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by discreteevent 4mo ago
> that Open AI can't match. Open AI can match it but at what price?
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by discreteevent 4mo ago
This anonymous article is likely more FUD from the AI industry. "Just give up,you can't beat the machine. Please go quietly, we want to take your place and it's easier for everybody if you don't resist because you believ
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by discreteevent 4mo ago
No, it's bots. When it comes to AI the HN community is now the mark.
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by discreteevent 4mo ago
Quick, clean and easy to use. I've only been using it for a year but I'm definitely not going back.
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by discreteevent 5mo ago
You pay tech debt with compounding interest at exorbitant rates. Another way to look at it is to say that like any analogy applied to software development it is weak. It is not like normal debt at all because you must start paying back imme
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by discreteevent 5mo ago
The back of the car is ugly.
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by discreteevent 5mo ago
I was programming desktop applications when the web came along. I don't remember anyone ever saying they had been mandated to program for it. The web took off all by itself because it had a clear value proposition for some use cases.
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by discreteevent 5mo ago
> Some devs in my org have fully embraced AI; some would not even use AI So if the people who embrace AI areore successful then the others will follow. Just like every other new tech. Why does AI have to be forced? What's the hurry?
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by discreteevent 5mo ago
Eternal LLMber?
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by discreteevent 5mo ago
I think your comment is the disingenuous one. We have no time left and "Fix the power source" is happening way too slowly in the real non-theoretical world. But what can happen in zero time is to not build another data center fo
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by discreteevent 5mo ago
There was an article in the FT a while ago about how confused and frustrated Trump was about the strait of Hormuz. The conclusion was that not everyone has a price but that concept was outside of the scope of his narrow mind.
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by discreteevent 5mo ago
"Refuse to use them" is a strawman. Of course the graduates will use them. They will do whatever it takes to make a living. What they hate is that either they won't make a living or they will make a worse living because of AI
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by discreteevent 5mo ago
I've been here since 2008 and I'll say it. Vividfrier is a bot. The people behind the likes of vividfrier are vandals, shitting all over the commons just to get even more than the massive amount they have already been given. HN wa
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by discreteevent 5mo ago
This argument comes up a lot. The point is that with unreviewed AI nobody understood the code at any time (including the AI). This is completely different to a C compiler wherein the writers and maintainers deeply understand the code. This
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by discreteevent 5mo ago
And at the same time they talk about "competent developer"s
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by discreteevent 5mo ago
This is even more true when there are so many blurry photos. It's as if Nugs acolytes keep putting up photos and making claims but not a single photo clearly shows his three heads or single pogo stick leg. The more photos there are, th
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by discreteevent 5mo ago
I have never used an LLM to write. Writing forces me to think (and I edited the comment a couple of times when writing it which helped me clear up my thinking). "It's a viable way to live and sometimes it's the only way to li
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by discreteevent 5mo ago
I don't think it's the complete fanbase. However, there are lots of people in the world who live their whole life by vibing. It's a viable way to live and sometimes it's the only way to live. But they have a very loose r
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by discreteevent 5mo ago
> look at the era of software that garbage collectors have ushered in. Programs are bloated, slow, and wasteful compared to the literal super-computers that are running them. I don't think this even qualifies as correlation.
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by discreteevent 6mo ago
> Defense contracting is as good or bad as the policies of the government which is going to change over time. This is true sometimes. But many times the companies and the government get together to kill people for money (The dead people&
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by discreteevent 6mo ago
If you were a young person with plenty of time, the best way you could spend it would be learning to program without AI- whether you have money or not.
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by discreteevent 6mo ago
Scientists don't try everything. First they run it through expert critical review. This candidate wouldn't make it past the theory stage.
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by discreteevent 7mo ago
> It's not a bug, it's fundamentally just a facet of its (LLM/human) general nature Fair enough but then that means that MCP is not "a bit like asking if "an API" was a critical link in some cybersec inciden
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by discreteevent 7mo ago
You say you're in the AEC industry, your HN account is only 26 days old and yet you feel you should share something with this community?
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by discreteevent 7mo ago
> How is this really different from careful prompt engineering, and an extensive proposal/review/refine process? So different that those concepts don't even exist. I don't have to carefully prompt my compiler in case
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by discreteevent 7mo ago
It did but they were meaningless without a human intellect trying to make sense of them.
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by discreteevent 7mo ago
The ai is just pattern matching. Vibing is not understanding, whether done by humans or machines. Vibe programmers (of which there are many) make a mess of the codebase piling on patch after patch. But they get the tests to pass! Vibing giv
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by discreteevent 7mo ago
The scientific approach is not only or primarily empiricism. We didn't test our way to understanding. The scientific approach starts with a theory that does it's best to explain some phenomenon. Then the theory is criticized by ex
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by discreteevent 7mo ago
Developers make these kinds of improvements all the time. Are you saying that it would have been impossible without AI?
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by discreteevent 7mo ago
> You can always change it later. People seem to think that technical debt doesn't need to be paid back for ages. In my experience bad code starts to cost more than it saved after about three months. So if you have to get a demo rea

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