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by skydhash 2mo ago
> where that behavior was never even intended. Strongly doubt that. Did they even share the prompt?
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by skydhash 2mo ago
AI is sold as a power tool. Even if everyone is using it, you should see at least some absolute improvement in boost, even though they are still relatively the same. No such boost has been observed.
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by skydhash 2mo ago
My issue with Silverblue is that the unix exosystem was meant to be deeply collaborative ecosystem for programs. Meaning each program doing one thing and communicating with each other through various IPC mechanisms. Atomic systems with cont
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by skydhash 2mo ago
All of those requirements seem weird. I selfhost a few software and the user count is one. My extent at sysadmin is to write a systemd service, configure the proxy (if it’s on a vps and I use subdomains), and maybe use ansible for scripting
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by skydhash 2mo ago
This pretty much, Emacs, Sublime, Vim, Jetbrain’s IDE,… have snippet tooling solutions that are very configurable. And most unix editors support piping so you can easily write a programs for that. Or just a good old code generator. My goal
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by skydhash 2mo ago
And clamoring that instant pot is capable of doing the job of 10 chefs, while conveniently forgetting that chefs using the instant pot is way more useful. And then congratulating each other on new way of adjusting the temperature and timer
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by skydhash 2mo ago
> the stuff where years ago you would have spent hours reading documentation or browsing StackOverflow until you figured it out, if you weren't familiar with the topic Why is it always hours to consult docs? I find most answers with
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by skydhash 2mo ago
3 doesn’t matter that much (unless it’s part of 2: new language or new libraries), and that’s why I don’t use LLM for it. Because LLM forces you to pay attention, yes you can have something that works somehow in one go, but the code makes y
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by skydhash 2mo ago
> Code review is (for many) the least fun part of programming. I'm lurking around the OpenBSD mailing list and it seems that code review is where collaboration starts. You send a patch, explain its purpose, people try it out and com
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by skydhash 2mo ago
I don’t really care if someone use AI, I care if the result is slop. And it very much seems like it’s very rare for those who use AI to care about the result and avoid producing slop. If it was bad, the hand produced result will also be cri
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by skydhash 2mo ago
> Saying "lines of code are a bad measurement" is too easy! It's about time someone presented an opposing argument. Maybe because there is none. One of the main quality of good codebase is simplicity. Which is about how ea
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by skydhash 2mo ago
> Honestly, it's similar to being an engineer on a larger team. You don't review every line of code written by every one of your coworkers. We don’t because everyone is accountable for his or her own mistakes. So everyone is in
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by skydhash 2mo ago
Not an expert, but when I was learning 3d modeling, there was a good chapter on subsurface scattering which affect the human skin rendering. It’s what give it liveness instead of looking like a doll.
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by skydhash 2mo ago
I mostly do reading in front of the computer (not code, docs), but that's before I'm used to the project. Usually I spend more time on the couch than in front of the computer. Because that's where I think best. If I'm wr
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by skydhash 2mo ago
The pelicans are still not ok to this day. People are skeptical of the announcement because the room include several PHDs in math and physics. The prompts are not published so we can see how generic the starting prompt is.
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by skydhash 2mo ago
> The current frontier is very capable on higher level design tasks as well. If your problem is spiritual or social or economic, then let's skip this "not productive enough" alibi talk. My problem is not about the producti
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by skydhash 2mo ago
> What are the exact "currently established methodologies" you're talking about that cannot be replaced by LLMs + a harness today, just as some examples? You're probably right that those exists, but I'm curious t
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by skydhash 2mo ago
The thing is coding is very much like translating. And we do have machine translation. And they do fine for simple sentences. And even with more substantial paragraphs, you can get the gist of what it’s being said. But no one will say that
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by skydhash 2mo ago
> Of course this may be entirely different in a software shop building routine features where the difficulty is indeed the social part and the software itself is more clearly understood. But I'd say that's when AI can be even m
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by skydhash 2mo ago
> Or just that you've never seen it, but you're open to it existing? This one. Only a sith deals in absolute. I don’t mind experiments to try to find methodologies for those tools. And I believe there are instances where they’v
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by skydhash 2mo ago
> No, you didn't have to explicitly say it in words. My mind doesn't run on internal monologue. Many people can just do their work without ever having reflected on it in words. Were you a solo developer? I think the amount of r
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by skydhash 2mo ago
> With AI, our role also shifts. It's mainly to know what to spend effort on, to set priorities and, to be able to verbalize requirements, missing social context and unwritten rules, to anticipate what additional documents the agent
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by skydhash 2mo ago
> Far all we know, there is an amazing developer out there who without LLMs, might have been the single best developer in the country, but even this person might not be able to figure out how to effectively work with LLMs. And vice-versa
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by skydhash 2mo ago
> Can you write 10k LOC a day without a coding agent? Easily, by writing a code generator. Or disassemble a 1k C program. > They just allow things that wouldn't be economically possible without them. It’s not economical to have
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by skydhash 2mo ago
> Yet, we all trust these things. Yes! Because of two words. Consistency and Reliability. All the physics equations, we trust them not because they are pretty, but because they have been consistent with experiment. Simplified models of t
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by skydhash 2mo ago
I'm using OpenBSD with xterm, and when I use something like `time xterm -e 'sh -c "echo 1; exit"'`, it says 360ms or something. Starting it with the wm keybinds is as snappy as opening a new Firefox tab. foot and st
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by skydhash 2mo ago
> Many humans would struggle with this even with very good tooling But no ones hire random humans for things like this. You go and hire a vector artist and they will get your a very good pelican on a a bike. That's how you get thing
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by skydhash 2mo ago
> Functional doesn't mean stateless. I didn't say that. User interfaces representation are mostly trees. And with functional programming you basically have Tree2 = f(Tree1). Until f is done you can't do anything really. Re
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by skydhash 2mo ago
I think the main issue is the functional approach. Having a functional approach to state can be quite elegant, but ultimately the computer does not do functional. You have to implement a lot of plumbing to have stuff that is a bit performan
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by skydhash 2mo ago
> Anyway I wouldn't say these tools aren't useful, but, I'm deeply skeptical of all the productivity claims because I think people just look at one dimension of it while ignoring all the other important dimensions. Yeah yo

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