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by diggan 1y ago
Although parent asking for titanium for the feeling, so maybe something in-between would be fine? Lightweight material inside and structurally, but titanium or something else as the "skin".
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by diggan 1y ago
Usually I prefer second-hand sources over press-releases, as press-releses tend to be a bit too much navel-gazing and pats on the back.
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by diggan 1y ago
> you can always just “jj new” on top of an existing change then squash it down and get automatic rebase past that point Never used jj, but isn't that just `git commit --amend`? Lets you add/remove/change changes from the
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by diggan 1y ago
Bit more general complaint: I keep seeing projects that use system/user prompts and doesn't let the user override them in any other way than manually modifying the project yourself. Since models reacts so differently to different
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World Government(en.wikipedia.org)
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by diggan 1y ago
Some places are more "echo-chambery" than others, reddit is probably an extreme example in echo-chambers. At least the bigger subreddits, smaller ones can be a bit more diverse and enjoyable.
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by diggan 1y ago
> The beginning was painful to watch as is the cheering in this comment section. Yours is the second comment claiming there is "cheering" and "fanboying" in this comment section. What comments are you talking about? I
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by diggan 1y ago
> Traditional: Read 5000 lines → Find method → Replace → Write 5000 lines What of today's agents work like this? None of the ones I've tried would do something like that, but instead would grep/search the file, then do a s
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by diggan 1y ago
Also HTTP headers Accept/Content-Type which in theory could let you serve HTML, XML and JSON all under the same URL/URI but depending on Accept values.
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by diggan 1y ago
I think probably the biggest help I've got from LLMs is things that are "niche" knowledge, for me. Things like "I need a function heavy in math that when I give X and Y, it returns Z" I could have struggled with for
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by diggan 1y ago
Lets not change the goalpost, parent asked for any examples of software written with LLMs, and regardless if the output is quality or not, that is one example. Besides, Microsoft isn't really known for their high code quality, so I&#x2
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by diggan 1y ago
> but do you think they have access to better AI (in general) than consumers? Absolutely. One of the top AI labs today is OpenAI, with ties to the US military, not least through Paul M. Nakasone, but also active contracts with the milita
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by diggan 1y ago
Yeah, usually I'd steer my agents to never use the output directly from any command, and instead redirect it to a logfile, then force it to search/grep stuff directly from the log-file instead of just getting all the outputs at al
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by diggan 1y ago
> produce code that made python segfault To be fair, that's pretty easy for a human to do too.
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by diggan 1y ago
> Yeah, not sure I ever saw anything similar on HN before, feels very odd. What exactly have you been seeing here on HN? I've been reading through most of the comments in this submission, since it was submitted yesterday, and none o
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by diggan 1y ago
> it just seems to be an AI optimism word salad Maybe it was missed, but in the beginning he said he was told the audience are mostly students about to enter the industry, so I feel like a lot of the talk is just establishing vocabulary,
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by diggan 1y ago
What, exactly? Educational courses?
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by diggan 1y ago
> Plus coding is the fun bit, reviewing code is the hard and not fun bit To you. For others, it looks differently. And for yet others, they don't care about the coding nor the reviewing, they want to solve a particular problem. I&#x
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by diggan 1y ago
I did like it to, but haven't seen any of the others, and usually don't like sitting through talks rather than reading transcripts. But you got me curious, what other talks from the day/event would be worth watching in your m
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by diggan 1y ago
Keyword being "mint" there. You can still put whatever you want in there, but in order to "register" it, you need to"mint" it by registering it. But you're in no way obligated to register random stuff you
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by diggan 1y ago
> became when his tweet was intended as more of a shower thought That was so obvious to me, and most of the people I talked to at the time, yet the ecosystem and media seems to have run with his "vibe-coding" idea as something
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by diggan 1y ago
> It makes no sense at all, it's cuckooland, are you all on crazy pills? First step towards understanding something you obviously have strong feelings about, is to try to avoid hitting those triggers while you think about the thing,
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by diggan 1y ago
Why do people keep having this reaction to something we're already used to? When you're developing against an API, you're already doing the same thing, planning for what happens when the request hangs, or fails completely, or
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by diggan 1y ago
For some people that's definitely true, placebo is a real thing after all. But it's not like that with everyone, and even if "booze is booze is booze" is true, just like with cannabis, there is more stuff in the drinks t
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by diggan 1y ago
> The AI as it is currently, will not come up with that new app idea or that clever innovative way of implementing an application Who has claimed that they can do that sort of stuff? I don't think my comment hints at that, nor does
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by diggan 1y ago
> but a decade of sifting through blogspam has honed my own ability to cut through that. Now, a different skill need to be honed :) Add "Be concise and succinct without removing any details" to your system prompt and hopefully
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by diggan 1y ago
My complaint isn't about that you need to protect it with a login/signup, but where in the process you put that login/signup. Put it before letting people enter text, rather than once they've entered text and pressed the
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by diggan 1y ago
> you also have to have enough domain knowledge I'm a bit 50/50 on this. Generally I agree, how are you supposed to review it otherwise? Blindly accepting whatever the LLM tells you or gives you is bound to create trouble in th
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by diggan 1y ago
> Not yet it isn't; all I am seeing are tools to replace programmers and artists :-/ You're missing a huge part of the ecosystem, ML is so much more than just "generative AI", which seems to be the extent of your
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by diggan 1y ago
Even worse would be if we asked the accountants to do the coding, then you'll learn what miserable means. What was the point again?

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