[joz1-k]

From the article: Anthropic has been suffering from pretty terrible reliability problems.

In the past, factories used to shut down when there was a shortage of coal for steam engines or when the electricity supply failed. In the future, programmers will have factory holidays when their AI-coding language model is down.

[corentin88]

Same as GitHub or Slack downtimes severely impact productivity.

[thw_9a83c]

I would argue that dependency on GitHub and Slack is not the same as dependency on AI coding agents. GitHub/Slack are just straightforward tools. You can run them locally or have similar emergency backup tools ready to run locally. But depending on AI agents is like relying on external brains that have knowledge you suddenly don't have if they disappear. Moreover, how many companies could afford to run these models locally? Some of those models aren't even open.

[bongodongobob]

This joke is as old as typewriters.

[catigula]

>in the future

>programmers

Don't Look Up

[ActionHank]

There are still people who dictate their emails to a secretary.

Technology changes, people often don't.

Programmers will be around for a longer time than anyone realises because most people don't understand how the magic box works let alone the arcane magics that run on it.