John Siracusa

that is licensed from Stack Overflow, licensed from open source that explicitly allows us in a license.

And I think what we've shown with current technology is coding agents can be useful productivity boost if you don't think that they are completely replacing for everything and everybody has to use them.

If you contain the hype and just look at

what they're actually good at, that is possible.

Now, I grant that's not happening now.

Now people are using these agents and they don't care where they came from.

Just like we don't care where our food came from.

We just eat it.

If it tastes good, we're happy with it.

And we don't care that what terrible things happen to get this food to our, you know, like it's human nature to say Steve Troughton Smith to be excited by the fact that he made three apps in a day and did this porting thing that he could never do before despite months of trying.

and it gets done in an afternoon, as someone who's a technology enthusiast, you're going to be excited about that.

But people have to be, you know, it's important to still remember that just because you're excited about it and it did a cool thing doesn't mean every issue involved in this technology has been resolved because you have the good thing that you want.

But I'm still hopeful about it because I agree with the promise of it.

I agree that it can do great things in the right hands in limited circumstances.

And I think for coding specifically and not the entire universe of the rest of the things that people want AI to do, which is apparently mostly talking to it as a therapist, which is a whole other ball of wax.

But anyway...

For coding specifically, my personal experience has shown me that this is a powerful, useful tool that I wish I could access in a much more ethical and also, I would add, cost-effective way.

But even now, yeah, that's the challenge we face.

And I think...

We tried to give this kind of balanced picture of AI last time, but people tend to latch on to the part that they either do or don't want to hear about it.