rDr4g0n

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by rDr4g0n 23d ago
perhaps the bigger issue is not the tech, but the force that propels it forward with little concern for the harm it inflicts. Amodei's own words: > A race to the bottom, spurred by commercial incentives Social media and big data min
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by rDr4g0n 25d ago
History has a lot to say about the ruling class benefitting from (and ensuring?) the working class cannot organize, because that is exactly when the workers have leverage. workers that feel powerless and dont try to resist is great news for
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by rDr4g0n 25d ago
AI is big data. AI companies generate the big data from obscene volumes of materials they did not produce. then they charge rent for access. legally i have no fucking clue, but morally, this is stealing humanity to produce a profit. realist
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by rDr4g0n 25d ago
a teammate who exclusively writes slop PRs and copy/paste LLM responses to slack has demonstrated they can be replaced by an LLM integration to slack and github. also, take some fucking pride in your work.
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by rDr4g0n 25d ago
when llms write all the code, all we have left are the specs. ive found a lot of success applying software engineering discipline to spec writing and making it a human-only activity. from there hand the spec to LLM with a few guardrails aro
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by rDr4g0n 25d ago
we can all debate the finer points but in any case "resist" is exactly the right message. AI companies are racing to build empires on products built on the whole of human writing, charging rent to access it, then leveraging their
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by rDr4g0n 2mo ago
updated the comment. i meant four "concepts". i dont reason about my own thinking in terms of parameters.
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by rDr4g0n 2mo ago
LLMs can't "read the room" and infer how much context the audience already has, so they try include everything. human conceptual thinking is very much a multi-dimensional graph, which relies on light "approximate" c
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by rDr4g0n 3mo ago
"software engineer" covers a wide range of responsibilities. some engineers spend all their time contributing to the physics in a massive graphics engine. some spend most of their time as the sole maintainer of a web api that most
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by rDr4g0n 4mo ago
around my workplace we say if you're copy/pasting llm output, you're indicating an llm can do your job.
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by rDr4g0n 5mo ago
when you outsource thinking to AI, you get that magical speed up. the agent is making decisions for you, so things move at agent speed. it often makes decisions without telling you, and the final "here's the plan" output ofte
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by rDr4g0n 5mo ago
this is exactly what is happening. instead of building true AI culture around thoughtful adoption of AI strengths while defending against weaknesses, they're coming up with bullshit heuristics like "every repo has a CLAUDE.md&quot
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by rDr4g0n 5mo ago
this author suggest its essentially the same risk https://www.poppastring.com/blog/what-we-lost-the-last-time-... . i feel its heightened because execs and leaders are absolutely salivating over the opportunity to fire
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by rDr4g0n 5mo ago
i love my 2x gains, still hands-on with problem, not losing context, not outsourcing thinking. just automating the boring parts.
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by rDr4g0n 5mo ago
apologies, usually I delete these kinda rants, but a combination of whiskey, skittles, and ai brain fry is telling me to leave this one up.
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by rDr4g0n 5mo ago
hey yall, try writing a few specs at the component/module/package level. define the api contract, types/interfaces, dependencies, package behavior. effectively do the same work you do writing code, but with a layer of "b
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by rDr4g0n 7mo ago
Who contributed their work to open source (as a gift) with the expectation that their contribution would eventually be ground into a paste, fully stripped of attribution, and sold as a service? Maybe something has materially changed?
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by rDr4g0n 7mo ago
It's much easier to fire an employee which produces low quality/effort work than to convince leadership to fire Claude.
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by rDr4g0n 7mo ago
When I began reviewing my teammate’s PRs with AI generated code in it, something started to feel weird. It took a bit, but I realized the problem: I am not reviewing the work my teammate did. What are they even supposed to do with feedback
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by rDr4g0n 1y ago
I see quite a few comments about how this is nothing new and it's easy to catch scammers, etc, etc. Scamming may not be new, but a person using AI in this way is able to penetrate quite deeply into (long, tedious, time-consuming) inter
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Show HN: JsDebuggr – Add, remove, and edit js breakpoints from Sublime Text(github.com)
6 points by rDr4g0n 10y ago|0 comments
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by rDr4g0n 11y ago
Wow, the coolest thing about this tool is how wide of an array of visualizations you can create from a handful of sliders. I dunno much about the molecule aspect of it, but it certainly produces some super cool looking sci-fi type renders.
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by rDr4g0n 13y ago
I wonder what the author didn't like about sublime text's vintage (vim) mode? I have not used vim, but i have been using vintage mode for about a month now and really love it. I grab my mouse occassionally, but mostly stay out of
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Show HN: JsDebuggr - add and remove javascript breakpoints from Sublime Text(github.com)
2 points by rDr4g0n 13y ago|0 comments
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by rDr4g0n 13y ago
For those who are wondering why this even exists, it is part of what is being called Web Components. Currently we use libraries and semi-hacky techniques to handle templating and creating private scopes for javascript. Some of the many thin
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by rDr4g0n 13y ago
Part of the idea, finding the source of the problem rather than taking the solution at face value, can be applied anywhere. In my experience in graphic design, a client will say something like "can you make our logo bigger", which is sort o