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by overgard 3mo ago
I don't really like describing it as "taste", but I'll roll with it. (I dislike it because it's sort of an elite-coded rich person phrase in my experience. Also, everyone THINKS they have taste.) The thing about tas
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by overgard 3mo ago
It might be rare, but it's anything but accidental. Real creative people work hard on it. It's why they find AI so offensive.
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by overgard 3mo ago
I think a use case like that is still novel for non-tech people at the moment, but as the novelty wears off people are going to get sick of it pretty quickly and I think the social norm is going to settle on it being considered tacky. It&#x
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by overgard 3mo ago
One of the big dangers I've heard of with 7-Oh is it seems like treatment centers don't really know how to treat withdrawal from it, which I've heard is extremely rough.
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by overgard 3mo ago
Uh, I think threatening the work of a large swath of humanity would make a lot of people poor? The rich historically have never shared the wealth until they're forced to. Just as an example (ironically from google!): "Google co-fo
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by overgard 3mo ago
Housing scarcity is highly artificial because people are treating houses like speculative assets. And the NIMBYs don't help
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by overgard 3mo ago
What even motivates you to write something like this? In what universe is a software engineer a "rank"? You sound absurdly bitter that people want to keep their livelihood? This doesn't even match with reality. I got laid off
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by overgard 3mo ago
I wouldn't phrase it as cowardice or virtue.. it's just a skill you have to learn. I'm struggling with getting my project in front of users for a bit of a different reason, which is just that it's a bit of a specialty wr
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by overgard 3mo ago
The verbosity in code is also a huge problem. I asked it to introduce 4 functions in my project (like, literally, just functions) and I'm looking at 32 files changed and two spec files that are total 200 lines long. It's functiona
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by overgard 3mo ago
As far as I can tell, Anthropic's entire goal is to extinguish software development as a profession. They're not exactly subtle. If they do that, I don't see how they wouldn't take out open source with it as a consequenc
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by overgard 3mo ago
It's not performative though. Slop is a burden. I'm sorry you feel excluded by that, but an AI generated PR is not of much value. The maintainer could just as easily do that, if that's what they wanted. Plus lets be realistic
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by overgard 3mo ago
I feel like the AI labs have an embrace-extend-extinguish model here like Microsoft of the 90s. Train your models on all the open source code, then extinguish the ecosystem since open source libraries are essentially a competitor. (If there
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by overgard 3mo ago
I think you're right, but I think it's also because the industry trained everyone on this model. I remember ~ 2010-2012 there was a big push to make everything an app. As far as I can tell the only benefit to users is a nice icon
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by overgard 3mo ago
I haven't gotten to it, but I've been meaning to update my personal site from wordpress to just be statically rendered markdown I publish. I realized that I don't want the security surface area, and the features it offers are
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by overgard 3mo ago
Yes. It makes me sad, high-level thinking is the one thing that makes humans unique. That we're willing to let that atrophy while giving our power to mega corporations for the sake of convenience is a sad state of affairs. Like, Altman
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by overgard 3mo ago
I feel like with software, things have gotten way too complicated (just layer's upon layers upon layers). But to deal with that complexity, now we're using something that just creates WAY more complexity. I've been coding for
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by overgard 3mo ago
I feel like this is missing the ending of "until gravity wins"
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by overgard 3mo ago
I don't know if that's really practical unless you're full-on-vibe coding or you avoid all the native frameworks. You kinda need XCode for a lot of things. I personally really dislike XCode after having to use it for like a d
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by overgard 3mo ago
Ironically, I think AI boosters are probably turning into AI's biggest obstacle right now. I see so much "adapt or die!" bullshit here (people literally saying that!), and yet when I talk to other professionals I know in real
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by overgard 3mo ago
This is just a dumb take, hardly any language is immediately popular. Python, Ruby, etc. were still pretty niche 10 years in. Pretty much every popular language is 15+ years old.
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by overgard 3mo ago
I've seen plenty of projects in C with way more complexity and far fewer issues than Bun, and C is definitely less safe than Zig. Memory management strategies are not new things! Professional developers learn to use their tools effecti
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by overgard 3mo ago
I definitely agree with your overall point, just wanted to correct that one thing.
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by overgard 3mo ago
They're suggesting that the bugs are endemic to using Zig and couldn't be prevented by a modified coding style. Then they point out that the well known way to avoid the issue (defer) is "not ergonomic" (really one extra
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by overgard 3mo ago
Oh god, the app store does not need more slop. If you can't be bothered to open XCode (which I agree is a dumpster fire, but), you shouldn't be bothered to submit an app that a person has to review and another person has to filter
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by overgard 3mo ago
I've never run it, but isn't OpenClaw kind of useless if you sandbox it? I thought the entire point is that it has access to do everything. The danger with OpenClaw IMO isn't so much that your local machine gets hacked (altho
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by overgard 3mo ago
They really don't. Even per-project it can be a shitshow. For instance, while I use LLMs to write some typescript, when I'm writing code for Unreal Engine in C++ & Blueprint I pretty much do it by hand because it absolutely c
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by overgard 3mo ago
C++ programmer here. I've looked at transitioning some of my code to Rust; not particularly out of a dissatisfaction with C++ but more just out of curiosity. I've always ended up deciding against it though, I feel like its safety
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by overgard 3mo ago
Nitpick, but this is misunderstanding GLPs (I'm on them). If you don't change your diet and your habits, yeah, you'll temporarily lose weight but it'll come right back when you're off it AND you'll lose a lot o
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by overgard 3mo ago
To me it's just highlighting the reality -- Anthropic fired the first shots. I think it's reasonable for people to say, hey, if you're going to trash the reputation of Zig (in a pretend-objective way) then it's entirely
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by overgard 3mo ago
> However it will almost certainly make the act of writing “code for money” much less valuable, which means many people will stop getting paid exorbitant sums to do what they love. Most programmers are not being paid "exorbitant su

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