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by wvenable 10mo ago
As a developer, I want a sane platform. Sometimes I want to write documents and sometimes I want to write applications. > This is sane from a declarative document styling syntax. Is it? CSS intentionally avoided mixing animation with l
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> We've gotten so far away from semantic documents so we could build "apps". Exactly. We're still pretending that the browser is some kind of document display application when it's an application runtime. We ke
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> We still should do more with HTML and CSS! And reach for leaner solutions than React everywhere. It's pretty difficult for anyone to completely understand all the nuances in HTML and CSS. It's a big mess that gets bigger and
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I can't see how a bunch of esoteric incantations are better than just some straight-forward easy to understand and follow JavaScript.
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I read an article a few years ago about someone using a SIM card embedded in a product like this for free internet. The connection was severely limited though.
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It won't be long before products like this just get cellular modems built in.
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It didn't just say demographics so I think that's a bit reductive. That's just like saying "all retailers sell you crap" so Ikea, Footlocker, and Barns and Noble are competitors to each other.
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> It seems there are many solutions for social media these days, but only one LinkedIn. I'm not sure that's actually true. We have a lot of different social media applications but they all mostly serve different purposes or di
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Companies care where the growth is. Azure has obviously grown tremendously over the last decade and a half from nothing to the most important part of Microsoft. This isn't specifically or even unique to Microsoft. In fact, it perfect
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I disagree. Satya doesn't give a crap about Windows; he's the cloud guy. Over 40% of Microsoft's revenue is cloud. Another 20% is office (which is also heading towards cloud). Windows revenue is a measly 9% -- even less t
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It seems to me you're coming in with a negative preconceptions (e.g. "insipid, pandering chatbot"). What part about coding is fun for you? What part is boring? Keep the fun bits and take the boring bits and have the LLM do
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Maybe the problem with understanding the benefits of AI is that you are relying on other people to use AI properly. As the direct user myself, I don't have that problem. I'm using it to make things better rather than just produci
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> I'll have to take your word for it, I have yet to see a PR that used AI that wasn't slop. How would you know a non-slop PR didn't use AI? Why would I accept slop out of the AI? I don't. So I don't have any. I
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That question completely misunderstands what AI is for. Why would I just do it when the AI did it for me in less time that I could myself and mechanically in a way that is arguably harder for a human to do? AI is surprisingly good at iden
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I think half the people who think AI is incredibly dumb and can't understand why anyone is using it is because they're using the free samples. This whole thing is so horribly expensive that they lose money even on people who pay
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I've been posting recently how I refactored a few different code bases with the help of AI. Faster code, higher quality code, overall smaller. AI is not a hammer, it's a Lathe: incredibly powerful but only if you understand exac
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Any AI product I pay for is great. Any AI product I don't pay for is terrible.
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Comparing LLMs to NFT isn't fair. Being able to talk to you computer and have it understand you and even do the things you ask is literally StarTrek technology. I've never seen a technology so advanced be so dismissed before.
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> I use zero so-called "AI" features in my day to day life. None. Not one. I know so many people who made that same argument, if you can call it that, about smartphones. I recently listened to a podcast (probably The Verge) tal
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Raw data isn't copyrightable. You can't copyright the contents of phone book, for example.
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If the headline said "Using Python to obtain one of the rarest license plates" you wouldn't think twice.
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> rarely or never looking at the code generated. My interpretation is that you can look at the code but vibe coding means ultimately you're not writing the code, you're just prompting. It would make sense to prompt "I&#x2
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> Reading the code and actually understanding the code is not that the same thing. Ok. Let me be more specific then. I'm "understanding" the code since that's the point. > I'm unsure the AI can do the high l
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I've had similar experiences with compiled languages in one form or another throughout my career as well. I don't think JavaScript is particularly special that we need to call it out for things like TypeScript, minification, or b
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I do a lot of C++ programming and that's really over selling the issues. You don't have to read an entire book of variable initialization to do it correctly. And using STL types are a lot safer than passing pointers around. It&#
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This seems like an issue but in all my practical experience it really isn't. TypeScript becomes JavaScript with the types removed. Then you tree-shake, minify, and whatever is executed is no where near what you actually wrote but at
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I’m not saying individual programmers consciously set out to eliminate jobs, or that every programmer's work directly replaces someone. But the historical and structural reality of the profession is that software development, as a fiel
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I'll be the first to say I've abandoned a chat and started a new one to get the result I want. I don't see that as a net negative though -- that's just how you use it.
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Programmers are the last people on earth who should complain about job loss due to automation. Our entire jobs since the beginning has been automating people out of jobs and we've done a wonderful job of that for decades. Entire cl
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As I'm getting better and better results with it, I'm having it do more and more things. I went through a complete agentic refactor of a project from Angular 17 to Angular 20 (RxJS to Signals) and I'd say it did it perfectly

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