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by SCdF 1y ago
Part of the difficulty here is that new age AI / LLMs in discussion has a lot of similarities with crypto, in the sense that there is a lot of nonsense out there. Unlike crypto there is obviously some value, as opposed to none, so it&#
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by SCdF 1y ago
I'm really trying to understand your point, but I am failing. It sounds like you're saying that you shouldn't care as much about the quality of "slow killing software" because in theory it can be made better in the
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by SCdF 1y ago
I don't understand the distinction here. > Provenance and proper traceability would have allowed But there wasn't those things, so they couldn't, so they were driven to suicide. Bad software killed people. It being slow or
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by SCdF 1y ago
The code being absolute dog shit was true regardless of that law's existence. There are plenty of things the developers could have done. That law is irrelevant to this situation, except in that the lawyers for Fujitsu / Royal Mail
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by SCdF 1y ago
The Horizon (UK Royal Mail accounting software) incident killed multiple postmasters through suicide, and bankrupted and destroyed the lives of dozens or hundreds more. The core takeaway developers should have from Therac-25 is not that thi
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by SCdF 1y ago
https://www.coderabbit.ai/blog/our-response-to-the-january-2... > No customer data was accessed As far as I can tell this is a lie. The real answer is that they have absolutely no clue if customer data was accessed,
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by SCdF 1y ago
This wiki page was created in 2011, in case you're wondering how long they've held this position
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by SCdF 1y ago
You can tsc on the code and then ship that git hash if it passes. You don't need to run it every single time the code executes, nothing of value is gained, because nothing has changed.
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by SCdF 1y ago
So I watched about 15 minutes. I'm not already aware of this person, and their website isn't too illuminating, and there is an hour left. So I have to confess I closed the tab. His ideas feel, frankly, like catnip for developers.
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by SCdF 1y ago
> It sometimes feels like a good thing to me that AI is replacing the swollen, ad-ridden web. Is it? Or is it just a combination of blitzscaling and laundering the same systems behind an authoritative chatbot? I am 100% of the presumptio
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by SCdF 1y ago
Sort of. We were in the middle of an election cycle. If you were paying attention you were aware of the scandal slowly grinding its way through legal slop, but most people probably weren't that clued in (as per normal). But that mini-s
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by SCdF 1y ago
Effectively tortured to death. One of the things that frustrates me with how ethics is taught in computer science is that we use examples like Therac 25, and people listen in horror, then their takeaway is frequently "well thank god I
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by SCdF 1y ago
To flip that around, is there any data to show that people *want* AI put into the existing products and services they use?
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by SCdF 1y ago
Is this not a bash script, but run through a "maybe it won't work this time" randomizer? Sometimes I feel like I live on another planet. Wouldn't you at least get Claude to write the bash script, confirm it works how you
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by SCdF 1y ago
Interestingly mozilla has effectively done this here, by using a GitHub action that automatically closes any PR with a message explaining that PRs are not to be used. It's very silly they have to do this, but at least they can I suppos
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by SCdF 1y ago
> Unfortunately the project is not just code. The literal project we are discussing is just code. It's literally just code. It doesn't have issues, PRs are disabled as much as they can be (by a GitHub action that automatically
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by SCdF 1y ago
Right, but distributed git As Torvalds Intended™ doesn't solve those problems, so it's not related. For the actual event we are commenting on, they have disabled all features other than code hosting and PRs.
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by SCdF 1y ago
I get what you're saying, but tbf hosting on github doesn't (yet!) box you out of just moving back to that system. It's still just git. It's still distributed, in the sense that if github goes down you could still genera
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by SCdF 1y ago
The burden of proof is not on me to disprove the consciousness of a markov generator. So no, I won't.
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by SCdF 1y ago
Oh please. The fantasy that an LLM is somehow conscious because it's good at parroting stuff back to you is beneath this forum.
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by SCdF 1y ago
> "As an AI model, how do you feel They don't feel, what is this fantasy
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by SCdF 1y ago
Doesn't Windows already precache frequently started binaries (and I presume the data that binary loads at startup)? Or was that a different operating system?
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by SCdF 1y ago
Out of interest did you know this before buying it? I'm interested in how they would advertise that kind of feature. I feel like that needs to be a regulated warning label on the box.
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by SCdF 1y ago
> The first kind of quality is the only kind that matters in the end. Yes. But the first kind of quality is enabled with the second kind. Until we live in a faultless closed loop[1], where with AI "the entire application can be rewr
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by SCdF 1y ago
So what have we redefined vibe coding to mean exactly? The original tweet[1] talked very specifically about not caring about quality, just accepting whatever code the AI produces blindly, as long as you get the black box output you're
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by SCdF 1y ago
> * Any AI responses used for email support are now clearly labeled as such. We use AI-assisted responses as the first filter for email support. Don't use AI. Actually care. Like, take a step back, and realise you should give a shit
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by SCdF 1y ago
Use your ears to learn.
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by SCdF 1y ago
I use my (work) computer entirely with my voice, and it takes a lot of effort to work out what to actually write and to not ramble. Like you I've found that it's better to throw out words in sort of half sentence chunks, to give y
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by SCdF 1y ago
Oh, from the video I got the impression it was more than that, based on it recognising app contexts and the like. I guess that's mostly just icing on the cake for the core dictation part.
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by SCdF 1y ago
I currently use Talon, which I note is not in your benchmarks. I can't find any documentation on how Aqua works, or how it compares, so I'm not sure it's meant to be a replacement / competitor to Talon? What are you conf

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