monkaiju

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Luddite Lab(labor.dair-institute.org)
3 points by monkaiju 5mo ago|0 comments
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by monkaiju 5mo ago
The thread is locked so I cant add it there, but if you wanted to jank-lang could be added to your prior-art section: https://github.com/jank-lang/jank?tab=contributing-ov-file#a...
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by monkaiju 5mo ago
About a year. They were making slop, then when asked to work without AI were unable to be effective for months.
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by monkaiju 5mo ago
Similar situation here! In fact our team has a no-LLM policy that I'm quite happy with. We did experiment with it, to the point that one of our seniors atrophied so badly we had to let him go, and we're still paying down some of t
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by monkaiju 5mo ago
> as it isn't funded through taxes This is simply not true, especially when you consider the massive amounts of government support so many parts of this "experiment with their own money" is getting. As a Utah resident its
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by monkaiju 5mo ago
I mean if they aren't going to be forced to eat the liability then the hype they get from it is worth it. Not a great state of affairs...
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by monkaiju 5mo ago
Hmmmm, the sentiment is nice but it coming from the Salt Lake Tribune is pretty rich... As someone living in SLC I've seen the "quality" of their journalism firsthand, even helped write a piece about it back in 2023: https:&
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by monkaiju 5mo ago
Are we considering the NYT and USA Today "independent journalism" still? Seems dubious...
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by monkaiju 5mo ago
Just today we started a new cycle at work to move from GitHub to Forgejo, its such a refreshing tool... So fast, supports everything we need (and more), and no AI slop. Very happy with our decision
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by monkaiju 5mo ago
Maybe thats by design? If the org believes that for this to actually be effective it is inherently anti-capitalist, then it would probably want to keep people who are only there for the surface level vibes and dont understand that to stay a
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by monkaiju 5mo ago
I mean, not really. You could be somewhat capitalist I suppose, but certainly not "strongly" if for no other reason than that "capitalism" is defined by goals that are inherently misaligned with the others listed (sustai
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I can't cancel GitHub Copilot(drewdevault.com)
7 points by monkaiju 5mo ago|0 comments
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by monkaiju 6mo ago
Thats because humans have "understanding" they can use to assess quality, without understanding "trying harder" just means spending more "effort" distilling an average result, at best over a larger sample size.
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by monkaiju 6mo ago
How is this not a bigger deal on hn? Was expecting a lot more conversation
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by monkaiju 6mo ago
His anti-LLM stance isnt unsurprising given the values he's posted about regularly for years, if anything his ability to avoid cargo-cult/hype nonsense is why I (and seemingly others) value his writing so much.
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by monkaiju 6mo ago
Isn't a huge part of the point of developing in the open so that people can assess the entire technology, including how its developed, and choose if they want to use it? Folks using LLMs will have to accept that that will turn people a
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by monkaiju 6mo ago
I always find folks bringing up rubber ducking as a thing LLMs are good at to be misguided. IMO, what defines rubber ducking as a concept is that it is just the developer explaining what their doing to themselves. Not to another person, and
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Komodo v2.0 Released(komo.do)
5 points by monkaiju 6mo ago|0 comments
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by monkaiju 7mo ago
The best counter to this is to just forego these tools and develop actual knowledge. Knowledge & skill is still power, no matter what the AI propagandists say
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by monkaiju 7mo ago
Removing AI quite clearly doesn't fit into that category. It doesnt reduce human suffering, hell the primary propagandists behind it are explicitly anti-humanists and want it to replace human creativity. Thankfully its awful at that
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by monkaiju 7mo ago
There are hordes of AI-maximalists (many invested in AI being successful) to do that, far more than the critics
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by monkaiju 7mo ago
For a comment on a forum intended to foster a community of folks interested in software development, this is a remarkably anti community point.
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by monkaiju 7mo ago
He never said that, you're just strawmanning the piece
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by monkaiju 7mo ago
I realize this exact data might be novel, but haven't we know that till-reliant farming was detrimental to soil for a long time? The no-till people are a huge part of the permaculture movement, also theres always folks talking about ho
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by monkaiju 7mo ago
Id also want to load GOS myself, pre-loading it seems like it defeates some of the point
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by monkaiju 7mo ago
> They'll likely fall behind So far this doesn't seem to be the case, despite it being repeated endlessly over the last few years. >while also having to live in a world increasingly built around something they see as immoral
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by monkaiju 7mo ago
> You'd be hard pressed to show evidence that progress in this field was ever exponential - in most fields it never was. Literally the introduction of transformers was absolutely exponential, in fact exponential progress is pretty m
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by monkaiju 7mo ago
Regardless of how true your statement is (just adding metal to a structure is commonly not a way to solve the problem you stated, it just makes the structure heavier which means other systems have more to support) the point is that it isnt
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by monkaiju 7mo ago
This is the perennial excuse, and I'm sure we'll continue to see it. Folks will say the exact same thing when the current crop of slop-generators have been replaced by a newer ilk
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by monkaiju 7mo ago
I mean, theres still a language barrier there no? I dont know much about their immigration policies though.

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