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by acedTrex 1y ago
In an ideal world you would think everyone see's it this way. But we are starting to see an uptick in "I don't know the LLMs said do that." As if that is a somehow exonerating sentence.
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by acedTrex 1y ago
Author here: For what it's worth I do actually use the tools albeit incredibly intentionally and sparingly. I see quite a few workflows and tasks that they can be a value add on, mostly outside of the hotpath of actual code generation
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by acedTrex 1y ago
> you might think it's related, but it's not. In my experience they very much are related. High quality devs are far more likely to output high quality working code. They test, they validate, they think, ultimately they care. I
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by acedTrex 1y ago
> Maybe that's not the worst thing in the world. I feel like it often made people complacent. For sure, in some ways perhaps reverting to a low trust environment might improve quality in that it now forces harsher/more in depth
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by acedTrex 1y ago
Author here: Spot on, there are so many little things that we as humans use as subtle verification steps to decide how much scrutiny various things require. LLMs are not necessarily the death of that concept but they do make it far far hard
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by acedTrex 1y ago
Yep, I have come to really dislike LLMs for documentation as it just reads wrong to me and I find so often misses the point entirely. There is so much nuance tied up in documentation and much of it is in what is NOT said as much as what is
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by acedTrex 1y ago
Author here: Precisely, in the age where it is very difficult to ascertain the type or quality of skills you are interacting with say in a patch review or otherwise you frankly have to "judge" someone and fallback to suspicion and
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by acedTrex 1y ago
> I think what the author misses here is that imperfect, probabilistic agents can build reliable, deterministic systems. No one would trust a garbage collection tool based on how reliable the author was, but rather if it proves it can do
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by acedTrex 1y ago
> So if I need a certain level of quality, I have to verify the process of producing it Precisely this, and this is hardly a unique to software requirement. Process audits are everywhere in engineering. Previously you could infer the pro
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by acedTrex 1y ago
Author here: Essentially the premise is that in medium trust environments like very large teams or low trust environments like an open source project. LLMs make it very difficult to make an immediate snap judgement about the quality of the
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by acedTrex 1y ago
Author here: > The article opens with a statement saying the author isn't going to reword what others are writing, but the article reads as that and only that. Hmm, I was just saying I hadn't seen much literature or discussion
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by acedTrex 1y ago
Mobile layout should be fixed now, I also just threw up a quick static version here as well https://static.jaysthoughts.com/
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by acedTrex 1y ago
I suppose I did bring that on myself with the title didn't I. I believe I have fixed the site for mobile so hopefully some of those thread complaints have been rectified.
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by acedTrex 1y ago
Thank you, I'll get that fixed. Edit: Mobile should be fixed now
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by acedTrex 1y ago
I wrote it while playing with alpine.js for fun just messing around with stuff. Never actually expected it to be posted on HN. Working on getting a static version up now.
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by acedTrex 1y ago
Hi everyone, author here. Sorry about the JS stuff I wrote this while also fooling around with alpine.js for fun. I never expected it to make it to HN. I'll get a static version up and running. Happy to answer any questions or hear oth
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by acedTrex 1y ago
https://jaysthoughts.com/aithoughts1 Bit of a rambly rant, but the prediction stuff I was tongue in cheek referring to above is at the bottom.
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by acedTrex 1y ago
Yep 100%, it is something I have also observed. Frankly has been frustrating to the point I spun up a quick one off html site to rant/get my thoughts out. https://jaysthoughts.com/aithoughts1
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by acedTrex 1y ago
Oh hey, the thing I predicted in my blog titled "yes i will judge you for using AI" happened lol Basically I think open source has traditionally HEAVILY relied on hidden competency markers to judge the quality of incoming contribu
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by acedTrex 1y ago
Then you have to remember to run this regularly. Which i regularly forget in tmux autopilot mode. The prompt serves as one last headsup reminder. Even then sometimes I dont look at it and have to roll some stuff back
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by acedTrex 1y ago
Everyone writing the same thing now lol, its plainly obvious this is the workflow best suited to llms
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by acedTrex 1y ago
See when I don't have a prompt I forget to run those things and just autopilot through a lot of commands before I realize Im on the wrong branch. For example if I have say 3 worktrees open in 3 seperate tmux tabs and are context switch
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by acedTrex 1y ago
Oh ya, for work the kubeconfig integration is absolutely essential, i bounce between local clusters and shared nonprod clusters all the time and while its not an outage to break the nonprods its going to annoy a lot of people so its nice to
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by acedTrex 1y ago
You don't need to know what branch you're on before running commands? I cant tell you the number of times ive been on the wrong branch executing stuff.
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by acedTrex 1y ago
LLMs not writing it well might be the biggest current selling point of elixir lol.
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by acedTrex 1y ago
> The best engineering orgs are the ones where normal engineers can do great work I quite like this. It is absolutely true as well, not all teams can be 100% rockstars. How well do you enable the average dev to be good, maybe not GREAT b
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by acedTrex 1y ago
I actually quite agree with this, there is some reckoning on both sides happening. It's quite entertaining to watch, a bit painful as well of course as someone who is on the "they are useless" side and is noticing some very c
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by acedTrex 1y ago
Colima is my guess, only thing that makes sense here if they are doing a qemu vm type of thing
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by acedTrex 1y ago
I am very bearish on that idea to be honest, I think the field will stagnate.
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by acedTrex 1y ago
It has made large parts of the internet and frankly previously solid tools and products unusable. Just look at the Github product being transformed into absolute slop central its wild. Github universe was exclusively focused on useless LLM

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