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by thunky 8mo ago
> to be fair, every other comment is usually screaming about how if you aren't able to utilize LLMs effectively, you will be without a job soon I think a lot of these "it's all overhyped crap" posts are a hypocritical
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by thunky 8mo ago
> I have the same experience and still use it. It's just that I learned to use it for simplistic work. OP said "I don't see the productivity boost from AI" and that they don't "believe the hype" without
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by thunky 8mo ago
To each their own. > I use these tools daily and I just don't see it. So why use them if you see no benefit? You can refuse to use it, it's fine. You can also write your code in notepad.exe, without a linter, and without an Int
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by thunky 8mo ago
Agree completely. Where I'm optimistic about AI is that it can also help identify poorly written code (even it's own code), and it can help rewrite it to be better quality. Average developers can't do this part. From what I&
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by thunky 8mo ago
Sorry but 99.999% of developers could not have built Unix. Or Winamp. Managers are crossing their fingers that devs they hire are no worse than average, and average isn't very good.
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by thunky 8mo ago
I didn't see the theme button, thanks. Turns out the dark mode in Brave (mobile) makes the garden theme font almost the same color as the background. I tried it on default Chrome and it looked better. The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th themes are
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by thunky 8mo ago
This text color and background is unreadable.
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by thunky 8mo ago
> There should be new software that wasn't possible yesterday This is exactly the overhyping the critics are continuing to strawman their complaints with. Speaking for myself, I think AI is better than the average dev. And yes I t
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by thunky 8mo ago
You can find posts on this site every day with people say they're seeing big productivity gains. I'm sure they'll all lying though, right? Or, because it hasn't solved all of the world's problems yet then I guess it
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by thunky 8mo ago
Wow this is like going on a medical forum and saying "medicine didn't change shit".
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by thunky 8mo ago
You're agreeing with GP but it's a flawed premise: a chatbot doesn't have to be limited to entertainment and trivia, as anyone who has used one for productivity knows.
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by thunky 8mo ago
The idea is to keep raising the bar of absurdity higher and higher to prove that there are no consequences, making the next worse offense easier. All with the seal of approval from the entire power class. Maybe not 4d chess, but it's
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by thunky 8mo ago
It's RAG via tool use, where the storage and retreival method is an implementation detail. I'm not a huge fan of the term RAG though because if you squint almost all tool use could be considered RAG. But if you stick with RAG bein
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by thunky 8mo ago
Gemini with Google search is RAG using all public data, and it isn't broken.
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by thunky 8mo ago
Right because developers are famous for their 100% perfect hand-crafted docs.
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by thunky 9mo ago
> No one will ever get the timing right, but if you see the fundamental flaws of the economy, you know a crash is going to come. If you know it's coming but don't know when then you don't know anything. Certainly not enou
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by thunky 9mo ago
> But if you want to do interesting things, like all the shills keep trying to claim they do I don't know where this is coming from. I've seen some over-enthusiastic hype for sure, but most of the day-to-day conversations I se
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by thunky 9mo ago
> We consider we are smart because we can make computers go beep boop so we know about the economy too Funny, the person you are agreeing with made the strongest "I know more than you" flex than anyone.
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by thunky 9mo ago
This, and I would also assume it's easier to spot idle factory employees, where idle devs (especially remote ones) can be easier to miss. And, (assumption again) the factory boss doesn't have an incentive to increase idle worker n
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by thunky 9mo ago
> It also works for problems that have been solved a thousand times before So you mean it works on almost all problems?
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by thunky 9mo ago
...replying to my self to point out that ironically my post is being downvoted. I guess wanting to hear the other side's perspective is not looked upon favorably here, just like everywhere else.
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by thunky 9mo ago
> the voices of the government supporters are not heard here This is sad to me because I really want to hear the other perspective, and there is no place that exists (that I know of) for people who disagree with each other to have a real
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by thunky 9mo ago
Don't forget to give CNN the credit it deserves.
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by thunky 9mo ago
> Its always worth learning something if you enjoy it This argument is repeated often but what I think you're missing is that if you want to listen to music you put on the radio, you don't record an album. Sure if I want to enj
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by thunky 9mo ago
I agree wholeheartedly but there's zero chance they make changes that limit their own power. After all, predecessors from both parties got us to where we are now.
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by thunky 9mo ago
> But the author claims that you can catch runtime bugs I think you misinterpreted OP: Every time you find a runtime bug, ask the LLM if a static lint rule could be turned on to prevent it Key word is prevent .
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by thunky 9mo ago
> Why not choose someone basically decent like Rubio Rubio isn't decent.
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by thunky 9mo ago
And someone could post an even longer list of things you can't do well. But what would be the point? The LLM did better on this problem than 100% of the haters in this thread could do, and who probably can't even begin "under
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by thunky 9mo ago
LLMs finally gave someone I know the confidence to up her business rates. Professional services, nothing to do with software dev (yes LLMs are not just for devs). It suggested she revamp her entire pricing structure. She thought her clie
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by thunky 9mo ago
Not really. If the job was 100% deterministic we wouldn't need the human, would we?

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