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by drcxd 10d ago
It feels like understanding is no longer required to produce code, as long as the program can pass the tests. Also, most software rarely causes severe real world damage, so it simply requires less guarantee and quality than other engineerin
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by drcxd 11d ago
You can't call people lazy because they use LLMs, just like you can't call people lazy because they travel by train/plane/cars instead of their own feet.
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by drcxd 2mo ago
Where is the real hacker community then?
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by drcxd 2mo ago
Yeah, it's just how you see programming in your perspective. It's like lifting weight. Obviously, machines lift weight much better than human for a long time. But people still trains for strength or aesthetics. Even if machine can
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by drcxd 2mo ago
Me literally searching for emacs in the webpage.
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by drcxd 2mo ago
Nobody notices that all the messages are labeled "5:42 pm"? From the proposition of the idea to the the review of the PR. This of course is impossible. I mean, even AI bots can understand and implement the features that fast, it i
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by drcxd 4mo ago
Assume you build a machine that can simulate some system 1:1. Then it means the machine is exactly the same as the system, and the cost of running it will no less than the system itself. If you want to reduce the cost but still get somethin
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by drcxd 7mo ago
A leet-code style automated assignment is like a test. We all did tests in school so I guess most people do not feel there is anything wrong about that. However, an interview, which should be conducted by human, but instead by something AI
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by drcxd 7mo ago
You miss read. The parent thread said: > the women has am easier time not to commit and just sleep around That's for women. The second time they mentioned sleep round: > Dating apps are available, statistically women all try to g
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by drcxd 7mo ago
In my opinion, reproduction is based on the idea "borrowing against the future", or Ponzi Scheme, because reproduction is based on the idea that "we would have a better future", but in fact, we will not.
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by drcxd 7mo ago
Yeah, and if there really is any boilerplate thing, can't we programmers come up with a more deterministic solution, like a framework? I don't know.
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by drcxd 7mo ago
This reminds me of the video game crash of 1983: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983 Because video games of poor quality are too many, consumers simply refuse to spend time identifying the high-quali
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by drcxd 7mo ago
I like your idea of finding the pattern of those "embarrassing LLM questions". However, I do not understand your example. What is a random program? Is it a program that compiles/executes without error but can literally do any
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by drcxd 8mo ago
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46670279 Recently there was this post which is largely generated by Claude Code. Read it.
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by drcxd 8mo ago
But the dashboard is not important at all, because everyone can have the same dashboard the same way you have it. It's like you are generating a static website using Hugo and apply a theme provided on it. The end product you get is som
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by drcxd 9mo ago
Strictly speaking, Lua is not global by default. All free names, that is, all names unqualified with `local`, is actually indexed from a table `_ENV`, which is set to `_G`, the global environment. So, all free names are effectively global b
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by drcxd 9mo ago
Obviously, since the training material for such esoteric languages is scarce. (That's why they are esoteric!) So by definition, LLM will never be good at esoteric languages.
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by drcxd 9mo ago
I have been watching for Typst for more than a year but there are still things Typst can not do as easily as LaTeX, see https://qwinsi.github.io/tex2typst-webapp/impl-in-typst.html for examples. So, I do not agree with
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by drcxd 10mo ago
> I believe the AI agentic coders will threat tech giants more than it - collectively - threats software engineers. Currently, I don't think so. Coding agents' performance generally depends on the quality of the model behind th
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by drcxd 10mo ago
Yeah, code is data, data is code. Every Lisp programmer knows that.
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by drcxd 10mo ago
True. Arch Wiki is one of the best documentation system I have ever seen, which is also why I always choose Arch-derived OSes.
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by drcxd 10mo ago
The moment I saw this post, the idea of submitting itself to itself came to me. Really amusing.
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by drcxd 10mo ago
Glad to see I am not the only HN users that work in such companies.
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by drcxd 11mo ago
Remind me the another recent post: You should write an agent https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45840088
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by drcxd 11mo ago
> Me: It sounds like you’ve got mixed emotions at the moment. On the one hand, you’re happy that your boss says you’re doing a good job. But you’re questioning that, given the problems you’re having with Legal. Did I get that right? No o
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by drcxd 11mo ago
Also tried that, but I did not noticed the memory leak problem, since I only played about 1 hour. There are other minor issues about using Linux, for example, my input method does not work in the Steam chat window, but works everywhere else
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by drcxd 11mo ago
Hello, have you ever tried using the coding agents? For example, you can pull the library code to your working environment and install the coding agent there as well. Then you can ask them to read specific files, or even all files in the li
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by drcxd 1y ago
Agreed. I also have to check if it has implemented the idea correctly. If my workflow is; 1. Write documentation so that the problem and even the solution to the problem is well explained. 2. Instruct coding agents to work as the document d
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by drcxd 1y ago
Thanks for you opinion. I agree with your opinion that current LLMs are less helpful to senior/experienced developers. Of course LLMs can't solve complicated, advanced problems, otherwise we would see great advance in science and
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by drcxd 1y ago
Do you really believe that if you miss the "Read Clean Code" or "Read Effective Typescript" part, then the output would be significantly different? No offense, but I feel this kind of talking is ridiculous. If it is a be

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