Steve Yegge analyzes the internal operations and rapid scaling challenges of the top frontier AI laboratories.
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Yegge: OpenAI sees a 10x productivity gap between AI adopters and non-adopters
“Anecdotally, they're sharing that performance, the performance differences like 10 X By any way that you measure it. So lines of code, commits, business impact, whatever. And it's so stark and pronounced that the people who aren't adopting it are now 10 times …”
Opinion
Yegge: Engineers still using an IDE by January 1st are bad engineers
“If you're still using an IDE to develop code by January first. You're a bad engineer.”
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Yegge: Top engineers avoiding AI will operate like interns within a year
“Look, I have friends Who are much better engineers than I am, ok, I mean, world class, maybe some of the best in the whole world, ok, have built technologies that you've heard of, and they're not using AI yet, except the occasional, I'll ask Cursor a chat ques…”
Opinion
Yegge: Senior engineers with 12-15 years experience hate vibe coding most
“It's not junior engineers. It's not non-engineers. They're all vibe coding. It's senior engineers, senior leaders people who have, so basically you can narrow it down to. 12 to 15 years of experience. They hate vibe coding and they hate AI and they're online g…”
Opinion
Yegge: Claude Code is too hard for most engineers
“And the answer is it's too hard. It's too hard. You have to be able to read, man, most engineers, honestly, like to them, five paragraphs is an essay. Okay. And with cloud code, you've got to read waterfalls of not just information, but also code and diffs, ri…”
Insight
Yegge: Rewriting code from scratch with LLMs beats trying to fix it
“And now we've discovered that it is for a larger and larger and larger class of Piece of bodies of code. It is better to just start over and rewrite it from scratch than it is to try to fix it. The LLM will do a better job.”