archagon

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by archagon 6d ago
I think you’re mistaking “agreeing with Islam” with “standing against prejudice.” No liberal I know agrees with the tenants of Islam. But they might have Muslim friends who catch a lot of flak for no reason other than belonging to an outgro
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by archagon 6d ago
When the tides inevitably turn, where will they go? The bridge is fully burned; no takebacksies for white supremacy.
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by archagon 6d ago
It’s pointless for now, but I’ve started adding license addendums to my open source projects stating explicitly that they are not for LLM use or training. If and when the tides turn and these companies start getting sued, I want it document
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by archagon 6d ago
Who are you in the Free Software world to speak so confidently on behalf of the Free Software world?
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by archagon 7d ago
It will be the same category of shit, but accelerated tenfold by the spam machine. Unfortunately, shittiness in and of itself does not cause business failure. Otherwise, the industry would have moved on from Electron long ago.
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by archagon 7d ago
I predict shit will just be in a constant state of brokenness, all the time, with no one understanding what the fuck is going on. You can only superficially “verify” what you do not fully understand.
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by archagon 7d ago
“You’re wrong because this thing somehow reminds me of another, completely unrelated thing.”
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by archagon 8d ago
More like class war.
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by archagon 8d ago
Almost everyone who uses coding agents extensively describes offloading some degree of understanding to the agents: reviews, tests, documentation, filling in bits "that don't matter," whatever. As someone with years of FAANG
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by archagon 9d ago
As I see it, "engineers" going all-in on AI are missing two fundamental truths of our profession: * Writing code is a form of communication, as well as a process through which complex systems are thought through, understood, and f
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by archagon 9d ago
Maybe it’s worth actually listening to what these people are saying, or you may find yourself increasingly frustrated and confused as these debates intensify and AI becomes more politically and socially toxic.
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by archagon 9d ago
And I’m now inclined to subscribe to this person’s blog. So I guess everything remains in balance.
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by archagon 9d ago
“Look at how much more busywork I can do for the same salary!”
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by archagon 9d ago
No, I don’t think we will!
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by archagon 9d ago
I’d rather read a classic Fowler article than literally anything written by an LLM. Indeed, writing well about complex topics has become more important than ever. (But it’s not clear to me if Fowler has any remaining interest in doing it.)
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by archagon 10d ago
If they thought about it, then why isn't this very obvious failure point even mentioned in the technical breakdown?
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by archagon 11d ago
Beautiful, thank you for sharing.
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by archagon 11d ago
I find it disturbing how often supposed professionals make this claim.
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by archagon 11d ago
God, that’s depressing. The mass suicide of an entire trade.
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by archagon 11d ago
That’s amazing. I hope you write about this in depth one day.
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by archagon 12d ago
“If you have a tech job” == good luck when you get laid off or want to start a business.
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by archagon 12d ago
Wot? You are incredibly likely to have the same vulnerabilities as everyone else (as they exist in your LLM’s training corpus).
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by archagon 13d ago
I feel like using LLMs as a sort of deep search to find bugs and security issues is going to end up relatively uncontroversial all around, if the externalities of LLM use are ever taken care of.
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by archagon 13d ago
Fundamentally, the question is this: what is a large language model, what is it capable of, how does it differ from human cognition, and what can humans do that it cannot do? A lot of people seem to believe that with more time and trainin
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by archagon 13d ago
Whatever his technical chops may be, Carmack has slid fully and comfortably into the role of “influencer” over the last decade.
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by archagon 13d ago
AI is not an abstraction and is not like moving up from assembly at all.
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by archagon 15d ago
“Tech stories” = Nth OpenAI/Anthropic press release or LLM-generated thought piece. Such enrichment, much learning.
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by archagon 15d ago
You don’t have to participate in the discussion, but it will take place regardless of your preferences.
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by archagon 15d ago
AI is not an abstraction and it cannot be the foundation for the next layer up, like assembly can. I think you are categorically wrong.
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by archagon 17d ago
So why are you commenting on it?

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