botfriendsarent

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by botfriendsarent 3mo ago
The simple version is, when typing was a job, people put IBM selectrics in their homes to signal they were economically viable. Then Bill G said you wont have a job if you dont learn MS word so people put PCs in their homes. All we have eve
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by botfriendsarent 3mo ago
I think this is a fair and normal reaction to AI slop. Alot of work though. I think OSS projects are at serious risk of implosion due to the vigilance required which honestly may end up being a fool's errand anyway. But maybe we are
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by botfriendsarent 3mo ago
I had a friend back in the 90s who referred to his desktop computer as "his mainframe" lol
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by botfriendsarent 3mo ago
This "home lab" stuff is kind of nice hobbyist talk. I wish we had fancy words like that back in the 80s. Technology has come along way. But I think that in tech we should be careful to not fall prey to monkey see monkey do. We s
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by botfriendsarent 3mo ago
Dude! Give me some stolen science!
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by botfriendsarent 3mo ago
I tried it all it said was "Hot or not?" before it crashed
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by botfriendsarent 3mo ago
Sonnet 5 OUCH! every model is just loaded with more hurt, stolen content, BS prompts, more scare tactics, more illusions, more government lobbying, less honesty. Oh Claude you master of software engineering does it ever end? DO you have no
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by botfriendsarent 3mo ago
Sounds suspiciously similar to the "album title", "Steal this album" by system of a down. Im not sure why we are dithering on the boundaries of honesty when the entire content LLMs are trained on is stolen. Are we debati
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by botfriendsarent 3mo ago
This is what I also do not just in JS but also in other languages. But I write the schemas. And I dont use TS. Im glad Im not the only one. The OP post gave me a serious headache trying to read it. Parse and Validate are not binary choice
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by botfriendsarent 3mo ago
What if they sent out a hit squad to your house?
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by botfriendsarent 3mo ago
At what point though doesnt somebody stand back and say "wow, thats really dumb!" I think its probably more an indication of a dev having too much time on their hands rather than being in a hurry.
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by botfriendsarent 3mo ago
I actually dont see AOP ever coming back. Primarily because its authors were modeling smalltalk which ironically didnt even need AOP. At first it hooks you these cross cutting concerns, but then you realize it handled better as a simple dep
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by botfriendsarent 3mo ago
More useful than a working accounting system? Because of the disaster of screen resolutions, mobile form factors and all the previous dishonesty inherent in the past 30 years of software development? That must be really useful. The machines
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by botfriendsarent 3mo ago
You are right about being cynical about media. But you didnt grow up reading BYTE magazine.
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We need tech news sources which exclude AI
141 points by botfriendsarent 3mo ago|81 comments