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by gjadi 4mo ago
Yup, the unpredicable nature of their unreliability is what makes it very tiresome to work with LLMs sometimes. With people, you kinda learn their strength and weakness. With LLMs I haven't yet.
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by gjadi 4mo ago
You can't talk about delegation without talking about what and who you're delegating. Delegating a demo or an exploration to a junior is fine if you can help them with feedbacks and make them grow and the business is not on the li
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by gjadi 4mo ago
Interesting as I reach a similar pov. I just started with experimenting with the following workflow with Claude Code: - get a plan for whatever I want to do, iterating in plan mode until I am satisfied with the solution - before execution,
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by gjadi 5mo ago
Except that zip does not preserve permissions.
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by gjadi 5mo ago
How is getting proof one doesn't understand going to help build safer system? I want to believe formal methods can help, not because one doesn't have to think about it, but because the time freed from writing code can be spent on
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by gjadi 6mo ago
Well, it does tell us something if they limit screen time like they limit sugar but don't limit book time. I'm sure almost no family have an upper limit on book time. Thus aiming for screens the replace books is a bad aim.
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by gjadi 6mo ago
It depends on their sleep habit, work-life requirements and compensation when they need to be on-call. When you get a fatter check because your code break, the incentives are not in favor of good code.
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by gjadi 6mo ago
Vendoring means you don't have to fetch the internet for every build, that you can work offline, that you're not at the mercy of the oh-so-close-99.999 availability, that it will keep on working in 10 years, and probably other adv
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by gjadi 6mo ago
“The doers are the major thinkers. The people that really create the things that change this industry are both the thinker and doer in one person.” Steve Jobs Now, what are doers in the age of LLM is another question.
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by gjadi 6mo ago
Because people only quote it partially. > We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%.
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by gjadi 7mo ago
The maintainer explained the reasoning for closing the issue quite well in a comment.
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by gjadi 7mo ago
There is always more money elsewhere. But once you have a home, enough to raise your family and save for later, when is enough enough? And is the work fun? Fulfilling? Money is a mean to an end. Sure you can aim to earn enough to get FIRE a
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by gjadi 7mo ago
Not everyone is motivated by the highest wage they can get. Good enough can be good enough and then aim for fun/interesting/challenging/fulfilling work instead of a fatter check.
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by gjadi 8mo ago
IMHO, the real problem is that they create an even greater dissonance between online life and IRL. Think about dating apps, pictures could be fake, and now words exchanged can be fake too. You thought you were arguing with a gentle and smar
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by gjadi 8mo ago
This. For me, navigating with shortcuts feels like I can keep my inner monologue, it is part of it, maybe because I can spell it? Dunno, but reaching for the mouse and navigating around breaks that, even if it can be more convenient for som
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by gjadi 8mo ago
My gut feeling is that, without wrestling with data structures at least once (e.g. during a course), then that knowledge about complexity will be cargo cult. When it comes to fundamentals, I think it's still worth the investment. To pa
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by gjadi 8mo ago
Interesting argument. But isn't the corrections of those errors that are valuable to society and get us a job? People can tell they found a bug or give a description about what they want from a software, yet it requires skills to fix t
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by gjadi 8mo ago
It's ego won't get in the way but it's lack of intelligence will. Whereas a junior might be reluctant at first, but if they are smart they will learn and get better. So maybe LLM are better than not-so-smart people, but you u
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by gjadi 8mo ago
It's like pot. Back in the day, it was much less concentrated and less dangerous than what you can get today.
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by gjadi 8mo ago
It's much easier to forbid something to a subset of the population than to the population at large.
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by gjadi 8mo ago
Imho it's because you worked before asking the LLM for input, thus you already have information and an opinion about what the code should look like. You can recognize good suggestions and quickly discard bad ones. It's like readin
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by gjadi 8mo ago
Have this shortcomings of llms been addressed by better models or by better integration with other tools? Like, are they better at coding because the models are truly better or because the agentic loops are better designed?
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Systems design 3: LLMs and the semantic revolution(apenwarr.ca)
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by gjadi 8mo ago
I agree with the excel thing. Not with thinking it can't happen with vibecoded python. I think handling sensitive data should be done by professional. A lawyer handles contracts, a doctor handles health issue and a programmer handles d
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by gjadi 8mo ago
Sure, but then I rely on an actual expert. My issue is, LLM fooled me more than a couple of times with stupid but difficult to notice bugs. At that point, I have hard time to trust them (but keep trying with some stuff). If I asked someone
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by gjadi 8mo ago
But with a software bug, the error becomes rapidly widespread and systematic, whereas human error are often not. Doing wrong with a couple of prescription because the doc worked for 12+ hrs is different from systematically doing wrong on a
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by gjadi 8mo ago
IME I don't learn by reading or watching, only by wrestling with a problem. ATM, I will only do it if the problem does not feel worth learning about (like jenkinsfile, gradle scripting). But yes, the bench result will tell something tr
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by gjadi 8mo ago
Ok. I also have the intuition that more tests and formal specifications can help there. So far, my biggest issue is, when the code produced is incorrect, with a subtle bug, then I just feel I have wasted time to prompt for something I shoul
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by gjadi 8mo ago
I don't want my doctor to vibe script some conversion only to realize weeks or months later it made a subtle error in my prescription. I want both of them to have enough fund to hire someone to do it properly. But wanting is not enoug
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by gjadi 8mo ago
When you don't know the answer to a question you ask an LLM, do you verify it or do you trust it? Like, if it tells you merge sort is better on that particular problem, do you trust it or do you go through an analysis to confirm it rea

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