JCTheDenthog

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by JCTheDenthog 3mo ago
Poe's law is making it hard to tell if your comment is sarcasm or AI-induced psychosis.
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by JCTheDenthog 3mo ago
>I’m curious if that matters if humans are never going to even read this code? If by never even read you don't include attaching a debugger to solve an issue. 1,000 global mutable variables would make debugging anything an absolute
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by JCTheDenthog 3mo ago
Thanks!
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by JCTheDenthog 3mo ago
Got any specific examples? I believe you, I'd just like some concrete examples to show my coworkers.
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by JCTheDenthog 3mo ago
>Dude, stop with “slop”. No. It's a useful term, just like "clickbait" was 10 to 15 years ago (and still is). Trying to police other people calling it slop is reminiscent of Microsoft autobanning anyone using the term &quo
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by JCTheDenthog 3mo ago
>I hear a lot of complaints about bun but nothing concrete about what broke in the migration. Because it hasn't been released yet (at least not outside of some unstable branches). You can find some criticism of the actual slop here
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by JCTheDenthog 3mo ago
Given that even the unsafe audit article appears to be written by AI that doesn't seem like much thought to me.
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by JCTheDenthog 3mo ago
Given that LLMs are capable of generating code from open source projects verbatim (and entire books like Harry Potter verbatim) and no one gives a damn it seems like copyright is essentially a dead letter, legally speaking at least And the
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by JCTheDenthog 3mo ago
Assuming it all works 50k scanners running nonstop at 60 seconds a scan is 2.1 billion scans a month. Assuming they aren't lying/exaggerating about anything, and assuming there is no downtime/setup/etc. in between. In ot
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by JCTheDenthog 3mo ago
>Actually good quality stuff is more affordable than ever. People just don't want to pay for quality and things that last. You might want to read *A Market for Lemons".
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by JCTheDenthog 3mo ago
For me, the painful banging my head against the wall to figure something out is usually the most rewarding sort of learning experience.
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by JCTheDenthog 3mo ago
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/why-most-roms-are-illegal,... https://answers.justia.com/question/2025/08/04/is-downloadin... https://www.howtogeek.com/262758&#x2F
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by JCTheDenthog 3mo ago
>citing that it's illegal even though I own the games In the. US at least it is actually illegal to download ISOs/roms of games, even if you own a physical copy. It's a stupid law and as a downloader (as opposed to the peo
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by JCTheDenthog 3mo ago
Libraries like Guidance guarantee that the output of an LLM will be syntactically correct (i.e. it will be valid JSON or whatever output format you are wanting). They do not , and fundamentally cannot guarantee that the data contained in
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by JCTheDenthog 3mo ago
>rather than giving it in a well-specified and tested form So, code?
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by JCTheDenthog 3mo ago
At my employer (megacorp with tens of thousands of employees) daily use is mandated. Our annual bonuses and pay raises for our performance reviews were explicitly tied to this.
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by JCTheDenthog 3mo ago
How much of that use is driven by corporate mandates to use AI anywhere and everywhere (even when it's a terrible fit)?
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by JCTheDenthog 3mo ago
Or just write it yourself?
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by JCTheDenthog 3mo ago
>Aren’t human coders non-deterministic? Sure, but LLMs are non-deterministic in ways that no sane human ever would be . See the "Is it better to drive or walk to the carwash" scenario from a few months ago as one of many, many
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by JCTheDenthog 3mo ago
>what "sense of rigour"? it's way too soon to put those rose-tinted glasses on. I don't think OP is claiming that prior to LLM coding everything in the software development world was super rigorous (I assume that&#x27
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by JCTheDenthog 3mo ago
Then why did it take Anthropic over a year just to fix the flickering issue in one of their main products when they have internal access to the latest and greatest models?
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by JCTheDenthog 3mo ago
I think we're going to see a big scramble to pick up the pieces in a few years when a bunch of vibe-slopped houses of cards come crashing down. I imagine it will be like the demand for COBOL developers but on a much more massive scale.
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by JCTheDenthog 3mo ago
>All else being equal, and assuming you are building the right thing, being able to deliver more correct lines of code is a good thing. Why? If you can deliver the same thing in fewer correct lines of code wouldn't that be preferabl
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by JCTheDenthog 3mo ago
The entire Linux kernel is about 40 million LoC, and only something like 16 million LoC after you remove drivers. I have a hard time imagining whatever OpenAI was talking about there having anywhere close to 6% as much utility as the Linux
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by JCTheDenthog 3mo ago
>If this works and passes all of the tests Only if the existing tests were actually useful in what they tested and covered.
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by JCTheDenthog 3mo ago
I'm not expecting them to know it ahead of time, I'm expecting them to understand it when it is explained to them.
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by JCTheDenthog 3mo ago
Seeing as my Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Mexican, French Canadian, and Brazilian coworkers don't seem to have these issues with me I don't think the issue is with my explanations.
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by JCTheDenthog 3mo ago
>What if I'm hiring someone specifically to work at a Spanish language news outlet? Having actually worked at a Spanish language news outlet before (1 of 4 tv and radio stations in the office I was doing IT help desk work in), I can
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by JCTheDenthog 3mo ago
>There are much simpler mechanisms to making that would make the enforcement mechanism more effective without destroying the economy, like prioritizing them by salary instead of randomly. The Trump admin already did that too: https:&#x2
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by JCTheDenthog 3mo ago
Rigorous examinations for English fluency and for competency in their alleged field of expertise would be a good start. I have several H1B coworkers in the US who barely speak intelligible English, and who barely understand normal conversat

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