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by dwb 6mo ago
I can only read as deep as what is written. I have a low opinion of anyone who dismisses “snooty extravagances” of any field – it’s incurious and disrespectful. Either admit you don’t know enough to engage, or read up and engage on the subs
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by dwb 6mo ago
If you keep saying things that don't hold up, that tends to harm your reputation. Do I really need to explain basic social dynamics? Sure, maybe I'm wrong and this totally wouldn't work. Maybe (probably) not enough people thi
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by dwb 6mo ago
Code quality is indeed a virtue that I would like signalled and partly assured, through the means of the author feeling the social pressure of performing an explanation of their use of LLMs, and wanting to not appear careless. In my direct
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by dwb 6mo ago
Statements that start “I guess I’d like…” are not demands.
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by dwb 6mo ago
And if anyone is so put out by my suggestion (that I said I'd hold myself to as well), they can just ignore me and move on. I posted a comment on a public forum about what I'd like, I'm not the boss of anyone.
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by dwb 6mo ago
I don’t think I’m entitled to what I suggested, I don’t see how you’re reading that.
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by dwb 6mo ago
It’s not all-or-nothing: a statement like what I want would be part of the assurance, not the whole thing.
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by dwb 6mo ago
Yep pretty much same, although if I’m lax at any point of the reviewing (in-progress or final), I’d say the quality quickly drops to below my average manual effort, and then I don’t even have the benefit of thinking it all through as direct
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by dwb 6mo ago
Right. I didn’t think you were disagreeing as such but thanks for the clarity. Personally I’m less peeved about people training models than I am people using them.
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by dwb 6mo ago
> I doubt many people will honestly admit they did no design, testing and that they believe the code is sub par. Well no, but if people want to see a statement like this, and given that most people will want to be at least halfway honest
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by dwb 6mo ago
I don’t know what you think my position is? I play multiple instruments myself. Not that well, but enough to have fun. I am, uh, not worried about hidden microphones - not sure where you got that from. I agree that music should be an activi
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by dwb 6mo ago
I’m certainly on the lookout for something like this and I’m happy to see your account has published software from before the LLM boom as well. I guess I’d like some kind of LLM-use-statement attached to projects: did you use an LLM to gene
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by dwb 6mo ago
I’m really not the kind to use this sort of language much at all (I’m agnostic), but AI-generated music is sacrilegious to me. Satanic. I didn’t love humans making soulless corporate muzak, but at least they were getting paid for it and it
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by dwb 6mo ago
If that’s our definition of “plain text”, sure. I would still rather our tools were more advanced, such that printable and non-printable formats were on a more equal footing, though. I always process structured formats through something tha
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by dwb 6mo ago
Plain text is great as far as it goes, but when it comes to structure you start from zero for every file. There’s always someone getting wistful about ad-hoc combinations of venerable Unix tools to process “plain text”, and that’s fine when
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by dwb 6mo ago
By who? The capitalist economists that presided over the 2008 financial crisis and its response? And the response to COVID that has seen inequality rocket?
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by dwb 6mo ago
Well I think that art is good, thinking about design is good, that using a couple of terms that aren’t immediately clear to you isn’t “obfuscation”, and that postmodernism can be a useful analytical lens. Seeing the world only through scien
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by dwb 6mo ago
Sure, true, I would say "often significantly" though, to the extent that you would never bother doing half the things with git that you can do with Jujutsu because it's such a pain.
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by dwb 6mo ago
Well, fortunately Jujutsu isn’t an entirely different toolchain and/or approach. It’s one tool that’s git-compatible and is quite similar to it. But where it’s different, it’s (for me) better.
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by dwb 6mo ago
I love Jujutsu because it makes my work simpler, whatever kind of branching/merging structure I use. It just has a better model for me than git.
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by dwb 6mo ago
Don’t be so anti-intellectual, there’s enough of that around. A simple problem is going to have a small set of simple design solutions; the philosophising readily admits that. Nothing’s getting in your way.
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by dwb 6mo ago
:) keep up the fight
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by dwb 6mo ago
I can live with "agent", but "agentic" still sets my teeth on edge.
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by dwb 6mo ago
Why not both? I really don’t think they are rubes. I wouldn’t have done anything like this at 19, and nor would any of my friends at the time.
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by dwb 6mo ago
It serves ads even if you pay, so for me, no.
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by dwb 6mo ago
> The key insight I'm so tired
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by dwb 6mo ago
I don't see any justification - the article is quite clear that it is anti-violence. Explanation and analysis is not, on its own, justification. This is one of the discursive patterns that most infuriates me: any attempt to analyse som
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by dwb 6mo ago
I don't like the sharp corners either and I fully support the modifications in the article, but to be completely fair to the design, if your wrists are digging into the corners you're at the wrong angle. If you're habitually
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by dwb 6mo ago
“Democratising” - you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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by dwb 6mo ago
I broadly sympathise, being a nerd myself also, but this just isn’t a way to build software for a general audience.

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