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by bigstrat2003 10d ago
I write code by hand because LLMs do not provide any significant productivity gains. They turn out code fast, but then I have to review it to make sure the code is correct. That takes me about as long as it would to write the code myself in
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by bigstrat2003 10d ago
> go back to the old days where you manually approve every command the AI runs Those are also the current days if you have any sense. It's a bad idea to run an LLM with access to your machine at all, but if you absolutely must, you
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by bigstrat2003 10d ago
Gatekeeping is a good thing. It's how communities stay healthy and vibrant. Gatekeeping means that when someone shows up to your birdwatching club and says "I hate going outdoors, can we just look at photos of birds from the Inter
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by bigstrat2003 10d ago
It doesn't blow anyone's mind because it hasn't been impressive for a computer to play chess for 40 years. "We made something worse than existing solutions by using a new technique" is not an impressive feat.
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by bigstrat2003 10d ago
> We all know AI can code... We know no such thing. LLMs are quite bad at generating code, worse than any capable human.
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by bigstrat2003 10d ago
> Why shouldn't architects design buildings people enjoy? In many fields (architecture, art, cooking all come to mind) there seems to be an outright resistance to doing things that people actually enjoy. My hypothesis is that practi
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by bigstrat2003 10d ago
Yes. That building is rather ugly, in my opinion. Give me gothic style over that any day of the week.
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by bigstrat2003 10d ago
No it isn't. Computers could play chess long before LLMs, better than LLMs can in fact. That didn't make them AGI.
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by bigstrat2003 10d ago
OpenAI making the next model good at chess is not analogous to a human training to get good at chess. It is analogous to God creating Human 2.0 which now has increased chess playing ability. If LLMs were intelligent the way humans are, then
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by bigstrat2003 10d ago
I don't care about chapter search, nor a dictionary. I actively dislike tapping to change pages, it is far less pleasant than turning a page. Physical books are not obsolete, you just don't like them. Which is fine, everyone has a
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by bigstrat2003 10d ago
Not one of the things you mentioned about ebooks actually interests me. On the other hand, physical books are more comfortable to read, enjoyable to hold in your hands and flip the pages, don't ever run out of charge, and look nice whe
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by bigstrat2003 10d ago
> Frontier labs don't care about chess. If OpenAI cared, GPT-7 could be a grandmaster+ level chess player. If the models were actually intelligent, the way that the boosters claim, they wouldn't need to be tuned to play chess i
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by bigstrat2003 11d ago
If you do something evil because "others will do it if I don't, so it may as well be me", you are a bad person. So that isn't exactly a compelling defense of what Anthropic is doing. They are either insincere (because th
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by bigstrat2003 11d ago
> Coding agent are now replacing the IDE and code is now mostly written by the agents. If you're doing that, you are producing slop. So it should be called out as slop.
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by bigstrat2003 11d ago
> If they work, does it matter? If you're using an LLM to write your code, odds are very high it does not work.
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by bigstrat2003 11d ago
In a few years they will be the only competent people left who can save us from the deluge of AI slop. You should be nice to them, because you'll need them someday.
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by bigstrat2003 11d ago
Your site hijacks the back button and makes it damn near impossible to leave. This is extremely bad behavior, don't do that.
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by bigstrat2003 11d ago
LLMs are worse than any competent programmer. Just turning them loose is a terrible idea.
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by bigstrat2003 12d ago
That's probably true. And it is also a glaring red flag saying "STOP LETTING AN LLM GENERATE PRs". Far too few will heed that red flag, I fear.
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by bigstrat2003 12d ago
The problem with 8 was that the UI was designed for a touch screen without a thought given to the fact that most users were going to be driving it with a mouse. Reliability-wise, it was perfectly fine.
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by bigstrat2003 12d ago
Well, that's a blessing at least. It was painful watching the butchering of Star Trek over the last decade.
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by bigstrat2003 12d ago
Pretty much up until Windows 10. Not that every decision they made was great (it wasn't), but they very rarely shipped stuff which was straight up broken. They used to have a commitment to quality which they threw away around the time
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by bigstrat2003 12d ago
> If you assume that's impossible, attempting to be the first to produce ASI is a rational alternative, even if you think it will most likely kill you. That is completely irrational.
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by bigstrat2003 12d ago
You realize people said the exact same stuff before SC2, right? Saying it's a dead genre, nobody is going to buy it so they won't make it, etc. And yet SC2 was extremely successful. I predict SC3 would be equally successful if Bli
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by bigstrat2003 12d ago
That doesn't matter. Amazon or whoever can add as much secret sauce as they like; people can freely use the original so there's no issue.
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by bigstrat2003 12d ago
> I guarantee you you would be able to adapt without any problem. I guess it depends on how you define "problem". It took me years (probably a decade or so) to get good at estimating measurements. I would expect that to relearn
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by bigstrat2003 13d ago
> but this has significant disadvantages and practically no advantages (other than "accuracy of what happened". ...which is a very big advantage, big enough that it outweighs the disadvantages in my opinion.
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by bigstrat2003 13d ago
We definitely haven't been writing completely correct code in the past. But even so, the code LLMs write has more issues than the code humans write.
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by bigstrat2003 13d ago
I agree that the rust community tends to be pretty toxic, but I don't think that is a good reason to avoid tools just because they use rust under the hood. You don't have to participate in the git dev community, let alone the rust
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by bigstrat2003 13d ago
I love Fossil and I use it for my projects. I understand why it isn't for everyone, but considering I am the sole developer on the stuff I make (and I agree with Dr. Hipp about the drawbacks of rebase), it's perfect for my needs.

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