bendmorris

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by bendmorris 26d ago
This study seems to have proven the opposite. Doing the work without AI resulted in higher exam scores.
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by bendmorris 26d ago
You also have your book and a wealth of online resources, which also don't require interacting with someone, and which have the same information the AI is trained on. Fundamentally nothing is different. We don't see positive outco
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by bendmorris 1mo ago
>For most uses the truck is better than the horse. I think you're talking past the author here, who says: >By not leaning into LLMs I’ve given myself the room to specialise in a smaller set of skills. So far that conscious decisi
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by bendmorris 1mo ago
It is absolutely not the em dashes that make it read like slop and the author even acknowledges it.
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by bendmorris 1mo ago
The "contributor poker" made by someone on the Zig core team is a good one. You're thinking from the perspective like yourself and how they might be affected negatively by this policy. The org is thinking about what's ha
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by bendmorris 1mo ago
LOC is not a good indicator of productivity or quality - or it anything these days it's a negative one. "Million-line software" is meaningless.
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by bendmorris 2mo ago
What kind of evidence do you expect beyond "random claims" here? This post is incredibly obviously AI generated, to the extent that I doubt a human author edited it at all. Not "written with AI assistance" but full on &q
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by bendmorris 2mo ago
The Phoronix article contains no more information than his resignation email.
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by bendmorris 2mo ago
They also complained about build times, and in fact the Rust rewrite started immediately after some other drama about Bun being unable to contribute back LLM-written changes to the Zig compiler to improve build times, and the Zig team rej
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by bendmorris 2mo ago
As a comparison point, someone decided to try to fix the issues in the Zig original and is now claiming sub-second build times, plus fixed bugs, by modernizing the codebase and sticking with best practices - indicating that all of the issue
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by bendmorris 2mo ago
You're not making all the decisions in that case. You're making approvals and steering but the agent is making decisions and is framing what is even available to you to approve. When you build something by hand, you make decisions
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by bendmorris 3mo ago
Reverse centaur means a machine is using you to get things done. Presumably at the other end of the ticketing system is other people. So not really the same thing at all.
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by bendmorris 4mo ago
Kids fresh out of college with crippling student debt and no jobs should just buy increasingly expensive GPUs capable of running the best local models. Well done, problem solved.
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by bendmorris 4mo ago
They claim to have made the Zig compiler faster, which is disputed. Even if true that wouldn't make it inadequate without their changes.
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by bendmorris 4mo ago
Why in five years? Where are these hyper productive small companies running laps around bigger ones right now?
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by bendmorris 4mo ago
They don't have to do that at all. They could've used mainline Zig, without their vibe coded changes to it.
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by bendmorris 4mo ago
You don't have to agree to treat people with respect. Using someone's preferred pronouns doesn't hurt you.
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by bendmorris 5mo ago
Believing in the capabilities of _upcoming_ LLMs that you have never actually used shows that you buy into marketing and hype very easily. No one really knows what the future will look like and there's an equally plausible one where po
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by bendmorris 5mo ago
To answer "what better way," clearly using the skills regularly is much better. Letting them atrophy for potentially multiple years and then trying to resurrect them repeatedly doesn't seem like a recipe for maintaining sharp
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by bendmorris 6mo ago
I think you should be very picky about generated PRs not as an act of sabotage but because very obviously generated ones tend to balloon complexity of the code in ways that makes it difficult for both humans and agents, and because superfic
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by bendmorris 6mo ago
It's disappointing that this is clearly being downvoted due to disagreement - it's a valid perspective. We have very little evidence of the overall impact of aggressively generating code "in the wild" and plenty of bad e
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by bendmorris 7mo ago
>Here are some well known names who are now saying they regularly use LLM's for development. For many of these folks, that wasn't true 1-2 years ago: This is a huge overstatement that isn't supported by your own links. - D
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by bendmorris 7mo ago
You're going to get a lot of "skill issue" comments but your experience basically matches mine. I've only found LLMs to be useful for quick demos where I explicitly didn't care about the quality of implementation. F
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by bendmorris 7mo ago
>It should've been a lot shorter Honestly I don't think so. An essay like this is more than just content, it's an experience for the reader. I value the time I got to spend with it and feel I came way with value that a sum
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by bendmorris 7mo ago
This a hilariously ironic parallel to the debate over whether code is an art or a science, referenced right in the article. It can be both.
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by bendmorris 7mo ago
>I had actually just been told by management this last week that I need to become AI 'fluent' as part of future performance evaluations and I have been deeply conflicted about it. I hear this and FWIW, if there aren't very
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by bendmorris 7mo ago
>The rent-a-brain aspect is more acutely alarming. And I will be blunt here: It sure does seem like the prolonged use of LLMs can reliably turn certain people’s minds into mush... >Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: “After [howe
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by bendmorris 7mo ago
I think throwaway use cases have very different requirements than products we expect to maintain and need to be treated differently. Go nuts with AI to generate a chart or a one off tool or whatever, if you don't care about deepening y
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by bendmorris 7mo ago
Someone taking over a project and working directly in it can build up their own deep understanding about it over time even if they didn't write it all. Documentation from the last expert can help, or just reading and changing things as
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by bendmorris 7mo ago
>Heck, I often don't remember anything about code I wrote six months ago. It might as well have been written by someone else. This just isn't true at all in my experience. Do I remember every detail of code I haven't looke

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