Thanemate

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by Thanemate 3d ago
>No, software engineering is fundamentally changed because of AI. No amount of digging our heads in the sand is going to undo that. Yet anyone who claims that fails to procure sufficient evidence or instruction on how exactly training th
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by Thanemate 6d ago
Absolutely Utopic (for the AI owners).
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by Thanemate 17d ago
But not all members of society are treated like a symbol whose behavior and manners we ought to revere and draw inspiration from. In such scenarios, pointing out that they were flawed is to humanize them. It's clear that there was some
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by Thanemate 19d ago
I recently decided to use my google calendar to track my mood, as part of my CBT therapy. What baffles me is that, there's no way in the web app to assign a default calendar for new events. When I create a new event on the web, I have
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by Thanemate 1mo ago
OR new languages and frameworks ever again, since they'll slow down code generation due to lack of training, and from LLM generation standpoint this is a terrible thing to trade off.
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by Thanemate 1mo ago
What OP said is an insult to first year philosophy students who try too hard to sound smarter than everyone else. You're reading too much into it.
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by Thanemate 1mo ago
I once uploaded a 700 pages book and quizzed chatGPT strictly on its contents. It answered somewhere between 60-90% across 6 quizzes. This was 2 months ago. Those quizzes were fact checking statements, not even problem solving. I'd be
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by Thanemate 1mo ago
We're basically at the point where people can build their own "X", with "X" being internal tooling.
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by Thanemate 1mo ago
Relevant: I'm just sad that most turn-based JRPG's nowadays start off with you thinking about which move is appropriate for each situation, but halfway through they end up to making you use the same 3-4 moves over and over again.
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by Thanemate 1mo ago
>Unfortunately, as the industry grew, all the wrong personalities entered it. Project managers, product managers, scrum/agile masters, terrible mid level managers, talentless clowns, bozos, cheerleaders, jocks. The lot of them. The
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by Thanemate 1mo ago
>I love chatting with the bots as they can build the thing I want, how I want it, much faster than I could. The output still feels mine. Maybe not line by line, but definitely architecturally. The output, in my case, feels just as mine a
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by Thanemate 1mo ago
>I’m not sure how people get joy out of constantly vibe coding new projects. It feels like binge watching Netflix shows. It's just power fantasy. It's amazing the first couple of times but as it wears off and becomes the new no
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by Thanemate 1mo ago
My annoyance with Zed is the inability to disable the "collaboration/multiplayer" functionality, so much that I'd rather just use VS Code.
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by Thanemate 1mo ago
Last Christmas I caught our municipality (I'm from Greece) posting announcements about Christmas events on brochures that were choke full of obvious AI-generated images with Santa Claus, deer, trees, etc. and my first reaction was wond
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by Thanemate 1mo ago
>In fact it is kind of stupid to insist someone slavishly draw something by hand that could have been done an easier way. Communicating low effort used to be insulting to the consumer, yet now I'm expected to praise it? I understand
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by Thanemate 1mo ago
>Plenty of people are making money from AI? Is the amount of people making money from AI greater than the amount of people who lose money from AI? Is maximizing prosperity across humanity even a goal, at this point? Am I to be expected t
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by Thanemate 1mo ago
The LLM industry is deliberately consuming human expertise on a grand scale, so that eventually knowledge work is delegated to any machine, yet I have to gain some sense of comfort knowing that for the present point in time it still rewards
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by Thanemate 1mo ago
At the beginning of my professional journey I was coding along youtube tutorials to learn, and I can tell you for a fact that all writing reinforces is syntax, which is reinforced regardless when you build your own projects while you develo
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by Thanemate 1mo ago
My counterpoint to that is, you never know when the factuality of its analysis is mistaken because you're making it the point of authority over knowledge you should be working to acquiring. In math classes back at school, it didn'
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by Thanemate 2mo ago
>There's no one single way to use it The fact that people jump on the "you're simply using it wrong" wagon in every HN comment section whenever someone shares their negative/neutral experience with it implies oth
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by Thanemate 2mo ago
>but the customer will almost certainly let you know when this happens The customer won't be able to tell you "you're going too fast", but he will tell you that stuff break. On top of that, because the rate of shippin
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by Thanemate 2mo ago
>I think the biggest realization to me of this whole thing is that most people don't want to turn off their brains. I think there's a sample bias that affects this perception.
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by Thanemate 2mo ago
AI is here to stay. Embrace the future of to-be-summarized-by-another-LLM content.
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by Thanemate 2mo ago
Checking all the past "what are you working on?" threads just to realize that, somewhere in August 2024 stuff just exploded and the average thread goes reached ~1000 messages, from ~50 pre-August.
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by Thanemate 2mo ago
>The people are confused, it's a fact. So it is confusing. Stop gaslighting people. I don't think this sort of aggression is warranted, as the fact that I find something confusing doesn't directly imply an intrinsic featur
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by Thanemate 2mo ago
>As for actual coding… LLMs will always do better work in a well known stable language than something relatively new. Say that louder for the people in the back, who still think that LLM companies don't influence the entire programm
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by Thanemate 2mo ago
The moment technical decisions are influenced by LLM compatibility and LLM performance, they basically are. Remember the days where teams would adopt technologies based on how familiar the members are with them? "Now that the AI is her
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by Thanemate 2mo ago
But we can't have that experience when we deem the experience acquisition as sub-optimal to the grand scheme of things, which is to produce software.
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by Thanemate 2mo ago
I can't enjoy life with my people if I can't eat, drink, and have a roof over my head.
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by Thanemate 2mo ago
>Because AI represents the distillation of the very best human knowledge and expertise. AI is compression of human capabilities, the very best ones. I'm confused if this is satire, sarcasm, or genuine belief. If this was the case, t

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