tarkin2

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by tarkin2 6d ago
Also, to congratulate the author feels like congratulating a tech savvy manager for a project rather than the skills and knowledge of a programmer It’s cool they’ve managed various agents to get their end result but I’ve always been interes
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by tarkin2 7d ago
He says he should have used an LLM to write his one-off code I guess this is a common idea now Yet since a lot of our coding is for one-offs then we are allowing LLMs to blunt our skills
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by tarkin2 7d ago
Their labour didn’t involve coding. When we equate labour to creating a load of prompts then it feels hollow to me. Was this, then, done to impress others rather than enrich the coders skills and experience? The futuristic equivalent of pre
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by tarkin2 15d ago
Yeah, that's the thing for me: filtering out the SEO crap that Google happily serves up. Google's actual search results are a waste of time visiting, both for the mindless CEO content and the ad-laden, analytics-happy, javascript-
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by tarkin2 15d ago
They are forcing my further and further towards kagi. I do hope the fawning on here is at least partly justified.
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by tarkin2 16d ago
I at least appreciate he was up front about advertising his book. But, yes, after about seven paragraphs I could no longer read on, and I had completely lost any interest in his book. This should be given as an example how marketing can act
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by tarkin2 1mo ago
I guess by practising the lower level things less and less we become less able to understand and maintain them, whereas any profession that required continued practice kept you sharp enough to learn things like networking.
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by tarkin2 1mo ago
If the chauffeurs' power came from the inability for the driven to maintain and drive their cars, and that power was reduced when cars become more reliable and understandable, then I'm not sure how that is applied to modern develo
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by tarkin2 2mo ago
The main thing it's removing is the skills you gain through actual practice, and replacing those with the demand that you subscribe to OpenAI etc to do your job. But, moreover, the demand your company subscribes. But not your company a
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by tarkin2 2mo ago
Not good at subjects you have no previously learnt knowledge. They tell you have "hit the nail on the head" when you really haven't. They tell you have had a "great insight" when you are really haven't. They gi
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by tarkin2 2mo ago
Perfect is the enemy of good. Also, you can use the bank's website for most tasks. I think most non-techies could happily do this.
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by tarkin2 2mo ago
Arguably we already have, if you concentrate on intelligence rates since 1975: the reverse Flynn affect. Those who grew up about that time no longer had to generate their own entertainment through storytelling, make their own music, calcula
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by tarkin2 2mo ago
If people are handing off the coding to AI more and more then they'll be less skilled at spotting potential bugs in the first place. AI, course of, could be run to find potential bugs in the AI-coded features before commit. But then yo
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by tarkin2 2mo ago
The link given elsewhere here about the multi-layered aspect of the stories from 1, 2 and RMI gives it a bit more depth. Obviously if you take it on the surface level only it's low effort.
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by tarkin2 2mo ago
That link was amazing. I felt that Return to Monkey Island was a bit of a cop-out. But the multi-layer, Mulholland Drive-esq, storytelling is a real eye-opener. It appears that his multi-layered storytelling found its way into Thimbleweed P
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by tarkin2 2mo ago
I wonder did you enjoy the Monkey Island games. I really loved Delores and Ransome particularly in TWP.
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by tarkin2 2mo ago
I pretty much saw the ending an effort to put the story to end and move on after all the years of speculation.
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by tarkin2 2mo ago
If you every played the first two Monkey Island games, and understand the lore behind that, then the ending is pretty good. Thimbleweed park, in many way, was a spiritual successor to Monkey Island 2 that Gilbert couldn't make for IP r
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by tarkin2 3mo ago
Is it me or are those emails clearly understood to be AI generated? The grammatical usage and structures are a huge tell. Perfect and soulless.
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by tarkin2 3mo ago
Code that kills your project is code that works, and is either misunderstood or unmaintainable And the industry is rushing towards it, whilst failing to train people who are able to fix it
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by tarkin2 3mo ago
The number of people--adults included--who, when don't know something they could easily think about, resort to some AI bot rather than thinking, and developing their mind and intelligence, is staggering. Giving kids a reason not to thi
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by tarkin2 3mo ago
Teach a classroom of comprehensive children and then come back and say parents both want to and are able to control their children all of the time.
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by tarkin2 3mo ago
Because it means you let those with unsavory behaviour define your behaviour
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by tarkin2 3mo ago
Shouldn't parents be the ones to protect their children from the dangers of heroin, rather than an over-reaching state?
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by tarkin2 3mo ago
I teach children. You have no idea how much social media has affected their attention, memory, critical reasoning and social skills: the social repercussions will be felt for decades. And this isn't mentioning exposing easily malleable
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by tarkin2 4mo ago
I believe that I would be happy to recompense someone for their efforts since, providing I enjoy the music, I happily give money to buskers. Yet getting my credit card out for a stranger everytime I half-enjoy an article is not something I&
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by tarkin2 4mo ago
Believing pride in ones work is important, a communist makes you not. And sweeping ideas away by categorising the idea is the destruction of debate.
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by tarkin2 4mo ago
I theorise that many social ills come from workers having less pride in their skills and achievements, and a greater sense of social alienation, due to automation. If you spend countless hours at work, and you partially define yourself by y
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by tarkin2 4mo ago
Get people hooked, tell them spending time coding is no longer needed, let their skills deteriorate, tell them they need cough up for a licence to do their job Forcing developers to pay for models that were build on code they scraped scott-
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by tarkin2 4mo ago
I'm perhaps missing something but if there were a significant connection, wouldn't this mean those in sunnier climates would have better verbal and visual memory? If there were a connection then I would wager that there are more s

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