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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
Model? For a http request and a Levenshtein distance calculation?
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
If the "soul" of a program (which is a vague term but I think I get what you mean) changes daily, that's indicative of a lot of churn, and a lot of churn is not a good idea in any project. it's like changing how the towe
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
While this is true to a point, the other factor is that developers are hired and tested for having certain skills and specializations. While I'm sure LLMs can be good at things, the question is whether their manager can accurately judg
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
A fallacy that a lot of people have is that productivity equals progress. Programmers (and their managers) using LOC as a target metric, writers using words/chapters written, etc. For some reason this fallacy is reinvented and repeated
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
100x faster towards becoming an email client
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
What problem would it solve? They're still part of a larger system ultimately. Sure, smaller codebases with more focused scope can be good for e.g. human individuals and LLMs, but there's multiple ways to achieve that that don&#x2
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
I have a theory (armchair take here lmao) that AIs are trained on public code, but the biggest codebases are not public. Although I suspect models from Google, Facebook and Microsoft can be trained on their massive internal codebases. Wheth
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
Yup, my parents (mainly dad) are the same, reading social media, putting the speakers on, falling for all of the AI generated stuff, rage bait, etc, and broadcasting it to the world because idk, they still seek engagement and interaction I
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
Yeah, age and maturity are two different things entirely. One of the bigger issues / trends right now is immature adults with power.
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
Likewise in Warhammer 40K (which probably borrows a lot from its sci-fi predecessors), science and invention is pretty much dead and there's a religious sect that keeps technology and factories running. AI (Abominal Intelligence) is al
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
The main thing that matters is who takes responsibility for it. And the other thing is honesty, e.g. "I made this myself" vs "I made this with the help of AI". I'm a bit precious about that though, like, I wouldn&#x
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
Nope, but recently it does feel like I spend less time coding and more on prep work / requirements gathering. But that's n=1, I'm doing something very specific (building a design system with a small team of designers and deve
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
If it is a common AI pattern, I wonder why the developers haven't taken measures to circumvent tells like that. Unless they keep them there on purpose as like a signature or watermark.
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
Some are; you can't make sweeping generalizations about a nuanced topic. But I do believe (gut feeling) the novelty's worn off for a lot of people.
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
Isn't this usually what happens? More depictions, records, stories and possessions of rich people end up surviving long term. Which is why I think it's important that if one is a creator, author, artist, photo/videographer, e
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
Yeah, there's loads of really cool visualizations you can do with really limited specs, demo scene stuff. Of course, that's an art of its own, it's probably easier to look at c++ and its graphics libraries, or even game engin
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
Yeah I learned that one a few months ago, before that I'd use interactive rebase and shuffle the commits around manually in the editor that opens. I appreciate that these commands are just utilities / conveniences on top of a stab
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
That's one approach I suppose, it leaves evidence of "I wrote a test first" and such. However, it also feels more like a "work log" than a "commit log"; I like to make my commits atomic (test + code at the
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
That's one approach, sure, probably works best if your units of work (e.g. everything inside of a PR) are small and atomic though. Other use cases exist where each individual commit adds value / changes something important /
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
I have a more nuanced view of this; in libraries and software projects that span years like Linux, curl, etc, this happens all the time. Bugs get fixed and they can point to the exact commit where it was first introduced, and that commit co
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
Same, but at the same time the existing workflow is a bit more clumsy / these commands are a bit more ergonomic. Fixup was already possible through `git commit --fixup`, and before that through `git rebase -i`; reword also through `git
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
Thing is, iirc Kotlin is mostly compatiable / interchangeable with Java so they could write any new code in Kotlin.
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
I wonder how much it costs them in the long run; the initial number mentioned seemed cheap enough (equivalent to 1-2 developers for a year - and I don't believe 1-2 developers could rewrite it in a year, for various reasons), but if it
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
The challenge that "developed" countries / cities have is that there's already a lot of existing (and aging) infrastructure around. Meanwhile in other countries they build new cities from scratch, including infrastructur
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
While true, there's (often, not always) an inverse correlation between location of work and cost of living. Few people can afford to live close to the office. What would work (at least in my country, and in my head / from my armch
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
Don't think they intended to be a novelty or parody candidate though. Just someone famous for something else turning to politics, just like Schwarzenegger.
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
Can't take out the (political) trash without first exposing it. The transparent bin is a great analogy lmao
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
The indirect debate strategy has always baffled me (people addressing the speaker instead of the person across the aisle), but it's a really interesting way to frame a debate and to - theoretically - avoid ad hominems. Of course in UK
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
The challenge is that politics is its own profession, just like management. Even though there are people that have the theoretical knowledge on how a country should be run / what policies would work best, working it out into something
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
Yeah I'm trying the same thing, I have an e-reader which is compact enough to have with me. Reddit is entertaining but it's only good for like half an hour a day at best, after which point you start to scrape the bottom of the bar

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