bagacrap

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by bagacrap 9mo ago
Ok, then as a self described LLM evangelist, what motivates you to preach about LLM coding instead of just, y'know, doing it in private?
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by bagacrap 9mo ago
"insecure" in the title didn't set the tone for you?
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by bagacrap 9mo ago
I think this is an opportunity for that bell curve/enlightenment meme. Of course as you get a little past junior, you often get hung up on the best way of doing things without worrying about best being the enemy of good enough. But tru
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by bagacrap 10mo ago
It's definitely testing the waters.
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by bagacrap 10mo ago
I don't think zero unit tests is the right answer either. And if you actually take the time to read all 300 and cull the useless or overlapping ones, you've invested much more than 10% of the time it would have taken you. Having a
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by bagacrap 10mo ago
Well Amazon makes it take way less time to buy something (almost anything). I dont have to waste time and money going to the hardware store, it only takes 90 seconds of my time and the price including shipping is less than what the hardware
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by bagacrap 10mo ago
A trillion dollar valuation doesn't imply there's actually a trillion dollars there. It's just the last price the stock sold for, times the shares in existence. If Elon tried to sell every share of Tesla tomorrow, he would ge
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by bagacrap 10mo ago
I think the author's point is that if you even try to understand the code, you haven't fully embraced vibe coding.
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by bagacrap 10mo ago
It seems the people who think they can just tell computers to write code for them, also are the people who are inclined to tell other people to build apps for them. We are hurdling towards a brave new world where only 10% of humans have to
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by bagacrap 10mo ago
like a vibe coder knows what a code review is, or an LLM knows how to take feedback
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by bagacrap 10mo ago
If the cost of building software had dropped 90%, the author wouldn't need to write a blog post. Just undercut the competition by 80% (they can keep 10% for themself).
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by bagacrap 10mo ago
I mean, just say you view unit testing as nothing more than a checkbox.
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by bagacrap 11mo ago
I think there are likely a lot of people for whom their voice is not unique or an asset. Those people need to hire someone who is better at writing (assuming they're managing a business's social media). Or those people can save mo
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by bagacrap 11mo ago
Agreed, except s/know/think. It's possible that there are some false positives in my detection algorithm, that I tune out just because someone's prose style has that undercurrent of blandness characteristic of LLMs. But
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by bagacrap 11mo ago
You must work on very simple codebases
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by bagacrap 11mo ago
> If it takes a long time to track down, then it should either be sidelined, or the design needs to be revisited. I don't get this. Either you give up on the bug after a day, or you throw out the entire codebase and start over? Sure
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by bagacrap 11mo ago
I'm not asking about cumulative inflation since 1995. I'm asking how you know we used to pay auto mechanics more in real dollars than we do today.
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by bagacrap 11mo ago
Where do you find the pay for [Ford] auto mechanics in 1995?
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by bagacrap 11mo ago
And more broadly, if an agent is supposed to do everything a human can on the web, its ability to solve a captcha is likely a decent litmus test.
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by bagacrap 1y ago
Haha, wait, the training directly on websites is off by default, but if you use browser memories, training on that is on by default. Browser memories contain arbitrary amounts of information from websites... Anil's point is that Chatgp
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by bagacrap 1y ago
"we are not evil, we are one default away from being evil!"
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by bagacrap 1y ago
I despise the AI mode in Google and wish I could turn it off, but at least traditional results are just below it. > Well... it displays in a browser... Yes, a slop browser.
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by bagacrap 1y ago
Why would you trust an LLM to make the right decisions on your behalf? You think it can't be tricked by dark patterns? LLMs can't even follow direct orders much less detect deception or ill intent. I guess you did say "the id
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by bagacrap 1y ago
I am definitely going to reuse the term "slop-jockey".
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by bagacrap 1y ago
Simple, the offshore engineers don't have a license to write code that runs in the US. That is what lawyers have done.
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by bagacrap 1y ago
If you can get through MIT with a CS diploma and not knowing any CS then that's almost more impressive than doing it the standard way.
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by bagacrap 1y ago
Unfortunately there is absolutely no incentive structure in place anywhere to reward someone for writing code that lasts a decade or more without major maintenance. How would you do that? Send a check a decade later? Even setting aside the
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by bagacrap 1y ago
I don't think you're using the term technical debt correctly. Technical debt occurs when you intentionally choose to do something the expedient way even if it causes you to invest more time later, usually due to an important deadl
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by bagacrap 1y ago
Why is documentation low risk? Because you don't personally suffer if it's wrong? I would rather a piece of code not be documented than for it to be documented by AI and lead me down a garden path of misunderstanding.
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by bagacrap 1y ago
I don't know what code review royalty is exactly but there are certain coworkers of mine whose feedback I value very highly. I feel sad if that's not the case for you.

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