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by selridge 8mo ago
The right move is this, turned to 11. Velocity or one-shot capability isn't the move. It's making stuff that used to be traumatic just...normal now. Google fucking vibe-coded their x86 -> ARM ISA changeover. It never would have
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by selridge 8mo ago
> Benedict Evans called me out on LinkedIn for this take, which I take as a sign the argument is landing. Excellent. And correct lol.
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by selridge 8mo ago
> I log every prompt to a LLM that I make. How many do you have in the log total?
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by selridge 8mo ago
This is totally infeasible. If I have a vibe coded project with 175k lines of python, there would be genuinely thousands and thousands of prompts to hundreds of agents, some fed into one another. Whats the worth of digging through that? Wha
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by selridge 8mo ago
Yeah we’re drowning in complaints about slop.
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by selridge 8mo ago
“Share the prompts” How would that be feasible for a project of any complexity whatsoever?
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by selridge 8mo ago
Oh it's a bit laden for you? Was the plot summary on wikipedia taxing? c'mon. Are you really going to tell me "ahem dear sir, I found out that this Mr Bourdieu likes him some nuance!" His most famous book is essentially
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by selridge 8mo ago
Yeah, that’s the concern. We are in the middle of an earthquake. The 90s was like this, but it’s bigger. Radical changes in what it means to build software are happening right now. That will without a hair of a doubt result in equally radic
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by selridge 8mo ago
Lmao. I love Kant. He’s great. I love dead white guys. One I’ve been banging on about in this thread is Bourdieu, who wrote a whole book on taste in France, Distinction. Here Bourdieu has the matter rightly and Kant doesn’t. Sometimes that
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by selridge 8mo ago
It doesn’t default to class, people just pretend class doesn’t apply at all. Taste is often advanced as this subjective yet ultimately discriminating notion which refuses to be pinned down. Insistent but ineffable. This idea that you and I
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by selridge 8mo ago
They are both intertwined, often strategically. Bourdieu’s book Distinction is all about how (and when in life) status and money can buy taste.
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by selridge 8mo ago
The evidence here is two people flouncing. We have no idea that they are being truthful (remember that Google guy who spooped himself out with AI then fakes transcripts to that WaPo reporter?). We have *no* idea what their importance or val
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by selridge 8mo ago
It’s a social construct yeah, but constructed by what? IMO most of the unpleasant truth about taste is that it is really a stalking horse for money and distinction (cf the book of the same title).
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by selridge 8mo ago
If the bigger issue to you is that people have a face attached to their bodies then you are off base.
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by selridge 8mo ago
Hope he sees this, bro
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by selridge 8mo ago
Taste is downstream of something, but I very much doubt that it is design principles.
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by selridge 8mo ago
I think you can lead yourself astray imagining that there’s a big difference between subjectivity and intersubjectivity. One is just a college educated term for the other. More importantly, I think that enough time has passed that we can cr
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by selridge 8mo ago
Then put a sock in it
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by selridge 8mo ago
The only book worth reading about taste is Distinction. Lots of people have written about it but most spin their wheels pretending class and upbringing are not involved.
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by selridge 8mo ago
Almost like the rules for taste are made up on the fly…
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by selridge 8mo ago
I suspect because it’s harder to defend your thesis to a person who is excited about what they made. It’s super easy to talk about who has taste or not in the abstract. A lot harder to tell someone straight up they have no taste because of
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by selridge 8mo ago
Why don’t you tell them that they have no taste? Seems to be what the essay implies.
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by selridge 8mo ago
So it’s taste now, eh? The last redoubt of the old world.
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by selridge 8mo ago
Damn. Crazy how the AI made them not use backups.
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by selridge 8mo ago
Reading is fundamental
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by selridge 8mo ago
How does that contradict the claim at all?
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by selridge 8mo ago
That’s because the OP is thinking of a straw man. Who cares if some idiot makes some ai shit and doesn’t learn anything? That same person has had access to a real computer which they’ve wasted just as effectively until now.
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by selridge 8mo ago
Why do I care who made the thing showed to HN? If someone makes a tool that I like or a project that’s amazing, but they did so with a robot, who is harmed? Like all we need to do is decouple “I made this” from “I can compose all parts in m
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by selridge 8mo ago
Lmfao. The front page is littered with whining about the craft from people who can’t argue coherently why I should go back to getting yelled at by a linter. It’s all “I can’t think anymore” or “software bad now” followed by a critique of th
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by selridge 8mo ago
Open your mind and try it.

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