bigstrat2003

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by bigstrat2003 25d ago
> I don't get it, you guys speak as if you have infinite time and no goals besides just the act of writing code, with no consideration about what the code you're writing is supposed to do. As if you'd be happy to just writ
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by bigstrat2003 25d ago
> Meanwhile I've seen other people, colleagues, friends, who are programmers get incredibly frustrated about AI and it's almost entirely that it lets non-developers make things. My frustration is a) people vastly overrate the L
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by bigstrat2003 25d ago
> Aside - is AI still DIY? No, it's not at all DIY. I cringe any time I see someone say "I made X" and it's vibe coded, because they haven't actually made anything.
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by bigstrat2003 25d ago
Right now the AI companies are selling their product at a loss to try to get us hooked. I think it's fair to describe the current situation as "unreasonably cheap", though free is a bit of a stretch.
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by bigstrat2003 25d ago
That's fine, but then the value of the tool evaporates. I agree you have to hold the LLM's hand so that it doesn't do crazy things, but that takes so much time that you don't actually save time over just writing it yours
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by bigstrat2003 26d ago
A brief search says that iPhone sales in 225 were approximately $200 billion. 5% of that is therefore approximately $10 billion. If you call that a "massive flop", your standards are completely unrealistic. That is a massive suc
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by bigstrat2003 26d ago
> the sales numbers if it were poor versus the rest of the lineup. For one, the sales were still perfectly respectable. "Versus the rest of the lineup" is doing a ton of work here, because the rest of the iPhone models sell lik
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by bigstrat2003 26d ago
Similarly, in the past I have wished for the ability to exempt a process from the oomkiller. I've run servers where the top memory user was also the server's entire reason for existence, and if that process gets killed the server
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by bigstrat2003 26d ago
LLMs are guesswork. You have to validate them, not the other way around.
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by bigstrat2003 26d ago
> It's astounding to me that people can see coding get solved... We haven't seen that. Maybe when we do, we will start to believe that other things will get solved.
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by bigstrat2003 26d ago
> I've found I can produce 10x more code than I could otherwise, of lower quality than I would otherwise, but the speedup is worth it. That is never worth it. You're ruining the software you work on when you do this.
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by bigstrat2003 26d ago
Yeah, the author leads with a blatantly false claim that models are almost perfect at generating code. They are not. They write pretty bad code, worse than any capable human would.
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by bigstrat2003 27d ago
Yes. But then those wouldn't be the places which GP was talking about, where the shower head is set up so you stand in the bath tub to take a shower.
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by bigstrat2003 27d ago
Or, you know... people like to know more about the bright kid who came up with a cool idea. Not everything is racism.
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by bigstrat2003 27d ago
Great Scott!
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by bigstrat2003 27d ago
I thought the same thing. I loved that movie, and I have in no way forgotten it.
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by bigstrat2003 27d ago
Apple hasn't innovated in a long, long time. At a bare minimum since the 2000s. What they have done in the last 20-30 years is to take ideas that are already out there and polish them up. The "think different" stuff was just
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by bigstrat2003 27d ago
Yeah, of course I would. If I like a given artist's work, I want more work which is like that. I don't begrudge artists who want to do new things, but "it's just like his old work" is IMO high praise, not a valid cr
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by bigstrat2003 27d ago
It's definitely cheaper long term for me. I don't watch/listen to a tiny amount of content, but the cost of buying the stuff once and never paying a dime after comes out far ahead of the cost of a subscription every month for
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by bigstrat2003 27d ago
"unwatchable" is ridiculous. I have plenty of 480p rips that I took from my DVDs, and they look just fine. Not remotely unwatchable.
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by bigstrat2003 27d ago
It's absolutely cheaper in the long run for me. I spent a fair bit on my CDs (and digital downloads), sure. But I never need to pay another dime in my life. I'm going to guess that I spent somewhere around $1000 on my music collec
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by bigstrat2003 28d ago
If Sam Altman tells you the sky is blue, you should double check. I certainly hope nobody believes him when he claims controversial things from which he stands to benefit.
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by bigstrat2003 28d ago
Yeah I agree. Mr. Chen strikes me as too professional to put his employer on blast like that, but he's likely not a fan.
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by bigstrat2003 28d ago
He doesn't even have the power to unilaterally declare what the US calls it. Names of geographic features are established by popular usage, not governments.
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by bigstrat2003 28d ago
He didn't say that, and you shouldn't put words in his mouth like that.
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by bigstrat2003 28d ago
I certainly don't. You simply cannot get actual work done on a phone anywhere near as easily as on a real computer. There's a reason that companies issue laptops (or have desktops even) instead of giving employees a phone.
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by bigstrat2003 28d ago
I mean kinda, yeah. Since that's literally the only kind of smartphone you can get nowadays.
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by bigstrat2003 28d ago
> Then Apple finally released the iPhone mini and nobody was buying it, so they had to kill it after a couple of iterations. And by "nobody", you mean "actually a lot of people, just not as many as the bigger model".
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by bigstrat2003 28d ago
They sold just fine. They just didn't sell a billion million units, so in Apple land that was considered a "failure". Most manufacturers would've been stoked to get the sales figures the iPhone mini got.
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by bigstrat2003 28d ago
LLMs can't even figure out how to do basic things. They can't program well despite billions being poured into that effort. I'm not worried they will suddenly develop intelligence out of nowhere and kill us all.

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