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by mjr00 9mo ago
> But it was accompanied by a link to the GitHub repo, so you can hardly claim that they were deliberately hiding the truth. Well, yes and no; we live in an era where people consume headlines, not articles, and certainly not links to Git
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by mjr00 9mo ago
What people take issue with is the claim that agents built a web browser "from scratch" only to find by looking deeper that they were using Servo, WGPU, Taffy, winit, and other libraries which do most of the heavy lifting. It&#x27
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by mjr00 9mo ago
Maybe so, but I don't think 3 million lines of code to ultimately call `servo.render()` is a great way to demonstrate how good AI coding is.
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by mjr00 9mo ago
> A great example of this is here: https://marshallbrain.com/manna1 This is a piece of science fiction and has its own (inaccurate, IMO) view on how minimum wage McDonald's employees would react to a robot manager.
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by mjr00 9mo ago
There's some stuff that, culturally, I don't think Amazon will ever do well. Amazon Games should be shuttered entirely. Their latest game was a really embarrassing flop; "King of Meat", which they expected to have 100,
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by mjr00 9mo ago
If I know what I want to code and it's a purely mechanical exercise to code it, I'll just tell Claude what to do and it does it. Pretty neat. When I don't know what I want to do, I read existing code, think about it, and fi
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by mjr00 9mo ago
You're completely missing the distinction between "using a human brain (by telling a person what to do)" [yes this includes via voice] and "using a machine via voice interface."
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by mjr00 9mo ago
Yeah maybe the refactoring was a bad example because it implies looking at the code. It's more like "Agent 1, change the color of this widget. Agent 9, add a red dot whenever there's a new message. Agent 67, send out a market
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by mjr00 9mo ago
As someone who's friends with executive assistants: rich people use executive assistants (humans) because they are busy and/or value their time more than money and don't want to bother with the details. None of them are using
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by mjr00 9mo ago
It's the Jarvis Effect. For years we had people trying to make voice agents, like Iron Man's Jarvis, a thing . You had people super bought into the idea that if you could talk to your computer and say "Jarvis, book me a fl
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by mjr00 9mo ago
> most orgs are used to responding to a daytime alert by calling out, “Who just shipped that change?” assuming that whoever merged the diff surely understands how it works and can fix it post-haste. What happens when nobody wrote the co
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by mjr00 9mo ago
> It is not debatable at all if short term residents should had the same voting rights as long term residents. It is very settled constitutional law in the US, and a completely radical idea to suggest changing a principle that has been f
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by mjr00 9mo ago
There's a massive difference between "will be in a place for 3-4 years maximum, then leaving" vs "has been in a place for 3-4 years but is planning on staying permanently." In the former case their interests are g
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by mjr00 9mo ago
While I don't know about European countries, given this is an article about America it's worth pointing out that you can, in fact, vote in the US while homeless[0], using a friend/family's home, shelter, or religious cen
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by mjr00 9mo ago
I don't see any entitlement at all, in fact it's the opposite. The article: "I expect open source maintainers to maintain their codebases and add new features. I have unilaterally decided that $1/package is a suitable am
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by mjr00 9mo ago
> but you're still basically saying "look you're a piece of shit but here's a couple of bucks anyways". Is it ethical to buy Dilbert books now that Adams is dead and the money's not going to him?
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by mjr00 9mo ago
"Can art be separated from the artist?" is an age-old debate. > There are a few artists whose output I can't even enjoy any more because their vitriol became so out of control that I couldn't see their work without th
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by mjr00 9mo ago
> It's quite concerning that you frame this as a bad idea. Downloading and executing other people's compiled software is how things worked for many decades. It's only been in recent years that people have come to believe t
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by mjr00 9mo ago
Right, which goes back to the main point; "total control of your computing environment" fundamentally means that you are responsible for figuring out which applications to trust, based on your own choice of heuristics (FOSS? # o
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by mjr00 9mo ago
Of course this is true. But you can keep going down the rabbit hole. How do you know there isn't a backdoor hidden in the source code? How do you know there isn't a compromised dependency, maybe intentionally? Ultimately there nee
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by mjr00 9mo ago
> Ironically, being concerned and skeptical about running random executables from the internet is a good idea in general. I agree you shouldn't run random executables, but the key word is "random". In this case, Ring Racer
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by mjr00 9mo ago
> Most of the world does not care. I suspect that is more true today than ever before. There are now adults that grew up in the age of social media that have no idea how local computing works. Yep. I was amazed when I was talking to a fr
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by mjr00 9mo ago
> At around 1 PM Pacific yesterday, Adam called someone who had just been laid off from Laracasts an idiot. The person was lamenting about being replaced by AI. This is totally untrue. The person who got laid off from Laracasts is @simon
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by mjr00 9mo ago
Hi, please re-read the parent comment again, which was claiming > Starting back in 2022/2023: > - (~2022) It can auto-complete one line, but it can't write a full function. > - (~2023) Ok, it can write a full function, bu
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by mjr00 9mo ago
Just from googling, here's a video "Use ChatGPT to Code a Full Stack App" from May 18, 2023.[0] There's a lot of non-ergonomic copy and pasting but it's definitely using an LLM to build a full application. [0] http
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by mjr00 9mo ago
This is disingenuous because LLMs were already writing full, simple applications in 2023.[0] They're definitely better now, but it's not like ChatGPT 3.5 couldn't write a full simple todo list app in 2023. There were a billio
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by mjr00 9mo ago
> The HN culture used to be almost exclusively a ton of nerds thinking that tech and the free market would be the answer for everything - but the last few years have served as a brutal, but very effective reality check for a lot of peopl
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by mjr00 9mo ago
The commentor was talking about HN karma, not reddit. You're right about reddit karma though. One of the good things about HN is that throwaway joke posts like that are downvoted/flagged/otherwise discouraged. I can guess the
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by mjr00 9mo ago
This is only true if you believe that all humans can accurately express their thoughts via text, which is clearly untrue. Unless you believe illiterate people can't have personalities.
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by mjr00 9mo ago
The map is not the territory.[0] A textual representation of a human's thoughts and personality is not the same as a human's thoughts and personality. If you don't believe this: reply to this comment in English, Japanese, Chi

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