bandrami

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811.
by bandrami 9mo ago
> So basically, like a co-worker. Arguably, though I don't particularly need another co-worker. Also co-workers are not tools (except sometimes in the derogatory sense).
812.
by bandrami 9mo ago
> I do not bore myself with trivialities such as retrieving a customer from the DB in a REST call Genuine question, why isn't your ORM doing that? I see a lot of use cases for LLMs that seem to be more expensive ways to do snippets
813.
by bandrami 9mo ago
"That's the brilliant part: when the winter comes the apes freeze to death!"
814.
by bandrami 9mo ago
If there's enough software already than LLMs are the worst-timed invention in human history...
815.
by bandrami 9mo ago
Previous tools have been deterministic and understandable. I write code with emacs and can at any point look at the source and tell you why it did what it did. But I could produce the same program with vi or vscode or whatever, at the cost
816.
by bandrami 9mo ago
I mean it's also the name of the national engineering education journal and a few other things. There's only 14,000 5-letter words in English so you're going to have collisions.
817.
by bandrami 9mo ago
Output goes up until everything fails catastrophically
818.
by bandrami 9mo ago
It's... really just not, though
819.
by bandrami 9mo ago
Maybe. Sounds like a real marketing failure in that case
820.
by bandrami 9mo ago
One of the most annoying things I ever learned about T S Eliot is that he was born in Missouri and didn't move to the UK until his late 20s and just entirely made up that accent.
821.
by bandrami 9mo ago
It's less monolithic in the sense that instead of one creaky unmaintainable ancient mass of software doing the actual rendering gruntwork there are now five (and counting) somewhat incompatible slick untested new masses of software doi
822.
by bandrami 9mo ago
Just to throw this distinction out there, what makes something a "tool" isn't that it is used but that it is fashioned. Plenty of animals use things to accomplish tasks; the processing of materials to fashion tools is much mo
823.
by bandrami 9mo ago
Well, multiple types of software. The avionics simulation software we make isn't really a candidate for AI both because of procurement requirements and the fact that as of this month (we do check periodically) no LLM really gets how to
824.
by bandrami 9mo ago
I am, though it always takes me longer than just writing it myself because I have to fix so much (which may be a function of the kind of software I write). But more importantly the development team I support as an admin absolutely loves the
825.
by bandrami 9mo ago
Nah, if that were true there would be a lot more new software available. What's it working at is making developers feel busy, which is itself a worthwhile task.
826.
by bandrami 9mo ago
Sysadmins really hate the word "usually", and that is at the root of just about every systemd headache I've had
827.
by bandrami 9mo ago
I'm bearish on AI creating working software but bullish on AI doing this kind of thing
828.
by bandrami 9mo ago
> But switching costs are pretty low Switching costs are currently low. Once you're committed to the workflow the providers will switch to prepaying for a year's worth of tokens.
829.
by bandrami 9mo ago
They certainly don't (and shouldn't) have access to them without a prescription
830.
by bandrami 9mo ago
Same as the point of banning online gambling or methamphetamines
831.
by bandrami 9mo ago
> He built the robot concepts rooted in the mechanical world He was idealistic even at the time. The 3 Laws were written 30 years after some of the earliest robots were aiming artillery barrages at human beings.
832.
by bandrami 9mo ago
> But in 2026 in the US only Waymo has highly autonomous driving systems, in only a few markets 10 years ago I predicted that the uptake of autonomous vehicles would be slow but that it would be because of labor protections. While those
833.
by bandrami 9mo ago
That's an incredibly simplistic narrative of what happened in Nepal but I get that that is what the media in the US/EU have been running with
834.
by bandrami 9mo ago
We need to recognize that deliberately engineered psyops are deliberately engineered psyops
835.
by bandrami 9mo ago
That's the kind of soft-hearted laissez-faire attitude that got us where we are today
836.
by bandrami 9mo ago
I have to assume this is a joke because that's absolutely ludicrous to claim and (if true) would mean the valuation of every social media company is so inflated as to constitute fraud.
837.
by bandrami 9mo ago
Key word is "broadcast". TV programming is not personally tailored to melt your specific amygdala.
838.
by bandrami 9mo ago
It's a good start. Ban it for all under 30s and over 60s.
839.
by bandrami 9mo ago
> And the world didn't fall apart. Software got significantly worse in that time period, though
840.
by bandrami 9mo ago
That's more or less what American Fuzzy Lop does, now that you say that...

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