WhyOhWhyQ

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by WhyOhWhyQ 10mo ago
You missed the point. The original post is about not reading code. You actually missed the point in two ways, because my response had little or nothing to do with speed of producing code. I'm not sure why you felt the need to express t
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by WhyOhWhyQ 10mo ago
Whenever I start reviewing code produced by Claude I find hundreds of ways to improve it. I don't know if code quality really matters to most people or to the bottom line, but a good software engineer writes better code than Claude. It
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by WhyOhWhyQ 10mo ago
You're writing Python and Javascript right? Those languages are extremely easy to write in (which conversely means the legibility is likely to be poor). People maintaining legacy systems in systems level languages aren't going to
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by WhyOhWhyQ 10mo ago
"somewhat zelda inspired" == direct copy of zelda in 2025.
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by WhyOhWhyQ 10mo ago
I think a surprisingly good AI will come into existence and one of the lessons will be that we greatly overvalue intelligence over basic distribution. Giving a single kid millions and billions is symbolic of the actual problem (the distribu
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by WhyOhWhyQ 10mo ago
Can somebody explain to me how giving a 28 year old kid 250 million (or was it 1 billion) to run your AI lab is a good idea? Or is it actually a dumb idea? I think it is a dumb idea, but maybe somebody can make it make sense.
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by WhyOhWhyQ 10mo ago
We need a Trumpian style Democrat. Then things might change for the better.
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by WhyOhWhyQ 10mo ago
Everyone in this conversation talks about different activities. One version of vibe coding happens with Netflix open and without ever opening a text editor, and another happens with thoroughly reviewing every change.
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by WhyOhWhyQ 10mo ago
What's your field, broadly, if you don't mind sharing?
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by WhyOhWhyQ 10mo ago
AI generated code is pretty far from passing professional human generated code, unless you're talking about snippets. Who should be writing mission critical code in the next 10 years, the people currently doing it (with AI assistance),
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by WhyOhWhyQ 10mo ago
Makes you wonder what's really meant when we talk about progress.
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by WhyOhWhyQ 10mo ago
I've tried getting claude to set up testing frameworks, but what ends up happening is it either creates canned tests, or it forgets about tests, or it outright lies about making tests. It's definitely helpful, but feels very far f
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by WhyOhWhyQ 10mo ago
In my experience the code quickly becomes less than professional once the human stops monitoring what's going on.
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by WhyOhWhyQ 10mo ago
Didn't notice. Guess I'm legit.
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by WhyOhWhyQ 10mo ago
A lot of the drama here is due to the ambiguity of what the word 'think' is supposed to mean. One camp associates 'thinking' to consciousness, another does not. I personally believe it is possible to create an animal-lik
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by WhyOhWhyQ 10mo ago
If net neutrality is a trojan horse for 'Sam Altman and the Antrhopic guy own everything I do' then I voice my support for a different path.
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by WhyOhWhyQ 10mo ago
It just seems like a modern academic is a middle manager.
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by WhyOhWhyQ 10mo ago
Hmm it could be a false memory, since this was almost 15 years ago, but I really do remember it differently than the text of 'Feeling of Power'.
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by WhyOhWhyQ 10mo ago
"1. Unreasonably happy. 2. Explosive anger." That was exactly my experience. It was either extremely friendly and fun, or extreme anger. It was terrifying. I would usually stay up 24 hours in a row preparing for meetings because I
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by WhyOhWhyQ 10mo ago
There's a scifi short story about a janitor who knows how to do basic arithmetic and becomes the most important person in the world when some disaster happens. Of course after things get set up again due to his expertise, he becomes lo
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by WhyOhWhyQ 10mo ago
My 'boss' was an absolute pyschopath who was a direct cause in my, let's just say, poor mental health over a period of years. I'd rather say not say anything to them ever again, but horrible interactions with them replay
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by WhyOhWhyQ 10mo ago
"Continuing to use this feature is a moral failure on your part and you should be ashamed, your parents should be ashamed, and dishonor will follow you wherever you go."
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by WhyOhWhyQ 10mo ago
Sorry I had to steal that part from you because it's too good!
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by WhyOhWhyQ 10mo ago
iPhone miscorrects apostrophes between "its" and "it's", and its driving me insane. sent from my iPhone
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by WhyOhWhyQ 10mo ago
Another idea is to make the deprecation warning increasingly scary sounding.
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by WhyOhWhyQ 10mo ago
It's an interesting concept, but inapplicable here because I don't trust the media reporting on LLMs and I personally believe expert programmers are never going to be replaced. My concept of the value of LLMs is that they are good
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by WhyOhWhyQ 10mo ago
I don't think it's expert, I just don't think being expert is necessary to get some value out of it if you aren't an expert. The trap is letting the charade go on longer than it should though. I personally only see the m
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by WhyOhWhyQ 10mo ago
It's terrible at the niches I actually have expertise in, which are in mathematics. I'd guess an expert is going to find the flaws in anything it's doing in their field. That being said, if you're just trying to e.g. see
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by WhyOhWhyQ 10mo ago
For me vibecoding has a similar feeling to a big bag of Doritos. It's really fun at first to slap down 10k lines of code in an afternoon knowing this is just an indulgence. I think AI is actually really useful for getting a quick view

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