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by barrell 2y ago
I read this wrong initially — I thought you said one thing you __dislike__ about Zed. I read the whole thing thinking, __oh my god they do exist__
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by barrell 2y ago
Been using eleven labs for several years now. I was really impressed with their multilingual model a few years ago. Since then, they’ve released a few cheaper models, but the quality suffers greatly (they still have the old models though so
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by barrell 2y ago
I also think having one language can be a detriment at times. The JavaScript that you write on the server is so different than that on a browser. Same with Clojure/ClojureScript. This idea that everything is in one language so everythi
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by barrell 2y ago
Kagi has a great browser, proton has mail and calendars (I mean everything has calendars, there isn’t really much lock in there), maps are (location dependent) very fungible. The OS and documents are trickier as I’ve never used either but I
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by barrell 2y ago
It’s also pretty easy to stop using Google - Kagi and proton will get you 70% of the way there
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by barrell 2y ago
Always happy to see clojure on the front page, doubly happy to see jank! I just scoured the internet last week trying to find all the information I could on it. As a clojure(script) developer of 10 years, I still try and avoid anything JVM
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by barrell 2y ago
Personally, I haven’t found LLMs to be helpful for the internal dialogue. Even with a lot of exposition, code samples, and documentations, it always provides either obvious solutions (store items in a vector!), pointless modifications (use
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by barrell 2y ago
Tried for a long while to use Zed. It was great and I loved it - and maybe I could have switched to a GUI editor for real though for the first time in my life. But man. File trees and tabs are the worst DX I can possibly imagine. Try as I m
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by barrell 2y ago
I think you make a very good point about your existing devenv. I recently turned off GitHub copilot after maybe 2 years of use — I didn’t realize how often I was using its completions over LSPs. Quality of Life went up massively. LSPs and n
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by barrell 2y ago
I think the most you could say is we’ve had improvements - from gpt 4 to whatever the current model is has definitely not been exponential improvements. My experience is acctually they’ve become dramatically less helpful over the past two y
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by barrell 2y ago
Surely that’s not the only alternative? I can think of countless others. Personally I do not want to start any conspiracies myself by listing them, but this is hardly a binary choice
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by barrell 2y ago
I didn’t use the expression, I don’t think I would have myself, but it didn’t even strike me as odd until I read the comment by hinkley. Did you read the original comment and think BeetleB follows John and thinks all of his content is disap
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by barrell 2y ago
It’s not a matter of correctness, but of understanding. OP definitely intended to imply the content does not disappoint, and used a colloquialism most native speakers would understand
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by barrell 2y ago
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ linguistic drift. Technically it means you routinely disappoint, but it’s often used idiomatically to mean the opposite
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I liken this to asking people who don’t use a GPS how they drive and if they have every intersection memorized. It’s not about absolute knowledge of a codebase, but intimate familiarity. I also don’t think it’s a coincidence most people in
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by barrell 2y ago
Oddly enough, “never fails to disappoint” can have the meaning “never disappoints” as well as “routinely disappoints”. I’ve never thought about that one before
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by barrell 2y ago
Ah my bad, mentioning writing applications 3x faster and narrative ties to a day job led me to assume your day job way writing applications :)
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by barrell 2y ago
Faster is not necessarily better, and if 2/3 of your value comes from LLMs, that doesn’t bode well for job security. There’s a lot that engineers can due that are well beyond the limits of LLMs. If you really want to keep your day job,
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by barrell 2y ago
This happened to me as well. Came back from several weeks off and I kept getting these rate limit windows in vim today. I was/om on the OSS pro plan so I just figured the gravy train ended and unsintalled it
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by barrell 2y ago
I'm sure LLMs can do it, and I'm sure they will be riddled with mistakes! Especially if you're not competent enough in an area to grok docs (I don't mean that in a condescending way — I would definitely not be competent
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by barrell 2y ago
If all of this is true, then I would expect LLMs today to be in a whole different league of LLMs from two years ago. Personally I find them less helpful and worse at programming and creative writing related tasks. YMMV but count me in the c
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by barrell 2y ago
Build something with an LLM outside of your comfort zone. I was a pretty early adopter to an LLM based workflow. The more I used it, the worse my project became, and the more I learned myself. It didn’t take long for my abilities to surpass
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by barrell 2y ago
Cohere just announced Command R7B. I haven’t tried it yet but their larger models are the best multilingual models I’ve used
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by barrell 2y ago
Phrasing | CTO (Elixir + ClojureScript + ML) | Remote (Europe) | Full-time Hi there Ben and Niko here, founders of Phrasing, an application that can actually help you learn a new language. We're an engineering & design duo looking
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by barrell 2y ago
The ultrawide trend has been amazing. All of my apps open vertically the same amount as intended, so there are no issues. I can open several next to eachother - full documents, browser, server logs. It’s an entirely different experience tha
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by barrell 2y ago
I read the headline 5-10 times trying to make sense of it before even clicking on the link. Native English speaker, just used the other “use” many times
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by barrell 2y ago
Are these people asking chatGPT though? Or do they say “ask GPT” and then use other LLMs? I feel like I hear “ask Claude” as much as “ask chatGPT”
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by barrell 2y ago
I don’t think people outside of tech hearing about OpenAI more than Claude is really indicative of much. Ask those same people how much they use an LLM and it’s often rare-to-never. Also, in what way has OpenAI become the Kleenex of the LLM
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by barrell 2y ago
I would say LLMs are much less “produce a perfect part from nothing” and more “cut down a tree and get a the part you ask for, for a random model of car”
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Sam Altman has explicitly said the next model will be an even bigger jump than between 3 and 4. I think that was before 4o? I know 4o-mini and o1 for sure have come out since he said that

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