AstroBen

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by AstroBen 8mo ago
This is true if your calculator sometimes gave the wrong answer and you had to check each time
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by AstroBen 8mo ago
How would you find yourself in that situation before AI?
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by AstroBen 8mo ago
"Explain this to me" until you're able to complete the task, instead of "do this for me"
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by AstroBen 8mo ago
This seems like a really short-sighted view. 6 months from now you'll be much more inexperienced than if you just went through the initial struggle (with an LLM's help!)
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by AstroBen 8mo ago
Yeah, take Ryan Dahl: His tweets were getting ~40k views average. He made his big proclamation about AI and boom viral 7 million This is happening over, and over, and over again I'm not saying he's making shit up but you're n
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by AstroBen 8mo ago
Have a read of this: https://martinfowler.com/articles/is-quality-worth-cost.html
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by AstroBen 8mo ago
It produces the same quality code as it did years ago. The difference now is that it tends to function Still bad code though And by bad I'm not making a stylistic judgement. I mean it'll be hell to work with, easy to add bugs, and
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by AstroBen 8mo ago
The used to be a saying of "the best programmers are lazy" - I think the opposite is now true
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by AstroBen 8mo ago
The author is using the term to mean AI assisted coding. Thats been around for longer than the word vibe coding
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by AstroBen 8mo ago
The author also has multiple videos on his YouTube channel going over the specific issues hes had with AI that I found really interesting: https://youtube.com/@atmoio
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by AstroBen 8mo ago
Today we have open source projects that can compete with proprietary ones just because people without initial funding had the ability to make it competitive You can bootstrap something with yourself and a friend with some hard work and inte
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by AstroBen 8mo ago
Open source software Small bootstrapped startups Are more what I had in mind. Of course an established company can pay it. I don't like the idea of a world where all software is backed by big companies
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by AstroBen 8mo ago
> The models don’t have to get better, the costs don’t have to come down (heck, they could even double and it’d still be worth it) What worries me about this is that it might end up putting up a barrier for those that can't afford i
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by AstroBen 8mo ago
Do your own n=1 research! Unfortunately the only companies that would fund this would be AI labs. They aren't going to report that it sucks One cool way I saw someone do it was to estimate a task and then randomize whether they'd
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by AstroBen 8mo ago
I think you're better off with no image if the only option is slop. It detracts from the content
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by AstroBen 8mo ago
I'm working on a greenfield project right now and my experience has been 100% in line with the video I think it might be even worse for greenfield work, as that's when you're establishing a lot of patterns. You don't wan
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by AstroBen 8mo ago
I think we'll start to see the results of that late this year, but it's a little early yet. Plenty of people are diving headfirst into it To me it feels like building your project on sand. Not a good idea unless it's a sandca
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by AstroBen 8mo ago
Elegance or "taste" for the codebase is wrong. It's not just a stylistic preference. It's objectively bad code that's going to be slow to iterate on and very easy to introduce bugs to I'm not saying AI has no p
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by AstroBen 8mo ago
"You like code that's easy to work with, easy to understand, change and evolve? HAH! Bet you hate colored brackets and prettifying too!"
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by AstroBen 8mo ago
That can't possibly be a long term disruption. If it doesn't work it doesn't work If AI can't replace developers, companies can't replace developers with it. They can try — and then they'll be met with the re
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by AstroBen 9mo ago
With the competition biting at their heels I don't think they have time to do that. They're stuck with what they have. At least until innovation settles a little
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by AstroBen 9mo ago
We have many layers to prevent them: 1. Competent humans architecting and leading the system who understand the specs, business needs, have critical thinking skills and are good at their job 2. Automated tests 3. Competent human reviewers 4
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by AstroBen 9mo ago
This really feels like a faith-based argument. That's not possible today I'd much rather make plans based on reality
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by AstroBen 9mo ago
Everyone has been stressing over losing their job because of AI. I'm genuinely starting to think this will end in 5x more work needing to clean up the mess caused. Who's going to maintain all this generated code?
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by AstroBen 9mo ago
I think you underestimate how impossible of a task it is to write sufficient test coverage to keep AI in line You can assert that something you want to happen is actually happening How do you assert all the things it shouldn't be doi
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by AstroBen 9mo ago
Lets not just assume that we know whether AI is a hand tool or a power tool
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by AstroBen 9mo ago
Well Replit supports building mobile apps also: https://replit.com/mobile-apps Game over, devs
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by AstroBen 9mo ago
Whats the future of being able to make money selling software with these changes?
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by AstroBen 9mo ago
This is the new world we live in. Writers use AI to balloon a 2 paragraph thought into a full article, readers then use AI to compress the article into something akin to a 2 paragraph easily digestible piece. Everyone much happy. Example: K
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by AstroBen 9mo ago
even for CRUD I'm finding it quite frustrating. The question is no longer whether AI can write the code you specify: it can It just writes terrible code I'd never want to maintain. Can I refactor and have it cleaned up by the AI a

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