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by dawnerd 5mo ago
June 1st for all the folks taking advantage of copilot. It was an astounding deal and a lot of people were “abusing” it.
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by dawnerd 5mo ago
Personally I found 5.5 a massive step back from 5.4. Both of them still use way too many fallbacks and unnecessary checks, especially if you're having it output php. It's fine if you're just one person and checking everything
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by dawnerd 5mo ago
That's literally my job...
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by dawnerd 5mo ago
Yet it still codes like a junior developer that memorized all of stack overflow.
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by dawnerd 5mo ago
Yes, I’d say it is ethically dubious, especially when it goes against what the citizens were asking for. Definitely a fine line and a bit of a gray area but still, lots of gov officials don’t get caught up in this and manage just fine. It’s
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by dawnerd 5mo ago
And besides, these days no ones giving straight cash to bribe, it's always via other means that are harder to trace and maybe not even directly monetary (sending them on a vacation, golfing, donations to charity...). It's weird th
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by dawnerd 5mo ago
The other day I half-jokingly said I was going to build a site to expose local council members for taking kickbacks and someone said "that isn't happening" It's literally happening and this story makes it really clear. I
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by dawnerd 5mo ago
Ai companies definitely downloading more than just books.
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by dawnerd 5mo ago
Exactly, why should sites give free bandwidth to the google bots hammering them for nothing in return? Outside of retail, there's no point in allowing google to crawl if you're not getting anything in return.
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by dawnerd 5mo ago
They will once they figure out how to charge for it (which GitHub is trying according to the security scanning banner they keep showing me).
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by dawnerd 5mo ago
Didn’t they already have subtitle generation for uncaptioned video? Edit: was thinking about this feature https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/get-live-captions-of-...
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by dawnerd 5mo ago
And then everyone that has to deal with their copy pasted output is too nice to say how bad it is and how much work it just offloads to the next person that’ll probably get frustrated and have an agent handle it.
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by dawnerd 5mo ago
But we’ve had tools to automate out the boilerplate for years. We don’t need ai for that. It’s seriously like we all forgot we could run one command and scaffold a project. AI isn’t even that great at it. Last I tried a month ago it used a
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by dawnerd 5mo ago
Also the least fun part of development. Maybe I’m the weird one but I like to just jump right in, planning every last detail before writing code is boring.
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by dawnerd 5mo ago
ALPRs, from Flock in particular, track more than license plates. They've installed Flock cameras on pedestrian paths even.
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by dawnerd 5mo ago
I drive in socal a lot and I rarely see a car without a visible plate.
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by dawnerd 5mo ago
Kind of a bad market to try to re-invent automation. Music broadcasting has been largely fully automated for a while now with software like MusicMaster and Zetta.
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by dawnerd 5mo ago
Because they like money and having different choices for consumers to give them money wins out.
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by dawnerd 5mo ago
Gotta get them hooked and reliant on it. It’s why they subsidized the entire software industry to adopt it.
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by dawnerd 5mo ago
So many fallbacks. So many function_exists. So much pointless type casting. I swear it’s like the system prompt is designed to waste as many tokens as possible.
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by dawnerd 5mo ago
But if it replaces people that make money who’s paying for it. None of this makes any sense long term and no one has a plan for it.
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by dawnerd 5mo ago
The people that think it’s amazing code were never good at writing code to begin with.
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by dawnerd 5mo ago
Recall makes for better headlines.
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by dawnerd 5mo ago
It's their repo
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by dawnerd 5mo ago
I tried to go through that site earlier today but they wanted a notarized letter from the city gov which, yeah, that's not going to happen.
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by dawnerd 5mo ago
Oh they probably don't. But it might annoy them slightly if the foia docs were hosted there.
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by dawnerd 5mo ago
I want to set one up now and use it to call out the city board members taking kickbacks from flock.
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by dawnerd 5mo ago
As a seller I'm also relieved. Ebay has gotten bad but I can't even imagine how Gamestop would squeeze sellers.
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by dawnerd 5mo ago
I installed the third party X1C firmware and locked it down last year. Their whole excuse about security was nonsense then and it’s nonsense now. Every step they take pushes them closer to fully locking their printers down to be either subs
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by dawnerd 5mo ago
The problem is people think AI can replace the 95-95% that isn't code too. That's where we end up with massive unusable codebases that no one understands.

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