munksbeer

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by munksbeer 2mo ago
> Do you have a sense of what shapes this? There are so many people in that orbit whose writing I find both exhausting and suspect. I'm not remotely from that scene, and I only really discovered it was a "scene" a few year
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by munksbeer 2mo ago
I am trying to not sound offensive here, but given the question you're asking, I don't think we're going to join up here. I think one of us is missing something fairly fundamental, and my hunch is it is you. The agent will al
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by munksbeer 2mo ago
I'm not a mathematician, so I may be talking nonsense. Would it not be equally possible that AI solutions to these problems have, or start revealing new maths, or new techniques. I doubt that is the case for these type of problems, but
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by munksbeer 2mo ago
There is no magic to coding, any sort of coding. Humans learn how to do it by learning the rules. A coding agent can learn the rules, easily.
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by munksbeer 2mo ago
> That may be true for bloom filters or what have you. But the author states the obvious: all recent games are closed-source. So any algorithms or techniques for real-time 3D that an LLM was trained on are going to be a long way behind t
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by munksbeer 2mo ago
Put it this way, the agent may well be hallucinating behind the scenes when it is coding for me, but I never see that, because it obviously verifies by compiling and testing the solution and won't show me something that is broken.
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by munksbeer 2mo ago
> A proper agentic workflow might do it all automatically. Might?! Every agentic workflow should be doing this automatically for nearly a year now. And yes, I agree with the latter. The lengths AI will go to, to get you a working solutio
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by munksbeer 2mo ago
I don't think the outcome is what makes things like this potentially illegal. You're not allowed to bribe public officials. You're not going to escape the law by arguing that the bribe didn't get you the result you wante
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by munksbeer 2mo ago
Out of interest, do you pay people extremely well to work with you?
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by munksbeer 2mo ago
Have you tried putting on an audiobook and just settling in to enjoy it as long as you're awake? I concur with a lot of the original advice. I still wake up a lot during the night, but I can fall asleep again by starting my audiobook a
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by munksbeer 2mo ago
> The code they write is garbage. This is trolling right?
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by munksbeer 2mo ago
Father of an autistic child here. If I could "cure" his negative symptoms with medication, I'd choose it in a blink. Caveat being, I would have to see how it impacted the rest of his personality.
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by munksbeer 2mo ago
My son is autistic. He massively struggles with life. I weep sometimes after some of his meltdowns, where he says he hates himself and wishes he didn't exist. We do our best, and I hope we can help him learn the correct coping mechanis
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by munksbeer 3mo ago
You're framing it so you can't lose by making the argument seem like a moral choice between "have data centres" or "live in a functional society". That's a fallacy, and it is moral grandstanding. It's
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by munksbeer 3mo ago
These sort of moral grandstanding arguments are annoying.
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by munksbeer 3mo ago
>We will always need super smart people with largely unadulterated thinking. I don't see how you get to that conclusion. We're just atoms. We evolved over a long time and something selected for a particular configuration of ato
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by munksbeer 3mo ago
> I just don’t see how one can say that building things reliably good is easy now when the company providing these tools can’t even do it well. What do you mean? Claude cli is wildly successful. Why do they need to re-write?
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by munksbeer 3mo ago
>You working in some "we replaced MS Access with another high-level language tool"-place is so far off this level of engineering You might have a point buried in your post somewhere, but I can't find it because your person
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by munksbeer 3mo ago
> Definitely not the best argument presented. He isn't presenting an argument. He doesn't have to, and it would be fruitless to do so, because at this point anyone who denies AI coding is good is just burying their head in the
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by munksbeer 3mo ago
Crazy that this hasn't got more traction here. Maybe people missed this thread. Agentic cli based coding "got good" (around Oct/Nov 2025), and after just a short trial period, most devs in our company were convinced enou
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by munksbeer 3mo ago
I'm on the verge of trying out a home project (Rust) with codex. ChatGPT suggested I start with the codex app and vs code. What made you switch?
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by munksbeer 3mo ago
Thanks. I haven't been checked. People always mention this though, so maybe it's common. But some people are just bad sleepers even without sleep apnea?
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by munksbeer 3mo ago
What you mean is "it's really not bad for me". Noise pollution is horrible. It is jarring and causes stress (health issues), and poor sleep (health issues). This isn't just a vague immaterial thing, this is a genuine neg
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by munksbeer 3mo ago
What exactly is sleep apnea?
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by munksbeer 3mo ago
Melatonin works well to help me get to sleep, but it doesn't keep me asleep. My issue is waking multiple times in the night, mostly because I'm just uncomfortable, but my brain will immediately be thinking of some work or personal
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by munksbeer 3mo ago
Disclaimer: I love git, it is by far the best version control system I've used in nearly 25+ years. But, his point is objective, so he doesn't need to provide subjective proof to you. Do lots of people find git confusing? Yes. It
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by munksbeer 3mo ago
It depends on what you think "the right thing is". Our right thing sounds different to your right thing. Our right thing is PRs less than 500~ lines, and a single logical change only if the overall goal is complex. For example, in
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by munksbeer 3mo ago
Which deities don't you believe in? I don't believe in all of them. Presumably you don't believe in almost all of them?
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by munksbeer 3mo ago
That is an incredibly insulting comment. I am married, two children, have lead a fantastic fulfilling life. Just because I don't believe the Flying Spaghetti Monster created the universe doesn't mean I am an "Edgelord".
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by munksbeer 3mo ago
Sorry to be nihilist, but you never had any objective value if you're thinking in these terms. As far as we know, the universe "just is". There is no universal objective value of human beings, at all, any one of us. You have

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