ZaoLahma

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by ZaoLahma 1y ago
As with everything, I guess do it in moderation and don't be stupid...? Planning on being out a full day under the summer sun as a very pale north European? Slob on all the sunscreen that you can and hide in the shade when possible. A
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by ZaoLahma 1y ago
This won't harm Apple or its AirPod product much, if at all. The Apple brand and its eco system is strong enough for the vast majority of average EU customers to ignore the missing features and buy the products regardless (at full pric
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by ZaoLahma 1y ago
Oof...! A lot of innovation originates in engineers' "boredom". I've been at a company that mandated innovation by having a mandatory annual innovation day, and full productivity for the rest of the year. "Be innova
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by ZaoLahma 1y ago
> Another thought... if I'm tasked with maintaining or adding features to existing code, should I feel responsible for writing tests for the existing codebase? Do you trust yourself enough to not break existing code while maintainin
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by ZaoLahma 1y ago
I'm not a manager and have no aspirations at all to be one, but I have worked with plenty of "complainers". Usually what complainers complain about has nothing to do with why they are unhappy. Way too often frustration with p
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by ZaoLahma 1y ago
It’s not “by others”. It’s by circumstance. It’s like any other tool. If I wanted to chop wood and noticed how my axe had gone dull, the likelihood of me going “ah f*ck it” and instead go fishing increases dramatically. I want to chop wood.
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by ZaoLahma 1y ago
Using your potato peeler example: If my potato peeler told me "Why bother? Order pizza instead." I'd be obese. An LLM can directly influence your willingness to pursue an idea by how it responds to it. Interest and excitement
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by ZaoLahma 1y ago
Might tell it "I want to do this stupid thing" and it goes "ok cool". Previously it would have gone "Oh really? Fantastic! How do you intend to solve x?" and off you go.
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by ZaoLahma 1y ago
I find the GPT-5 model having turned the friendliness way, way down. Topics that previously would have rendered long and (usefully) engaging conversations are now met with an "ok cool" kind of response. I get it - we don't wa
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by ZaoLahma 1y ago
Yep. Most games nowadays are released broken and incomplete. Being able to patch a game after release truly is both a blessing and a curse. Then they throw microtransactions on top of the already rather ugly mess. Microtransactions were sup
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by ZaoLahma 1y ago
Yeah, this is a great approach if you're already at war with a country. If you're not and they're still allowing your planes to fly through their airspace then this is a great way to ensure that they lock your (and your frien
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by ZaoLahma 1y ago
Replace the "hire poor developers" with "use LLM driven development", and you have the rough outline for a perfect Software Engineering horror movie. It used to be that the poor performers (dangerous hip-shootin' co
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by ZaoLahma 1y ago
As I was reading this I was hoping that they had completely disabled the limitations and unexpectedly found alternate routes to sustainable profits, or that people suddenly became more willing to pay when there was less pressure to do so. B
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by ZaoLahma 1y ago
It's neat enough, but I still prefer to not have to download stuff, and instead have the available software in a central repository. There's a reason why projects like Homebrew exist for Mac.
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by ZaoLahma 1y ago
The raspberry pi is great. Absolutely love them. Been running them as dev boards (robotics) and servers (at home) for 10+ years. Last time I truly, genuinely, felt excited about Christmas was when my SO gave one to me back in 2014 or so. Bu
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by ZaoLahma 1y ago
It will not. I'm an engineer through and through. I can ask an LLM to generate images just fine, but for a given target audience for a certain purpose? I would have no clue. None what so ever. Ask me to generate an image to use in adve
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by ZaoLahma 1y ago
I would never use an LLM for trying to generate a full solution to a complex problem. That's not what they're good at. What LLMs are good at and their main value I'd argue, is nudging you along and removing the need to implem
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by ZaoLahma 1y ago
This is an interesting one. Do we own the rights to our own likeness? And if we do, what about doppelgangers - people who look eerily similar to celebrities, or other "unknown" people?
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by ZaoLahma 1y ago
When I was younger, early in my career, I coded to learn more about what I was doing at work. Pure career progression. The older I get, the less I care about career progression and the more I allow myself to just use code to explore thought
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by ZaoLahma 2y ago
AI does not and will not solve the most difficult part of programming: Expressing how you wish to solve a problem in simple terms. It doesn't matter if you communicate with a compiler or an LLM - you still need to express your thoughts
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by ZaoLahma 2y ago
It's amazing how often it happens in large companies that different people from different organizations are troubleshooting or fixing the same fault, independent from each other, without even knowing. Sometimes you don't even real
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by ZaoLahma 2y ago
I started off my career in low level stuff and transitioned upwards to web. I’ve always been all over the place in terms of tech so it wasn’t particularly big steps either way. I’ve usually got something low level-ish going on at home. Emul
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by ZaoLahma 2y ago
Telecom and automotive. I guess hobby robotics, for example, could get you an entry to it if you choose to write the hardware interfacing parts yourself.
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by ZaoLahma 2y ago
This is exactly why I gave up a position as a full stack / devops engineer in favor of going back to low level drivers - there were too many unknowns, and far too many unknown unknowns often paired with expectations of prompt (and chea
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by ZaoLahma 2y ago
While I do agree with you, I am a bit concerned about the recent developments with "paid, but still has ads" subscriptions and how Youtube might slip towards such practices as well as soon as they have a large enough number of pay
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by ZaoLahma 2y ago
If your target audience is yourself, there's still plenty of value in writing it down. Wait long enough and there will be situations where you did something in the past that works really well, but you can't remember anymore what y
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by ZaoLahma 2y ago
> I'm coming around to the Dark Forest theory, personally, as terrifying as it is. If you're silent with the intent of remaining hidden, then that behavior must have been learned. Either you evolved from a prey type of species,
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by ZaoLahma 2y ago
It isn't only frontend frameworks. I currently AI-coma / tab-complete C++17 with decent results for stuff ridiculously far away from frontend, but I do wonder who is providing the training data for C++23 and onwards as there isn&#
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by ZaoLahma 2y ago
Seems plausible, especially in combination with the AI-coma that occurs when you tab-complete your way through problems at full speed.
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by ZaoLahma 2y ago
Eyes are good at generating the signal or we wouldn't have much use for the vision they do provide us. On a somewhat related note, due to a head injury I suffered now many years ago, I started developing small-ish blind spots "onc

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