beej71

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   by beej71 6mo ago

   Believe me when I say that I want to run local models, and I do. But in my testing, 24 GB doesn't get you much brainpower.
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   by beej71 6mo ago

   I agree as well. And now they can make slipshod products at 10x speed.
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   by beej71 6mo ago

   Claude Code is 600 Kloc... insanity. It's definitely possible to write crap TUIs.
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   by beej71 6mo ago

   Oh, I've definitely seen the results. :) But it's nice when people don't do that.
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   by beej71 6mo ago

   What is the "grunt work"? I think there's a difference of opinion with the commenters. :) The work is, among other things: * Writing components * Writing glue * Requirements gathering * Architectural design * Testing Which pa
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   by beej71 6mo ago

   > now if we want to do it for craft it’s time to contribute to OpenBSD or something I think projects like these will end up being the highest-quality pieces of software out there.
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   by beej71 6mo ago

   > DeepSeek is open weight, open source. Sure, but I can't currently afford the hardware to run the frontier model.
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   by beej71 6mo ago

   The best thing about TUIs is that they're so fast. They launch fast, run fast, and you use them fast. There's a learning curve for the bazillion hotkeys, because all it is is hot keys, but when you have it, you just fly. I've
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   by beej71 6mo ago

   I had to dig through my "booksread.tsv" file a bit. It's _The Future_ by Naomi Alderman.
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    by beej71 6mo ago

    We have such a class at our university. We used to have students issue PRs to real projects but then stopped for that very reason. Now we have our own big OSS project that they work on quarter-to-quarter. Seems like a decent compromise.
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    by beej71 6mo ago

    There was a Sci-Fi book I read where this was a service provided to rich people. Basically you signed up for it, and you'd get a text when everything was about to go down. Time to drop everything and fly to your bunker.
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    by beej71 6mo ago

    Definitely. As instructors, we see this in action all the time. We describe stuff in writing and in lecture, discuss it with the students, and everybody seems to have good understanding. And then we have them implement it. And that's w
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    by beej71 6mo ago

    I wonder if there is enough trades work for everyone, or if oversupply will drop the floor out of those markets, too. "AI isn't coming for your plumbing job; white collar workers are."
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    by beej71 6mo ago

    wuarchive.wustl.edu, ftp.funet.fi!
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    by beej71 6mo ago

    There are some showstoppers here, though. You have to either: A) Change the laws in all countries (a non-starter), or B) Restrict access to only countries that obey those laws And Option B is a non-starter to the freedom crowd. Not to menti
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    by beej71 6mo ago

    I love PWAs. I just hope they never get too popular, or Google will kill them.
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    by beej71 6mo ago

    As much as I don't want it to be, this is a misrepresentation of what the Nvidia exec was likely saying. "Humans are cheaper than AI!" vs "We have one engineer spending $2 million annually on compute".
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    by beej71 6mo ago

    I don't understand how a company can have IP copyright rights on code that is inherently uncopyrightable (in the unlikely event scotus rules that way).
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    by beej71 6mo ago

    I love that genAI art will not be copyrightable and genAI code will be. The power of the Almighty Dollar at work.
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    by beej71 6mo ago

    IANAL but this sounds more like trademark territory.
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    by beej71 6mo ago

    One of my friends argues that we've reached maximum CS knowledge. We'll just use AI and neither it nor us will learn anything new.
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    by beej71 6mo ago

    The irony is that writing the best code possible is now a recipe for unemployment.
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    by beej71 6mo ago

    I spent 20 years in industry before moving to academia, and this resonates for me. I'm not naive enough to think that we'll do the right thing here, but I can dream.
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    by beej71 6mo ago

    > Those people are going to be the absolute most dangerous possible thing you can do to a company. I hear you, but here's the thing: the companies don't give a shit about software quality any farther than it takes to keep you c
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    by beej71 6mo ago

    This isn't just another translation layer, though. It's squishy and stochastic. It's more like saying "managers think at a higher level of abstraction". Which is true, but it's not the same as compiled code. Ge
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    by beej71 6mo ago

    > Is this replacing my thinking? I'm extremely confident the answer is yes. But we have to judge how much value that particular thinking has. As an instructor, I've implemented linked list functionality a zillion times. I'
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    by beej71 6mo ago

    100% agree. In the middle ground: I'm putting together exercises for a C/Systems programming class I'm teaching in the fall. Partway through this, for some reason [ cough procrastination cough ], I thought it would be fun t
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    by beej71 6mo ago

    It should definitely be concerning to the makers of genAI! Like I was telling someone else, what we've made here is the ultimate double-edged sword. Use it right and there's great glory. Use it wrong and you're a lifeless, em
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    by beej71 6mo ago

    Like we say in adventure motorcycling: "It's never the stuff that goes right that makes the best stories." :)
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    by beej71 6mo ago

    I use LLMs and I think they should be nuked from orbit. [Speaking figuratively, NSA.] Helpful, sure. Would humanity be better off without generative AI? Definitely.