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by demorro 6mo ago
Surprised to see discussion on this theme in a western context without mention of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
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by demorro 6mo ago
It takes barely longer than that to do manually, the extra time really just being the typing out of the commit messages. Folks should have been doing this all along and it still shocks me to discover that they haven't been. However, I
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by demorro 6mo ago
This whole thread reads like skill issues, sorry to say. This presumption that you have to stop work whilst you wait on a PR to be reviewed is absurd. Rebasing is not this impossible challenge and if it's stopping you making progress y
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by demorro 6mo ago
> you spend a LOT of time trying to get your PR reviewed. I've fixed this issue in several teams I've joined. Maybe some people won't understand this, as I didn't until I observed it multiple times over. There are tea
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by demorro 6mo ago
Used to be people sold capitalism as something that gave freedom to individuals. Now it's just the thing that forces us to to act against what we believe is best for ourselves and society at large. Anyone who expresses distaste for tha
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by demorro 7mo ago
Absurd take. The response was completely measured, and even if it wasn't The Document Foundation has no obligation either legal or moral to present as professional. They are not a business.
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by demorro 7mo ago
As a Brit this is so embarrassing I wish they would stop. Doesn't really seem like there's an anti-authoritarian party available to us either.
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by demorro 7mo ago
I think that's where a heck of a lot of the frustration on this topic is coming from. Some engineers claim to have solved the code generation issue well enough that it hasn't been the bottleneck in their local environment, and hav
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by demorro 7mo ago
I guess I over-diagnosed your stance, apologies. I wonder if you have a take on measuring productivity in light of the potential difficulty of achieving good outcomes across the general population? You mention in the second appendix (which
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by demorro 7mo ago
Thanks!
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by demorro 7mo ago
You're missing the point, and also demonstrating it. This blog isn't about personal experience, and it makes no claims about LLM capability at all. It is simply about whether code, in either volume or quality, should be used as a
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by demorro 7mo ago
Hey, I like your writing. You got an rss feed or anything?
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by demorro 7mo ago
Would you entertain the idea that "work was never the bottleneck", or even "building products was never the bottleneck"? We need to address Jevons' Paradox somehow.
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by demorro 7mo ago
A well considered article, despite the author categorizing it as a rant. I appreciate the appendix quotations, as well as the acknowledgement that they are appeals to authority. Whilst the author clearly has a belief that falls down on one
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by demorro 7mo ago
There's plenty of evidence of this line of thinking even from before the turn of the Millennium. Mythical Man Month, No Silver Bullet, Code Complete, they all gesture at this point.
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by demorro 7mo ago
Seconding this. Revelation happens subtly, often far removed from what you might later unpick as its "primary source". Immediate interpretation tend to be plastic and shallow.
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by demorro 7mo ago
I quit a job 8 years ago because I learned my code had been deployed inside missiles. Many of my colleagues had similar red lines. I doubt many would now.
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by demorro 7mo ago
Aye, I know. Don't get me wrong, I knew that the majority of devs have always been worse than useless, but it's been disconcerting to see quite how much value folk are getting out of agents for problems that have been solved for d
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by demorro 7mo ago
> Q: "Isn't it your job as an open-source maintainer/developer to foster a welcoming community?" The answer to this implies that the requirement to be welcoming only applies to humans, but even in this hostile and sar
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by demorro 7mo ago
... you know what. Whilst I suspect the quality of these translations is probably not great. Fair play this is a valid example.
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by demorro 7mo ago
They can't, they never did the work to discover what it's good for because they skipped over implementation and concept validation. This concept will never work outside of their own head. People continue to think producing somethi
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by demorro 7mo ago
That update blog is funny. The only data they can get at reports slowdowns, but they struggle to believe it because developers self-report amazing speedups. You'd get the same sort of results if you were studying the benefits of substa
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by demorro 7mo ago
1000x is ridiculous. What are you doing where that level of improvement is measurable. That means you are doing things that would have taken you a year of full-time work in less than half a day now. EDIT: Retracted, I think the example give
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by demorro 7mo ago
It makes me wonder if the majority of all-in on AI folks are quite young and never experienced pre-enshittification search.
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by demorro 8mo ago
You're right, it was a bad example. I also don't eat my vegetables. I was more trying to make the point that most of us are not rational actors either, was just using children as a convenient proxy, unfairly.
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by demorro 8mo ago
> Does this mean you'd be incapable of learning anything? Yes. This strikes me as obvious. People don't have the sort of impulse control you're implying by default, it has to be learnt just like anything else. This sort of
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by demorro 8mo ago
When people say AI is making us stupider, I don't that's quite on the money. It's more that we, as individuals, have always been stupid, we've just relied on relatively stable supporting consensus and context much, much
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by demorro 8mo ago
Aye. I've sometimes heard treating others like you want to be treated framed as the silver rule. The golden rule being treating others how they want to be treated. Both have problems.
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by demorro 8mo ago
Whoever published this should be embarrassed. "The architecture is solid, the test suite is comprehensive, and the security model is production-grade." If my eyes were rolling any harder they would pop out of my eye sockets.
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by demorro 9mo ago
Or they force us to close those hands into fists.

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