dexwiz

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by dexwiz 15d ago
Profit in video games as an industry is largely the gambling industry hiding under the another umbrella. I'm not even talking about loot boxes. Just old school gambling games like roulette and slot machines but in a digital format. Onc
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by dexwiz 18d ago
Pandemic really ramped it up. Also screen addiction has gone mainstream. In front of a screen 12+ hours a day 20 years ago? Total nerd. Now? Standard behavior.
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by dexwiz 28d ago
It's not the same, and there is no going back. We moved another layer up in the abstraction stack, but this shift feels fundamentally different. I wonder if the people who enjoy the purely agentic version would also enjoy management. P
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by dexwiz 29d ago
I think running a model unsupervised in anything above medium is a sucker move to burn more tokens. The high effort models can be great in limited context, but unsupervised they too often end up navel gazing. High doesn't always mean s
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by dexwiz 1mo ago
Does anyone else hate reading AI summaries of code? Code can be pithy, but at least its terse compared to prose. When you add how verbose LLMs can be, I often end up reading a paragraph to explain a few lines. Or the opposite happens where
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by dexwiz 1mo ago
How can you sanely project the last 12 months forward? We have seen a huge uptick in usage. Last summer AI was a toy to most devs, now every enterprise developer I talked to uses it every day. Coding agent providers are surely going to hit
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by dexwiz 2mo ago
I think a better term would be bridle, but most people don't know it. But they do put harnesses on their kids and pets.
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by dexwiz 3mo ago
Anyone I talked to who actually built software found them to be bunk. Occasionally they work, but mostly they just burn tokens. The only people I know still hyped on this approach were managers who were detached from actual engineering, pri
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by dexwiz 3mo ago
You missed the crypto hype by a few years. Also zit is slang for a pimple or acne. Not a great name.
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by dexwiz 3mo ago
So that puts them in the middle? For such a massive state, regression to the median sounds likely.
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by dexwiz 4mo ago
Bold claims with no examples. Anyone can make a markdown chart with some pros and cons. Description by comparison is weak.
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by dexwiz 4mo ago
Great, more RTO mandates.
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by dexwiz 4mo ago
Because these data centers put enormous pressure on local utilities, pay 0 dollars back into the local economy, and get tax breaks. Often they are facilitated by backroom deals with local politicians. This plays both into anxieties surround
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by dexwiz 4mo ago
Files became an implementation detail.
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by dexwiz 4mo ago
Because we value leadership over craftsmanship. Ever since people like Ford showed that it was not individual skills but optimized systems that make the biggest corporate machines with the most potential for profit, we have prioritized one
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by dexwiz 4mo ago
Does it do anything novel? Looks the same as any other basic stock ticker app. Most of the popular ones are made by companies with massive marketing budgets.
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by dexwiz 4mo ago
We had a private network on campus circa 2010. Streaming was up and coming but not huge. Gnutella was great on the gigabit intranet. You could download entire HD movies in minutes where conventional torrents may be hours.
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by dexwiz 4mo ago
I would rather see MS Paint art like Slay the Spire than ai slop art. I think you could have done ai art for a demo but it's so obviously ai, it immediately turned me off. And may turn others off too.
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by dexwiz 4mo ago
Bleh AI card art. One of the best part of card games is the ability to showcase high quality illustrators.
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by dexwiz 4mo ago
Hosting and public are different. This measure is like saying unless you are painting public murals you haven't made real art. The take is just so wrong it's hard to know where to start.
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by dexwiz 4mo ago
I build stuff that people use every day (judging by the flood of tickets I'll get if I ship a bug), but my public github profile looks like a ghost account. 99% of what I build is proprietary, and is either in a private or self hosted
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by dexwiz 5mo ago
Prompt engineering is mostly structured thought. Can you write a lab report? Can you describe the who, what, when, where, and why of a problem and its solution? You can get it to work with one off commands or specific instructions, but I th
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by dexwiz 5mo ago
Where ya headed?
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by dexwiz 5mo ago
Rules for thee but not for me.
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by dexwiz 5mo ago
Maybe? This seems to be more aimed at procrastination. Making map or a tool is still doing a thing, just not the thing.
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by dexwiz 5mo ago
There should be a saying like "A tool is not the task" similar to "A map is not the land." As professional tool makers it can be easy to replace the task with a tool in theory, but that's not reality. In a similar v
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by dexwiz 6mo ago
Because many people run on policies and then just don't follow up. Trump ran on "no more wars" and then started a war. Most people have such a team mindset they will choose denial over admitted they were duped, and then do it
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by dexwiz 6mo ago
Because our government is not run for the workers but the owners. Full stop.
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by dexwiz 6mo ago
Sometimes people just need something else to tell them their ideas are valid. Validation is a core principle of therapeutic care. Procrastination is tightly linked to fear of a negative outcome. LLMs can help with both of these. They can va
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by dexwiz 6mo ago
This assumes you wake up and are given liberties. There are much worse fates. Waking up and owing your life to the company forever is pretty awful. Worse even is never truly waking up but instead being replicated and turned into the brain f

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