pydry

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by pydry 1mo ago
It reads like somebody got AI psychosis. "A lot of people are skeptical of AI because it makes mistakes. But what's going to happen when it stops making mistakes??? It'll change the world!" Honestly I suspect he's p
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by pydry 1mo ago
realistically the problem is vibe coding.
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by pydry 1mo ago
Microsoft and Oracle have the market cornered on selling stuff to corporations who are relaxed about whether it works.
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by pydry 1mo ago
It can't but it will try and getting it to stop is often infeasible.
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by pydry 1mo ago
as an economic activity. i made my own crappy todo apps for fun too but I never once got paid for it. now that I can get a machine to do that instead has the world fundamentally changed?
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by pydry 1mo ago
it let you decentralize trust. as one example, I was hoping that as well as "sign in with google" I could sign in with a blockchain based decentralized identity service where nobody could one day decide to revoke my identity on
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by pydry 1mo ago
One thing that strikes me about these discussions is just how awful the metaphors are. We're constantly being told that jobs designing and building skyscrapers are close to obsolete because some yokel made a factory that manufactures y
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by pydry 1mo ago
the technology isnt the problem at all. it's just being used as an thin pretext to devalue and treat devs like shit by the followers of a new executive religion.
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by pydry 1mo ago
>Like if the next torvalds ships something great in the open, who cares how was it written. nope. but, vibe coded slop is all we're actually seeing.
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by pydry 2mo ago
The irony with blockchain is that it also had a bunch of real life use cases but the sheer extremity of the hype cycle managed to actually prevent them from being effectively brought to life. There was a lot of genuinely useful tech that bl
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by pydry 2mo ago
Feels more like another blockchain hype cycle to me. Especially the part where we're always on the cusp of the entire world changing while the biggest change is just that huge sums of money changed hands, inducing psychosis in a larg
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by pydry 2mo ago
Protecting oligarchy, mostly. Those same countries that treat financial privacy as axiomatic are trying their best to undermine chat encryption and would throw ed Snowden in prison given half a chance.
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by pydry 2mo ago
>We are currently in the "centaur" phase where a human-AI combination It's probably more accurate to call it the slop phase.
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by pydry 2mo ago
If you want to make it a nontrivial mess you can get Claude to write it.
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by pydry 2mo ago
It's not disingenuous. It was obvious this was happening 15 years ago and the US and EU could have done something about it back then. The tendency to protect corporate profit margins is the western Achilles heel and China knew they cou
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by pydry 2mo ago
They're intentional about economic integration because it will in theory make unification easier without a war.
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by pydry 2mo ago
if it's a my main repo where im regularly doing hotfixes in one folder while i work simultaneously on a feature branch on another I will have multiple long lived checkouts (usually 4). it makes sense to keep them warm because while clo
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by pydry 2mo ago
I do the same thing just checking out the repo multiple times in different directories. I'm not really sure what worktrees adds on top of that.
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by pydry 2mo ago
Companies didn't like hiring entry level engineers even before AI came along because it took them such a long time to become productive and they had a habit of job hopping as soon as they did. LLMs didn't really change anything ab
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by pydry 2mo ago
AI can't write code properly either to be honest but if it could then I guess many software engineers would retrain as nurses.
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by pydry 2mo ago
Ive dealt with tons of bugs Claude couldnt recognize. Have you not?
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by pydry 2mo ago
I think the autonomy was stripped not that long ago and it's making software products far worse. It doesnt make sense that this would happen from an economic perspective at first glance - not unless you consider labor (devs), execs a
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by pydry 2mo ago
did you think I was ignorant of them being american? if I asked 20 of my friends about peptides I'm probably the only one that subscribes to that american leaning, peptide-spammed subreddit.
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by pydry 2mo ago
The only reason I know it is because I keep seeing spam for it on reddit. Not every aspect of american culture makes it overseas and much less does now than used to 20-30 years ago. I think peptides (and medicating yourself out of a hole in
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by pydry 2mo ago
Hollywood has managed to sell a lot of derivative, human made slop in the past. It might not reach the quality threshold where they can make money off it but would I be willing to bet that it can't? Probably not. If it turns out you ca
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by pydry 2mo ago
Linus used it to make some toy software I believe.
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by pydry 2mo ago
Google apparently wants everybody to know how much they hate abiding by the terms of open source licenses.
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by pydry 2mo ago
oh for sure. this is enormously self destructive as well. when employees are stack ranked, pitted against each other, discouraged from collaborating the quality of work drops off a cliff, customers get unhappy and profits suffer. executives
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by pydry 2mo ago
I mostly just focus on trying to find one or two people who like pairing and always suggest to do it with them. I always aim to be positive, anti judgemental, understanding, curious, etc. so theyll feel comfortable. One of my coworkers in a
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by pydry 2mo ago
>There are a lot of people who think they’re going to love remote who ultimately flame out from the loneliness, isolation, lack of visual boundaries between work and home life This used to be me but pair programming / in-call collab

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