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by brokencode 8mo ago
I’m hoping they add better IDE integration to track active file and selection. That’s the biggest annoyance I have in working with Codex.
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by brokencode 8mo ago
Idk, I feel like these coding assistant features aren’t that hard to add, but can provide a lot of value to developers. Most or all popular IDEs now support similar features. I don’t disagree that Apple could use a major focus on bug fixing
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by brokencode 8mo ago
At least Elon Musk didn’t end up getting it, which he tried before Google swooped in.
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by brokencode 8mo ago
It’s just the easiest metric to measure progress. Measuring real progress in terms of meeting user needs with high quality is a lot harder.
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by brokencode 8mo ago
Every line of code is technical debt. Some of the hardest projects I’ve ever worked on involved deleting as much code as I wrote.
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by brokencode 8mo ago
Yes, but when does Claude have the opportunity to kill children? Is it really something that happens? Where is the risk to Anthropic there? On the other hand, no brand wants to be associated with CSAM. Even setting aside the morality and le
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by brokencode 8mo ago
You are not disproving my point. You are just repeating that you don’t want to try to learn how you can actually use AI tools to help you work, but yet you still want to complain online that they are a waste of time and money.
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by brokencode 8mo ago
GitHub Copilot has a free tier as well. The $20/month one gives you much better models though. All I’m saying is that the vast majority of people who say that AI dev tools don’t work and are a waste of time/money don’t know how an
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by brokencode 8mo ago
Who cares if it’s better in 6 months if you find it useful today? And I reject that anything you learn today will be invalid. It’ll be a base of knowledge that will help you understand and adopt new tools.
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by brokencode 8mo ago
You are exposing your lack of learning how to use the tools. Tools like GitHub copilot can access the CLI. It can look up commands for you. Whatever you do in the terminal, it can do. You can encode common instructions and info in AGENTS.md
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by brokencode 8mo ago
So using something once or twice is plenty to give it a fair shake? How long did it take to learn how to use your first IDE effectively? Or git? Or basically any other tool that is the bedrock of software engineering. AI fools people into t
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by brokencode 8mo ago
Oh well that’s a good problem to have, isn’t it? Siri being so good that they don’t want to mess it up. That gives them plenty of runway to test and optimize new models internally before release and not feel like they need to rush them out
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by brokencode 8mo ago
I’m not so sure. Just think about coding assistants with MCP based tools. I can use multiple different models in GitHub Copilot and get good results with similarly capable models. Siri’s functionality and OS integration could be exposed in
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by brokencode 8mo ago
Email seems like not only a pretty terrible training data set, since most of it is marketing spam with dubious value, but also an invasion of privacy, since information could possibly leak about individuals via the model.
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by brokencode 8mo ago
Hotdogs are obviously bad, but beans are good. They are packed with fiber and protein. Of course, your typical can of Bush’s baked beans is loaded with added sugar. Gotta get the kind that doesn’t have added sugar.
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by brokencode 9mo ago
Plus, every major battery and car company is chasing solid state battery technology as the holy grail. And lots of startups.
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by brokencode 9mo ago
Then it’d be time for round two of antitrust, and I doubt the judge and regulators would feel so understanding about Google keeping Chrome if that is the landscape.
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by brokencode 9mo ago
Also because they know what happened to Microsoft when they did that with IE.
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by brokencode 9mo ago
Opinions vary. There are those who think massive concentration of wealth is not a problem at all and is just a product of healthy capitalism. Tax is theft, and individual property rights are above all else. There are others who want some ki
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by brokencode 9mo ago
Wealth inevitably concentrates in the hands of the elite no matter the economic conditions. There are plenty of failed states where all the wealth ended up in the hands of warlords and dictators. It’s something that regularly has to be deal
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by brokencode 9mo ago
People would have paid it if it was actually significantly better. It was a huge cost increase for a pretty minor performance increase.
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by brokencode 9mo ago
That just means their pretraining data set was older. You can train as many models as you want on the same data. I’m sure all these AI labs have extensive data gathering, cleanup, and validation processes for new data they train the model o
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by brokencode 9mo ago
For a major revamp, you should either do it or not do it. Making it opt-in or even opt-out means every app then has to try to support both different UIs, which is a longterm maintenance cost. Not only for Apple, but the entire ecosystem. I
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by brokencode 9mo ago
I’ve never heard someone describe the aluminum body as bad.. what do you not like about it? The number one benefit is the Apple Silicon processors, which are incredibly efficient. Then it’s the trackpad, keyboard and overall build quality f
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by brokencode 9mo ago
Only if you’re sensitive to that flicker, which most aren’t. Otherwise they’re pretty great.
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by brokencode 9mo ago
Just curious in case somebody knows. Are OLED displays in laptops bad at low light? He cites that as a reason he doesn’t want OLED, but I’ve never noticed such a problem on OLED phones.
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by brokencode 9mo ago
I’m really hoping Steam Deck keeps on pushing game makers to support Linux. It’s really gotten a lot better, except for competitive games that need most types of anti-cheat. If Linux supported all the games I wanted to play, I would ditch W
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by brokencode 9mo ago
I ran Linux on my laptop in college over a decade ago and it worked great. It just depends on application compatibility and to a smaller extent driver support, though that shouldn’t be a problem for an older laptop.
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by brokencode 9mo ago
Google has a separate browser for AI features? Gemini has just shown up in Chrome for me. It’s of course a mess and a mad rush for market share right now. That’s just a product of a healthy, competitive market. I agree that I’d rather have
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by brokencode 9mo ago
I’m fine with an extension personally. And I don’t use Firefox to begin with, so I don’t particularly care what they do. I just think the average browser user in 5-10 years will expect the AI features. And plenty of others won’t want to use

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