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by kranner 8mo ago
> All to say, if it had affected my libido, it'd have been a NOOP anyway in my case. Wouldn't a "NOOP" be the opposite of a "Nope"? Sorry for the pedantry, but this forum seems an appropriate place for this.
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by kranner 8mo ago
> Using them isn't an advantage, but not using them is a disadvantage. They handle the production part so we can focus on the part that actually matters: acquiring the novel input that makes content worth creating. I would argue tha
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by kranner 8mo ago
What's the expression? Kein Backup, kein Mitleid. Not that I've ever had the heart to say it to a friend who has shown up with a computer that won't boot and data they must recover. Sometimes it's the same friend a secon
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by kranner 8mo ago
This confidence may be somewhat premature at this stage. The industry is extremely fashion-driven and may decide that agentically-based development results in mediocre and unmaintainable code. It depends too on how the flagship models devel
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by kranner 9mo ago
It remains to be seen whether these analogies will still hold in the longer term, or whether agentic code will come to be seen as cheap but buggy and mediocre.
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by kranner 9mo ago
> There's resistance but on the other hand there was resistance against light bulbs, trains with engines, automatic press, phones, television, a global internet,... There was also resistance against fascism, slavery, Ponzi schemes,
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by kranner 9mo ago
With respect for your priorities that may be different from mine, it would sadden me a little to always have to work like this, because it would rob me of the chance to think deeply about the problem, perhaps notice analogies with other pro
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by kranner 9mo ago
I think it's also the case that AI code can be insanely bad despite being well-formatted and sometimes very good when it comes to specific functionality. But you have to keep watching out for code that doesn't do anything or repli
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by kranner 9mo ago
Resistance is futile, You will be assimilated? Is it so hard to understand why people are reacting against this argument?
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by kranner 9mo ago
It is still a technical thing though. AI generated code is outright buggy when it’s not mediocre but the pro AI crowd is pretending you can guardrail and test suite your way to good generated code. As if painting a picture in negative space
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by kranner 9mo ago
If only it were Surprisingly Obvious. IME there are a large number of emotionally stunted middle and upper managers that could use a pedigreed reminder that being a jerk at work is not good for anything in the end.
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by kranner 9mo ago
> My underlying point I left out is that I already understand most of the problems I’m trying to solve from a coding perspective OK, in that case you make a fair point. I'm not averse to the typing autocompletion either. But most of
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by kranner 9mo ago
There is a category error here. Python and its standard library provide deterministic abstractions; they don't aim to solve the entire problem on your behalf.
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by kranner 9mo ago
> The “creating” part of coding has very little to do with the code, in fact my perspective is that it’s the most insignificant part of creating software. At the end of the day, how code gets into a pr doesn’t matter. A human should be r
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by kranner 9mo ago
> No they don’t flatter you, try using ChatGPT once. You're absolutely right! On a more serious note, if it has almost infinite knowledge, is it even a cognitive-offloading tool in the same class as paper? Sounds more like something
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by kranner 9mo ago
As cognitive-offloading devices go, paper is completely neutral. It doesn't flatter you into believing you are a genius when you're not; it doesn't offer to extend your reasoning or find references in the research literature
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by kranner 9mo ago
Agreed; also a kind of recursive placebo tends to happen in my experience: 10 You recognise your thinking (or some other desirable activity) has improved 20 You're excited about it 30 You engage more with the thinking (or other
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by kranner 9mo ago
> Since watching it we've kept a lookout for protagonists who embody the "everyman in way over his head who accomplished virtually nothing himself" archetype. You might enjoy Joyce Porter’s Dover series.
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by kranner 9mo ago
> At least to me this seems like something that is at far more risk of being automated then general application design in the first place. This function is a small part of a larger application with research components that are not AI-sol
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by kranner 9mo ago
But a human developer, even a not so great one, might know something about the characteristics of the actual data a particular program is expected to encounter that is more efficient than this AI-coded hybrid sort for this particular applic
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by kranner 9mo ago
I did miss the sarcasm you pointed out in the separate mail to me (I should have paid more attention to the word "otherwise", I guess). I did not mean to lecture at you at all. I thought it was something you built very quickly wit
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by kranner 9mo ago
> Why would I otherwise spend years of my life handcrafting something where I just want to see how my harebrained ideas play out when actualized? If you're sure that's all you wanted out of it. If this were more a path-vs-desti
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by kranner 9mo ago
It's possible the guy in paragraph 4 who designed the UX didn't get a promotion and did their work in the same kind of environment you describe in paragraph 3. (Also maybe the fan was wired to a thermostat?)
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by kranner 10mo ago
What about a-ha moments when you're solving a tricky problem? For me they come in a flash and I know I've solved the problem even before I've narrated the solution to myself.
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by kranner 10mo ago
I should have put "productivity" in double-quotes. What I meant is I don't have to worry about justifying why I'm not using AI to "optimize" my "productivity" to a pointy-haired boss as my FAANG frien
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by kranner 10mo ago
Similar situation here. Laid off last year (at 45), can just about afford to retire to a frugal life (which I wouldn't mind at all). But now that I am finally free to write only software that I want to bring into the world, I cannot
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by kranner 10mo ago
> I can't imagine being solo indie and not leaning hard into Codex, CC, or Composer at this point. Some of us don't want to because we like our artisanal programming, and being indie is great because we don't have to capit
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by kranner 1y ago
To paraphrase a saucy joke I read on Twitter, caring about case makes the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse.
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by kranner 1y ago
Wow, so you can adjust action with just a screw at the back? I wish it were that easy on nylon-string guitars instead of having to file and shape nuts and saddles. The last time I made a saddle from a bone blank I spent hours only to find I
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by kranner 1y ago
None of this is excluded by my statement. And arguably someone else can draw a line in the sand and say most of this is overthinking somehow and you should let the machine worry about it.

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