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by bitwize 4mo ago
That METR study was retracted, dude.
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by bitwize 4mo ago
So the opposite of Marty's self-drying jacket in Back to the Future Part II ?
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by bitwize 4mo ago
It is, and that's how I learned about it!
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by bitwize 4mo ago
I saw his YouTube video here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qzpZQe7JT-o One of the things I like about it is he had to create a little front end to display the game, mirroring actual COBOL practice. Until the 80s or so, COB
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by bitwize 4mo ago
This is also called Spec Driven Development.
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by bitwize 4mo ago
Enjoy getting your milkshake drunk by AI-first companies then.
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by bitwize 4mo ago
I don't know what they're complaining about. AI has freed us from the drudgery of craftsmanship, letting us focus on the important stuff—managerial and administrative work! (There's a reason why I call it the MBA's stone
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by bitwize 4mo ago
AI is the new cloud. There's no market for people or companies who aren't committed to it. If you're a dev who refuses to use AI, no company will hire you; and should a company decide not to use AI they will have a hard time
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by bitwize 4mo ago
As demonstrated in humans, the ability to recognize individuals is little impediment to resentment based on group membership.
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by bitwize 4mo ago
I was telling a friend about a game I'm working on which has "hacking mechanics". Him: So, have you ever thought about basing the hacking mechanics on Hyrum's Law? Me: ...No, but I'm sure that if it ever develops a
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by bitwize 4mo ago
I find that even looking at a teenager's crappy Sonic the Hedgehog fan artwork is much more pleasant than looking at impeccably machine-drafted AI slop. It sounds like a bit of a handwave to talk about how much "soul" an art
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by bitwize 4mo ago
Because C code in production is a ticking time bomb.
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by bitwize 4mo ago
They exist, but Google isn't adding new ones (to my knowledge). Still with us, but relics of a more fun time.
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by bitwize 4mo ago
This reminds me of Google's don't-be-evil era, in which they would add easter eggs like this: "did you mean Emacs" if you searched for vi/vim and "did you mean Vim" if you searched for Emacs, "do a ba
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by bitwize 4mo ago
Kissing ass: $1 Knowing which ass(es) to kiss when: $9,999,999 And that's how CEOs justify their exorbitant compensation
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by bitwize 4mo ago
All of these AIs kind of remind me of VEGA from Doom (2016), who will cheerfully walk you, in the most friendly computer voice, through the procedure of its own destruction without even a hint of self-preservation. "First, you must des
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by bitwize 4mo ago
The point is, even if a model or tool doesn't have advertised features today, it soon will. We're in a breathtakingly rapid cycle, and even if software engineering isn't abolished "six months from now", in 10 years
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by bitwize 4mo ago
Cope harder. A year and a half ago, people were mocking Devin for claiming that AI could develop software at all. Yet here we are, when AI is developing most commercial software.
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by bitwize 4mo ago
God, I hope you never touch a production code base with real users. Strong, static typing has won. It is a must for serious software development. The time and money saved in stupid errors that are caught and avoided before the software
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by bitwize 4mo ago
The point is to show off how smart Stephen Wolfram is, which is the point—these days—of just about anything Stephen Wolfram does. His galaxy brain has transcended the mere proving of theorems, and has moved into discovering/inventing e
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by bitwize 4mo ago
That would explain a lot. Grammarly went full LLM brainrot a few years back, so if you rely on its suggestions your writing will... sound a certain way.
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by bitwize 4mo ago
Yeah, I got an AI vibe off it too, and was surprised to find this. The problem is, to quote Orson Welles, "it's not as conversationally written. It's full if things that are only correct because they're grammatical, but
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by bitwize 4mo ago
You know how we say "adapt or get left behind"? This is what getting left behind looks like. Get your thumb out of your ass and learn the damn tools.
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by bitwize 4mo ago
I did guess. There was a photophone project in one of those Forrest M. Mims notebooks you could get at Radio Shack, and it mentioned that Bell considered it even more important than the telephone.
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by bitwize 4mo ago
I'm sure little Jadzia will never figure it out. Edit: crap, that's DS9...
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by bitwize 4mo ago
TL;DR: AI. It's so helpful to startup founders like me, it even wrote this blog post for me.
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by bitwize 4mo ago
This. Insisting on writing code by hand when LLMs are available is not software engineering in 2026. Engineers find the most cost-effective solution for the problem at hand that meets the requirements.
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by bitwize 4mo ago
16-bit x86 processors took 20-bit pointers, expressed as a 16-bit segment and a 16-bit offset. The segment was shifted four bits left and then the offset added. Which means there are lots of different segment:offset pointers that point to t
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by bitwize 4mo ago
Something something men of culture
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by bitwize 4mo ago
Are you sure you want to: ( ) Shut down the computer? ( ) Restart the computer? (*) Restart the computer in Linux mode? ( ) Close all programs and log on as a different user?

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