless colleague.

Like that's what takes 150% of my effort just to keep them from doing harm.

And you're right.

That like, it takes that formerly plotting.

colleague or collaborator who you had to keep on the rails.

It makes it much harder to steer them.

It's like some open source Jevons paradox or whatever.

There's no money involved here, but I just mean the cost of creating PRs and projects and all of these things has dropped so much that the volume has just accelerated.

On the topic of low-hanging fruit, I think my nemesis on GitHub is StaleBot.

I hit some real bugs.

Oh, StaleBot.

I feel like LLMs could slay StaleBot.