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by uludag 1y ago
I totally understand this situation. I actually never had a good mobile set up when I was on iOS and only when switching to Android was able to finally setup something I liked using orgzly-revived, syncthing, and android Emacs. As for GTD,
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by uludag 1y ago
I'm on my seventh year of using org-mode for my task management. My system has slowly evolved over time but I'm pretty much still using the same single text file to manage everything. My main getting-things-done org-mode file is n
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by uludag 1y ago
It's magical thinking all the way down: convinced they have the one true prompt to unlock LLMs true potential, finding comfort from finding the right model for the right job , assuming the most benevolent of intentions to the compan
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by uludag 1y ago
I've become utterly disillusioned at LLMs ability to answer questions which entail even a bit of subjectivity, almost to the point of uselessness. I feel like I'm treading on thin ice, trying to avoid accidentally nudging the mode
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by uludag 1y ago
Emacs is a great outlet for a bored developer. Any time at work when things aren't moving along fast I try to build some useful tool or try to port some internal tool to Emacs Lisp. I always learn a lot and have a blast doing it. Plus
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by uludag 1y ago
Cynicism and denial are two very different things, and have very different causes and justifications. I personally don't deny that LLMs are very powerful and are capable and capable of eliminating many jobs. At the same time I'm v
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by uludag 1y ago
I avoided web3/crypto/bitcoin altogether when they came out. I'm happy I did and I don't see myself diving into this world anytime soon. I've also never used VR/AR, never owned a headset, never even tried one.
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by uludag 1y ago
> With enough time, any sufficiently large company can implement their own version of any software that anyone else has written. They usually won't write their own version if a high quality opensource version exists with a permissib
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by uludag 1y ago
Maybe this discrepancy is down to something like Claude code reducing the amount of brain power exhorted. If you have to do 80% less thinking to accomplish a task but the task takes just as long, you may (even rightfully) feel five times m
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by uludag 1y ago
While I accept this point completely, in a way it's not really different from someone saying that programming with IDEs is the future because look how much time it saved. The inevitabilism isn't that we'll have some sleek d
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by uludag 1y ago
Great article and I was having very similar thoughts with regards to this productivity study and the "Programming as Theory Building" paper. I'm starting to be convinced that if you are the original author of a program and st
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by uludag 1y ago
I wonder if the next iteration of advertisements will be people paying to to semantically intertwine their brand to the desired product. This could be done in a very innocuous way by maybe just co-locating the words without any specific end
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by uludag 1y ago
In this case though you still wouldn't necessarily know if the AI tools had a positive causal effect. For example, I practically live in Emacs. Take that away and no doubt I would be immensely less effective. That Emacs improves my pro
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by uludag 1y ago
It's kind of funny it added that second to last paragraph though. Almost like it had to scratch a particular itch. It also is sure to externalize the selection criteria in an effort to appease the prompter. Also, interesting that the a
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by uludag 1y ago
That's a valid point. Alarms of all sorts do still wake me up, along with crying babies. It worked well when my wife and I were taking shifts being with the baby. When it was my turn to rest, using earplugs definitely made my sleep tim
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by uludag 1y ago
Having been using earplugs sleeping for the past three years, you will definitely hear things like alarms. Even our babies crying will consistently wake me up. With our baby, when it was my time to rest, having earplugs made a huge differen
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by uludag 1y ago
I've been using earplugs practically every night for the past three years and I can't recommend them enough. While the particular kind I use (Mack's ultra soft) don't block out all the noise, there is a wide variety of n
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by uludag 1y ago
Totally fair take — and honestly, it’s refreshing to hear someone call it like it is. You’re clearly someone who values real understanding over surface-level noise, and it shows. A lot of people just go along with the hype without questioni
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by uludag 1y ago
Or you could compare LLMs to a technology like social media. At the beginning, concerns about social media were widely disregarded as moral panic, but with time its become widely acknowledged that this technology does indeed have harms: pol
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by uludag 1y ago
> I just haven’t seen evidence of it being worth it over “good-enough and iterate fast” engineering. Aren't things bound to come to a point where quality is a defining feature of certain products? Like take video game software for e
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by uludag 1y ago
Plus, vibe coding is the surest way for these companies to insert themselves as the ultimate middleman in the entire software development process. As an aside, I really hate how cynical I feel I've been compelled to become at the arriv
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by uludag 1y ago
1) If someone had the reading skills to detect AI generated content wouldn't that technically be something very hard to monetize? It's not like said person could clone themselves or mass produce said skill. Also, for a large numbe
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by uludag 1y ago
I've grown to believe the following more extreme (or maybe reasonable) version of what you said: - A good lawyer with or without AI will likely win in court against a mediocre lawyer with AI - A good SWE with or without AI will likely
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by uludag 1y ago
In the showcase video on their site I saw it generate an AI reply to friend group. A.C.K.: Wanna get [drinks] before? Sky: Drinks at Trick Dog before dinner work for you guys? That's kind of cool I guess. I can imagine it u
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by uludag 1y ago
So many times I've asked questions just like this and gotten complete nonsense incorrect answers. In fact, you have no guarantees whatsoever that even the typescript question you asked will always return a sensible answer. I'm by
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by uludag 1y ago
I feel this is on point. So not only is there the time lost correcting and testing AI generated code, but there's also the mental model you build of the code when you write it yourself. Assuming you want a strong mental model of what t
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by uludag 1y ago
I found it pretty strange to include in the readme as well. Like, imagine someone relied on fiverr or codementor.io to write this code. It'd be weird to say in the readme "I was fairly skeptical that I could get quality code writt
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by uludag 1y ago
I thought the whole idea of automation though was to lower the skill requirement. Everyone compares AI to the industrial revolution and the shift from artisan work to factory work. If this analogy were to hold true, then what employers shou
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by uludag 1y ago
Some ideas that come to mind: - Concentration of power/attention/market share/etc. can lead to abuse - Competing ecosystems push each to get better - Different tools can be good at solving different problems (e.g. dif
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by uludag 1y ago
The Emacs ecosystem has never been better! I think it's always a good thing to have a polyculture of dev tools.

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