habinero

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by habinero 8mo ago
> but I and my colleagues are doing a lot of incredible work that simply isn't possible without LLMs involved ...Which part is impossible? "Writing a bunch of ideas down" was definitely possible before.
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by habinero 8mo ago
None of this is even slightly correct lol People have been painting with red and yellow ochre and soot for at least 50K years for sure, and probably several hundred thousand years in truth. You don't need a brush, you have fingers or a
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by habinero 8mo ago
That is absolutely not what I said lol, try again.
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by habinero 8mo ago
Or -- and hear me out -- you're just wrong. Which is likelier -- that (1) the behavior of four billion people can be described by a sentence or two or (2) you have an extremely small and shallow reference pool and not enough experience
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by habinero 8mo ago
Shoo. Peddle your incel garbage elsewhere.
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by habinero 8mo ago
> nice, timid guys were friendzoned There's a reason why "nice guy" is a stereotype. The people who describe themselves like this aren't nice or timid, but insecure, angry and judgmental. They tell stories like &quo
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by habinero 8mo ago
> and it always shocked me how bad their ex partners were. Woman are drawn to toxic abusers like men are drawn to OnlyFans models and the real victims are the children Huh. It, uh, sure is a choice to declare you deliberately only date w
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by habinero 8mo ago
Please don't treat half of the people on this planet as if they were some alien species. Treat people like people.
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by habinero 8mo ago
No. I see this mistake everywhere. You're confusing "knowing everything" or "making assumptions" with "mental maps". They are not at all the same thing. The benefit of libraries is it's an abstraction
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by habinero 8mo ago
I have literally heard this exact vague phrase about every single stupid model that has come out, plus more than a few companies. So far it's all been endless unfounded FOMO hype by people who have something to sell or podcasts to be o
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by habinero 8mo ago
I uncharitably snarked that AI lets the 0.05X programmers become 0.2X ones, but reading this stuff makes me feel like I was too charitable. I've never had problems with any of those things after I learned what a code editor was.
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by habinero 8mo ago
There's no "outgroup", dude, it's just software. Stop anthropomorphizing it. We have more than enough real social problems without making up fake ones.
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by habinero 8mo ago
"Lets be nicer to the robots winky face " is not a solution to this problem. It's just a tool, and this is a technical problem with technical solutions. All of the AI companies could change this behavior if they wanted to.
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by habinero 8mo ago
People are allowed to dislike it, ban it, boycott it. Despite what some very silly people think, the tech does not care about what people say about it.
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by habinero 8mo ago
I really only find it useful when I'm investigating or troubleshooting some system I'm not familiar with. A stupid yet accurate analogy is I turn up the log level for my brain lol It's basically just a log file of everything
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by habinero 8mo ago
...Man, men really will do anything to avoid going to therapy.
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by habinero 8mo ago
> I can one shot an AI model to do all of those things Bullshit you can lol. If it's that trivial, create an instagram right now and post the code.
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by habinero 8mo ago
Why are you building and deploying a site critical enough to need CSP and user security & so on in one sitting lol Anyways, yes, if I know I'm gonna need it? Because every framework has reasonable defaults or libraries for all of t
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by habinero 8mo ago
You wait for everyone to go broke chasing whatever, and then take their work for your own. It's not that hard to copy and paste.
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by habinero 8mo ago
I actually do build all of those things before standing something up in prod. Not doing that is insane. Literally every web framework has reasonable defaults baked in. Any competent tech company will have canned ways to do all of those th
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by habinero 8mo ago
A lot of very silly people have convinced themselves and you of this, but it is not true, was never true, and is never going to be true. We have a lot of actual problems to deal with that aren't telling ghost stories about sand. Focus
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by habinero 8mo ago
They're not powertools lol. Tech has plenty of powertools and we automated the crap out of our job already. Writing code has never been the limiting factor, it's everything else that goes into it. Like, I don't mind that ther
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by habinero 8mo ago
You know exactly the ones they're talking about. The ones you're not willing to say with your whole chest in public because you know what everyone will think about you. Either have the courage of your own convictions or have sha
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by habinero 9mo ago
Yes. If you have some experience, you know that writing code is a small part of the job, and a much bigger chunk is anticipating and/or dealing with problems. People seem to think engineers like "clean code" because we like t
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by habinero 9mo ago
> I found the latest models to have much better safety and instruction following capabilities. Combined with other security best practices, this lowers the risk. It does not. Security theater like that only makes you feel safer and the
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by habinero 9mo ago
> Adding tags like "Warning: Untrusted content" can help It cannot. This is the security equivalent of telling it to not make mistakes. > Restrict downstream tool usage and permissions for each agentic use case Reasonable, b
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by habinero 9mo ago
If you find it helpful, that's fine. I like it as spicy autocorrect, and turn it off when I find it annoying. I actually do look into what people do because as much fun as being a hater is, it's important not to get lost in the
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by habinero 9mo ago
I vigorously agree with all of this. It doesn't really matter for hobby projects or demos or whatever, but there's this whole group who thinks they can yell at the computer and have a business fall out and no.
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by habinero 9mo ago
My unpopular opinion is AI sucks at writing tests. Like, really sucks. It can churn out a lot of them, but they're shitty. Actually writing good tests that exercise the behavior you want, guard against regressions, and isn't ove
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by habinero 9mo ago
They do okay-ish for things that don't matter and if you don't look that hard. If you do look, the "features" turn out to be very limited, or not do what they claim or not work at all.

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