Anamon

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by Anamon 9mo ago
Same experience for me. Gemini generates by far the most usable code. Not "good code", obviously, but a decent enough foundation to build on. GPT in particular just spits out code for obsolete libraries, uses deprecated features,
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by Anamon 9mo ago
My problem is that I just can't get it to take up any of the flavour. I can marinate it for days, and the marinade will still just be a superficial layer on top of a piece of tofu which, itself, always remains completely unfazed and ta
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by Anamon 9mo ago
"Microsoft 365 Copilot Best App for Office FREE 2026 New AI Word Text Letter Writer Not Pages"
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by Anamon 9mo ago
> Cloudfare has to block so many more bots now precisely because crawling the public, free-to-everyone, internet is legally not theft. That is simply not true. Freely available on the web doesn't mean it's in the Public Domain.
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by Anamon 9mo ago
Then you write a comment, maybe even figure out the correct solution and fix the answer. If you're lucky, somebody already did. Everybody wins. That's what LLMs take away. Nothing is given back to the community, nothing is added t
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by Anamon 9mo ago
Speaking as someone who doesn't really like or do LLM-assisted coding either: at least try Gemini. ChatGPT is the absolute worst you could use. I was quite shocked when I compared the two on the same tasks. Gemini gets decent initial r
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by Anamon 10mo ago
Ross Duffer doesn't build TV sets.
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by Anamon 10mo ago
As much as I dislike Spotify, I've definitely discovered some 10/10 tracks or artists that I would've been unlikely to have found out about otherwise. I don't know how well it still works these days since I switched to Q
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by Anamon 10mo ago
Look forward to further increases in pricing, whether through subscription rates or ad frequency or anti-ad-blocker measures, I guess. I was thinking the same thing recently after reading a statement by Deezer that their AI music detector n
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by Anamon 10mo ago
I'm observing this with my dad. He watched some genuine history documentaries on YouTube, and now the feed keeps showing him AI slop history videos. You know the type: an hour long, overdramatic AI voice with pronunciation issues, bare
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by Anamon 10mo ago
I suspect a major way for the U.S. would be the one mentioned in the article: make it so that losing your job doesn't mean losing your health insurance. That's a major additional stressor, particularly if someone loses their job
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by Anamon 10mo ago
If you hate Azure, wait until you try AWS. (I hate(d) Azure, and then I was forced to try AWS.)
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by Anamon 10mo ago
I vote for the "bleak" interpretation. The main problems with cars are not about the fuel they run on, or the level of automation. They're the space they occupy per passenger and duration of use, the mass they have to move ar
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by Anamon 10mo ago
Yeah, that was my main head-shaking moment in that entire piece as well. Tell me again about these grandiose efficiency gains from agentic coding assistants, which I'm apparently supposed to supervise in real time as they produce shitt
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by Anamon 10mo ago
I committed typing en-dashes and ellipses on Windows to muscle memory. Alt+0150, Alt+0133. Bam! I'm sure there are easier ways this can be set up. But, as I said, muscle memory. Although I'll have to admit that wanting to use prop
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by Anamon 10mo ago
I remember buying print magazines that published the hottest new URLs, with screenshots!
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by Anamon 10mo ago
Short, densely packed and to the point. It does seem very prescient, although I may be underestimating how clearly these tendencies could already be seen 20 years ago. I, for one, was definitely still in the techno-optimist camp back then.
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by Anamon 10mo ago
I don't think that refutes the point. I'd readily agree with the parent that in terms of actual usefulness and efficiency gains, we're on a trajectory of diminishing returns.
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by Anamon 10mo ago
It's different. YouTube has Content ID, so the labels get compensated even if it's an inofficial upload.
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by Anamon 10mo ago
You are also not the target of these ads. My parents, on the other hand? My mum doesn't have a lot of experience with this stuff, and my dad's eyesight deteriorated. They could definitely fall for lookalike apps in an app store. T
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by Anamon 10mo ago
... on the other hand, there's the fact that millions of people can't meaningfully participate on the Internet without one. Many VPN providers may be shady, but none as shady as the governments and corporations that drive people t
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by Anamon 10mo ago
> Coders don’t have liability for shipping shit code. Yet another reason why this needs to change, fast.
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by Anamon 10mo ago
The definition of what we see progress in with LLMs as anything akin to intelligence is your supposition, though. It's a view I don't share at all. I don't see anything that could be even remotely considered intelligent under
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by Anamon 10mo ago
Fair indicators, although I'd say the fresh user account and the lack of any concrete meanings in the statements are even more telling. Saying this partly in self-defense – as a human who likes using en dashes and ellipses in my manual
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by Anamon 10mo ago
This is also one of my arguments. I'm exaggerating, of course, but to me it feels like major software products and services haven't been adding new features for years now. What we get with updates these days are new restrictions o
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by Anamon 10mo ago
Love that Numberwang reference! A pretty apt description of how this stuff feels sometimes.
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by Anamon 10mo ago
From my own experience (having maintained legacy human codebases and now and then toying around with LLM coding) there's a quite fundamental difference between the types of slop, though. Bad human code often has antipatterns, missing s
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by Anamon 10mo ago
Also, any software implemented to do a task which knowledge workers previously used a spreadsheet for, will inevitably get this feature request from users sooner or later: * Excel import/export
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by Anamon 10mo ago
The post is basing this on the assumption that having children is some positive thing for society at large. I'd argue the viewpoint that having children is putting a burden on the rest of society, and therefore doesn't necessarily
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by Anamon 11mo ago
I think AmEx and Diners shot themselves in the foot with their fees. I know a lot of shop and restaurant owners, and none of them accept those cards because they take a cut that is easily double or triple of what Visa and Mastercard take.

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