Anamon

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by Anamon 8mo ago
Well, that is a vision I can get behind. Maybe it will not just ruin white collar livelihoods, but also that of the rent seekers. Silver lining.
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by Anamon 8mo ago
Who cares if the resulting software is also a thousand times worse and a thousand times more insecure?
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by Anamon 8mo ago
I went back to typing myself after a short time, even for the stuff I do rely on LLMs on. I noticed that crucial steps of thinking happen as I type out the code. Letting an agent code, or copying from a chat, versus typing it off manually m
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by Anamon 8mo ago
> retry 1000 times until it works, or assign 20 agents to the same problem with slightly different prompts By that point, you're also spending more money on the agents than you would've on a junior developer with learning poten
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by Anamon 8mo ago
So, there's a big qualitative difference in whether you can trust the output. You can either "just believe", and prepare for inevitable, nasty surprises down the line. Or you can verify in ways you don't have to with sta
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by Anamon 8mo ago
We've been "waiting six months" for over three years now. Still waiting for the quality to improve.
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by Anamon 8mo ago
Same here. With a little bit of smug satisfaction about the fact that my 20-year-old mission-critical code is running flawlessly, noticed by people only when it needs to be rebooted to update some connectivity configuration, while the 11 te
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by Anamon 8mo ago
I agree that they can be used this way, and it would be less of a problem if they were. However, the current evidence we see from universities is that those who use LLMs to actually learn something are in the minority. The dopamine hit of s
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by Anamon 8mo ago
Dropbox may not be a great example, either. It's storage and bandwidth, and both are expensive, even if the software wasn't being worked on. But application software that is, or should be, running locally, I agree. Charge for upgr
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by Anamon 9mo ago
No, it doesn't. Ukrainians have been repeatedly polled and the majority don't want to hold elections in wartime. That's democratic. Holding an election while a foreign aggressor is occupying part of your territory and terrori
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by Anamon 9mo ago
I suspect the problem is scale. AI slop can be churned out at an unprecedented rate, and Bandcamp is not a big company, but they'd have to host and serve all of that stuff nonetheless.
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by Anamon 9mo ago
Fellow user of en dashes here. I also try to use proper grammar to the best of my abilities, and I feel your frustration. So far I've resisted giving in. Something about "those AI bros can grab my ellipses from my cold, dead typin
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by Anamon 9mo ago
This may also be a financial decision. Bandcamp is not a huge player compared to Spotify, Google, or Apple. Deezer said more than a third of new music uploads are GenAI now. If AI slop starts outnumbering real musicians' uploads 10 to
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by Anamon 9mo ago
I will always check Bandcamp before buying digital music anywhere else, under the assumption that more goes to the artists. I'm glad to hear that that's not just wishful thinking!
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by Anamon 9mo ago
IIRC it's not just actual artifacts, but also statistical measures, i.e. songs that are "inhumanly average". If they're not doing it already, I think some metadata analysis, going by things like upload patterns, would al
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by Anamon 9mo ago
Why do you think it is nonsense? Making music involves writing and arranging the score, playing the instruments, writing lyrics, singing, recording, mastering... each of these steps is hard work, takes practice, and by that fact alone will
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by Anamon 9mo ago
I like that strategy. As a non-musician, but being into music to an unreasonable degree, I always thought that the best artists are those where I feel that, even if no one bought their records and there were just five people at their concer
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by Anamon 9mo ago
> There have already been AI-created #1 hits. It's an old story, but it was a fabricated one. The only reason this sort of tracks is that a lot of people today don't listen to music, they just put it on as background noise to d
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by Anamon 9mo ago
That's another one for concluding that there's nothing new under the sun. This is the exact dynamic that happened during the offshoring hype. Now, it's expecting senior engineers to "orchestrate" 10 coding agents, t
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by Anamon 9mo ago
> be an immediately useful engineer who learns quickly Then also nothing has really changed. This was, verbatim, the advice everybody was giving when I was a grad student almost 20 years ago. Back then, the conclusion was to learn the fr
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by Anamon 9mo ago
I don't know where you take the idea that it's dead or dying as a discipline. The need for software solutions is clearly bigger than ever and growing. And what I see, even as and especially with LLM coding becoming more prevalent,
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by Anamon 9mo ago
There was a study a while ago, analyzing previous events to estimate which percentage of a population needs to become active to effect meaningful change. The number was surprisingly low, I think less than 5%.
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by Anamon 9mo ago
Model training isn't stealing, but in a lot of cases still illegal, unless the license explicitly says otherwise.
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by Anamon 9mo ago
Exactly. People are getting very good at detecting AI-generated designs -- because everyone can play around with it themselves and see in what ways they always tend to look alike. To make an impression, it will become even more important to
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by Anamon 9mo ago
> Today's AI's are the worst they will ever be, and nothing anyone does today can change that. That's not at all as certain as you put it. "Model collapse" isn't just a theoretical possibility, it's hap
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by Anamon 9mo ago
It's not about the trustworthiness of the output. That won't improve, it's systemic. It's about the undue trust many people put in those inherently untrustworthy outputs (whereas untrustworthy doesn't always imply u
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by Anamon 9mo ago
Not from being read, but from being legally used to train a model.
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by Anamon 9mo ago
Someone seems to be running a campaign like this with Amazon accounts currently. I don't know the password reset process for Instagram, but maybe a similar thing could be happening that people assumed is behind the Amazon wave: Amazon
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by Anamon 9mo ago
The response may be tired when asked in this personal way, but in general, it's a fair question. Nobody is forced to share their work. But with all the high praises, we'd expect to see at least some uptick in the software world.
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by Anamon 9mo ago
What a sign of the times, when Reuters calls a situation in which Democrats and Republicans can agree on something "perverse."

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