Thanemate

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by Thanemate 7mo ago
I'm glad that I'm not the only one. I don't want to move from "Microsoft knows best" to "Claude knows best but hey, at least you review the output by looking up the not so good documentation".
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by Thanemate 7mo ago
>Optimistically, I hope it filters out the people who were only interested in it for the money. I hope not, because we don't need software developers to be "starving artist 2.0". And on that note: I vividly remember people
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by Thanemate 7mo ago
Any move that strengthens future oligopolies is a net loss for all consumers. I don't care how good/bad a company is, because I lived long enough to know that most of them started off like that. Good luck to the uv team.
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by Thanemate 8mo ago
To those of you reading the comment section thinking something like the following: >"Wait a moment! Being forced to use AI gave me depression, and I'm really aware of the fact that it's only going to become better and bett
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by Thanemate 8mo ago
Awesome! However, the corporate is excited with using AI, making the coder the one who's at risk at getting fired for writing the exact same lousy (for the sake of the argument) code. Or worse: for not relying as much as possible to th
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by Thanemate 8mo ago
>AI is an incredible teaching tool. As a junior, my top issue is finding valuable learning material that isn't full of poor or outright wrong information. In the best and most generous interpretation of your statement, LLM's si
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by Thanemate 8mo ago
The issue stems from 2 things: 1) People hearing "an LLM is as smart as a junior" and actually opting for the LLM subscription price instead of hiring a junior 2) The gap between senior and junior in terms of performance has becom
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by Thanemate 8mo ago
When the goal is to ship (the result) I'll happily leverage LLM's to try an idea or 3 out. However, it wouldn't be fair to claim that my side projects have exactly one goal. That's why I choose to use AI generated code w
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by Thanemate 8mo ago
>However for my own code for my professional job no way I would go that fast because I would impact millions of users Tech-savvy people might understand this feeling, but those who are responsible for hiring will easily proceed with anot
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by Thanemate 8mo ago
Especially true for junior-mid engineers. The brain stores and comprehends what you tend to repeat. If I don't solve math problems I won't understand how to solve them, no matter how many times I see videos of people solving simil
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by Thanemate 8mo ago
OP talks about the increased frequency of such events happening, and not that this is a new problem. For example, handwritten code also tended to be reviewed manually by each other member of the team, so the probability of someone recalling
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by Thanemate 8mo ago
It makes sense for junior admins and junior platform engineers to leverage LLM's but I'd be highly skeptical for the future skillset of any junior software engineer who leverages LLM's right off the bat, unless we have alread
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by Thanemate 8mo ago
What happened to "just enable X if you need it"? Why are we always okay with every new thing being enabled by default? Is it because the average person isn't as tech savvy as most (if not all) HN readers to know any better, a
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by Thanemate 8mo ago
I would replace "funding" with at minimum "contributing", because there are people who would think having a government actively dipping their toes in a product gives them right over actively piloting the direction of tha
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by Thanemate 8mo ago
if you are an LLM skeptic but the job listings list it as LLM-first and a mandatory tool for doing a great job (because we're 10x here, etc.), then it is.
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by Thanemate 8mo ago
I don't think job search is doomscrolling, because all job openings I see ask for mandatory LLM familiarity. This is where the use of a tool goes beyond "just a tool" and becomes just as important as your own knowledge. In fa
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by Thanemate 8mo ago
Drop out of tech, grab a cup of coffee, and enjoy the view of seeing the top 1% drive everything you loved about software development and creativity fall off a cliff. Then, maybe when I'm on the verge of death due to old age, the entir
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by Thanemate 8mo ago
And I still run into naysayers claiming that we cannot extract valuable opinions or warnings from fiction because "they're fictional". Fiction comes from ideas. Fiction is not meant to model reality but approximate it to make
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by Thanemate 8mo ago
I'm somewhat halfway through the original memo, and I hate the fact that kernels of truth lie here and there. For example, I used to work as a full-stack developer for about 2 years, and now I got forced into what the memo calls "
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by Thanemate 8mo ago
>billions of people will be empowered to spin up whatever software they need on demand As long as: 1. They have access to a computer 2. They have affordable access to a capable language model 3. Someone will actually care about using the
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by Thanemate 8mo ago
>Agree, and it's also such a shame that none of the AI companies actually focus on that way of using AI. This is because, regardless of the current state of things, the endgame which will justify all the upfront investment is autono
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by Thanemate 8mo ago
To be fair, so is couch co-op and yet I always appreciate developers who go the extra mile of giving me the ability to play alongside a friend.
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by Thanemate 8mo ago
>Most people use ai to rewrite or clean up content I think your sentence should have been "people who use ai do so to mostly rewrite or clean up content", but even then I'd question the statistical truth behind that claim.
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by Thanemate 8mo ago
I'd argue it's not meaningless because the point wasn't to show inclusion but power. Nobody went for master's degrees, "master" as a rank in video games, or anything else. Reminds me of [1]twitch.tv trying to r
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by Thanemate 8mo ago
>This assumes every individual is capable of succinctly communicating to the AI what they want. And the AI is capable of maintaining it as underlying platforms and libraries shift. It's true that at first not everyone is just as eff
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by Thanemate 8mo ago
I agree with the fact that fiction isn't prophetic, but it can definitely be a societal-wide warning shot. On a personal level, it's not that far-fetched to read a piece of fiction that challenges one's perception on many lev
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by Thanemate 9mo ago
>I believe the argument from the other camp is that you don't need to understand the code anymore Then what stops anyone who can type in their native language to, ultimately when LLM's are perfected, just order their own softwa
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by Thanemate 9mo ago
>But is it relevant if the code isn't for humans? The implications to your statement seems to me that is: "you'll never have to directly care about it yourself, so why do you care about it?". Unless you were talking a
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by Thanemate 9mo ago
The crowd that counterpoints with "just don't use it then" miss the point: The general population lacks the ability to judge when should use it and when they shouldn't. The average person will always lean towards the les
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by Thanemate 9mo ago
I am one of those junior software developers who always struggled with starting their own projects. Long story short, I realized that my struggle stems from my lack of training in open-ended problems, where there are many ways to go about s

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