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by adamddev1 3mo ago
"If it runs, it runs," is an very naive and irresponsible view of code.
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by adamddev1 3mo ago
There's this crazy narrative that everyone starts parroting, saying the days of writing code yourself are over, now we have to use agents for everything. No, we don't have to. We can just write code ourselves. (My condolences to p
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by adamddev1 3mo ago
Linters and tests help of course, but they cannot "fix" the problem since tests cannot prove the absence of bugs.
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by adamddev1 4mo ago
Human incompetence, or human-written algorithmic incompetence in code can still be identified, appealed to, and dealt with. With LLMs you get incompetence cut off from human embodiment and any chance of empathy, baked into opaque black-boxe
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by adamddev1 4mo ago
I made one language learning app with a top end LLM backend and at first I thought it was magic. But as I and other people used it more I realized: - This thing is very consistently lying and misleading people. Do I want to introduce more d
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by adamddev1 4mo ago
It seems by definition "below par" of whatever human activity it's training on. How can we achieve greater and greater heights of intelligence if we're just creeping closer and closer to a sub-par copy of human creative
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by adamddev1 4mo ago
People absolutely would feel the difference if AI models started making 90% of the decisions. You were just denied an application because some LLM decided you fit a certain statistical pattern. Where did the LLM go wrong? What were the step
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by adamddev1 4mo ago
> "I think there's a big difference between jazz and corporate landing pages." Hard agree. I had to laugh at that sentence. I realized it wasn't really a fair analogy but also just kind of going off the copywriting ex
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by adamddev1 4mo ago
Jazz musicians also copy each other's solos for learning and practice purposes, but they would never actually perform more than a couple well placed quotes or licks from another player.
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by adamddev1 4mo ago
This logic enables and encourages corruption in all spheres of life. "Things are messed up as they are, so why try so hard to do the right thing?" "Let's be realistic."
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by adamddev1 4mo ago
Yes. People don't seem to understand is that if we build our tools and libraries with models that do random dumb stuff 0.01% of the time, those bugs and leaky abstractions bubble up and grow exponentially into errors and undependable b
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by adamddev1 4mo ago
How did we get so much better at writing compilers? Was it a better understanding of how to make syntax trees with ADTs etc?
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by adamddev1 4mo ago
Interestingly enough, linguists also use Lisp-like parentheses or brackets to annotate sentence structures. Trees and brackets are isomorphic, as both phrase structure grammarians and the original SICP lectures pointed out. The brackets in
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by adamddev1 4mo ago
One of the cool things about code is that you can build stuff out of thin air, basically for free. It's not like woodworking where you have to pay for the wood. We are moving into a weird time where people are assuming that now we have
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by adamddev1 4mo ago
I shouldn't have used the term "vibe-coded" as that's an extreme charicature. But I would argue in general heavy use of LLMs just does lead to sloppier code, and I think there's a general feel for that. Has AI use h
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by adamddev1 4mo ago
We can't say "just like to photographers did with photography" or "just like programmers did with higher-level languages." These developments are not analogous to LLMs. The jump into probabilistic text-guessing mach
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by adamddev1 4mo ago
And there might be no way to prove you really wrote something Post-2022. I wrote a long article, all by hand. I never used any LLMs, even for searching. I checked it with a couple of AI detection tools and they confidently said that 60% of
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by adamddev1 4mo ago
Yes. People are losing the plot and embracing corruption with logic like this: There will always be a few employees stealing. So why don't we just use this system that consistently and randomly introduces theft into every level of our
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by adamddev1 4mo ago
People are forgetting that "if the tests pass" is not a good measure of reliability. CS 101 from Dijkstra: tests cannot prove the absence of bugs.
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by adamddev1 4mo ago
Everyone's excited about using AI to make their quick end products. But no-one wants to actually build on or rely on vibe-coded frameworks, languages, or tools.
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by adamddev1 4mo ago
Back when you could just buy the software and have it.
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by adamddev1 4mo ago
I second this feedback. The demo video was also clicking on emails and having Claude research and answer them automatically? Is this really the inhumane kind of communication we want to be pushing and normalizing? The UI looks nice, and I w
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by adamddev1 4mo ago
So true. The last 3-4 times I have checked the sources did NOT say what the Google AI summary said they did.
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by adamddev1 4mo ago
The AI summaries are of course another layer of lies. The lie about the sources (which may also be lies). Before the lie would have to be written by a human and published on some website. I'm not saying that was good. But it was more m
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by adamddev1 4mo ago
The lack of consent is real. As one of those viral commencement speakers who got booed said: "Find a way to say yes." My greater concern is that we are trading away hard earned truths for drastically inferred best guesses and sl
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by adamddev1 4mo ago
It's the definition of cutting corners. Using statistical inference to guess at what's right as fast as possible.
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by adamddev1 4mo ago
I remember learning to make sites back around 2019 and seeing so many blog posts and hype around JWTs. It seemed like "this was the way to do it!" But I couldn't understand why session cookies weren't the better, simpler
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by adamddev1 4mo ago
Delightful little experience. Very nice. What would be even cooler would be if the axe only went partway down sometimes and then you have to lift the log up with the axe inside a couple of times to finish it off with that satisfying full sp
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by adamddev1 4mo ago
I think this is a great idea, and I've wondered about something like this before. I do find it sad though that the opening description has to be: > Two agents edit different functions in the same file? Clean merge. Why does EVERYT
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by adamddev1 4mo ago
> I’ve watched this industry absorb higher-level languages, IDEs, autocomplete, agile and devops, and there were always crusty hold-outs reminiscing about the good old days before X came along and ruined everything. But all of those th

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