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by larve 1y ago
maybe the article should reflect that? This just seems like "I found an app that has a security hole and I'm being a dick about it". Sure, feel free to do it, I don't think it's productive, and actually toxic. This
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by larve 1y ago
I feel like it is. What should happen? Everybody born after 2015 is forbidden to use a computer? Or should only be allowed under strict supervision to be typing in code by hand? When people told me that in the nineties, with my linux, putti
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by larve 1y ago
right, do you think this article is going to be very productive in that regard? If the author of the blog approached the author of the software in that manner (hey, you have kids on the app, btw I spammed them with porn humor), do you think
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by larve 1y ago
Not only would you contact the author first, but spamming users with edgy notifications is puerile at best. As for “it’s just prompting an AI”, who cares, this person built an application that people find useful. This is the world we are at
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by larve 1y ago
This take is toxic. You could write the same article in 2001 and lament all the newcomers writing insecure applications in php3, or in 2009 with all the newcomers writing insecure applications with node.js. The solution is not to aggressive
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by larve 1y ago
re o3: you can zip the file, upload it, and it will use python and grep and the shell to inspect it. I have yet to try using it with a sqlite db, but that's how i do things locally with agents.
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by larve 1y ago
Here's maybe the most impressive thing I've vibecoded, where I wanted to track a file write/read race condition in a vscode extension: https://github.com/go-go-golems/go-go-labs/tree/main/c
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by larve 1y ago
Software methodologies and workflows are not engineering either, yet we spend a fair amount of time iterating and refining those. You can very much become better at prompt engineering. There is a huge differential between individuals, for e
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by larve 1y ago
Useful boilerplate: - documentation (reference, tutorials, overviews) - tools - logging and log analyzers - monitoring - configurability - unit tests - fuzzers - UIs - and not least: lots and lots of prototypes and iterating on ideas All o
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by larve 1y ago
Even putting the common lisp aside, PAIP is my favourite book about programming in general, by FAR. Norvig's programming style is so clear and expressive, the book touches on more "pedestrian" parts of programming: building t
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by larve 1y ago
It's always hard to parse if people mean functional programming when bringing up Lisp. Common Lisp certainly is anything but a functional language. Sure, you have first order functions, but you in a way have that in pretty much all pro
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by larve 2y ago
As a long time embedded programmer, I don't understand this. Even 20 years ago, there is no way I really understood the machine, despite writing assembly and looking at compiler output. 10 years ago, running an arm core at 40 Mhz, I ba
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by larve 2y ago
Yes, better understanding of the stack makes you a more efficient prompt engineer. and yes I don't say this ironically, prompt engineering / vibe coding is not easy, as evidenced by the amount of people who think it's only go
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by larve 2y ago
Yet calculators don't seem to have reduced the number of people in mathematics, engineering and other mathematics heavy fields. Why would it be any different with people using AI to learn coding?
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by larve 2y ago
Another aspect this is missing is that, if AI works well enough to fire people (it already does, IMO), there is a whole world of software that was previously out of reach to be built. I wouldn't build a custom photography app for a sin
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by larve 2y ago
This is missing the fact that budding programmers will also embrace these technologies, in order to get stuff done and working and fulfill their curiosity. They will in fact grow up to be much more "AI native" than current more se
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by larve 2y ago
I have been diving deep into LLM coding over the last 3 years and regular encountered that feeling along the way. I still at times have a "wtf" moment where I need to take a break. However, I have been able to quell most of my anx
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by larve 2y ago
I have been a software engineer for 25 years and it's my life's dream job. I have started to code with LLMs extensively as copilot's beta happened 3 years ago. There is no going back. It's (still) easy to dismiss them as
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by larve 2y ago
I ask LLMs to give me exercises, tutorials then write up my experience into "course notes", along with flashcards. I ask it to simulate a teacher, I ask it to simulate students that I have to teach, etc... I haven't found a t
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by larve 2y ago
got them after weaning of SNRIs, for about 1-2 years I had random brain zaps. Not that big of a deal per se, but definitely annoying.
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by larve 2y ago
I actually find the quality of programming books to have starkly increased in the last decade. I find a lot of manning's and o'reilly's release to have a pretty long shelf-life. For example, I really enjoyed and often go back
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by larve 2y ago
(native french) It is also a letter originally written in french in 1940: http://denise.vella.chemla.free.fr/transc-AWSW.pdf . It uses "tu" which is the affectionate/intimate version of you, the language used
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by larve 2y ago
> Quynh, an old friend who runs a publishing house in Vietnam, believes that there are three big problems in life: career, family, and finance. It usually takes people a decade to figure each out. I have a really hard time relating to th
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The Its Reconstruction Project(obsolescence.dev)
1 points by larve 3y ago|0 comments
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PiDP10 project (PDP10 emulator and 2/3 scale hardware)(obsolescence.dev)
2 points by larve 3y ago|0 comments
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by larve 3y ago
I’m 42. I don’t care too much about progress, and Covid has nuked my lungs. I was lucky to be born with great endurance genetics. I mostly care about riding long and discovering new parts in nature on my gravel bike.
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by larve 3y ago
I'm not sure how it applies to learning, but for any activity based on consistency and quantity, I find it wild how quickly time seems to shrink and "writing 500 words a day" seems to overnight turn into "I wrote 100k wo
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by larve 3y ago
One thing I love about the speedup of time is that picking a compounding habit (say, doing something for 10 minutes each day) feels like having an almost instant pay-off. "Oh wow 3 years already passed" -> "Oh wow I got pr
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Inference Race to the Bottom – Make It Up on Volume?(semianalysis.com)
2 points by larve 3y ago|0 comments
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Prompting Diverse Ideas: Increasing AI Idea Variance [pdf](papers.ssrn.com)
3 points by larve 3y ago|0 comments

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