drrob

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by drrob 3mo ago
Well if he's not AI he needs to rewrite his blurb, because it sounds awful. It's so awful it might not be written by AI, as AI normally writes stuff that's sterile and soulless but precise, whereas his description is just all
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by drrob 3mo ago
You're really not missing anything I'm afraid; if you're a shit coder it'll seem like voodoo magic, if you're a good coder it's good in certain circumstances (parsing logs, interpreting debug messages, that sor
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by drrob 3mo ago
Faster? Maybe. Better? Ha. If you honestly think the code quality and perf of AI's code is better than a half-decent human engineer then you're in the wrong line of work. Or you're just an AI bot...yep, that one.
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by drrob 3mo ago
They've been trained on thousands of productivity/influencer/passive-income grift blogs that surfaced in the post '4 Hour Work Week' era, when hustle culture was born. I consumed A LOT of those blogs back then, and
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by drrob 4mo ago
And 6' is basically 6'2"...
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by drrob 4mo ago
You've not been a member here that long, so showing off stuff you've built will appear disingenuous and like you're just here to self-promote and grift. HN isn't really about that. Spend a couple of years engaging with t
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Chief economist says AI-related job losses aren't happening(techradar.com)
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by drrob 4mo ago
Indeed, I have tried this route, but for anything more than a really simple app it's just not effective enough.
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by drrob 4mo ago
I'm have a game on both app stores, built in .net Maui. It earns enough to keep a roof over my head. AI is useless when developing with Maui, as it's too new of a development framework for any AI's knowledgebase to have a clu
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by drrob 4mo ago
Fair enough.
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by drrob 4mo ago
The original Colonization.
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by drrob 4mo ago
It's a good job I wasn't being interviewed for this job, as I have not one iota of a smidge of a clue what PEFT and LORA are. And I have no idea what varieties of prompting technique there are.
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by drrob 5mo ago
Not bothering with any kind of git setup any more, I've reverted back to some good old fashioned folder snapshot backups every time I finish a new version of what I'm working on.
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by drrob 5mo ago
Nope. I removed my personal code from GitHub a few weeks ago.
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by drrob 5mo ago
Indeed, there's quite the echo-chamber of agentic encouragement going on, but the overwhelming feeling is that everyone's shilling and no one's buying.
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by drrob 5mo ago
We strictly don't use agentic development, so it's not so much a problem for us. Copying and pasting from LLMs is about the height of our AI use, aside from the AI auto-complete in Visual Studio, and any new starters are made awar
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by drrob 5mo ago
I got back into board games in about 2013, then when the pandemic came around and in-person wasn't viable we hit Board Game Arena big time for about 18 months. Online isn't as nice as in-person, but it sufficed.
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by drrob 5mo ago
As what is regarded as an 'old programmer', I wouldn't worry. AI may well be 60% faster at coding, but the quality is more like 90% worse. Like everything new, give it time: the hype will settle down, some AI companies will g
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by drrob 6mo ago
I don't really program with AI, as I find the code quality pretty poor. I use Retool for all our internal tools. I like the fact that somebody else is looking after the hosting of the dozen little one-purpose applications I've bui
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by drrob 6mo ago
Fortunately it does not. I'm in Nottinghamshire, and the only way I used to be able to do £100k round here was contracting, but the times they are a changing it seems.
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by drrob 6mo ago
The ones I see coming up repeatedly on LinkedIn are real jobs, but for places with high staff churn - Bet365 in Stoke for instance have a voracious appetite for recruiting System Development Managers, mainly because they can't get anyo
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by drrob 6mo ago
In the UK tech hiring is fairly buoyant at the moment, and the salaries being offered have got some long-needed growth (over this last year we've begun seeing 6 figure senior developer jobs in the east midlands, whereas a couple of yea
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by drrob 6mo ago
I think I'm doing just fine, thanks for your concern.
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by drrob 6mo ago
The most recent logic I tried getting it to code for me was to make me some recursive C# functions to reverse navigate a node map (a Microsoft Project plan with various feeding chains) to calculate all possible paths, and return them as a l
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by drrob 6mo ago
They're still pretty dreadful. They're better than I was at 21, so I'd say they're good for graduate level, but nothing beyond that.
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by drrob 6mo ago
Thanks ChatGpt.
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by drrob 6mo ago
I find it writes them like a boring neighbour who hasn't talked to anyone for a few days; it just seems to reiterate the same thing three times, worded slightly differently, but not adding anything extra with each sentence, like there&
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by drrob 6mo ago
My least favourite part of the auto complete is how wordy the comments it wants to create are. I never use the comments it suggests.
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by drrob 6mo ago
I've only recently begun using copilot auto-complete in Visual Studio using Claude (doing C# development/maintenance of three SaaS products). I've been a coder since 1999. The suggestions are correct about 40% of the time, so
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by drrob 1y ago
Micro Men. British film about the beginnings of Spectrum and Acorn.

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