borzi

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by borzi 4d ago
So, so tired of these doom posts. Almost always these feel like they are from developers that felt like they were superior to others because of their ability to code or simply identified too deeply with writing code instead of solving pro
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by borzi 6d ago
Why? AI is enriching my life and letting me focus on solving hard problems. I don't believe in the sentience crap and am just using it at face value for what it is, a useful productivity tool. Every software developer's main purpo
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by borzi 7d ago
No, no, you don't get it - soon Joe Sixpack will be prompting AGI "solve me {super difficult problem researchers couldn't solved for centuries}" and releasing their own research papers!
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by borzi 13d ago
I'm a backend engineer working closely with a single frontend guy on an internal app and after creating a pr in his repo, it was immediately clear that AI can build some nice brochure sites, but UI state management, clean UX, good perf
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by borzi 15d ago
I agree that Zitron is not honest and a denialist regarding the usefulness of AI, but the "profit" chart is just completely misleading as most of these companies have made large investments in OpenAI/Anthropic and list the ga
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by borzi 15d ago
I don't believe it, this must have happened before coding was solved...
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by borzi 24d ago
Now that there are many models on par for most day to day coding tasks, I think this will prove to be a complete fallacy. If anything, since LLMs, my tolerance for bad software has gone down. Example- I'm no longer a Claude subscriber,
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by borzi 25d ago
No they are not. They are helping rip off delusional investors who think this will amount to more than slop.
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by borzi 1mo ago
How is the effort switching from an operating system containing all your data and apps, which might not be compatible with the new one, comparable to just switching an api key?
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by borzi 1mo ago
I'm assuming this happens to the people vibe coding and running 30+ agents in parallel that are "coordinating" each other. I've never seen Claude do or even suggest anything remotely dangerous when I'm just giving i
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by borzi 1mo ago
The thing is it's very hard to know where on the spectrum you should be and that is breaking many people's brain in the industry (myself included). While I believe both the deniers and singularity believers seem like irrational ex
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by borzi 1mo ago
Imagine suddenly a new taxi business was able to come into your city and provided taxi rides for 5 cents on the dollar. What would happen? Edit: now add on top of that that even if uber tried to undercut them again by running losses as they
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by borzi 1mo ago
The reason uber didn't loose that much business is because it replaced the established businesses and left most consumers with little alternative. That's not the case with AI - unless the frontier labs achieve AGI or some sort of
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by borzi 1mo ago
But nobody would be claiming that they are a chef or cooked up a novel meal, that is the point of the article.
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by borzi 1mo ago
I just started exploring this stuff with herdr, it's pretty cool! But I prefer my multiplexer having this functionality built in, as it lets me also have the agent organize my panes and tabs automatically based on what it is working on
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by borzi 1mo ago
That implies that you did more than prompt the AI and actually learned whatever activity it is you are asking the AI about, because otherwise you wouldn't know to ask those questions. A person making music solely with AI won't ask
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by borzi 2mo ago
The entire "Don't Read the Code" argument is just insane to me and ironically when you see who the people are that are advocating it, it's often the same people that talked about microservices, the latest java script fra
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by borzi 3mo ago
I'm already coding more with DeepSeek than Opus, I'm doing my part :)
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by borzi 3mo ago
And? How valuable are individual lines of code? To the author's point, I'm sure AI can translate individual sentences perfectly, but miss the nuance of communication in a bigger project or body of text. In the same vein, when was
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by borzi 4mo ago
That's why the government wants to get rid of them.
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by borzi 4mo ago
A simple browser tower defense to enjoy during your lunch break. Written in Kotlin, TeaVM has made it possible to run surprisingly complex Java games, didn't expect it! https://thefakeborzi.itch.io/tower-chess
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by borzi 4mo ago
It's not different. If you haven't already, read "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds".
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by borzi 5mo ago
Building is not any less important now, AI just highlights this fact. The software I work on is the difference between people getting paid or not, which those people consider very important - I use AI to do that by letting it improve the qu
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by borzi 5mo ago
Personal story time: for me it was falling for the indie hacker stuff near covid and realizing the same stuff. The best solo business is to pretend you are successful i.e. "I'm sitting on the beach sipping my drink while Claude is
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by borzi 6mo ago
Aaaannnnd they're out of business and it was because of slowing demand and tightening credit the whole time. Here in Europe this is not a thing, I've been hearing about such cases mostly from the US where it's clear that ther
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by borzi 7mo ago
By making them walk into the landmines and forcing them to fix it - that is how everyone became a good programmer. It's just the scope that has changed.
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by borzi 7mo ago
Yeap, and people are still forcing juniors to make small code changes when they should be learning by creating entire apps on their own, deploying them, etc. WITH a senior giving them feedback occasionally. I think people are going to take
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by borzi 7mo ago
This is 100% an issue on the side of the senior developers. Imagine saying "these juniors are useless" because you are making them work in assembly, but C has just been released. You are giving them menial work that is no longer r
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by borzi 7mo ago
> For example, to add pagination to this website, I would read the Jekyll docs, find the right plugin to install, read the sample config, and make the change. Possibly this wouldn’t work, in which case I would Google it, read more, try m
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by borzi 7mo ago
Notice how I said "coding", not "programming". Coding to me is "should I do an early return or use an if/else? Should I extract that variable into a function to make it cleaner?". It's about focusing

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