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by tjr 8mo ago
Interesting that it "generated" such a large chunk of code that it just copied from somewhere else.
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by tjr 8mo ago
I am flummoxed that this service costs $120/year in the first place. Wow! I think the article is right that a lot of people will replace such things with LLM-generated options, but I also think a lot of people won’t. For programmers an
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by tjr 8mo ago
Thank you! I used Scala back in the day, loved it. Just recently I was searching for some information on it, any scraps at all, and found nothing. Thank you for fixing that!
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by tjr 8mo ago
The "good riddance" attitude surprises me also. On one hand, it can be unpleasant to sort through obscure syntactical gobbledegook, like tracing around multiple levels of pointer indirection, but then again, I have found a certain
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by tjr 8mo ago
Seeing a lot of claims about using AI to write "boilerplate" and other repetitive bits of code, I was somewhat surprised, as I have historically written my own code generation tools to spit out repetitive, formulaic code. I didn&#
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by tjr 8mo ago
It appears to me that the people who consistently get the best results from LLM coding tools are prompting fairly close to the code. Maybe not quite at the level of writing pseudocode, but close enough that they really still need to underst
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by tjr 8mo ago
With the caveat that I do not pay for ChatGPT; using the free plan -- A couple of days ago I asked it to tell me about the Duncan Tournament yo-yo (one of the early commercial wooden yo-yos, still made in reproductions today). It generated
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by tjr 9mo ago
What then is your interest in avoiding skill atrophy? It sounds like you realize that outsourcing your programming work to AI will likely result in skill atrophy, but you are so happy with the results that you are okay with this. (And so a
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by tjr 9mo ago
If you can have AI review the PR, does this still matter?
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by tjr 9mo ago
I also hear the most from software engineers, but then again, I don't really follow translation or government research discussion forums.
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by tjr 9mo ago
ForeFlight
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by tjr 9mo ago
Genuinely curious: how quickly do you need new code written? What kinds of things are you working on that still aren’t being done fast enough?
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by tjr 9mo ago
What would be an example of something you think wouldn’t work with 5 or higher? Is there something about GPU programming that LLMs can’t handle?
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by tjr 9mo ago
Did it change? I see OpenAI listed first.
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by tjr 9mo ago
I would say that Seth is farming just as much as non-developers are now building software applications.
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by tjr 9mo ago
I’ve done builds for aerospace products where the only binary difference between two builds of the same source code is the embedded timestamp. And per FAA review guidelines, this deterministic attribute is required, or else something is wro
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by tjr 9mo ago
Which early compilers were nondeterministic?
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by tjr 9mo ago
I think it's a lot like outsourcing. And, expected quality of outsourcing aside, more importantly, I don't see outsourcing as the next step up on the ladder of programming abstraction. It's having someone else do the programm
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by tjr 9mo ago
Perhaps we will see renewed interest in software patents.
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by tjr 9mo ago
Back when I routinely dialed phone numbers by hand (either on a keypad or on a literal dial), I memorized the numbers I called most frequently. Many of those numbers I still have memorized today, years after some of those phone lines have b
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by tjr 9mo ago
If AI can do the full job of a software engineer, then it can review code too.
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by tjr 9mo ago
Given the claims that AI is replacing jobs left and right, that there’s no more need for software developers or computer science education, then it had jolly well better be able to code a perfect application while I watch baseball.
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by tjr 9mo ago
I disagree that citizens really have much pull over how public funds are used, especially through general elections. We can vote for one candidate over another, in hopes of seeing public funds used for this or that, but in the end, we elect
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by tjr 9mo ago
Dijkstra said of Lisp that "it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts."
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by tjr 9mo ago
That is my preferred way to use it also, though I see many folks seemingly pushing for pure vibe coding, apparently striving for maximum throughput as a high-priority goal. Which goal would be hindered by careful review of the output. It&#x
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by tjr 9mo ago
If the economy is 100% coconuts — all supply is coconuts, all demand is coconuts — then coconuts are all. Business owners sell coconuts in exchange for coconuts in order to acquire more coconuts. Employees are paid in coconuts which they tr
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by tjr 9mo ago
I think 25% is a low estimate. Using a proper programming editor alone could realistically offer 2x or more productivity over a basic text editor, and there have definitely been programmers who stayed with basic editors. And I have first ha
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by tjr 9mo ago
I see a lot of people saying things like, if you don't use LLMs for coding then you are slower than your peers who do and you are are obsolete, not worth working with, etc., etc. I am curious where this train of thought has come from.
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by tjr 9mo ago
Fair point! And I wasn't clear: my anecdote was me, personally, needing an instance of some software. Rather than me personally either write it by hand, or even write it using AI, and then host it, I just found an off-the-shelf solutio
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by tjr 9mo ago
Anecdote: I have decades of software experience, and am comfortable both writing code myself and using AI tools. Just today, I needed a basic web application, the sort of which I can easily get off the shelf from several existing vendors. I

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