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by pdimitar 2y ago
Work on stuff you enjoy. The rest comes easy. Yeah, coming from a 44-year old who lately realized hated most of his jobs or, more accurately, never loved a single one in his life. [sobs]
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by pdimitar 2y ago
That's the main use-case of Erlang/Elixir anyway: eliminate concurrency / parallelism bugs by copying data in the dangerous places, and make sure not to use locks but message passing instead. These two alone have eliminated m
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by pdimitar 2y ago
I wish. But many of them only get as far as "this tool will replace your expensive programmer". Thinking stops there for them.
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by pdimitar 2y ago
> We had to rethink and reassess several implementation details when we aligned HTTP behavior with hyper. libcurl parses and handles HTTP stricter now. Better. That would be interesting to dig in deeper. Wish they did that in the artic
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by pdimitar 2y ago
Yes to your last. Either sh/bash script or a precompiled Golang program. If installing a tool is really such a problem then having a precompiled strongly typed program doing various tasks should be a no-brainer. I started openly hating
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by pdimitar 2y ago
`just` is 90% similar to `make` in syntax, only it has 100x less foot guns. :) Also I'll never understand the appeal of "not having to install a tool". We're not in the 1980s anymore when that was an actual chore. You ru
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by pdimitar 2y ago
The `just` tool is a better and much easier to understand command runner than `make`, however. Much less feature surface, too, which eliminates nasty surprises coming from the unnecessary complexity of `make`.
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by pdimitar 2y ago
btw what's wrong with 512-bit keys?
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by pdimitar 2y ago
Amusingly, lately I did something similar, though I still believe my manual code is better in Elixir. :) I'm open to LLMs being a productivity enabler. Recently I started occasionally using them for that as well -- sparingly. I more pr
940.
by pdimitar 2y ago
...Oh, it's an actual English word, I didn't know and now I am embarrassed. Should have checked the dictionary. Thank you!
941.
by pdimitar 2y ago
Thanks for the explanation, it helped, but I still have no clue where does the "ajar" thing come from, letter for letter.
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by pdimitar 2y ago
Shame that you can't probably open-source this, that would have been a hugely impressive case study. And yeah, out of all the LLMs, it seems that Claude is the best when it comes to programming.
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by pdimitar 2y ago
These are the kind of the informed takes that I love. Thank you. > Detractors will point out that it must be a toy program, and that it won't work on a million line code base, and maybe it won't You might call me a detractor.
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by pdimitar 2y ago
> I suspect that the difference between many that are bullish vs bearish is quite likely coming down to ability to structure and communicate thoughts effectively. Strange perspective. I found LLMs lacking in less popular programming la
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by pdimitar 2y ago
8-10x?! That's quite weird if you ask me. I just used Claude recently. Helped me with an obscure library and with the hell that is JWT + OAuth through the big vendors. Definitely saved me a few hours and I am grateful, but those cases
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by pdimitar 2y ago
I absolutely agree that it's a spectrum. I don't deny the usefulness of some LLMs (and I have used Claude 3.5 lately with great success -- it helped me iterate on some very annoying code with very niche library that I would have n
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by pdimitar 2y ago
Surely, you actually mean those who extrapolate from a few niche tasks to "OMG the programmers are toast"? Fixed it for you. ;)
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by pdimitar 2y ago
Thank you, I'll check it out.
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by pdimitar 2y ago
I could take you seriously if you didn't make elementary English mistakes. Also think what you like, makes zero difference to me.
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by pdimitar 2y ago
I am simply qualifying my claims with the fact that they might not be super up to date is all. And my comments here mostly stem from annoyance that people claim that we already have this super game-changing AI that will remove programmers.
951.
by pdimitar 2y ago
I honestly don't follow your angle at all. Mind telling me your complete takeaway? You are kind of throwing just bits and pieces at me and I followed too many sub-threads to keep full context. I don't see where I was romantic eith
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by pdimitar 2y ago
And I never said both can't exist at the same time. Are you certain you are not the one fighting straw men and are tiring yourself with the imagined extreme dichotomy? My issue is with people claiming LLMs are undoubtedly going to remo
953.
by pdimitar 2y ago
That's the part many LLM proponents don't get it or hand-wave away. For now LLMs can produce okay one-off / throwaway code by having been fed with StackOverflow and Reddit. What happens 5 years down the road when half the pro
954.
by pdimitar 2y ago
I have not seen any proof so far that LLMs can enable teams. I and one other former colleague had to fix subtly broken LLM code several times, leading to the "author" being reprimanded that he's wasting three people's ti
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by pdimitar 2y ago
I am aware that the way I work is not the only one, of course, but I am also not so sure about your "vast, vast majority" thing. You can call it dev-first mindset, I call it a sustainable work mindset. I want the people I work for
956.
by pdimitar 2y ago
> I'm highly bullish on their capabilities as a force multiplier, but highly bearish on them becoming self-driving (for anything complex at least). Very well summed and this is my exact stance, it's just that I am not seeing
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by pdimitar 2y ago
Thanks. I'll absolutely check this out.
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by pdimitar 2y ago
Thanks for the links, I'll check them out.
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by pdimitar 2y ago
If you say so then OK, I am not going to claim you are imagining it. But some proof would be nice. I have quickly given up on experimenting with LLMs because they turned out to be net negative for my work -- proof-reading code is slower tha
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by pdimitar 2y ago
1. The Indians were given as an example of absolutely terrible outsourcing agencies' dev employees. Call it racist or offensive if you like, to me it's statistical observation and I will offer no excuses that my brain is working p

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