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by rsynnott 9mo ago
We’ll see. I have noticed a troubling skill atrophy in some people who heavily use LLMs (this is particularly concerning because it renders them incompetent to review ‘their own’ PRs prior to submission). I’m… not keen to sign up for that f
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
Those people aren't real software developers.
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
> If you're not using it now you may end up lacking preparation when it becomes more valuable How's that? If it ever gets good, it seems rather implausible that today's tool-of-the-month will turn out to be the winner.
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
"The insane person didn't say _that_ insane thing, they said a _different_ insane thing!" I mean, not sure it helps much.
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
So, first of all “but it’ll get better” has been the AI refrain since the 1950s. Voice recognition rapidly went from “doesn’t work at all” to “kinda works” in the 80s-90s, say, and in recent years has reached the heady heights of ‘somewhat
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
Okay, but during the NFT period, HN was trying to convince me that they were The Future. Same with metaverses, same with Bitcoin. I mean, okay, it is Different this time, so we are told. But there’s a boy who cried wolf aspect to all this,
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
Ah, yes. That’s why we all have our meetings in the metaverse, then go back home on the Segway, to watch 3d TV and order pizza from the robotic pizza-making van (an actual silly thing that SoftBank sunk a few hundred million into). And pay
878.
by rsynnott 9mo ago
Not saying left pad is a good idea; I’m not a Javascript programmer, but my impression has always been that it desperately needs something along the lines of boost/apache commons etc. EDIT: I do wonder if some of the enthusiastic accep
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
Oh, yeah, I make no secret of which side I’m on there. I mean I don’t have a problem with AI driven code completion as such, but IME it is pretty much always worse than good deterministic code completion, and tends to imagine the functions
880.
by rsynnott 9mo ago
The vendors of such snake oil often make specific, incorrect claims. Fraud is still fraud, even if the victim enjoys it.
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
Magic cables are a _huge_ thing in the audiophile nonsense world.
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
And which side is that? I mean, from my point of view, it seems like it’s probably the ones who are having a magic robot write a thousand lines of code that almost, but not quite, does something sensible, rather than using a bloody library.
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
Not just someone, many, many people, going by the feedback on Reddit. People are mourning the damn thing. Grossly irresponsible to ever release this IMO.
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
18 months?! Weren't all the Basilisk-worshippers predicting 2027? Lazy Microsoft, get on with it already.
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
It's not really _supposed_ to work that way, but as it turns out, the safeguards against it working that way don't really work properly. See also Weimar Germany in particular, but more generally most failed democracies; it's
886.
by rsynnott 9mo ago
Must be a particularly good vintage of ketamine on offer at the moment.
887.
by rsynnott 9mo ago
Yeah, they're defining 'major' fairly generously, here, I think. Difficult to find figures, but seems to be transaction volumes of tens of billions a year. So not actually particularly big.
888.
by rsynnott 9mo ago
_If used correctly_, they're pretty good. Most people don't use them correctly.
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-so_story
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
> Few years ago I even suggested they should add actual brainstorming and prototyping features like Framer for bros to discuss their business ideas. It appears that you have a productivity fetish. Fortunately, there's already a hook
891.
by rsynnott 9mo ago
I'd argue that they don't need an ad campaign, tbh. Everyone already knows it exists; in regions where it's popular it's generally due to the lack of a decent local competitor. As you say, no-one really _likes_ Grindr.
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
Another gay hookup app surveyed its user base on this a while back. Spoiler, user base is lukewarm at best on the ol' magic robots, unlikely to pay $500/month for them: https://www.romeo.com/en/blog/ai_an
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
Element’s pretty not-great. FluffyChat is worth a go, despite the extremely silly name; much less clunky experience.
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
"[beaver emoji] Revolt is Stoat now" Argh. If there's no stoat emoji, petition the Unicode Consortium for one, don't just use a beaver. It's not even the right family; the badger emoji would be closer.
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
It's kind of surprising that no-one has really come out with a proper privacy-preserving approach to this yet. It is clearly _possible_; there are reasonable-looking designs for this. But no-one's doing it; they're just colle
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
Also, _Discord_ deleting them is really only half the battle; random vendors deleting them remains an issue.
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
You said: > Models have gotten much better than even the most optimistic predictions. We were promised Roko's Basilisk by now, damnit! Where's my magical robot god?! But seriously, predictions a couple years back for 2026/
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
Element’s awful, but I’ve found FluffyChat, another matrix client, to be a lot better, albeit with a very silly name.
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
The VW id.3 costs about 30k. It doesn't have a heat pump by default, but it's a 1,200 EUR add-on. Which probably makes sense; in some markets where it's sold it doesn't really get cold enough that one is of significant b
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
... Eh? A few years back, the usual suspects were predicting AGI by, usually, either 2026 or 2027. Think that's gonna happen? (Such predictions have been quietly forgotten or revised forward, in general.)

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