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by wtetzner 8mo ago
I kinda feel like we're at a point where it would be much more valuable to have higher quality software than more software.
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
> The reason I'm not in favor of natural language programming has nothing to do with its probabilistic nature and everything to do with its lack of precision Yeah, even if they're made to be 100% deterministic, you've now
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
This is the best description of value from AI that I've seen so far. It allows people who don't like writing code to build things without doing so. I don't think it's nearly as valuable to people who do enjoy writing cod
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
> why would I ever hire a junior developer Because a junior developer doesn't stay a junior developer forever. The value of junior developers has never been the code they write. In fact, in my experience they're initially a net
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
I think the point is that if you're building yet-another-CRUD web app, why aren't you abstracting more of it away already? It's not like we don't have the facilities for this in programming languages already.
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
Funny how people complain about macros as an abstraction mechanism, but replacing them with an LLM is fine.
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
> our software is over-engineered garbage Honestly I think it's under-engineer garbage. Proper engineering is putting in the effort to come up with simpler solutions. The complex solutions appear because we push out the first thing
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
The power companies aren't harvesting the data on your core product. Not to mention, being in roughly the same business as you. Those things are also regulated as utilities.
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
> legally obligated to hand over your data if the US gov. had decided that it wants it Not to mention they could just sell it to the highest bidder, or simply use it to produce competition and put you out of business. Especially if you&#
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
I'm not sure we can draw useful conclusions from the Claude Code written C compiler yet. Yes, it can compile the Linux kernel. Will it be able to keep doing that moving forward? Can a Linux contributor reliably use this compiler to do
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
> You're still allowed to program by hand. In fact, you'll probably be more productive in the long term.
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
You're right, though I think a lot of the push back is due to the way companies are pushing AI usage onto employees. Not that complaining on HN will help anything...
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
I've been writing professional code for 20 years at this point, using many languages, libraries, frameworks, etc. But I certainly don't use them all at the same time. This also just feels like we're solving the wrong problem.
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
> the cost-benefit analysis clearly favors letting these tools rip Does it? I have yet to see any evidence that they are a net win in terms of productivity. It seems to just be a feeling that it's more efficient.
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
Maybe a clay tablet (assuming it's safe from water)?
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
I mean, I agree if it's really just "machine translate this code to use the approved method of doing this thing". That seems like a perfect use case for AI. Though one would think Google would already have extensive code mod
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
Not only that, but a way to factor systems so you can make changes to them without spooky action at a distance. Of course, you have to put in a lot of effort to make that happen, but that's why it doesn't seem to me that LLM'
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
> Your post feels like the last generation lamenting the new generation. > The future is exciting. Not the GP, but I honestly wanted to be excited about LLMs. And they do have good uses. But you quickly start to see the cracks in them
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
I really struggle to understand how people can find coding more tedious than prompting. To each their own I guess.
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
I think it's still an open question if it's actually a net savings of time.
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
> I would have finished the project in the same amount of time Probably less time, because you understood the details better.
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
> It's strange to me when articles like this describe the 'pain of writing code'. I find it strange to compare the comment sections for AI articles with those about vim/emacs etc. In the vim/emacs comments, peopl
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
How does paying $100 per year to sign your binary ensure it's not malicious?
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
I don't know about Go, but I think Rust uses the system linker by default.
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
Is that really true though? It kinda just feels like a way to force people to have to pay $100 per year, own Apple hardware, etc.
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
repgrep's CLI options and general behavior are different from grep. I tend to use both for different things.
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
I think it's already game over if they have access to your home directory. They can also edit your path at that point.
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
> I don't presume this will immediately change your mind I'm not saying that AI isn't useful. I'm just claiming it's not analogous to a compiler. If it was, you would treat your prompts as source code, and check
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
The input to LLMs is natural language. Natural language is ambiguous. No amount of LLM improvements will change that.
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
> But why is the cost never discussed or disclosed in these conversations? And not just the monetary cost of accessing the tools, but the amount of time it takes to actually get good results out. I strongly suspect that even though it fe

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