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by imiric 1y ago
The reason it looks like many joined clips is because long-form video generation is currently not possible. Most SOTA models only allow generating a few seconds at a time. Past that it becomes much harder for the model to maintain consisten
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by imiric 1y ago
> There's still no framework in e.g. Go that comes anywhere close to matching Django. I don't think Go is an apt comparison. Its philosophy is to eschew traditional frameworks in favor of relying on the rich standard library as
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by imiric 1y ago
Thanks for your perspective. I'm aware that using adblockers and avoiding social media doesn't entirely prevent tracking, shadow profiles, and such, but surely it makes things more difficult for these companies, no? Or would you s
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by imiric 1y ago
The obvious solution is a meta-IDE that integrates all these other IDEs and plugins.[1] Or, you know, stop chasing the latest trends, and use whatever you're most comfortable with. [1]: https://xkcd.com/927/
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by imiric 1y ago
I'm confused by what your point is, then. You want evidence of an abstraction that exists in the minds of experienced developers? That's like asking for evidence of humor or love. We accept these things as real because of shared e
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by imiric 1y ago
You couldn't be more wrong. If you've ever programmed, or worked with programmers, that is not an extraordinary claim at all, but a widely accepted fact. A mental model of the software is what allows a programmer to intuitively kn
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by imiric 1y ago
This is interesting. I appreciate the simplicity and DIY aspects. Is it available as a repo somewhere? I recently had to troubleshoot a hanging issue on one of my servers, so I needed something that could ship logs. The modern observability
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by imiric 1y ago
> Many of these agents have yet to be built, but make no mistake, they’re coming, and coming fast. This is the same wishful thinking that AI companies are heavily marketing. Nobody will want to use an "agent" that makes mistake
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by imiric 1y ago
> The other things on that list seem fairly reasonable (if uncertain). Nah. Thinking that poverty will be significantly reduced, let alone eliminated, in 4 years is simply delusional. Primarily because a reduction of poverty won't
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by imiric 1y ago
I'm honestly baffled why anyone who objects to ads would still want to use any of the official YouTube clients. Whether or not they show ads to you on YouTube, they still track your every move and use it to improve their profile of you
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by imiric 1y ago
I'm not arguing in favor of technical complexity or ingenuity. My point is that the perceived value of a service or product is directly related to its competitive advantage, product differentiation, and so on. When the service is made
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by imiric 1y ago
Good point. I suppose that if grifters can get in positions of power, then the bubble can just keep growing. Though cryptocurrencies are slightly different because of how they work. They're inherently decentralized, so even though ther
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by imiric 1y ago
We've seen this before in 1983 and 2000. Many companies will fold, and those that don't will take a substantial hit. The public sentiment about "AI" will sour, but after that a new breed of more practical tools will emer
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by imiric 1y ago
Sure. I was referring more to the general consensus about products from companies that are currently riding the AI hype train, not about machine learning in general. When the dot-com bubble burst in 2000, and after the video game crash in 1
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by imiric 1y ago
Hey, don't blame me for the fact that your sites are indistinguishable from hundreds of others that offer the same service. Everything I said is logical to assume, since all these sites look the same. Good on you for learning how AI to
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by imiric 1y ago
Those are exactly the kind of AI slop products I would expect to be vibe coded. You've created yet another wrapper around LLM APIs where the business model is charging a premium over existing services. Your revenue depends on the ignor
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by imiric 1y ago
Fair enough. There are valid use cases for vibe coding scripts and simple CRUD apps, which current AI tools are fairly competent at producing. The thing is that those don't typically take weeks and months to build with conventional too
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by imiric 1y ago
Before the bubble does pop, which I think is inevitable, there will be many stories like this one, and a lot of people will be scammed, manipulated, and harmed. It might take years until the general consensus is negative about the effects o
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by imiric 1y ago
That's not always the case. AI is often used to pump out sites and apps that scam users, SEO spam, etc. So there is definitely a revenue stream that makes scammers and grifters excited for AI. These tools have increased the scope and r
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by imiric 1y ago
> I did not see this coming. Wow. The game of thrones in SV. You must be new around here.
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by imiric 1y ago
I'm curious to see what you've built with all that extra productivity.
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by imiric 1y ago
What is fascinating is that you're unable to see that we want the same things, since you are blinded by social media, and conditioned to see those who challenge your thinking as the enemy. This exchange is a good example of the damage
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by imiric 1y ago
> I don't think that COBOL, BASIC, SQL have failed. They allowed many non-technical people to get started building things with computers. Those didn't fail, but they're certainly not used by non-technical people. That was
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by imiric 1y ago
> It's plausible that pre-1987 that journalism was better but I very much doubt it. Thankfully, you can look up archive footage and print media to confirm this. Or talk to people who lived it. > There's tons of Vietnam war e
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by imiric 1y ago
I agree that the intentional spreading of disinformation is harmful to civilized discourse. It's definitely not practical to give it the same attention as you would factual information. But I think we can do something about it. The rea
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by imiric 1y ago
> News never changed. It was always exactly like this. That's not true. Bias and agenda have always existed, but there was a time when news sources clearly distinguished facts from opinions. In the US the shift arguably happened in
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by imiric 1y ago
Echo chambers exist in all communities, and you may be in one whether or not you're aware of it. The only way to step outside of them, if you're at all interested in doing so, is to experience what's happening in other commun
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by imiric 1y ago
> A computer always was a tool to enable people without technical knowledge to build software. That's just not true. Every past technology that claimed to enable non-technical people to build software has either failed, or was ultim
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by imiric 1y ago
> What are we doing? Building tools that enable people with no experience to create and ship software without following any good software engineering practices. This is in no way comparable to any previous period in the industry. Educati
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by imiric 1y ago
You use invisible characters whenever you press Enter or Space. If you're referring to Tab, many of the most popular programming languages like Go and Python use them as part of their syntax. The reason YAML was popularized is because

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