jama211

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by jama211 11mo ago
You’re picking at hairs. “Everyone” was being used colloquially by them, not literally.
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by jama211 11mo ago
Sure, and LLM’s are pretty good at using measurable targets such as using tests to verify their work - if you direct them to do so.
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by jama211 11mo ago
A fair criticism!
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by jama211 11mo ago
Yes it is
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by jama211 11mo ago
Ah ok, so you just totally misrepresented your experiences for comedic effect. Good for you I guess
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by jama211 11mo ago
This is like saying the typewriter won’t make a newspaper company more productive because the biggest bottlenecks are the research and review processes rather than the typing. It’s absolutely true, but it was still worth it to go up to type
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by jama211 11mo ago
I don’t ask it to be sycophantic in my prompts either but it does that anyway too.
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by jama211 11mo ago
I don’t think it’s reasonable to assume the AI was earnestly attempting to predict the future, it’s just as likely attempting to make jokes here for the user who prompted it, or neither of those things.
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by jama211 11mo ago
They’ll need a contextual system around them that is convenient and trusted by people who don’t know what they are or how they work in order to be successful
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by jama211 11mo ago
I suppose the only use case would be someone so unconfident in themselves they would do nothing at all, but not sure it’s healthy for that either…
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by jama211 11mo ago
While you’re making unstructured requests and expecting results, why don’t you ask your barista to make you a “better coffee” with no instructions. Then, when they make a coffee with their own brand of creativity, complain that it tastes wo
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by jama211 11mo ago
but my experience has also been that with every model they require less hand holding and the code is less sloppy. If I’m careful with my prompts, gpt codex 5.1 recently has been making a lot of typescript for me that is basically production
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by jama211 11mo ago
You’ve been lucky then, or have excellent credentials, or some combination of the two. Your anecdote doesn’t invalidate their point about it being a valid reason a dev would want to gain experience in a current and modern technology over an
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by jama211 11mo ago
Interestingly it became most painfully clear to me once I started working in an office in a developed country. Something about seeing the scale of it all. But I take your point.
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by jama211 11mo ago
A straw man argument? On my HN?
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by jama211 11mo ago
I’m rightfully dubious of studies like this. Too many variables. They stated what they controlled for, but it wasn’t all that much, and doesn’t have any clue at all mechanism. For all we know it could be that people who drink coffee are les
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by jama211 11mo ago
These studies are often questionable at best, but usually they make some attempt to control for those things, did you check if they did in the study?
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by jama211 11mo ago
Absolute slam dunk of a comment, well said!
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by jama211 11mo ago
I think what people hate to admit even less is that being judgmental like you are doing gives people a small power trip.
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by jama211 11mo ago
It’s not a disorder unless it’s causing problems in your life, definitionally. By that logic people are addicted to any medication they take long term that helps them manage any health condition. Hell, I must be addicted to eye drops becaus
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by jama211 11mo ago
I think you missed their point - just because you choose a job doesn’t mean people shouldn’t try to avoid needing to be rescued in the first place
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by jama211 11mo ago
This is great, thank you for sharing
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by jama211 11mo ago
You’re starting to sound terrifyingly like an unethical scientist. We know how that ends, we’ve been down that road before, and we know why it is a terrible idea.
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by jama211 11mo ago
This is amazing, thank you for this!
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by jama211 11mo ago
This is why I hate it when people are judged (like the article writer is doing) for doing what their job requires of them and not “taking pride in their work” - the thing is, the workers generally don’t own the work, the business does. If t
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by jama211 11mo ago
Well said. I’ve always also thought that writing code and craftsmanship is a forced metaphor. At most, the product is the craft, not the code. And a product is exactly as good as people’s experiences of using it and how well it solves their
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by jama211 11mo ago
It’s possible that it also really doesn’t matter that much to the majority of people
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by jama211 11mo ago
Alright this might be taking things a little too far… the free software movement is stronger than it’s ever been and hardware is also more accessible than it’s ever been. Losing this one company is simply not a death bell of the entire enth
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by jama211 11mo ago
Not a fair comparison. I CHOSE to download and use steam when there are many alternatives. I enjoy their store page. Everything is consensual here. They don’t force themselves onto your machines mate.
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by jama211 11mo ago
This doesn’t apply because valve doesn’t have a monopoly.

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