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by weakfish 4mo ago
Who is this guy and why should I listen to him?
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by weakfish 4mo ago
Thanks tom, you’re right and I apologize. I truly do appreciate you and dang keeping us accountable.
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by weakfish 4mo ago
I think it's pretty good at review and finding bugs, but IME it's really not great at designing solutions to non-trivial problems, which IME is the part of the job that makes me "good" at it. YMMV
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by weakfish 4mo ago
Oh no don't get me wrong I don't think you're tacitly endorsing it, I just mean it's probably gotten worse since you last looked, from all sides.
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by weakfish 4mo ago
I really don't want to sound like an asshole, but I refuse the notion that an agent writes better code / prose than I do and I am concerned for anyone who does think that. Is it _faster_? sure! That is NOT better. Before you ask,
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by weakfish 4mo ago
I'd look again, there's a (now deleted, but quoted) comment of violence being threatened (and drawn??) against the maintainers.
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by weakfish 4mo ago
Right. Sure. But this isn't a professional setting.
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by weakfish 4mo ago
take heart knowing at least I'm there with ya.
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by weakfish 4mo ago
I think the other commenter's point is that there's no industry-wide proof that QA can fix bugs by just describing the issue. That's an anecdote. Why is it acceptable now to just follow anecdotes and FOMO?
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by weakfish 4mo ago
Reading comments like this is like watching someone who is absolutely convinced that they have a crystal ball in their lap when at best they have a foggy piece of plastic. You could be right you could be wrong, but don’t act like you have s
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by weakfish 4mo ago
Right, but my point is that I think that being the baseline requirement is silly. I get why that reaction exists, but I think it's over-fitting. Like I said before, cooperative is so broad.
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by weakfish 4mo ago
It's impossible to debate a topic with someone who takes anecdotes, declares it is proof of something and then says smugly "there you have it!"
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by weakfish 4mo ago
"Cooperative system" is such an immensely broad net. I could also say that the largest scale attempt ever at implementing a competitive system failed when the market crashed in 2008, so you probably shouldn't try starting a c
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by weakfish 4mo ago
Well, the comment you're replying to is patently false, as explained in a separate comment.
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by weakfish 4mo ago
I mean... that's just.. wrong? Indigenous North American cultures, Amish cultures, medieval monastic communities, the list goes on. Really, you can't just make blanket claims like that over _all of human history_ and expect to be
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by weakfish 4mo ago
My point is that they’re not the same thing and it’s an attempt to link two things that are loosely related, at best. “Come up with something new maybe?” Is a trite attempt at belittling a conversation that is seeking knowledge and frankly
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by weakfish 4mo ago
Gonna write a shorter reply because I’m on my phone and frankly too hungry to think, so hopefully it makes sense :-) TL;DR I agree with you re: US culture being too selfish and independent for that kind of thinking. It’s something that has
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by weakfish 4mo ago
Someone should coin a law that any time something vaguely cooperative or worker-focused is proposed, someone will inevitably reply that it will fail because the Soviet Union did something sort of maybe similar once.
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by weakfish 4mo ago
The problem with this assertion is cost. You say that if tokens cost a lot of money, you will _have_ to reduce team size. This is a questionable premise and a trap that companies are falling into. I don't have hard data on it, but if s
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by weakfish 4mo ago
Did AI replace their job, or did the cost of having AI skyrocket so the companies did layoffs to make budget? There’s a difference.
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by weakfish 4mo ago
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by weakfish 4mo ago
I mean, it is a community that self-selects for builders and startup-types.
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by weakfish 5mo ago
Copying and pasting my reply elsewhere in the thread that summarizes my thoughts here as well: I don't have the mental power at this moment to write out my full thoughts on the subject so forgive my vague thoughts (an aside- withdrawin
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by weakfish 5mo ago
I don't have the mental power at this moment to write out my full thoughts on the subject so forgive my rambling thoughts that follow (an aside- withdrawing from SSRIs is an _unpleasant experience_) I think the problem I find with argu
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by weakfish 5mo ago
I don't think the OP disagrees, considering they wrote > "my favorite, seems the least likely to lead to police state"
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by weakfish 5mo ago
... do you? I have 500mpbs and both my partner and I WFH with no problems.
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by weakfish 5mo ago
It appears you're inferring a _lot_ that was not said. I think both posters in this thread are misunderstanding eachother.
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by weakfish 5mo ago
I've noticed that these comments (which are common) never seem to get a reply.. wonder why :)
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by weakfish 5mo ago
Especially because Markdown --> code is _non-deterministic_
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by weakfish 5mo ago
Not really? I mean, the original study says this, in essence: 1. Developers _self_ report a 1.5-2x increase in productivity 2. Empirical measurements show 20% slowdown Now, that study is from 2025, so it may be outdated. The study you linke

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