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by Vegenoid 11mo ago
And AI skeptics are waiting to see the proof in the pudding. If we have a new tool that makes hundreds of thousands of devs vastly more productive, I expect to see the results of that in new, improved software. So far, I'm just seeing
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by Vegenoid 11mo ago
I'm pretty sure it is the commercial demand for data from AI companies. It is certainly the popular conception among sysadmins that it is AI companies who are responsible for the wave of scrapers over the past few years, and I see no c
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by Vegenoid 11mo ago
> This essentially turns the operation of a robot into a kind of video game, where inputs are only needed a in low-dimensional abstract form, such as "empty the dishwasher" or "repeat what I do" or "put your fing
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by Vegenoid 11mo ago
There are many discussions of what sets apart a high trust society from a low trust society, and how a high trust society enables greater cooperation and positive risk taking collectively. Also about how the United States is currently desce
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by Vegenoid 11mo ago
I think what I’ve gathered is that the person I replied to is going with a TOFU model of key security (trust on first use), or is just seeking to avoid plaintext passwords in slack messages and is treating the key as disposable for the one-
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by Vegenoid 11mo ago
Frankly, there are a ton of laws that seem dubious and underspecified to a person with an engineering mindset. This is by design, and it is the reason we have so many judges - because writing laws that clearly specify how they apply to ever
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by Vegenoid 11mo ago
Thanks for the response. Yes, I think some clarity about the purpose of the issue tracker would help someone unfamiliar with the project's maintenance better understand the conduct of the maintainers. If it is only for coordination of
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by Vegenoid 11mo ago
Bad ones too, though.
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by Vegenoid 11mo ago
I think I'm missing something, how does asking for their public key improve security or verify their identity?
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by Vegenoid 11mo ago
Reading that discussion, I was very surprised at MikeMcQuaid’s reaction to xtqqczze’s concerns, which were calm, brief, and valid. In response, Mike was a dick. Maybe it’s totally understandable that being a maintainer for the biggest mac p
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by Vegenoid 11mo ago
Only if you also provide it with a way for it to richly interact with the world (i.e. an embodiment). Otherwise, how do you train it? How does a world model verify the correctness of its model in novel situations?
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by Vegenoid 11mo ago
I interviewed at a place that proudly stated that they have a goal that x% new LOC are LLM-generated. They didn't say what x was, but implied it was high.
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by Vegenoid 11mo ago
Making things is often not just about making the thing right in front of you, but about building the skills to make bigger and better things. When you consider the long view, the struggle that makes it harder to make the thing at hand is w
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
We've all been hearing from people talking about how amazing AI coding agents are for a while now. Many skeptics have tried them out, looked into how to make good use of them, used modern agentic tools, done context engineering, etc. a
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
> Apple claims privacy is a fundamental human right And what is “privacy”? An iPhone user is not entitled to keep the apps that they run on their phone private.
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
> immutable Do not make the mistake of believing laws are as concrete as code. There are many, many instances throughout history of the powerful people who are responsible for enforcing the laws, deciding to suddenly change or ignore the
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
Do you frequently dig in to new codebases? I do, and commits that contain a functional, complete idea with a descriptive commit message are immensely useful to me for understanding why the code is the way it is.
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
There are plenty of people who want to learn, but don’t want to learn about everchanging and inane software design decisions. There are plenty of geeks who don’t want to have to learn about that.
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
Didn't it? But then, the pendulum swung. It will continue swinging.
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
If contextual ads are more effective than personalized ads, then there is an enormous market waiting to have its lunch eaten by a contextual ad provider, which should be able to operate at a far lower cost than a personalized ad provider. T
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
This is pretty hyperbolic. Not noticing poor results does give some idea of the quality of the work done. Of course it's not a perfect system, of course more references would be better, of course the work being judged by a known expe
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
I'm not sure if you are insinuating that the article is an anti-AI take, but in case it wasn't clear, it's not. It is about doing just what you suggested: > Just as tech leads don't just write code but set practices f
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
> What's the difference between a messy codebase created by a genAI, and a messy codebase where all the original authors of the code have moved on and aren't available to ask questions? Messy codebases made by humans are known
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
If it’s easily verified as correct, then you should have verified its correctness before bringing it to someone more senior and asking for their help, and so you should be able to explain why it is there when they ask.
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
I see this attitude from far too many people who push for better cities. It’s not that it’s wrong , it’s that it doesn’t work . It doesn’t matter how correct you are, and how good your reasoning is - being smug, self-righteous, and insult
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
I think we are seeing one of the downsides of vertical integration: the team running part of the stack can shit the bed without consequences because they're carried by the whole. Apple's software design and quality has been going
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
> Like church and state, you keep them separate for the good of both. No, not for the good of both - for the good of the people . It is demonstrably beneficial for those in power in government and megacorps to conspire and consolidate t
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
Agreed. The linked messaging is much more clear: "achieved gold-medal level performance". This clearly separates them from competing against humans, which they didn't do, because their constraints are very different. The &q
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
While very cool, this feels like another instance of the kind of thing that we already know they are good at: self-contained, perfectly-specified problems that can be done by humans in a short timespan (especially when a team of highly skil
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
I can't imagine any scenario that justifies an out-of-the blue demand of $50k within a week or your data is deleted. The only way this isn't an awful thing to inflict on a teen education nonprofit is if there have been conversatio

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