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Posted by sandwichsphinx 10/22/2024

IBM's new SWE agents for developers(research.ibm.com)
77 points | 72 commentspage 2
whiplash451 10/22/2024|
What worries me most is because there is no way to prove the negative value of these agentic scams and because swe teams are (sadly) compressible to some extent, some companies will simply let go 10% of their workforce while the remaining 90% will have no choice but to keep grudging with the additional “benefit” of having to show the positive value of this scam to their hierarchy (unless they want to apply to the 10%). So much waste and sadness all around.
thisisnotauser 10/24/2024||
Anyone who has ever used an IBM product will keep this as far away from their code as possible.
m3kw9 10/22/2024||
Maybe they can also create agents to replace the “business analysis” where they check and define business logic requirements.
eloycoto 10/22/2024||
I need to say that I'm very impressed with the PDL project, a lot of things can be done in there.

https://github.com/IBM/prompt-declaration-language

constantlm 10/22/2024||
What's up with the amateur hour graphs with squashed/pixelated logos?
RealCodingOtaku 10/22/2024||
I said this before I left IBM, and I will say it again.

These and other models IBM is working on can do basic tasks that anyone else could. But it will all fall apart the moment you add complexity to it.

It's hilarious to see how IBM struggles to stay relevant, what did that lead to? A bot that summarizes stack trace. Why is this even on the front page of HN?

d3m0t3p 10/22/2024||
The video is really sad. No music, no sounds. I remember better videos on youtube in 2006.
BS_Alarm 10/22/2024||
Beep beep!
Metameh 10/22/2024||
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FL410 10/22/2024|
Can it debug RPG? /s
mdaniel 10/23/2024|
I do see the /s but I do find that an interesting thought experiment since (a) I'd guess the number of humans who can actually debug RPG is pretty small and (b) so where are these magical agents that are "gonna take muh job" going to get training data for the code or the fixes to any such bugs