swatcoder

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by swatcoder 2mo ago
> Most synths/controllers today don't come with a manual, and rarely provide all the information you'd need to create software to interact with it. They just expect you to use their shitty software, or worse, their mobile
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by swatcoder 2mo ago
As a founder raising those big rounds, you'd enjoy a lot of personal luxury and develop a gtowing network of opportunity. But the odds of your business catastrophocally collapsing on itself or being aggressively gutted in an acquisitio
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by swatcoder 2mo ago
> > bad engineers were always a liability > With AI, "bad" engineers can now amplify their "bad" engineering x10 across the organization. Yup, and that's going to be the comeuppance for a decade of aggresiv
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by swatcoder 2mo ago
> Prose? Don't care, I'm not writing literature, I'm delivering a message. If AI helps that be more clear and faster, great. What you've probably just never noticed is that voice is a critical part of communication
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by swatcoder 2mo ago
First, most tech companies of comparable size to your customers have negative margins and survive on investment cycles, and the tech companies that are bigger haven't offered human support to anyone in decades. (And indeed, everyone al
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by swatcoder 2mo ago
> Deeply embarassing What signals are you using for this assessment? Are they indicating embarassment? Do you honestly see their customers being concerned over this? Like lion tamers in a circus, Anthropic and OpenAI thrive on the thea
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by swatcoder 2mo ago
The late-Amazon process for this is to just send you whatever's marked as the hard drive in their warehouse, which may be that actual product, a counterfeit, or a brick in the hard drive's package. Later, when you want to try the
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by swatcoder 2mo ago
> you must uphold these rules at all times"? You need to let go of the idea that this is something LLM's can do. They can't. At best, they can bias towards rules conformance with more or less likelihood, but coverage and c
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by swatcoder 3mo ago
> What's funny is that humans do this too, but we don't find it irritating; we just call it a speaking style. But when a machine does it, it drives us crazy. Very interesting psychological phenomenon there. When a human does it
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by swatcoder 3mo ago
You are correct. You can't trust the agent, let alone its harness, to oberve any particular directive you give it, so "md files" provide no meaningful protection for anything important. But users are broadly reckless and naiv
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by swatcoder 3mo ago
We practice engineering. As engineers, we need to understand the realities of each project we take on. Those realities are not limited to the marketing bullet points we might apply to the imagined product someday, which is what early career
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by swatcoder 3mo ago
With respect, you may not have the experience to recognize the cost tradeoff you're suggesting here. If you're choosing to rely on a strict, exhaustive validation process to approve your work product without concern for how it&#x2
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by swatcoder 3mo ago
> "a different insight" What a generous euphemism. Depending on the topic, it's not unusual to see Google AI search referencing links that indicate the exact opposite of what it presents in its prose. So many of these tool
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by swatcoder 3mo ago
Got it. I misunderstood you. Agreed.
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by swatcoder 3mo ago
Can you point to some examples of where that's happening? These data centers are specifically being scouted for communities whose governance is too weak to negotiate for some "sizeable share of their profits" and too ill-prep
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by swatcoder 3mo ago
People have a dozen reasons to refuse data centers being built in their communities and zero reasons to encourage it. They're little more than post-industrial mines that take limited resources (power, land, water, quiet) from a communi
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by swatcoder 3mo ago
> I write the code myself. I find it hard to believe why so many engineers try to avoid it. Gradually over its recent booming years, software work went from one of several practical engineering refuges for curious tinkers and puzzle-addi
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by swatcoder 3mo ago
> shipping 10x as many features and bugfixes sounds better I understand you're excited about the tool, but for the sake of earnest discussion here, maybe commenters like yourself can tone the hype down to plausibility? Claims like t
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by swatcoder 3mo ago
We rely on subtle distinction in writing style to distinguish sources from each other and to read important cues into their communication intent, the same as with vocalized speech. Scrubbing that away from writing with AI has the same effec
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by swatcoder 3mo ago
Probably not a ton of people in the largely-peaceful, largely-comfortable world that many people here have only ever experienced. But history (and world-awareness) shows that those periods don't last forever, so having mature decentral
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by swatcoder 3mo ago
> can better infer the user’s underlying goal and intended level of work This is a trap. It's the optimistic fallacy that poisons all "consumer scale" machine learning products and what's going to effectively ruin the
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by swatcoder 3mo ago
That depends entirely on whether you want to culture a humane trust society or a transactional surveillance society.
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by swatcoder 3mo ago
Among others, the voices on the internet include: * some sincere people with very extreme takes, * some trolls that masquerade as the above, to bully others over their credulousness and lack of guile, which is distinct from sarcasm, * some
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by swatcoder 3mo ago
The "open" in "open source" is traditionally about respecting a user's right to modify a library/application to suit their needs. More weakly, you might argue that it's about legibility, and the user being
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by swatcoder 3mo ago
> Using AI here is not really at fault here Maybe reality isn't represented by the git logs, but according to them, you appear to have composed, reviewed and merged 131 commits affecting 58 files and 6000 lines -- a task that you
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by swatcoder 4mo ago
This tells you more about inflation methodology than it does home affordability.
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by swatcoder 4mo ago
It's easy for some to give away money if they have it, but it's hard to accumulate that much money if you're one of those people. Newmark maybe representing the occasional exception, most people who accumulate great wealt
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by swatcoder 4mo ago
That's not a distinction that people really benefit from. Approximately nobody can read other people's code for intent or quality, let alone to surface malware meant to be hidden in it. For almost everyone, the only hope is that
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by swatcoder 4mo ago
> I never see Google return phishing pages Maybe you're not looking or maybe you're lucky. Either way, many of us see it happen all the time there too. For GitHub especially, I almost never get the canonical repo for a project
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by swatcoder 4mo ago
Early work in any trade is mostly junk, and academia no exception. But the process of creating that work, engaged throughought that process with those purported to be more practiced, is usually pretty good at seeding enough expertise an

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