DennisP

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by DennisP 7mo ago
Electricity costs more in Europe than the US, but so does gasoline, by about the same ratio. EVs in the US have lower running costs than internal combustion cars. The EV industry in general is growing quite well in Europe. It's just th
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by DennisP 7mo ago
There are a couple good reasons for Tesla to do that, which don't apply to most carmakers. One is that their stock is priced for extreme growth, so they need to be in businesses that can justify that. Cars are not that kind of business
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by DennisP 7mo ago
Whatever the reason, it wasn't because his characters were "openly maga and a homophobe and a transphobe," because they weren't. Bruce Lee movies and Texas Ranger didn't address those issues at all. And in spite of
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by DennisP 7mo ago
GP said "these were acting roles." They were talking about the characters, not the actors behind them.
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by DennisP 7mo ago
Ironic that this article sounds like it was written by AI. > The desperation is gone. In its place: epistemic certainty. > And it told her, in prose that sounded like medicine and felt like prophecy, that she was right about everythin
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by DennisP 7mo ago
> obvious what it does, and I think the game even tells you that they want to understands how the POI looks like in 3D. But most people probably assumed the purpose was to improve the game, not to train delivery robots. Or whatever else
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by DennisP 7mo ago
If demand for developers is shrinking then you'd expect salaries to go down. If you can prove otherwise, show some stats.
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by DennisP 7mo ago
Steve Yegge has been a dev for several decades with lead spots at Amazon and Google, has completely converted to using AI, wrote a book about it using it effectively for large production-ready projects, and still calls it vibe coding.
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by DennisP 7mo ago
Yes, it's fantastic. Hard to imagine a better resource for getting started with vibe coding, on through developing large high-quality projects with it. It doesn't get into the details of particular tools much, so it should stay re
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by DennisP 7mo ago
Maybe that'll happen one day, but it hasn't so far. As of this month, Glassdoor reports the median total pay for software developers across all industries and experience levels as $149K. https://www.glassdoor.com/S
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by DennisP 7mo ago
I'm surprised you've had three replies so far that didn't notice your sarcasm. But we've been automating the tedious work since the 1950s. There were probably devs back then complaining about imminent job loss when the f
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by DennisP 7mo ago
There definitely is economic value in solving the more challenging problems. Junior devs who can only do the tedious parts have lower salaries.
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Fwiw, IntelliJ at least has an MCP server so coding agents can use the refactoring tools. Don't know about the other JetBrains IDEs.
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by DennisP 7mo ago
What an odd bit of moralizing. GP said they enjoy doing the hard parts, in which case they probably do them, because it's fun. If they actually don't enjoy it, there's nothing wrong with them using the LLM, when it's up
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by DennisP 7mo ago
Perhaps it would help if I include the quote, so from Vibe Coding pages 165-166: > [IDEs index] your code base with sophisticated proprietary analysis and then serve that index to any tool that needs it, typically via LSP, the Language
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by DennisP 7mo ago
"Right to compute" sounds to me more like they're using "compute" as a verb, which predates "computational" by a couple centuries.
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by DennisP 7mo ago
I enjoy solving interesting problems in software. But when I was doing it for a living, the majority of my work was pretty tedious. I'd have been thrilled to turn over that part to AI and spend all my time doing the interesting stuff.
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by DennisP 7mo ago
For tiny apps, sure. Some people are making larger projects that take weeks or months even with AI, that they never could have done otherwise.
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by DennisP 7mo ago
There are plenty of programmers who are perfectly capable of delivering products, who have ideas that are too ambitious to do on their own.
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by DennisP 7mo ago
That actually sounds like something Claude could do pretty easily. Yegge's book describes his coauthor's first vibe coding project. It went through screenshots he'd saved of youtube videos, read the time with OCR, looked up t
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by DennisP 7mo ago
I'm halfway through Steve Yegge's book Vibe Coding . Yegge was quoted in the article: > “We’re talking 10 to 20 — to even 100 — times as productive as I’ve ever been in my career,” Steve Yegge, a veteran coder who built his ow
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by DennisP 7mo ago
Even if you're using Claude, canceling the IDEs might be poor strategy. Steve Yegge points out in his book that the indexing and refactoring tools in IDEs are helpful to AIs as well. He mentions JetBrains in particular as working well
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by DennisP 7mo ago
Depends on what you mean by "builder." If you mean "somebody with an idea who wants to make it real" then that person is massively enabled.
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by DennisP 7mo ago
You seem to be on the right track because supposedly for good gut health we need to eat at least thirty different plant foods each week. You've got twelve just for breakfast! https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/20
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by DennisP 7mo ago
What is STT in this context?
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by DennisP 7mo ago
And come to think of it, if the two chronometers are wrong in different directions, then the average could be more accurate than either of them.
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by DennisP 7mo ago
Most wars are started without targeting the leader at all.
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Seems like chronometers would be a case where two are better than one, because the mistakes are analog. If they don't exactly agree, just take the average. You'll have more error than if you were lucky enough to take the better ch
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by DennisP 7mo ago
It's also possible that they simply went ahead and hit the vehicle, knowing there was a good chance that their target would be inside. It's not like they've been all that picky about collateral damage.
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by DennisP 7mo ago
And since perhaps a source would be helpful, here's the research saying climate change is having a significant effect: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023gl10... BBC reporting: https:&#x

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