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by dingnuts 1y ago
maybe because every LLM provider has an "attach file" feature so you can attach a paper and then ask questions about it? what's the value add of the wrapper that this person wrote at all?
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by dingnuts 1y ago
if the benefit is less than 2x then we're talking about AI assisted coding as being a very, very expensive IntelliSense. 1.x improvement just isn't much. My mind goes back to that study showing engineers claimed a 20% improvement
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by dingnuts 1y ago
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by dingnuts 1y ago
spoken like someone who has never been a regular at a small business. there are all kinds of benefits when you get to know the guy who owns you favorite pizza shop for instance
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by dingnuts 1y ago
The complaint was that the post has a lot of basic inconsistencies which is a problem regardless. If your content is as bad as AI slop it doesn't really matter if it is or not, but I think it's safe to assume that when a verbose a
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by dingnuts 1y ago
oh you agree to do it but you laugh, literally laugh, at their deadline. and you say, you can fire me but that's not going to get your software done on time. in fact it will delay it. they shut up. it's done when it's done. I
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by dingnuts 1y ago
funny, 20 years of vim/evil here and I feel like I never really think about the motions anymore, except maybe when building a macro
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by dingnuts 1y ago
> how we want them not to work speak for yourself, I like solving problems and I'd like to retire before physical labor becomes the only way to support yourself > they are not sold as a flexible query machine yeah, SamA is a big
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by dingnuts 1y ago
> TO EMPHASIZE THIS WAS NOT VIBE CODED an expert using high powered autocomplete to successfully take a shortcut towards a well defined problem is not evidence of "AGI" or "the singularity" belief in "the singula
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by dingnuts 1y ago
today I was texting and Google Messages began to lag. Why DOES everything seem to get worse? I can hear the Doctorow fans coming out of the woodwork to tell me it's "enshittification" but that's a cute conspiracy theory
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by dingnuts 1y ago
no, you tell us why you think the next ten years are going to be different than the last thirty
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by dingnuts 1y ago
good fucking luck writing adequate test suites for qualitative business logic if it's even possible it will be more work than writing the code manually
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by dingnuts 1y ago
I can explain it in one sentence. I don't want the Trump administration to be the only ones with guns in this country.
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by dingnuts 1y ago
This is spam. Remove the self promotion and it's an ok comment. It wouldn't be so bad if you weren't self promoting on this site all day every day like it's your full time job, but self promoting on a message board full
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by dingnuts 1y ago
no the bet is lost on every count 1 it's not fully autonomous, there's a remote operator 2 not a wide enough service area as defined in the bet 3 it's a pilot program, also excluded in the bet 4 it's also a year late and
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by dingnuts 1y ago
What you're describing is not vibe coding. I realize some people call anything with an LLM generating code "vibe coding" but it's not and I'm going to die on this hill. 1 it's not the meaning Karpathy used orig
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by dingnuts 1y ago
department of war you mean
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by dingnuts 1y ago
they do work well but are fragile. I broke one by gently closing it on a hot day (about 100F). Saw another break from the kind of short fall that used to break phones before they all got gorilla glass. I guess if you're the sort that i
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by dingnuts 1y ago
I definitely think everyone with an Apple Watch looks like a schmuck
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by dingnuts 1y ago
> it just feels like a scam aimed at burning through more tokens. IT IS A SCAM TO BURN MORE TOKENS. You will know when it is no longer a scam when you either: 1) pay a flat price with NO USAGE LIMITS or 2) pay per token with the ability
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by dingnuts 1y ago
> Every year, if an emoji is not used enough, it's deleted. This would be like deleting kanji, and would also require perfect surveillance of everyone's devices. If you want Chat Control you don't have to hide behind weird
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by dingnuts 1y ago
How is this better/faster than typing "xyz language framework site://github.com" into Kagi IDK about you but I find it faster to type a few keywords and click the first result than to wait for "extended thinkin
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by dingnuts 1y ago
I think it's a psychological bias of some sort. When the feeling of newness wears off and you realize the model is still kind of shit, you have an imperfect memory of the first few uses when you were excited and have repressed the fail
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by dingnuts 1y ago
I have read so many anecdotes about so many models that "were great" and aren't now. I actually think this is psychological bias. It got a few things right early on, and that's what you remember. As time passes, the erro
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by dingnuts 1y ago
> But if you sincerely believe it's not a game, then you're being cruel (or righteous, if you think the aliens are evil), even though it isn't real. let me stop you right there. you're making a lot of assumptions abou
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by dingnuts 1y ago
controversial but docker compose is for development and demos. for prod give me a binary, a config file / systemd unit file, and tell me how to configure external dependencies and let me decide how to manage them. and if you're se
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by dingnuts 1y ago
> Some thoughts if you have them, are illegal to express, even in private, for your own consumption. fuck this attitude with a rake
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by dingnuts 1y ago
why is it required that children have access to YouTube? I'm not that old and we went long stretches with no TV in our household because we didn't have the money for it. It was fine. I'm fine. I didn't turn out normal bu
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by dingnuts 1y ago
well played, but of course inevitably whatever it's doing in production (whether to spec or not) is "working" for somebody. Obligatory XKCD https://xkcd.com/1172/ "Workflow" reference
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by dingnuts 1y ago
reading production code that is known to work can be done with faith and skimming. You don't have to understand every function call because they've each been tested and battle hardened, so it's easy to get an overview of what

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