archagon

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by archagon 2mo ago
AI is not an abstraction.
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by archagon 2mo ago
A worrying number of “engineers” here seem to think that programming is a purely mechanical process with little actual thought involved.
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by archagon 2mo ago
Ironically, this is the most Reddit-brained kind of comment imaginable.
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by archagon 2mo ago
Things are great until they’re suddenly not. Money will only do so much when half the world is livid at you.
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by archagon 2mo ago
I'm not on Twitter at all because it doesn't feel good to use a social media platform owned by an ardent white supremacist directly responsible for the deaths of thousands in the third world. Blood money, blood attention.
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by archagon 2mo ago
1/3? Try 2/3 or more. And the technical articles I used to enjoy reading are outright gone. This is an entirely different site from what it was just a few years ago, even if the orange tint remains the same.
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by archagon 2mo ago
Well, at some point, he gets an arrest warrant from the ICC.
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by archagon 2mo ago
AI chud bait.
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by archagon 2mo ago
Libraries, languages, and all that good stuff are the stepping stones we use in service of building powerful abstractions that can then be used to expand software complexity. You cannot LLM your way out of that, I’m afraid.
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by archagon 2mo ago
It’s truly a waste of time to post this sort of content here anymore. The community is too far gone and the hackers and enthusiasts have long left for greener pastures. The torch of software engineering will be carried by people like the au
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by archagon 2mo ago
Ah yes, just want I want, slopcoded dev tools by people who don’t understand what the fuck they’re doing and who will drop support the moment their agents hit some minor issue.
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by archagon 2mo ago
No, it’s really not. Fuck that shit completely. Call it out until this vapid, inhuman mimicry of communication vanishes from this earth.
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by archagon 2mo ago
Slop.
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by archagon 2mo ago
Proselytizing actions like this is step one of collectivization.
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by archagon 2mo ago
"""jovial"""
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by archagon 2mo ago
Stephen King talks about this in On Writing . He carries a book with him wherever he goes and reads in 10m increments throughout the day. So yes, it’s very possible. (Even easier if you are amenable to audiobooks IMO.)
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by archagon 2mo ago
I asked this question on Metafilter ages ago, should be some good suggestions in there: https://ask.metafilter.com/116971/What-are-your-favorite-nov...
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by archagon 2mo ago
Oh yes, this is totally off topic, let’s just keep talking about the same LLM subjects over and over and over and over again.
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by archagon 2mo ago
A distinction without a difference.
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by archagon 2mo ago
Do you think that programming is analogous to pouring concrete???
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by archagon 2mo ago
We’re soon going to return to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street Add a subtle bug or odd behavior to your code, see if someone else’s code repros it (presumably via LLM regurgitation), sue.
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by archagon 2mo ago
Very obviously, wagging your finger at consumers and hoping they change their behavior en masse will be far less effective than targeting the actual polluters directly. (Talk about motivated reasoning!)
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by archagon 2mo ago
Individual consumption is but a blip compared to industrial resource utilization.
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by archagon 2mo ago
Go outside and talk to your neighbors. This is not a problem technology will solve.
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by archagon 2mo ago
So why does this not apply to macOS?
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by archagon 2mo ago
There's nothing violent about eminent domain, either. (Also... LOL.)
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by archagon 2mo ago
Yes, you must launder any advocacy for violence through the use of neutral language like “defense industry,” which has wide support and even VC funding around here.
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by archagon 2mo ago
AI is not an abstraction.
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by archagon 2mo ago
LLM use breeds insecurity, as well it should.
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by archagon 2mo ago
I think LLMs are particularly effective at turning once-competent developers into idiots. (“Just ask Claude.”)

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