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Definitely not alone. With all the this money at stake, coining dumb terms like this might make you a pretty penny. It's like a meme that can be milked for monetization.
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Great article! This was similar to my experience in ad-tech, though obviously more mundane. It's almost like people had to create artificial problems to avoid thinking about what they're actually building. Even language filled w
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> employing AI roughly 50-100 times per hour > Within the last 24 months it’s clear that AI has become an essential coworker I'm curious why the personification of these tools? Like, with the same logic we could call our dishwas
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This is actually a surprisingly depressing post. It makes me question all the assumptions I have about dev UX. If my dev tooling was taken away, the saas products I depend on shut down, slack replaced by email, keyboard with phone, etc. wo
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Here's the obligatory AI enthusiast answer: What is physics besides next token/frame prediction? I'm not sure these videos deserve the label "inaccurate" as who's to judge what way of generating next tokens&#x
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I think there's a condition though. That if they learn generative AI tools then they won't be obsolete. If op was just of the view that there's nothing special about generative AI, then the post would read very different.
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> The software development is absolutely a fractal. I think this analogy is more apt than you may realize. Just like a fractal, the iterated patterns get repeated on a much smaller scale. The jump to higher-level languages was probably
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Has it really made that much of a difference in the first place? I have a feeling that we'll look back in 10 years and not even notice the "AI revolution" on any charts of productivity, creating a productivity paradox 3.0. I
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I think there's a critical mass of usage/popularity that a software tool needs to sustain itself and I would think that after that point, the returns on popularity are increasingly diminishing. After reading the book "Working
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There are forms of poetry/art/etc. that we've never thought of, that have never been conceived before. An LLM being what it is won't conceive these. Humans will continue to generate language the pattern/structure&#x
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Just to name a few, https://github.com/legalnonsense/elgantt/ , https://github.com/elsatch/org-timeline-viewer , https://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-taskjuggler
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I think you have a point in that we can't expect modern audiences to adopt human-centric software. I don't think that this is a software-specific problem though, in that the very architectural designs that Christopher Alexander w
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It's interesting how discussion on Christopher Alexander's works always turn into discussion of patterns about how to write or structure code (regardless of what the artifact is), as opposed to what "living", human-cente
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I'm actually pleasantly surprised by the results. I like to think that despite problem 1 being easily solvable by LLMs, just about everyone (sans qianxyz) read the FAQ, and decided that they would forego a leaderboard spot for the sake
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by uludag 2y ago
I have no doubt that VSCode has a much less risk of executing code by opening something. Ironically however, it seems that VSCode's extension is the most effective channel to distribute malware in the history of code editors. [1] [2] N
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Giving the maintainers the benefit of the doubt, I think the optimal solution solution would require a lot of thought and work. While I have no doubt that Elisp is an environment especially ripe for these kinds of exploits, it's by no
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> Commercial software and ignorance make users less productive... This is exactly what I have observed too. Notice how all commercial software comes very polished and modern with a very superficial UI. Despite most software products bein
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Interesting. I've been using Emacs for 6 years and have never heard of CCL. I would love to read a book on all the strange and fascinating code that Emacs has accumulated over the years.
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It's really interesting how some people seem to take skepticism, disinterest, disappointment, apathy about AI almost personally. I would think if the tools really are so game-changing just let things be, as the cold hard reality will f
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What would it look like if a tool like this was taken to its logical conclusion: an agent that could write unit tests for any existing code and get it to 100% code coverage. Not only that, it would have tests for every combinatorial code pa
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The worst part isn't just that it's nearly impossible to run/update an outdated JS project, but that this process will repeat itself ad infinitum. On the flip side, anything that uses vanilla JS without a build will most like
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> “Don’t use globals” is obviously good, but “never use globals under any circumstances” is just silly I'm actually not even convinced that this is a good rule. When it's explained it makes sense on the surface. I also think th
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I completely agree with this take. There's an immense feeling of calm when your digital life revolves around files you completely own. I've managed my entire productivity around a single org-mode file for the bast five years and i
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I know that code generation and self-driving cars are different in a lot of ways, but I wonder if a comparison could be made between the two. We could imagine the question "Future of Driving: copilot or robo-taxi?" The answer of w
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I was reflecting on this article, thinking about what software tools and languages I use that reflect this property, and a weird realization came to mind: Emacs lisp is by far the best language I use in this regard. I literally copy-pasted
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What I find unfortunate is that VSCode and Visual Studio Code are so conflated. It's Visual Studio Code in the context of features, it's vscode in the context of license and community. In this sense Zed is much cleaner as to what&
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> Vscode has strings attached too If software being FLOSS is in any way an important value of yours, the difference between Zed and Visual Studio Code is night and day: Zed's GPL: https://github.com/zed-industries&#x
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> Wrote a script in emacs lisp to calculate Ramadan I found this pretty funny, but a spot on solution. The solar/calendar features of Emacs are surprisingly robust and easy to work with.
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The amount low-effort/low-value extensions on the VSCode extension marketplace are astonishing. Searching for "darcula" shows around 100 typo-squatting themes, who knows how many of which are malicious. I think both the distr
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So the logic is that even though they may get their required work done, the risk that they may one day flee to North Korea and cause you to violate sanctions requires that you have to constantly bring in all of your employees to a central l

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