NateEag

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by NateEag 1mo ago
It may be. The fact remains that it's what I see around me, and even if I'm in an inverse bubble, it shows that "the average non-technical person uses AI daily without blinking" is probably a huge overstatement.
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by NateEag 1mo ago
The destruction of Tokyo, Dresden, and so many other cities were also unconscionable acts. The war was absolutely full of them (though I think the Axis was clearly aiming for unconscionable overall goals, such as the Final Solution, so I st
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by NateEag 1mo ago
Every non-technical person I know hates genAI and goes far out of their way to avoid it.
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by NateEag 1mo ago
My 13" Framework is about four years old and is still plugging along fine. I may need to replace some parts at some point, but this far it's not been necessary. I'd love to have the 16", which didn't exist when I bo
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by NateEag 1mo ago
Wealth created is still the same, and that's what an economist means by "productive" - you produced X amount of wealth (usually measured in dollar amounts). It's like "work" meaning one thing to a normal person
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by NateEag 1mo ago
I believe OP is saying that the US has not been reliably sane in its public policy since ending WW II via nuclear warfare. I don't know if I agree with the claim overall, but I certainly think nuking civilian populations was an execrab
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by NateEag 1mo ago
Learning and using vim keybindings was one of the crucial things that mitigated my RSI. Ergonomics are highly variable, so it might not help someone else, but for me it did the opposite of "give me carpal tunnel syndrome."
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by NateEag 1mo ago
> Either you haven't used GenAI in a few years, you've only used bad ones, you're really bad at using them, or all of the above. I use Claude every day, by corporate mandate, generally with Opus 4.8 or 5, but sometimes Son
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by NateEag 1mo ago
There's a very deep irony in this page being a bunch of pasted LLM output.
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by NateEag 1mo ago
Alas, what it taught people was to describe others who want to help them ask better questions as "gatekeepers". Maybe SO really is full of rude, condescending gatekeepers - I haven't asked questions there much. I haven't
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by NateEag 1mo ago
I am literate and hyperlexic - I read ~500 words a minute, and have read thousands of books for fun. I hate genAI deeply, for many reasons, but one of them is the way it bastardizes and ruins the written word. It writes incoherent, worthles
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by NateEag 1mo ago
The amount of skill required is still pretty high, IMO - if we set a requirement that a programmer thoroughly understand what they're shipping. If we remove that requirement (as most around me seem to be doing), then yeah, not much ski
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by NateEag 1mo ago
Ah, got it. IIRC ChatGPT does use "memory" systems to maintain familiarity with a given chat's subject. I believe that's an important ingredient for creating AI psychosis - human and AI become slowly more unhinged togeth
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by NateEag 1mo ago
What tool are you using? I know Claude will maintain its own memory files in ~/.claude, unbidden. The actual LLM under the hood is static, though - it was trained once and will not self-modify.
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by NateEag 1mo ago
Your boss can get Claude to make unreadable, noisy, confusing code just as well as you can. There may not be a career left in software development with these monstrosities, but if there is, it's in using decades of experience to get th
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by NateEag 1mo ago
Isn't the actually-simple answer here "Pick a default. If the user agent specifies a preference, respect it." Now there's no UX, it just does something reasonable regardless, and if the user has already opted in to color
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by NateEag 1mo ago
> And if'n they don't? What should the disrespected reader of the future do, not use the non-concise form? Sure, the reader should still use what's there. I thought we were discussing the best ways for a team to structure
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by NateEag 1mo ago
> Also, I could have AI craft a fascinating and engaging way of teaching router setup that actually helps me learn instead of wasting time searching through random forums form google results And somewhere between ten and seventy percent
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by NateEag 1mo ago
Sometimes, unpredictably, and uncontrollably, the LLM outputs bullshit that reads uncannily close to the hard-won, carefully-phrased text the human originally wrote. A lot of us hate that with a white-hot passion akin to the eye-melting int
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by NateEag 1mo ago
My personal hatred of LLMs aside, an I the only one who thinks "saving the conversation" is an incredibly naive and useless approach? The conversation may have been long and meandering, for legitimate reasons, but what matters is
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by NateEag 1mo ago
Thank you for the data point. I guess I had overlooked that.
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by NateEag 2mo ago
> They aren't hiring stupid people but they can't seem to go a week without major platform instability. All those smart people are probably using genAI to generate their codebases. So far, that does not seem to have resulted in
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by NateEag 2mo ago
nah, as someone who's driving Claude daily by corporate mandate, AI just shits acceptable mediocrity over everything, and my microtalents don't fit into the org anywhere anymore. They've been replaced by Markdown files asking
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by NateEag 2mo ago
> I would hope that any regulation is evidence driven. Have you found existing regulation in any field that's evidence-driven? My impression is that regulation is not made in a way that has much to do with evidence, but I would be d
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by NateEag 2mo ago
Roughly this, yes. Perhaps closer, however, to suing Tesla for building and selling a "full self-driving" system that occasionally drives people straight into a highway barrier and kills them.
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by NateEag 2mo ago
Anyone who's thought about it for a single second knows it's immoral to cancel a stranger's appointment without even speaking to them. If the LLM did not act in line with that incredibly basic understanding, it's clearly
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by NateEag 2mo ago
> Seeing as we can’t sanction the model itself, our options are the provider or the user. A third option, and I would argue the right one, is to sanction the company providing the model. By making it available to customers, they're
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by NateEag 2mo ago
> It's great marketing and the only proof we have is 'trust me bro'. It is _terrible_ marketing. The AI companies are already dealing with a large backlash from the average consumer, many of whom are saying they hate it, t
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by NateEag 2mo ago
I'd readily agree that they may be (probably are?) utterly unaware of what they're doing, with no spark of sapience. However, I'm a sapient being employed as a software developer for my problem-solving ability. If you gave me
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by NateEag 2mo ago
You have channeled a great deal of my anxiety, stress, anger, and sorrow with this comment. Every day at my job I search for a chance to write some fragment of code by hand, a place where just for a moment I remember the joyous struggle to

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