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by ookblah 1y ago
the future is probably something that looks pretty "inefficient" to us but a non-factor for a machine. i sometimes think a lot of our code structure is just for our own maintenance and conceptualization (DRY, SRP), but if you thr
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by ookblah 1y ago
knowledge gap and consolidation just gets wider, like before. the internet rotted peoples brains but also brought that knowledge to people who would have never had the opportunity to learn. those who use the tools to accelerate their learn
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by ookblah 1y ago
okay, but code still has to be written. you can be a master architect and if the codebase requires X lines they have to come from somewhere. i'm just having a hard time grokking how you you can spend 1-10% of your time coding and act
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by ookblah 1y ago
you know, maybe understand actual frontend dev issues more deeply before arguing against toolsets you are unfamiliar with. none of your suggestions/generalizations actually address my actual real world issues and rather they are non-i
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by ookblah 1y ago
every page in our app is a "component" which could have many sub components, some reused. i think it's actually very common in large scale apps so maybe we're not even starting on the same foot. would you not consider op
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by ookblah 1y ago
yeah and when you do that for 100s of components i'd rather just see a utility class on the button itself vs hunting down its meaning in the related section of the component. this is exactly the shit i was annoyed by when scaling, havi
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by ookblah 1y ago
yeah i'm just tired of making the same argument over and over. for what it's worth i've been doing CSS "properly" since the time when that site was a thing. back in the backbone days, now vue/react and before
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by ookblah 1y ago
yeah, and then one day you want .button, but with a variation. GREAT. but oh no, now there's this other button that has a little bit of a change but not enough to create a separate class. maybe we'll just inline it... but no, i
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by ookblah 1y ago
mobile selectors, "group" selectors, hover styles... the list goes on and on. like all things, it depends on how your workflow. if you have a super defined hierarchy and naming scheme you can reference then sure, centralize all
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by ookblah 1y ago
yes, that is one aspect of it. 1) refactoring. copy paste, re-arrange, extract, delete and rebuild the connection. i have the mental model and tell the LLM do do it across multiple files or classes. does it way faster and exactly how i w
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by ookblah 1y ago
i think everyone here has extremely different ideas of what AI coding actually is and it's frustrating because basically everyone is strawmanning (myself included probably), as if using it means i'm not looking at documentation or
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by ookblah 1y ago
yeah i definitely enjoy the craft and love of writing boilerplate or manually correcting simple errors or looking up functions /s. i hate how it's even divided into "two camps", it's more like a big venn diagram.
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by ookblah 1y ago
i mean how far are you willing to take that argument? every decade has just been a new abstraction, imagine people flipping switches or in raw assembly talking about how they don't "understand" you now with your no effort. o
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by ookblah 1y ago
just letting you know one of the flying boxes had clipped through the text i was editing, hard to recreate it but happened randomly.
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by ookblah 1y ago
I'm finding this as well. I can't trust it to go beyond boilerplate or PoC's or I risk lagging behind in understanding and actually slowing down in the long term. Best workflow is to tackle silo'd problems and iterate
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by ookblah 1y ago
sorry for the snark, but missing the forest for the trees here. unless it's just some philosophical idea, use the tools that save you time. if anything it saves you writing boilerplate or making careless errors. i don't need to
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by ookblah 1y ago
because then those churches and schools will just leave the US! /s
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by ookblah 1y ago
yeah except a lot of those companies almost went bankrupt trying to make those cars for enthusiasts and only for them. porsche and lambo didn't see the outsized success they have now (financially) until they started pumping out SUVs.
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by ookblah 1y ago
u know the landscape is terrible when something like this can be funded, series A no less. zero diligence.
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by ookblah 1y ago
good luck getting the average person to even get past the 2nd slide with basic calculations lol. he's preaching to the choir.
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by ookblah 2y ago
i remember this guy crying on TV during the covid drop about how the world was ending only to be buying up everything behind the scenes lol.
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by ookblah 2y ago
a lot of weird llm generated stuff hitting fp now
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by ookblah 2y ago
I guess for every grift for AI hype there's the other side seeking to capture an audience that rejects it and making super hyperbolic statements to get there lol. This doom and gloom is also getting just as tiring. Like imagine reject
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by ookblah 2y ago
Articles like this honestly confuse me. I really do not understand this sentiment that that some coders have where it feels like every line they write is like some finely chiseled piece of wood on a sculpture they made. Since day one I&#x2
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by ookblah 2y ago
I don't know if it's just more media attention recently or what not, but I used to joke about not wanting to go to China because of these similar reasons. Strange feeling to recommend to friends visiting the US to now be just as
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by ookblah 2y ago
at risk of sounding like a grandpa this is nothing like SO. AI is just a tool for sure, one that "can" behave like an super enhanced SO and Google, but for the first time ever it can actually write for you and not just piddly lin
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by ookblah 2y ago
parts of the article are spot on. after the magic has worn off i find it's best to literally treat it like another person. would you blindly merge code from someone else or huge swaths of features? no. i have to review every single
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by ookblah 2y ago
maybe my settings were off but i tried aider when it first came out and kept coming back to it and it ended up being super slow and generating subpar stuff compared to just chat. actually turned me off to CLI based style code assistants. c
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by ookblah 2y ago
I think about this from time to time and I suppose everything is cyclical in the end. Most of us would have been some peasant in the feudal age and when it gets really bad it always ends in a revolution of some sort. It's just on a g
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by ookblah 2y ago
then he basically successfully fooled you and rewrote history, mission accomplished. more like the director has beef with theater and attempts to burn the entire thing down while gaslighting the cast and crew. you may have no time for int

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