IanCal

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by IanCal 5mo ago
Fizzbuzz is such an incredibly simple problem if you can’t do it I struggle to see how you’d be able to complete any task that requires very basic reasoning and very basic coding knowledge. And if an AI system can do those parts, what am I
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by IanCal 5mo ago
Can’t say you’re wrong but the last anecdote describes many I’ve had to review for jobs long before LLMs. Fizzbuzz is a classic thing that shockingly many devs genuinely cannot do, even at home.
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by IanCal 5mo ago
But the article is arguing it is broken. That’s the point. You can disagree but that’s very much that the author is writing about, not a curiosity, and that it’s these top models that are not custom security models.
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by IanCal 5mo ago
They can be incredible. One on one teaching with an infinitely patient teacher who can generate interactive problems on the fly, for dollars a month? Wild. A year of paid ChatGPT would pay for about 9 hours of cheap tutoring here.
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by IanCal 5mo ago
If it helps I understand the second much better and feels less clickbaity and includes more info. I do agree with the points you made about the confusion although I find frontier a term used in this area a lot, “frontier AI models have” wou
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by IanCal 5mo ago
Good lord. Yes, people adding the content is important. What is the social component bringing people there? I’m repeatedly asking and you’re never covering this. Please try and actually read what I’m saying and engage with that because at n
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by IanCal 5mo ago
That’s literally the thing I called out as being cross repo, auth.
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by IanCal 5mo ago
They have those features but those aren’t decentralisation issues, as far as I’d understand the term, but those already can be done elsewhere right now. They’re purely tied to one repo really, it’s only the user accounts that I can see bein
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by IanCal 5mo ago
Lots of those aren't centralisation/decentralisation issues though - codespaces, actions, issue tracking, multiple users, all that is repo/org level.
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by IanCal 5mo ago
I know git doesn't do this by itself, but then we're not talking about github vs raw git - perhaps that's where you're confused by what I'm saying. All these other services have what you're talking about, and t
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by IanCal 5mo ago
> Remember last month when Anthropic was like: no, we're not going to refund you even though we admit we're in the wrong for anti-competitively burning credits? I'm quite sure at the time that they said they wouldn't
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by IanCal 5mo ago
I'm not sure how to make it clearer. I do not understand what the "social" component of github is that people are using so heavily that it's a big thing to break from and requires huge centralisation, that it is the &quo
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by IanCal 5mo ago
Although that only requires a centralised host per repo .
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by IanCal 5mo ago
Totally different thing, and if you don’t want to engage don’t, this is simply rude.
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by IanCal 5mo ago
Is that what people mean? Just the multi user side of it?
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by IanCal 5mo ago
The vast majority of that doesn’t require anything like GitHub though, that’s just having multiple users. At a push you could have the same thing massively more spread out using GitHub purely as auth.
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by IanCal 5mo ago
Strongly seconded (I studied this in 2005-2009). I don’t think there’s a brilliantly defined line between AI and not AI but it’s relatively key that you define a problem and something else then figures out a solution. Lots of things like sh
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by IanCal 5mo ago
What on earth is the social component of GitHub? I assume I’m missing what’s useful to people here as it keeps getting brought up, but what is it? Is it the stars on a repo? Are people doing something else big with all of this?
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by IanCal 5mo ago
I think that's a very different kind of concern, and its also been very predictable and slow. I would also say though, you have to be a bit careful about "they are discussing" because there are many people across different co
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by IanCal 5mo ago
Yes, lots of the process and problems and solutions to them are the same but we’ve just massively cut the cost of a part of development. That has huge ramifications about when it makes sense to tackle different things and how tradeoffs work
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by IanCal 5mo ago
I don’t find “but who is to blame, ultimately?” All that useful. So you figure out that someone you paid is at fault, instead of someone they hired. Your contract is with them so what really changes? What process or anything else is really
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by IanCal 5mo ago
I feel like I’m watching developers speed run project and product management learnings. We’ve moved to seeing that specs are useful and that having someone write lots of wrong code doesn’t make the project move faster (lots of times devs ge
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by IanCal 5mo ago
Trust isn’t a binary, and I can trust things I don’t understand enough that I can use them. OP was talking about needing to understand, which is quite a bit above the level of being able to validate enough to use for a task.
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by IanCal 5mo ago
This is fine if it’s more enjoyable for you, that’s what’s important in personal projects most of the time. But we don’t follow the same things for dependencies, work of colleagues, external services, all the layers down to the silicon when
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by IanCal 5mo ago
Assuming it’ll stop soon is to wager that we’re at a very specific point on the curve. If it’s anyone’s guess then we’re much more likely to be left of that, unless you argue we’re already on the flat side.
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by IanCal 5mo ago
Writing and editing html by hand is very simple, it can be just a few basic tags.
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by IanCal 5mo ago
It’s a little less efficient but there’s not a huge difference unless lots of it is structural or visual. What’s harder than with markdown about precise feedback? You can have ids, sections and more with tags.
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by IanCal 5mo ago
It’s a bit easier yeah but there’s not much in it.
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by IanCal 5mo ago
HTML is plain text based at the same level as any programming language I can think of.
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by IanCal 5mo ago
I highly recommend looking into codemods for larger mechanical refactorings. I did things like converting large test suites from one testing library to another by having codex write a codemod to convert it as a first pass.

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