lunar_mycroft

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by lunar_mycroft 9mo ago
There is no such thing as read only network access. For example, you might think that limiting the LLM to making HTTP GET requests would prevent it from exfiltrating data, but there's nothing at all to stop the attacker's server
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by lunar_mycroft 9mo ago
As an aside, both those statements were wrong. People who learned to drive well after cars were widely adopted were at no particular disadvantage when and if they decided to adopt the technology. You can see this is true by noting that
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by lunar_mycroft 9mo ago
> At the is point the best evidence we have is a large volume of extremely experienced programmers - like antirez - saying "this stuff is amazing for coding productivity". The problem is that we know that developers' - inc
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by lunar_mycroft 9mo ago
The core of your argument is that using LLMs is a skill that takes a significant amount of time to master. I'm not going to argue against that (although I have some doubts) because I think it's ultimately irrelevant. The questio
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by lunar_mycroft 9mo ago
> People seem to believe that there is a burden of proof. There is not. What do I care if you are on board? The burden of proof rests on those making the positive claim. You say you don't care if others get on board, but a) clearly
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by lunar_mycroft 9mo ago
> If you can solve "measure programming productivity with data" you'll have cracked one of the hardest problems in our industry. That doesn't mean that we have to accept claims that LLMs drastically increase productiv
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by lunar_mycroft 9mo ago
In the past week, I saw Opus 4.5 (being used by someone else) implement "JWT based authentication" by appending the key, to a (fake) header and body. When asked to fix this, it switched to hashing the key (and nothing else), and
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by lunar_mycroft 9mo ago
Interestingly, things like domain name registrations and new github repositories didn't have the an inflection point in recent years [0]. This means it's almost certainly that a greater portion of new projects are getting submi
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by lunar_mycroft 9mo ago
As others has already been pointed out, not all new technologies that are proposed are improvements. You say you understand this, but the clear subtext of the analogy to compilers is that LLM driven development are a obvious improvement an
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by lunar_mycroft 9mo ago
> It's like the articles point: we don't do assembly anymore and no one considers gcc to be controversial and no one today says "if you think gcc is fun I will never understand you, real programming is assembly, that'
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by lunar_mycroft 10mo ago
The following was originally at the start of your comment: > Here’s the same text with all em dashes removed and the flow adjusted accordingly: Did you have an LLM write your comment then remove the evidence?
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by lunar_mycroft 10mo ago
Except in context that was very much what was suggested. The implication of the comment I replied to is that there actually are "a ton of 1 person startups" (and by implication, that LLMs do enable the massive increases in pr
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by lunar_mycroft 10mo ago
You have to manually write that out either way. In the SPA/reactive paradigm, you have to specify that multiple parts of the UI depend on the same part of the state, vs sending down those multiple parts of the UI from the backend. I&#
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by lunar_mycroft 10mo ago
> Can't speak for anyone else, but I personally know 3. I'm not saying your three friends/acquaintances don't exist, I'm saying the evidence suggests they aren't representative of a trend. This is consisten
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by lunar_mycroft 10mo ago
> If you display mutable derivations of the server-side state in more than one place on the client, you're synchronizing it. Again, this is the XY problem. Your actual requirement isn't "display mutable derivations of the
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by lunar_mycroft 10mo ago
For the vast majority of web apps (including the ones that are built with SPA frameworks now), "how do I do distributed state synchronization" is an example of the XY problem. Most of the time, you don't actually need to wri
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by lunar_mycroft 10mo ago
As of the middle of the year, there was no increase in publicly available indicators of new startups at all [0]. No change in the trend in steam releases, domain name registrations, app store releases, etc. People might be able to keep th
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by lunar_mycroft 10mo ago
> Thus far, we do have evidence that AI (at least in OSS) produces a 19% decrease in productivity I generally agree with you, but I'd be remiss if I didn't point out that it's plausible that the slow down observed in the M
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by lunar_mycroft 10mo ago
So Anthropic had to pay less than 1% of their valuation despite approximately their entire business being dependent on this and similar piracy. I somehow doubt their takeaway from that is "let's avoid doing that again".
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by lunar_mycroft 10mo ago
A risk I see with this approach is that when the bubble pops, you'll be left dependent on a bunch of tools which you don't know how to maintain or replace on your own, and won't have/be able to afford access to LLMs to d
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by lunar_mycroft 10mo ago
Every single point you made is contradicted by the observed behavior of the AI labs. If any of those factors were going to stop them from training on data they legally can't, they would have done so already.
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by lunar_mycroft 10mo ago
That fits, except later on they say > And now I'm preparing for my post-software career because that coworker is going to be me in a few years. Which implies they anticipate their manager (or someone higher up in the company) to agr
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by lunar_mycroft 10mo ago
For your answer to be correct for your employer , the added productivity from your use of LLMs must be at least as much as the productivity from whichever coworker you're having fired. No study I've seen claims much above a 20%
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by lunar_mycroft 10mo ago
People do not have perfect foresight, and the ways open source software is used has significantly shifted in recent years. As a result, people reevaluating whether or not they want to participate.
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by lunar_mycroft 10mo ago
> You refusing to write open source will do nothing to slow the development of AI models - there's plenty of other training data in the world. There's also plenty of other open source contributors in the world. > It will how
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by lunar_mycroft 10mo ago
Adding rust to the kernel makes sense. Porting a million lines of code per engineer month is insane, regardless of language (it works out to ~600ms per line total , including review, testing, etc). Anyone who heard about that expectation
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by lunar_mycroft 10mo ago
Because then you couldn't use ? to propagate errors if they occurred inside any loops or branches within the function, which would be a significant limitation.
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by lunar_mycroft 10mo ago
You won't keep those performance numbers if the network conditions are bad, unfortunately. For things that require a network round trip, that's fine, because doing it via JSON (or some other serialization format) won't sav
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by lunar_mycroft 10mo ago
[citation needed]. No study I've seen shows an even 50% productivity improvement for programming, let alone a 100% or 9900% improvement.
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by lunar_mycroft 10mo ago
(Disclaimer: I haven't actually run into a case where I had to move from HTMX to a SPA framework, even partially, so this is largely an educated guess) I think this scenario would either be very apparent early on in the project, or wou

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