discreteevent

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by discreteevent 7mo ago
> It IS a compiler. What are you talking about? If an LLM is a compiler, then I'm a compiler. Are we going to redefine the meaning of words in order not to upset the LLM makers?
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by discreteevent 7mo ago
>Human engineers are not deterministic yet people pay them Human carpenters are not deterministic yet they won't use a machine saw that goes off line even 1% of the time. The whole history of tools, including software, is one of try
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by discreteevent 7mo ago
> Second, GCed languages need to be willing to fit with the web/WASM GC model Suppose the Go people make a special version of Go for Wasm. What do you think are the chances of that being supported in 5 years time?
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by discreteevent 7mo ago
People learn by example. They want to start with something concrete and specific and then move to the abstraction. There's nothing worse than a teacher who starts in the middle of the abstraction. Whereas if a teacher describes some go
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by discreteevent 7mo ago
You have never been on HN before and yet you feel the need to tell the community something vague and useless but which happens to align with LLM hype?
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by discreteevent 7mo ago
Be careful with this "they are all the same" logic. As an empire, I would rather have the WWII to 2016 USA than the current one and the current one to Russia.
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by discreteevent 7mo ago
> So from my perspective, nothing changes regarding ownership. The engineer who worked with you took ownership of the code! Have you forgotten this?
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by discreteevent 7mo ago
That article is brilliant.
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by discreteevent 7mo ago
When I use a library someone understood it when they shipped it. It also had a long stabilisation period where bugs were fixed in it. When I use an LLM, potentially nobody understands what was just shipped and it has had no time to stabilis
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by discreteevent 8mo ago
> It's nothing short of invigorating to have this degree of control over something so powerful Is this really that different to programming? (Maybe you haven't programmed before?)
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by discreteevent 8mo ago
It's not about status. It's about interest. A joiner is not going to have an interesting conversation about joinery with someone who has put some flatpak furniture together.
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by discreteevent 8mo ago
> Original ideas are the result of the very work you’re offloading on LLMs. Having humans in the loop doesn’t make the AI think more like people, it makes the human thought more like AI output. There was also a comment [1] here recently
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by discreteevent 8mo ago
What the article is saying is: "the author (pilot?) hasn't generally thought too much about the problem space, and so there isn't really much of a discussion to be had. The cool part about pre-AI show HN is you got to talk to
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by discreteevent 8mo ago
A project was one of the easiest ways to evaluate a stranger. It was a great bullshit detector. If they can make something like this then they are probably someone with ability and experience and so the rest of what they have to say is prob
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by discreteevent 8mo ago
That could be true but the 8 year old gets out of the way. I can remember two incidents on the news where a toddler was killed in a driveway. Tragic.
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by discreteevent 8mo ago
That is a completely different category. I've never experienced a logic error due to a managed runtime and only once or twice ever due to a C++ compiler.
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by discreteevent 8mo ago
Eternal LLMber
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by discreteevent 8mo ago
Indeed. Never let any idiot like this put you off. Back yourself and persist, persist, persist.
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by discreteevent 8mo ago
Exactly. 30 years ago a mathematician I knew said to me: "The one thing that you can say for programming is that it forces you to be precise." We vibe around a lot in our heads and that's great. But it's really refreshin
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by discreteevent 8mo ago
The learning loop and LLMs [1] is well worth reading and the anthropic blog post above concurs with it in a number of places. It's fine to use LLMs as an assistant to understanding but your goal as an engineer should always be understa
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by discreteevent 8mo ago
> Many people drive cars without being able to explain how cars work. But the fundamentals all cars behave the same way all the time. Imagine running a courier company where sometimes the vehicles take a random left turn. > Or interac
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by discreteevent 9mo ago
> What do you think an LLM is if not no/low-code? An LLM is not low code. It's something that generates the thing that does the thing. Most of the time it generates 'high' code. That high code is something that looks
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by discreteevent 9mo ago
Eternal LLMber
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by discreteevent 9mo ago
3 blogs a day, including Christmas day. Impressive indeed!
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by discreteevent 9mo ago
> Brains are adaptive. They are, but you go on to assume that they will adapt in a good way. Bodies are adaptive too. That didn't work out well for a lot of people when their environment changed to be sedentary.
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by discreteevent 9mo ago
It won't turn most people into architects. It will turn them into PMs. The function of PMs is important but without engineers you are not going to build a sustainable system. And an LLM is not an engineer.
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by discreteevent 9mo ago
> Maybe it’s not that we’re getting stupid because we don’t use our brains anymore. The study shows that the brain is not getting used. We will get stupid in the same way that people with office jobs get unhealthy if they don't deli
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by discreteevent 9mo ago
Henry Ford didn't make his cars out of buggy whips. He made a new industry. He didn't cannibalize an existing one. You cannot make an LLM without digesting the source material.
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by discreteevent 9mo ago
> But we need to ack the positives, otherwise it's not an honest debate but only a mix of ranting and populist propaganda. It's not ranting to not ack every positive if the negative clearly outweighs it. I would much rather liv
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by discreteevent 9mo ago
The difference is that if you write in C you can debug in C. You don't have to debug the assembly. You can write an english wish list for an LLM but you will still have to debug the generated code. To debug it you will need to understa

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