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by ang_cire 2y ago
> throw your cellphone into the river and find a nice cabin in the woods somewhere Would that I could...
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by ang_cire 2y ago
> How is using Claude over Llama benefitting corporations over workers? I'm not sure why you took the very general statement about AI being corp-over-worker to mean paid models vs free models? The technology itself heavily favors
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by ang_cire 2y ago
Great story, nice humor, very touching. Thank you for sharing!
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by ang_cire 2y ago
This kind of 'legal bulwark' argument is naive. No precedent is needed for SCOTUS or 5th Circuit Federal to do whatever the hell bs they want. The important thing is what protections are gained now, directly as a result. Also, sal
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by ang_cire 2y ago
Looking down on someone for actions they choose to take, versus for intrinsic characteristics of who they are, are very different things.
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by ang_cire 2y ago
I love AI as a concept. I hate the reality of our current AI, which is benefitting corporations over workers, being used for surveillance and censorship (nevermind direct social control via misinformation bots), and is copying the work of
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by ang_cire 2y ago
I love this detailed discussion of how people are actually using LLMs for coding, and I think this rarely happens in professional spaces currently. I do see more people who seem to be using it to replace coding skill rather than augment it,
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by ang_cire 2y ago
I enjoy using tools to create, very much so. The process is fun to me. The thing I create is a record of the process/ work that went into it. Planning and making a cut with a circular saw feels good. Rattling a spray paint can is excit
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by ang_cire 2y ago
That's interesting, especially wrt the Rust example. I actually like LLMs as reference docs, I just don't trust their code as far as I can throw it. Thanks for the follow-up!
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by ang_cire 2y ago
This is really interesting to me. Do you love coding , or do you love creating programs ? It seems like the latter given your metaphor being a microphone to make you seem like you could sing well, i.e. wanting the end state itself rathe
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by ang_cire 2y ago
Seriously, I see this claim thrown around as though everyone writes the same starting template 50 times a week. Like, if you've got a piece of "boilerplate" code you're constantly rewriting... Save It! Put it in a repo o
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by ang_cire 2y ago
I think the analogy/ substitution falls apart in that singing is generally not very stable or lucrative (for 99.999% of singers), so it is pretty rare to find someone singing who hates it. Much less uncommon to find people working in I
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by ang_cire 2y ago
> most of us would delegate our work code to somebody else or something else if we could. I saw your objections to other comments on the basis of them seemingly not having a disdainful attitude towards coding they do for work, specifical
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by ang_cire 2y ago
I am mostly pretty underwhelmed with LLMs' code, but this is a use-case that makes perfect sense to me, and seems like a net-positive: using them as a reference manual/ translator/ training aid. I just wish I saw more people
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by ang_cire 2y ago
The question of increasing productivity and what that means for us as laborers is another entire can of worms, but that aside, I have never yet found LLM-gen'd code that met my personal standards, and sped up my total code output. If I
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by ang_cire 2y ago
I think that comment is conflating 2 different things: 1) people like you and I who use LLMs for exploring alternative methods to our own, and 2) people who treat LLMs like Stack Overflow answers they don't understand but trust because
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by ang_cire 2y ago
Exactly, thank you!
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by ang_cire 2y ago
If you create a sufficiently absurd hypothetical, anything is possible. Or are you calling an LLM a "clone" of you? In that case, it's more, "if you create a flawed enough starting premise, anything is possible".
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by ang_cire 2y ago
It is absolutely possible to enjoy both- I have used LLMs to generate code for ideas about alternate paths to take when I write my code- but prompt generation is not coding, and there are WAY too many people who claim to be coding when they
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by ang_cire 2y ago
This belies the way that LLM code is being used. People aren't taking LLM code and then thoughtfully refactoring and improving it, they're using it to *avoid* doing that, by treating the generated code as though it's already
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by ang_cire 2y ago
If you're using those things to do *the core function* of the program you're writing, that's an issue. SDKs and libraries are there to provide common (as in, used repeatedly, by many) functions that serve as BUILDING BLOCKS.
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by ang_cire 2y ago
This comment section really shows the stark divide between people who love coding and thus hate AI, and people who hate coding and thus love AI. Honestly, I suspect the people who would prefer to have someone or something else do their codi
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by ang_cire 2y ago
Why is a mom and pop ceramics business violating consumer privacy laws? Shopify is trying to avoid California having jurisdiction (to try them for privacy violations), because Shopify *knows* they're violating California consumer priva
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by ang_cire 2y ago
The EFF has been consistently on the side of consumer online rights, regardless of who is opposing them.
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by ang_cire 2y ago
For anyone not clicking through, EFF supports the 9th Circuit in this case.
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by ang_cire 2y ago
This ruling is correct, and good. > If a company develops a web-based business for the purpose of conducting online transactions in all 50 States, it should not be surprised that it may be sued in any State for unlawful transactions that
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by ang_cire 2y ago
And here I thought the point was that a librarian has the means to ask for and get 3 drinks and water, same as anyone else, but a censor (i.e. the state apparatus) has the means to make huge and unreasonable demands.
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by ang_cire 2y ago
Took me a second, but it's a great analogy for the difference in power.
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by ang_cire 2y ago
> then there is little room for debate And that debate can be had (or not) by a lawyer or perhaps a manager, whose job it is to do so. No server is going to be vested with that authority, nor wants to be saddled with the uncompensated re
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by ang_cire 2y ago
> For one thing, everyone has to abide by the rules- and if the rules are unfair, then it is the rules that deserve this scorn, not the people who played the game by them. > Rightwingers idolize success without acknowledging the syste

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