renegade-otter

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by renegade-otter 5mo ago
I will argue that ON AVERAGE, humans are lazy, and will use LLMs to generate walls of text and code. We like the easy way out - just pop a pill. Here we have a technology that can finally help us manage the crippling firehose of data, and i
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by renegade-otter 5mo ago
There are plenty of vibe-coded apps out there, I am sure. Mom and pop store fronts, "wellness trackers", todo managers - trivia of that sort. LLMs make easy problems easier, but they do not make hard problems so. For me, AI greatl
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by renegade-otter 5mo ago
Hospitals? Vibe code? Dear Lord. Respect to your friend for mad marketing skills, however. Selling slop to mission-critical sectors is next level.
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by renegade-otter 5mo ago
"What, you guys are still not using Big Data? What's wrong?"
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by renegade-otter 5mo ago
After turning off my brain a few times and ending up in a place I don't want real fast, I am learning to ride this dragon. And, you are right - use it as a fast typer, not a fast thinkier. And for those who claim that AI is a good code
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by renegade-otter 5mo ago
Or, they never actually sat down to THINK about it, which is even worse.
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by renegade-otter 5mo ago
Someone recently here used the term "intellectual denial of service".
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by renegade-otter 5mo ago
So now average-skilled employees generate even more average-quality work. Is that really a good thing. I don't know if those senior AWS devs are thrilled about having to review a crapton of new code the juniors are churning out literal
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by renegade-otter 5mo ago
That all may be true, but we have other data points. There are multiple stories of Zuckerberg being warned about the dangers of "X" and "Y". "This is going to harm children", for example. He repeatedly override
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by renegade-otter 5mo ago
I don't think that matters at Meta. They purposefully create this "survival of the fittest" environment, making sure they squeeze every ounce of work (and soul) from you.
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by renegade-otter 5mo ago
We need to stop suggesting that someone who is "neurodivergent" is more likely to be a sociopathic asshole. The two are not related at all. Back in the day you could mention in passing "oh that guy is on a spectrum", but
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by renegade-otter 5mo ago
I DO make fun of people who use Instagram for "news".
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by renegade-otter 6mo ago
Just because you use LLMs doesn't mean you don't need the "flow". Reading code SUCKS, getting into the flow is harder than ever. Unless you sign off on a Looks Good to Me PR and go loiter by the kombucha machine. Then yo
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by renegade-otter 6mo ago
The first person that mentions anything about "the needful" with no accent is getting hung up on. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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by renegade-otter 6mo ago
With management screaming down their necks: YOU NEED TO USE MOAR AI!
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by renegade-otter 6mo ago
My biggest challenge is to look productive while still having some time and focus left to be a good expert. After all - we are just code reviewers now, and you are a no good reviewer if you never get any shovel time yourself. The juniors ar
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by renegade-otter 6mo ago
This site may join its own list.
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by renegade-otter 6mo ago
Just like how more RAM and compute in the cloud made us worse engineers (no need to turn your brain on to tune performance). When the brain is off for one thing, it's off for the rest as well. There is a lot of talk about "we don&
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by renegade-otter 6mo ago
Same. I used to develop Windows apps with Borland C++ once, that's how old I am. Last year, I finally installed a second Linux Mint boot - for Windows games! The level of disregard for quality from MS is just obnoxious. We are really c
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by renegade-otter 6mo ago
No, it's not. Your context should be SMALL. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QFHIoCo-Ko
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by renegade-otter 6mo ago
Give your agent a perfectly working code, insist that the output is not what it should be. Go to lunch. By the time you come back, the poor thing will evaporate a small lake trying to figure it out.
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by renegade-otter 6mo ago
Yeah, when you are stuck, put away that red bull and step away from the keyboard, kids.
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by renegade-otter 6mo ago
As I said, I have no illusions about the "morals" of corporations, especially in this post-shame world, but one has to have lines. Musk is a uniquely vile human being who seems to revel in the suffering of others. It's much d
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by renegade-otter 6mo ago
I think the party ends this year.
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by renegade-otter 6mo ago
"I know who Hugo Boss caters to but, damn, they make good threads." - Someone in the 1930s, probably.
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by renegade-otter 6mo ago
Pardon me for feeling icky when giving money to the guy who is obsessed with "white replacement". I am old and cynical - I have no illusions, but I also have my limits and a semblance of moral compass. We, as citizens, can vote wi
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by renegade-otter 6mo ago
I think the same of AWS. There are alternatives out there, especially for small personal projects. I use Digital Ocean and couldn't be happier. The bill is small, and it's refreshingly simple to host a container. I still have ba
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by renegade-otter 6mo ago
I don't think it's nostalgia or rosy retrospection. The youths never experienced the old, magical internet. All they get is algorithmic hell.
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by renegade-otter 6mo ago
When GHA were dead simple, there were projects simulating it locally. It's not possible anymore, and one had to burn a tens of hours just to develop the pipeline.
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by renegade-otter 6mo ago
That may be true. If they use LLms to write up all of their internal documents, it may have just pulled a "partnership" out of thin air, and no one bothered to check. "I guess we have one!" Brought to you by - Looks Good

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