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by jaredcwhite 8mo ago
Markdown with front matter? Pppfff. Challenge: I'll only switch to this brave new world of "LLM compilers" if the "spec language" is XML. =) Make it so, HN brain trust!
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by jaredcwhite 8mo ago
Hilarious! Year of the Agent, hahahaha. Good one!
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by jaredcwhite 8mo ago
Most people? I'd suggest few people see LLMs as tools for thought and more that they're slop machines being cynically forced upon workers by capitalists with dollar signs in their eyes. Over and over and over again we see real-wor
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by jaredcwhite 8mo ago
Just because a bunch of people tell you the practice of performing the art form of producing software via handwriting code is over doesn't mean it's over. This form of hyperbole is intended to overwhelm your reason, get you to for
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by jaredcwhite 8mo ago
> You’ve built a space that looks like focus but feels like depletion. And you’ve been blaming yourself for the fatigue. The room is the problem. Not you. I see this kind of weird pacing and dumb "it's not X, it's Y"
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by jaredcwhite 8mo ago
Sure, let's throw more wild amounts of money at a wildly unprofitable company with no clear roadmap to profitability any time in the near-term, and in the long-term it's very probable that any arguably-useful use cases for LLM-bas
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by jaredcwhite 8mo ago
The only way to win is not to play. Opt out of everything. Total ban on usage of anything genAI. Trust me, you'll still be mad at the world sometimes, but in your own life you'll be far happier.
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by jaredcwhite 8mo ago
Reminds me of that famous speech by Mon Mothma: “We are launching our own Rebel Star to blow up planets which support the Empire. It’s totally better than the Death Star and not unethical at all. Join us to build a better future for the gal
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by jaredcwhite 9mo ago
Yeah, M4 was the generation when the minimum got bumped up to 16GB.
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by jaredcwhite 9mo ago
I've been running Asahi Fedora GNOME on a Mac mini M1 for some while now (using it right now in fact) with almost zero complaints. A really solid and usable setup. I could see myself buying a used MacBook Air M3 down the road once this
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by jaredcwhite 9mo ago
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this. Why was this flagged? Oh right, this is HN. eyeroll
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by jaredcwhite 9mo ago
Honestly that's what makes this all the more dangerous. He's trying to have his cake and eat it too: accept all of the hype and all of the propaganda, but then couch it in the rhetoric of "oh I'm so concerned I can remai
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by jaredcwhite 9mo ago
I don't understand why an interesting demo is buried here inside of some of the most ridiculous propaganda I've ever read on the topic of genAI. It really makes me not have any interest in the actual thing you're showing. Ima
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by jaredcwhite 9mo ago
You need an explanation of how people make norms & laws regarding what is acceptable or unacceptable in society and industry?
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by jaredcwhite 9mo ago
“We can’t put the genie back in the bottle.” Actually we can. And we will.
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DuckDuckGo is asking for a Yes or No vote on AI(duckduckgo.com)
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by jaredcwhite 9mo ago
Yup. Enshittification, right on track. (I continue to be shocked how many people—who should know better—are in denial that the entire "industry" of Generative AI is completely and utterly unsustainable and furthermore on a level o
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by jaredcwhite 9mo ago
I took have gone back to using an old Mac laptop lying around, running iTunes, and syncing music to my old iPod Classic. I was surprised that ALAC was supported even way back when, so I can listen to high-res lossless audio!
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by jaredcwhite 9mo ago
Saying "well the world sucks so what's new" isn't a perspective a lot of folks are going to resonate with. Just because we can recognize troubling patterns from the past in the present doesn't mean we just volunteer
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by jaredcwhite 9mo ago
I'm so completely over these types of articles. Just as the AI techbros want to convince people that "the genie is out of the bottle" and that these services & practices are inevitable, it is also the case the the cohort
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by jaredcwhite 9mo ago
Never used Spotify, never will. I also, as a producer, pulled my music off that service a long time ago. I'm also not very happy with Apple Music anymore either. The lack of UX care regarding the service is noticeable. It suffers from
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by jaredcwhite 9mo ago
This is what a pipeline which includes genAI tools should look like: using them for placeholders/prototypes/internal demos only, and making sure everything is properly labeled so it's replaced by correct, production assets
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by jaredcwhite 9mo ago
I've been running "VSCode" via code-server as a self-hosted solution so I can fire up an IDE on any device including my iPad. I still use code-server, but increasingly when I'm at my Mac/Linux desktops (yes I have b
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by jaredcwhite 9mo ago
I don't see this as an either/or. It's great to be able to remote SSH into a personal server and do whatever you need to do to tweak and deploy software via the CLI alone. And I do believe those are skills every developer sho
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by jaredcwhite 9mo ago
If people need AI assistance to handle all their "boilerplate" all the time, the much larger problem is needing so much damn boilerplate written all the time. The job of anyone developing an application framework, whether that&#x2
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by jaredcwhite 9mo ago
100% test coverage, for most projects of modest size, is extremely bad advice.
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by jaredcwhite 9mo ago
I'm sad programmers lacking a lot of experience will read this and think it's a solid run-down of good ideas.
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by jaredcwhite 9mo ago
I disagree with your insinuation that being creative with your mind as a human being is a form of recreation or personal growth or whatever (working out at the gym) whereas "creativity" on behalf of work projects gets done by Big
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by jaredcwhite 9mo ago
"Now they're not." ??? For me, there isn't the slightest difference from before 2022 and after 2022, since I continually choose to boycott genAI services, and as an activist in the Pro-Craft movement, encourage others to
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by jaredcwhite 9mo ago
In fact it's an excellent shorthand. I make it a point to look up what all the AI boosters endlessly posting puff pieces on LinkedIn actually do for a living, and almost without exception it's someone who is directly attempting to

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