AstroBen

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by AstroBen 7mo ago
They're not low enough to offset the low wages, though. [0] puts $2/hr at around $15k/yr purchasing power in Chicago which sounds about right. People live with families in multi-generational homes until they're married,
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by AstroBen 7mo ago
That's fairly misleading because the average person around there is very poor. It's not what you'd consider average in a first world country.
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by AstroBen 7mo ago
Most of those replies are also AI
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by AstroBen 7mo ago
Any competent developer there is going to push back and get the needed information out of you. LLMs don't know when you're under-specifying the problem.
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by AstroBen 7mo ago
Can we see the applications?
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by AstroBen 7mo ago
> everyone would just do it Wouldn't it be better to solve that with education? Also MacOS gives you a warning when you're opening something not vetted by them. The idea that it's some higher authorities responsibility to
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by AstroBen 7mo ago
You can still have that. Make unbreakable the default, and add an "admin mode" toggle.
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by AstroBen 7mo ago
Codex also supports configuring an alternative API for the model, you could try that: https://unsloth.ai/docs/basics/codex#openai-codex-cli-tutori...
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by AstroBen 7mo ago
It looks like Copilot has direct support for Ollama if you're willing to set that up: https://docs.ollama.com/integrations/vscode For LM Studio under server settings you can start a local server that has an OpenAI
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by AstroBen 7mo ago
Ollama or LM Studio are very simple to setup. You're probably not going to get anything working well as an agent on an M2 MacBook, but smaller models do surprisingly well for focused autocomplete. Maybe the Qwen3.5 9B model would run d
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by AstroBen 7mo ago
This doesn't look accurate to me. I have an RX9070 and I've been messing around with Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B. According to this site I can't even run it, yet I'm getting 32tok/s ^.-
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by AstroBen 7mo ago
I'm not. I don't think it's going to change much outside of junior level work, which I'm well past. AI works best when: 1. The problem case is very well specified 2. There's a verification harness it can work with 3
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by AstroBen 7mo ago
What's the point? It's not like karma gets you anything.. ..or are they selling the accounts?
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by AstroBen 7mo ago
From looking at their other comments: unquestionably yes it's a bot.
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by AstroBen 7mo ago
This will solve itself. If clicks are worth less, companies will pay less for them. It's a bidding system
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by AstroBen 7mo ago
How much more blatant can you get? Half the comments in here are also along the same lines
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by AstroBen 7mo ago
The one saving grace I see here is that open models are getting really good, and they're already profitable at an affordable price. So maybe it's true you won't get "the best", but I don't think you'll be
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by AstroBen 7mo ago
Where is your data from? I saw comparisons of job postings from Jan 2025 to Jan 2026 and SWE was trending upwards: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLIDXUSTPSOFTDEVE
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by AstroBen 7mo ago
We have no idea what the world's going to look like in 5 years. Maximize your ability to adapt, grow, learn and get things done. Any plan you make today is going to be worse than a plan made 3 years from now with more information.
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by AstroBen 7mo ago
This exact same article has been rewritten and posted here at least 10 times now
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by AstroBen 7mo ago
There are a lot, but they tend to get heavily downvoted and end up hidden
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by AstroBen 7mo ago
AI is a master at bad phrasing. Typos are just an extra bullet point in your prompt to add
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by AstroBen 7mo ago
That's awesome! You could probably put Adobe out of business if you charge 10% their price. If you did Illustrator in an afternoon it should only take a week or two for the whole product line?
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by AstroBen 7mo ago
You can control the major narrative on social media — about anything you want What we think others around us think has a big effect on our own behavior
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by AstroBen 7mo ago
Haven't we been complaining about leetcode interviews for the last 10 years? How is them requiring AI familiarity any different
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by AstroBen 7mo ago
I think it depends. People should branch out more and try different sports. I'm sure there's something most people could find that just happens to be exercise I was like that when I was into lifting weights. I wanted the results,
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by AstroBen 7mo ago
It's only unpleasant and stressful when you're unfit. I cycle 4-6 hours a week and it's wayyy more pleasant than sitting around at home
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by AstroBen 8mo ago
Just reading that plan would take weeks or months
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by AstroBen 8mo ago
100,000 lines is approx. one million words. The average person reads at 250wpm. The entire thing would take 66 hours just to read, assuming you were approaching it like a fiction book, not thinking anything over
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by AstroBen 8mo ago
I've seen this too. What's confusing is they don't seem to be accomplishing anything? They're not pushing products What's the point? To prime the account for later?

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