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by pydry 2mo ago
The same thing will happen with RAM. A glut will come eventually. It might take a year, maybe two.
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by pydry 2mo ago
ive noticed a real uptick in people trusting AI for stuff like medical advice because it always seems to make sense but when it comes to a specialist topic they know a lot about they can go on and on about all of the subtle and often quite
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by pydry 2mo ago
From what I see around me the first is by far and away the most common use case. * Everybody thinks theyre more productive. * Some devs do boost their productivity a bit. * But nowhere near enough to counter the slop merchants. On average
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by pydry 2mo ago
Soda is actually not a bad example to disprove your hypothesis. It's just one example of where your own health and finances will be better off if you ignore advertisers entirely. and exclusively paying attention to what doctors say: h
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by pydry 2mo ago
you sound like the kind of person who believes the best air fryer is the one that is advertised the most.
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by pydry 2mo ago
It really disturbed me discovering how many nominally liberal people who would react in horror at casual use of the n word are quite comfortable with genocidal racism.
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by pydry 2mo ago
"We should be able to do 90 percent of miles driven [autonomously] within three years." - 2013
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by pydry 2mo ago
Although since vibe coding is Github's Achilles heel openai might not be quite the right company to exploit that.
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by pydry 2mo ago
there's no real difference between an excess of boilerplate and slop. if your job is just writing boilerplate you're probably doing it badly. if your app is so simple that really all you need to do is sling boilerplate then it mig
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by pydry 2mo ago
Not really. The other bullet points are the reality. The last one is the MBA wet dream. We have been programmed to believe that MBA wet dreams are inevitable because "$x hundreds of billions invested can't be wrong" but they
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by pydry 2mo ago
every week theres a new vibe coding manifesto, more detached from reality than the last. it'll pass, but until then we'll be subjected to a litany of dumb hot takes.
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by pydry 2mo ago
sigh This reminds me of all of the tedious arguments by people reminding us that solar panels don't work at night, implying that they are therefore useless. Or the ones that remind you that batteries are useless for seasonal storage.
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by pydry 2mo ago
i doubt it would until that investment actually starts creating jobs and a better standard of living. jaywick is still the most deprived area of the UK.
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by pydry 2mo ago
Jaywick next door to clacton on sea was the most deprived place in the UK before he came along. He can hardly make it worse. From their perspective all this attention is probably better than being ignored even though the attention is for al
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by pydry 2mo ago
OK. lots of people confuse a $75-$120 / kWh cell price for grid scale battery installed price, which these days is about $300 / kWh. 1 gigawatt hour of installed BESS therefore at current prices is roughly $300 million. Snowy 2
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by pydry 2mo ago
also ignoring that Australia is building snowy 2 which is the world's largest battery by far, due to be finished in 2027-2028.
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by pydry 2mo ago
It's been an absolute fucking disaster for me. It hallucinates endlessly and its searches are terrible. It even managed to confidently gaslight me about there being a VAT invoice available for a specific product. I noticed yesterday wh
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by pydry 2mo ago
90% of what I want to see in a PR is "why" and an LLM is entirely incapable of knowing that. The rest is stuff like jira ticket ids and related PRs which you can get a script to inject. In the realm of programming I find if an LLM
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by pydry 2mo ago
Chrome isnt viable as a separate business. Its entire function is to be a loss leader / feeder for search. Google should still be split, but along lines which are cohesive, financially viable and would level the playing field for compe
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by pydry 2mo ago
the apps people make with it still need to be used by someone.
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by pydry 2mo ago
>This last year has been exhausting. The PR departments of the frontier labs have done an excellent job convincing us that AI developments are occurring at an astounding, world-changing rate. But if you zoom out, it becomes clear that al
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by pydry 2mo ago
The bigger issue (I find) is that the pipeline for finding those engineers is completely fucked. Hiring pipelines that tested the wrong thing have existed for years but the problem is magnified 10x when you test for something that weakly co
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by pydry 2mo ago
This is a reliable recipe for turning your systems into an absolute clusterfuck.
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by pydry 2mo ago
In the "iceberg" of boring company systems I see working day to day I actually think delivery of production software has been slowed down. The cost of "writing" code went down a bit, while validation costs positively exp
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by pydry 2mo ago
Exactly. Same reason we eat junk food that also isnt good for us.
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by pydry 2mo ago
Using Opus to judge the outcome of "good code" isnt exactly the sign of a great experiment.
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by pydry 2mo ago
I care about any project that is impressive, whether it's vibe coded or not. The only semi impressive vibe coded projects I've seen so far have been rewrites, though. The least interesting content is "here is how I burn token
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by pydry 2mo ago
It's not really worth arguing over who is worse at violating privacy. Crucially theyre both awful, both getting worse and both treating Russia and China as an aspirational model.
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by pydry 2mo ago
Also treating machines as worker or job substitutes instead of amplifying tools. I see that mistake made on literally every level from the automation of 15 minute tasks to analysis of the macroeconomic effects of robots and software.
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by pydry 2mo ago
Definitely the latter.

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