Thanemate

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by Thanemate 3mo ago
I can't enjoy life with my people if I can't eat, drink, and have a roof over my head.
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by Thanemate 3mo ago
>Because AI represents the distillation of the very best human knowledge and expertise. AI is compression of human capabilities, the very best ones. I'm confused if this is satire, sarcasm, or genuine belief. If this was the case, t
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by Thanemate 3mo ago
Surprising to see you endorsing seeing past the tools as a maker of games whose audience simply cares more about the problem being solved than what gets actually made. Of course I cannot vouch that there aren't people who played games
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by Thanemate 3mo ago
I used to feel the same but, with the LLM mandates made me have more fun playing Shenzhen I/O than actually programming at work. I'm one of "those people".
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by Thanemate 3mo ago
The skilled seniors better stop downplaying what actually led them to be skilled in the first place, and realize that the conditions to develop that skill has been gone and almost deemed unproductive in today's workplace. Not disagreei
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by Thanemate 4mo ago
We're in an era where the documentation is written to be read by LLM's, and I fully expect the README files to follow suit.
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by Thanemate 4mo ago
>It's possible these companies will become everyone's boss, and will dictate to everyone what everyone is allowed to work on, think, say, do, believe, etc. I'd argue that they already are to some extend, given that well-ed
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by Thanemate 4mo ago
3 commits? Really? Why don't I just ask Claude or chatGPT instead?
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by Thanemate 4mo ago
Besides the obvious examples of living our power fantasy of "finally writing Rust without knowing Rust, thanks to AI", I noticed the same exact thing in video games, and it has so many layers of bull that I could easily come up wi
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by Thanemate 4mo ago
My non-tech savvy mother started reading the stuff the Google Search AI answers to for some searches, and she's already fed up with it saying whatever. To her it doesn't matter that the "AI can make mistakes" because (in
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by Thanemate 5mo ago
The crowd who came for the love of computers either left or switched to be the ones who were fed up with building things out of thin air, and are fine with swiping their credit cards to have someone else do the work for them while they&#x27
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by Thanemate 5mo ago
Odd not to see my main concern, which is gathering large amounts of human knowledge in a machine that is ultimately tweaked by the "selected" few not just for profiting off of it, but to also (ultimately) have a big influence on w
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by Thanemate 5mo ago
>I never understand why software engineers are so excited about AI as a whole. Dictating what to exist and what not to to the machine is a power fantasy that's not going to stick around for long, because we'll inevitably reach
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by Thanemate 5mo ago
Now that AI is here, why read Hacker News comments? I bet you can generate quality content with AI! Do we even need to write anymore?
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by Thanemate 5mo ago
I've been strictly using LLM's to either push stuff that I've done plenty times before and are mostly boilerplate or have zero value for writing them by hand (not even educational), and I always ENSURE that they work on stuff
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by Thanemate 5mo ago
I use chatGPT to track my nutrition goals, and adjust exercises. I also let it code review my personal projects to (at worst) gain exposure to new patterns. I wouldn't buy a deeply-ingrained AI laptop even if you paid me, and even then
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by Thanemate 5mo ago
>AI development doesn't involve luck to any appreciable degree Reading this while I'm prompting for the third time to fix a 100+ line function is amusing, to say the least. I don't care about the definition of "apprec
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by Thanemate 5mo ago
There's still personal skill expression in driving cars and using a pencil for drawing, that makes the difference between drivers and artists visible enough to justify hiring one over another. So far I can't say the same for lever
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by Thanemate 5mo ago
I think it's intellectually dishonest to dismiss the absolute accumulation of human's knowledge under very specific brands for profitability using false equivalencies. When I build something using chatGPT, especially if I was unab
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by Thanemate 5mo ago
As much as I enjoy the novelty of asking anime pictures from chatGPT I do not, for a single moment, consider myself a doer of anime pictures. And a fair aside, the result will be "good enough" approximation of what I conjured in m
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by Thanemate 5mo ago
I tried using it last week to make a simple Yu-Gi-Oh! website, that shows decks, lets you rate them, register users, etc. kinda like masterduelmeta.com and I enjoyed using it, but definitely did not enjoyed making it. I didn't felt a s
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by Thanemate 5mo ago
I'm oddly enthusiastic about seeing someone who beings the HACKER in HackerNews. But at the same time, this made me remember the days when display of skill and craftsmanship were rewarded in the industry. Maybe it's finally time t
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Ask HN: Would you tell your kids to learn to code?
4 points by Thanemate 5mo ago|8 comments
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by Thanemate 5mo ago
"Adopt or be left behind" and the quality of the thing you're adopting relies heavily on how much training it receives by the users who are scared of being left behind.
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by Thanemate 6mo ago
I know that "resume-driven development" exists, where the tradeoffs between approaches aren't about the technical fit of the solution but the career trajectory. I've seen people making plain workstation preparation scrip
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by Thanemate 6mo ago
True, but why would people use yet another lookalike tool over the one they're currently using? Or is the implication that looks don't matter as long as it works? Because if that's the case, Why do we need CSS?
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by Thanemate 6mo ago
The power of the tool itself will be overshadowed by the motivations of its real owner. I can be both impressed by its ability to empower me, and be scared of the fact that the tools will change hands sooner or later and be deployed at scal
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by Thanemate 6mo ago
I can lose track of time watching a movie or playing a video game, but it's not what Mihály Csíkszentmihályi would call "flow state", but just immersion.
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by Thanemate 7mo ago
Funnily enough I saw this post as I was placing my HN account on hiatus, because I'm tired pretending that the quality of discourse is on par with what I've been used to read and participate in. We're obviously in an era wher
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by Thanemate 7mo ago
How about the type of developer who comes up with statistics and made up "camps" as if enjoying the craft itself makes you, out of necessity of the false premise, unable to enjoy the fact that what you made is useful enough to peo

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