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by ipsod 6d ago
Nah. I've committed over a million LOC in the past 4 months, discounting personal projects. LOC is a fuzzy measure that doesn't tell much, but, it's easier to mention that than to describe the details of my work.
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by ipsod 6d ago
I'm pretty confident that, presently, with AI, I get more done than I could with 5x hours, but less than I could with 20x hours, and 10's a nice round number.
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by ipsod 6d ago
I'm not defending AI, I'm attacking your logic.
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by ipsod 6d ago
A team of programmers is "worse" than their best member. Worse quality of code, worse thinking. You can usually get more done with a lot of mediocre hours of work than a few brilliant hours, though. AI I've used isn't
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by ipsod 6d ago
No. RoR lets you build a certain class of web apps faster. AI lets you build almost anything faster.
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by ipsod 6d ago
That's a hot take. AI has fundamentally shifted things. Start-ups can start up 10x faster, and HN is start-up flavored. If people quit talking about AI, it'll be because it's become foundational infrastructure, so it's
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by ipsod 6d ago
Nobody knew that LLM's were an option. The architecture was basically waiting there for someone to say, "do that, but turn it up to 11," if I understand right.
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by ipsod 7d ago
Is the alternative is to give the power directly to the powerful? Not only will they hold the guns, but they decide what the markets will bear - often-enough with food for the poor becoming optional, if history has any lessons. Which non-c
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by ipsod 11d ago
I think it might be like, a praise of inanity.
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by ipsod 13d ago
That's what I do. Both for this reason, and because I don't want to log into my personal gmail on work devices. I don't necessarily feel safe, though, and have moved my important stuff off of gmail.
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by ipsod 14d ago
Because it says it more often than kids say "six seven".
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by ipsod 15d ago
Not only do they have access to the hardware - they've been developing it in-house for years.
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by ipsod 15d ago
Gemini Flash is the one I get most excited about, because it's so fast and so good at real-world knowledge, and it's improving so fast - look at how much the benchmarks improved in ~1 month. It's just categorically differe
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by ipsod 15d ago
I haven't had any issues lately.
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by ipsod 15d ago
They've been my bet to win the AI race for a while. I was starting to doubt, but this 3.6, 3.7, and 3.8 arc has anchored me.
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by ipsod 15d ago
3.5 pro doesn't exist yet?
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by ipsod 15d ago
IDK if it's smaller, but I know it's way faster. In one test I did, Flash 3.7 high was ~9.4x faster than Luna High. But, also... Sol crushes Flash 3.7 at writing code in a codebase of any size beyond "tiny". Flash is
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by ipsod 15d ago
> This is of course important for protecting you. Well, that's very kind of them. I am constantly impressed at the kindness of our governments, and the recent growth of that kindness. I guess that, with all of the power that moder
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by ipsod 15d ago
Do you find the variety helps? I've migrated away from such complexity, and I simply have multiple agents of the same model run the same prompt (usually Sol 5.6 high or max), and generally this gives plenty of adversarial input. I&#x
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by ipsod 15d ago
You generally don't even have to convince it, or at least I don't. I just paste the error into the prompt window, and say "you got blocked, try again", and it'll just say, "Oh, that's because ...", t
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by ipsod 15d ago
I guess we might actually have similar feelings, except, you say "only speed", and "only economics". Only time and only money. As if those aren't two of the most valuable currencies on earth.
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by ipsod 15d ago
> You are pretty fast at jumping at conclusions. Yeah, because I can see some of my own thoughts and experience from a long time ago in your words, and my experience tells me loud and clear that they're outdated and wrong.
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by ipsod 15d ago
OpenAI is what I use most. Sol 5.6 still rejects a few requests a day when I'm working on web apps, but, overall, it's not too bad. I wish it'd auto-resume and try again, instead of waiting for me to intervene, but it'
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by ipsod 16d ago
Web apps are where I have this trouble. Making a web app secure is literally just finding and patching vulnerabilities, instead of finding and exploiting them. You could have the AI "try to make this app secure", find what it pat
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by ipsod 16d ago
Nobody convinced me AI was useful. At this point, nobody could convince me it wasn't - it's like going from whittling stuff out of wood to having a kitted-out fully-manned machine shop. It's clear from your words you lack ex
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by ipsod 16d ago
Or just sounds of nature. I'm out hiking to enjoy this place and experience. It's like I'm enjoying a meal, and some jackass coming along throwing random seasonings on it - fuck off with it.
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by ipsod 16d ago
> If a technology is convenient for people, you shouldn't need to insist to make people use it. This is like the railroads, and the tracks have been laid. Because of the enormous cost, it can't be left to "hope they'
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by ipsod 16d ago
Sometimes the upside is just being different. I heard about a group of cattle, and one of them was ill, while the others feasted. The feed was tainted, and so only the sick one survived. Though, with ADHD, I think it's definitely mor
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by ipsod 16d ago
> I don't know if anybody consuming it really wants to. You don't know of people who ask LLMs questions? Or just chat with it for fun and to learn? Maybe your electrician isn't interested. A pharmacist and a nurse I talk
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by ipsod 17d ago
High trust doesn't mean you can trust that the people are angels. It means you can trust that they will behave as such. The threat of force is only there for those who otherwise wouldn't. So, either citizens bear force, or they

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