johnfn

47 ms·

811.
by johnfn 1y ago
> I guarantee 99% of the returns will return a very formulaic physics-based puzzle response like "The Resonant Hourglass" Haha, I was suspicious, so I tried this, and I indeed got an hourglass themed puzzle! Though it wasn&#x27
812.
by johnfn 1y ago
It is an ad hominem. "you shouldn't be turning into a script-kiddy" is guilt by association, see Wikipedia[1] or ask AI[2]. If you think that learning from AI is dangerous you should articulate why you think that. I find it n
813.
by johnfn 1y ago
This is overly reductive. Sure, you can say all webdev does is put letters on screen. Oh, and graphics - don't forget about those. Just letters and graphics! Oh wait, that actually describes everything anyone has ever coded. It's
814.
by johnfn 1y ago
Well, that's not "HTML alone".
815.
by johnfn 1y ago
You are using "script-kiddy" as an ad hominem rather than making an argument with proper justification. "script-kiddy" refers to website vandalism and cracking. That has nothing to do with using AI to learn what rev-pars
816.
by johnfn 1y ago
This seems false to me. I vibe code shell scripts all the time. I understand what it's doing perfectly, but it would have taken me ages to look up all the bash syntax and get it all correct. Is it one square bracket pair around if stat
817.
by johnfn 1y ago
I mean, perhaps I should have made this more clear, but later models of GPT are leaps and bounds better than whatever suno is currently using.
818.
by johnfn 1y ago
Yeah, I find it funny that they have this super strong music generation model, but then they use what could only be GPT 3.5 for lyrics.
819.
by johnfn 1y ago
It's so frustrating. These things are trivially solved. There's basically a 50/50 shot, every time the light cycles, that someone will illegally take a right on red on the street outside my house. All you need is a single cop
820.
by johnfn 1y ago
Interesting - I'm definitely substantially faster on a scooter than walking. Part of it is knowing the best routes, but I think even if there are crossing signals, if you're going further than a few blocks there's just no com
821.
by johnfn 1y ago
As someone who is often on SF city streets without a car - I bike and run a lot - I absolutely love Waymo. I am continuously seeing human drivers cut me off, perform illegal maneuvers (i.e. run red lights when I'm going through a cross
822.
by johnfn 1y ago
Is it really unthinkable that you could be using it in domains different than those that provide value to other people?
823.
by johnfn 1y ago
HN is a highly technical audience, and AI is showing the most benefit on highly technical tasks, so it seems logical to me that HN would be more excited than "the real world". (What is the real world, btw? Do people on HN not exis
824.
by johnfn 1y ago
I'm pretty excited about Cursor.
825.
by johnfn 1y ago
How do you know that these layoffs are the result of AI, rather than AI being a convenient place to lay the blame? I've seen a number of companies go "AI first" and stop hiring or have layoffs (Salesforce comes to mind) but I
826.
by johnfn 2y ago
> I recently spoke with a friend who was still dwelling on something that happened thirty years ago. “Why do you care?” I asked him. “That was four versions of you ago. That person doesn’t exist anymore. Move on.” Do you think this actua
827.
by johnfn 2y ago
> Never heard anyone calling these world records, before today. You've never heard of the world record for calculating digits of pi? https://www.livescience.com/physics-mathematics/mathematics/...
828.
by johnfn 2y ago
It's significantly worse than that. It's like saying the letter E is the most common letter in a corpus of text where most of the text has been ceasar-shifted.
829.
by johnfn 2y ago
I think this is fairly unrealistic. Does all your datetime manipulation involve proper use of the fold parameter as indicated in the article?
830.
by johnfn 2y ago
It's because everyone's "personal experience" is "I used it once and it didn't work".
831.
by johnfn 2y ago
Not all code needs to be written at a high level of quality. A good deal of code just needs to work. Shell scripts, one-offs, linter rules, etc.
832.
by johnfn 2y ago
And Go/C/Rust compiles to ASM, a dynamically typed language at runtime.
833.
by johnfn 2y ago
Typed JSX is one of the handful of key innovations that made React successful, IMO. I think you need to really understand what you're replacing before you can replace it.
834.
by johnfn 2y ago
Svelte uses JSDoc and has TS validate that. Nue uses nothing. This analogy makes no sense.
835.
by johnfn 2y ago
Now how do I add an text input filter? Is that another 20 year wait? :-)
836.
by johnfn 2y ago
You might be surprised to hear that people talk to other people and trust their judgements.
837.
by johnfn 2y ago
As a primarily frontend engineer who has "spent plenty of time in the Python mines", I feel exactly the same way. Oh my god, Python is a horrific mishmash of deprecated and impossible-to-upgrade libraries and dependencies. Honestl
838.
by johnfn 2y ago
A manager can put you on PIP, have you fired, and make your life miserable for months to years. What can an engineer do? Write some bad code that is a little annoying to refactor?
839.
by johnfn 2y ago
+1
840.
by johnfn 2y ago
But no one actually says "TypeScript is faster than say ruby". They probably say "node is faster than say ruby" or maybe "bun is faster than say ruby". Perhaps they say "JavaScript is faster than say ruby&

More ›