vehemenz

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by vehemenz 3mo ago
It’s crazy that people feel confident making judgments like these when the model’s been out for only a few hours.
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by vehemenz 3mo ago
The last section should have been titled “Why Do People Watch It?” because I finished the article still wondering.
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by vehemenz 4mo ago
No offense, but serious developers don’t think this way at all.
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by vehemenz 5mo ago
This comment has me a bit confused. Consumers were complaining about the standard 8GB with the early 2020 refresh of MacBook Pros, many OSes ago. Sure, it might be workable for many tasks (as evidenced by the recent sales of the MacBook Neo
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by vehemenz 5mo ago
A few counterpoints: Treating markup and styles separately is great, in principle, but you'll always need additional markup for certain things. We knew this going back to the early 2000s. There is nothing about Tailwind itself that for
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by vehemenz 6mo ago
There are Harvard professors who believe in the supernatural, I'm sure.
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by vehemenz 6mo ago
Such people already know it's not aliens, though.
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by vehemenz 6mo ago
These are informal fallacies, so logic’s not at issue here. Though you whiffed on your accusation.
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by vehemenz 6mo ago
That's quite the straw man you've constructed, which I suppose is appropriate for a Burning Man thread.
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by vehemenz 6mo ago
I'm not the arbiter on all things Godwin's Law, but either way the analogy doesn't work.
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by vehemenz 6mo ago
Ok, why Brave though? There's Safari, Chromium, LibreWolf, Ladybird, and plenty of others.
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by vehemenz 6mo ago
The problem of calling what most of us do "engineering" predates LLMs by a good 15-20 years.
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by vehemenz 6mo ago
I would only add one caveat to this: Code that is organized well and operates coherently in the first place, by an LLM or not, will be easier to iterate on, by an LLM or not.
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by vehemenz 6mo ago
There's some of that, but more often it's developers whose arguments are a year behind the frontier models or, just as common, they're dramatically overstating their abilities. It's an inherent tension that every discipl
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by vehemenz 6mo ago
It's an astute observation but overstated. There are just as many programmers who view their activity as too sacred to consider using an LLM, even for relatively easy, predictable, or disposable work.
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by vehemenz 6mo ago
Uno reverse. What kind of limited project experience would lead anyone to think that there isn't an enormous continuum between code difficulty and organizational problems in the space of software development?
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by vehemenz 6mo ago
If you're willing to reduce metaphysical questions to definitions (which I'm basically on board with), then the stakes aren't that high in the first place, so we should carry on using "consciousness" in its everyday
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by vehemenz 6mo ago
If your criterion holds for spyware merely developed in a state, then that commits you not working in the US or UK as well. Something to think about. Putting that aside, my moral positions about Israel are rooted in the righteousness of t
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by vehemenz 6mo ago
I wouldn’t lump in Israel in, but good for you.
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by vehemenz 6mo ago
Don't forget MathML and all the other features they gave up on
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by vehemenz 6mo ago
Right, but the LLM can help you practice the skill too. Without the LLM, you're in a self-guided, autodidactical mode. Obviously, that can have its own advantages, but most people—but especially novices—aren't in a position to ass
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by vehemenz 6mo ago
This is overstated. Not all LLM code is produced the same way. Code produced through substantial human creative input still falls under copyright, at least the way things are now. Besides, nothing legally prevents placing code under a licen
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by vehemenz 6mo ago
I've had this issue too, and I feel it was an important lesson—kind of like the first time getting a hangover. On the other hand, LLM-generated code comments better than I do, so given a long enough time horizon, it could be more under
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by vehemenz 6mo ago
One-off tasks and parts of the stack that already have lots of disposable code do not need the same scrutiny as everything else. Just as there is a broad continuum of code importance, there is a broad continuum of testing requirements, and
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by vehemenz 6mo ago
> LLM will be Your mentor, it will shape Your way of thinking according to algorithms and datasets stuffed into by corporate creators. How is this mutually exclusive with teaching better than most humans? Part of these "corporate&qu
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by vehemenz 6mo ago
Right. It can enhance that skillset. Are you suggesting it can’t? This wouldn’t be a plausible position.
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by vehemenz 6mo ago
False equivalency. If you had the humility to run your own writing through an LLM first, it would have caught it. Just saying. Not picking on you in particular, but most of the anti-AI crowd can’t present their case compellingly and have an
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by vehemenz 6mo ago
If you run your writing through an LLM, it can poke holes in your argument, organize your ideas better, or point out that your tone is hostile/dismissive. It doesn’t need to be a replacement for writing or thinking, especially if you’r
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by vehemenz 6mo ago
> But that's all they are: statistical text prediction engines. They do not think or reason; they generate next tokens based on prior context[1]. Unfortunately, because they predict really convincing text, a lot of people are willin
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by vehemenz 6mo ago
Yes, but it goes both ways. Using AI can be a great way to be productive while purposefully NOT learning how the sausage is made—say, boilerplate code in some devops system that you don't care about—allowing your attention to be focuse

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