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by Cthulhu_ 2mo ago
You can do whatever to get answers to questions, but don't just forward said answers to other people, tell them in your own words / interpretation. Prove that you understand the information you've been given instead of being
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by Cthulhu_ 2mo ago
At least those (at least the detectable ones) seem to be downvoted en masse, called out, or flagged. They aren't even allowed as per the guidelines[0]: > Don't post generated text or AI-edited text. HN is for conversation betwe
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by Cthulhu_ 2mo ago
I think this is the big gap in AI vs real people - they're focused on giving an answer, not asking questions. I've prompted AIs to ask me questions if anything was unclear or if important information was missing and it usually doe
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by Cthulhu_ 2mo ago
Yeah a few years ago there was a lot of buzz around it, but ultimately when presenting and polling all the options to the community, the general consensus was that existing error handling was actually fine. The other options added complexit
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by Cthulhu_ 2mo ago
It does, but at the same time it's not "normal" code; I see it much like Typescript's advanced types, ultimately it's something that mainly lives in libraries.
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by Cthulhu_ 2mo ago
Kind of? I'm sure you can change a nuclear power plant so it doesn't rely on river or sea water but that's not something that can be done overnight. Restoring river water levels can't be done through technical solutions
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by Cthulhu_ 2mo ago
It can be, but you need water, just like for solar you need sunlight and storage and for wind power you need, well, wind. Coal and gas rely on natural resources, which can be disrupted through geopolitical tension, like Russia's gas su
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by Cthulhu_ 2mo ago
Is that a fact or are you just trying to spark a debate?
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by Cthulhu_ 2mo ago
Kind of, but you can also assert it yourself; the big tech companies have billions of lines of code not publicly available, they can train their in-house code assistants on those instead of or in addition to what's available out in the
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by Cthulhu_ 2mo ago
Did you go and look at their open source repositories and open code review tools instead of fearmongering on HN? The answer can be found.
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by Cthulhu_ 2mo ago
I'm not sure why you're asking here instead of opening the ticket and having a look at the current status.
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by Cthulhu_ 2mo ago
> We really need an alternative to this greedy and evil corporations de-facto controlling a huge portion of the modern www stack. We do / have? Multiple even. Of course, the vast majority of consumers doesn't care so they don&#
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by Cthulhu_ 2mo ago
Can't have been much, as the Chrome project is 20+ years old and LLMs have only recently become a thing; they did not slacken their code review and testing practices with the advent of LLM code generators. And I doubt they do much deve
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by Cthulhu_ 2mo ago
At my company there's a lot of discussion about AI and complaints that people run out of tokens within a day, but zero results are shown. No measurable (or measured) gains. Or nothing that people are willing to talk about, in any case.
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
Availability and legality of wooly mammoths aside, what's stopping you? Pointy stick hunting sounds like a great weekend activity.
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
The internet has largely replaced / substituted this, which has been a mixed thing. Like minded people in smaller niches have been able to find each other online for example, much more than IRL, and much more at long range / inter
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
These robots can't do combat, not effectively anyway, but that's already jumping three stages ahead, because first off, why would they?
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
Yeah, the dishwasher takes much longer to do the dishes than I do by hand, but that's cool. That said, the dishwasher is out of the way. I don't think we'll get household robots anytime soon. Hell, the only ones that can affo
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
The fun will be in proving those claims. I'm sure this can and has been done already today, but they won't get critical mass because a compiler is more than just the code. The GCC project represents not just a compiler, but decade
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
Nothing, but nothing did before LLMs became a thing. The test lies in whether the submitter can explain the code they submitted, and more importantly, the why.
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
There was someone claiming they had already AI generated a better GCC that was 10x as fast. A bold claim, but they didn't provide evidence so who knows.
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
And that's fine - if LLM generated code is indistinguishable from human-written code, AND there's a person behind it or in the maintainers that fully understands it, then there is no issue. But I don't think generated code in
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
It's just so boring! But it's essential. And I think LLMs can help manage the tedium, as well as find gaps in tests that humans would easily overlook, unless they're very thorough. That said, I think the gains will mostly be
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
A bold claim with no sources to back it up.
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
Or if LLM output is copyrighted or sourced from copyrighted code - they can't take that risk, lest they face another "Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc.". I think that lawsuit caused huge waves in the open source communities.
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
The article isn't about AI though, it's about developers and their extensive coding setups being beaten by a guy in a plain editor. You're not personally under attack.
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
This is why AI will never replace human commenters. ...unless they are instructed to use poor grammar. Actually I'm surprised they do use good grammar given how much poor grammar would be in their datasets. But that's probably why
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. This is also why e.g. Java or Python isn't going anywhere anytime soon; they're fine , but there's armies of software developers who are well-versed in them. Newer languages may be
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
There's also the dissonance between actual productivity and perceived productivity. Being fluent in vim/emacs to navigate code may feel you're hacking the matrix etc, but that in itself does not mean you're productive. S
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
The important part is figuring out what time is spent on solving the actual problem and what is spent on everything else. In my case, I spent stupid amounts of time waiting for an app to start up, checks to run, CI to run, etc. And nowadays

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