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by uludag 11mo ago
Nothing wrong with using LLMs—until every paragraph sounds like it’s A/B tested for LinkedIn virality. That’s the rot setting in. The problem isn’t using AI—it’s sounding like AI trying to impress a marketing department. That’s when yo
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by uludag 1y ago
I wonder what would happen if there was a concerted effort made to "pollute" the internet with weird stories that have the AI play a misaligned role. Like for example, what would happen if say 100s or 1000s of books were to be r
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by uludag 1y ago
... in opposition to the car makers who want to turn everything into highways and parking lots, who really want all forms of human walking to be replaced by automobiles. "They really cant run like a human," they say, "a hum
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by uludag 1y ago
The most recent Stack Overflow survey have vim at 25% and neovim at 14% for the question "Which development environments and AI-enabled code editing tools did you use regularly over the past year, and which do you want to work with ove
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by uludag 1y ago
I think this communal subconscious response is coming from a valid place though. I will call the current explosion in AI if: - it causes mass unemployment and social unrest - leads to a further concentration of wealth and increase in
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by uludag 1y ago
I think the main fear is that these products will become so enshitified and engrained into everywhere that, looking back, we'll be wishing we didn't depend so much on the technology. For example, the Overton window around socia
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by uludag 1y ago
Naive question but wouldn't it could as having AI write 50%+ of your code if you just use an unintelligent complete-the-line AI tool? In this case the AI is hardly doing anything intelligent, but is still getting credit for doing most
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by uludag 1y ago
I'm in the same exact boat. I started with a lot of different tools but eventually went back to hand coding everything. When using tools like co-pilot I noticed I would ship a lot mode dumb mistakes. I even experimented with not even u
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by uludag 1y ago
Not only this, I feel if people in the UK somehow were able to travel back in time and encounter "their culture", they'd feel extremely alienated and maybe even feel a level of disdain. The daily prayers, Bible reading, stric
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by uludag 1y ago
Another comment mentioned the cost associated with the model. Setting that aside, wouldn't we also need to include all of the systems around the inference? I can imagine significant infrastructure and engineering needs around all of th
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by uludag 1y ago
Alas, the mote around LLM integration is practically non-existent so I'd think that productization around this would be next to impossible. Anki is already extremely extendable so I would think that with a not too much work deep LLM in
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by uludag 1y ago
As an Emacs users who often tries to do as many things as possible in Emacs, I would say that the more stuff you can do in Emacs, the more the various features in Emacs compound with each other, giving you more utility. For example, I use t
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by uludag 1y ago
I totally get the point your trying to make. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I think it's unfair/misleading that anything with a veneer of LLMs has all the credit driven to the LLM and not to the thing that provides th
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by uludag 1y ago
I 100% agree with everything in this article, though I'm confused what AI has to do with any of this. People have been doing this sort of thing long before LLMs arrived. Weekend projects doing cool things where definitely a thing long
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by uludag 1y ago
I wonder if it would be feasible for an entity to eject certain nonsense into the internet to such an extend that, at least for certain cases degrades the performance or injects certain vulnerabilities during pre-training. Maybe as gains in
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by uludag 1y ago
I've came to a very similar conclusion. Productivity SaaS apps feel exciting to get started but eventually I've abandoned them all. I feel that many others have similar experiences but I'm not exactly sure why. Like the autho
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by uludag 1y ago
I too have used org-mode for a while and here are some additional features which may pique your interest: - agenda views let me create custom pages of tasks with certain states or tags - a robust time tracking system. I use this for my free
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by uludag 1y ago
The beauty of Emacs though is that it puts the user in full control. There is nothing in the world stopping anyone from modifying anything in Emacs (at least on the Elisp layer), hence packages like this. VS Code on the other hand is design
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by uludag 1y ago
I've felt similar to the author, a sort of despair that the only point of writing software now is to prop up the valuation of AI companies, that quality no longer matters, etc. Then I realized that nothings stopping me from writing sof
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by uludag 1y ago
I've been at the same company both before and after the AI revolution . I've felt something similar. People seem to be more detached, more aloof in their work. I feel like we're discussing our code less and are less able t
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by uludag 1y ago
The author is literally an artist though. What you call fluff may be a worthwhile artistic and emotional expression. If someone stopped at this summary they would have missed out on a nice poem by Emily Dickinson for example. Oh wait, let
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by uludag 1y ago
I've started to come to the conclusion that only greenfield projects consist of repetitive plumbing. Legacy software is like plumbing if all the pipes were tied into a knot. The edge cases, ambiguous naming, hacky solutions, etc. all m
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by uludag 1y ago
Great article. "To be reliably able to focus on something, you need to be intuitively, emotionally invested in the outcome." This rings 100% true for me. I've succumbed to a sort of fatalism though, where I'm not confide
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by uludag 1y ago
Almost actually. My nine year anniversary is coming up this November. Obviously the experience isn't perfect (like the article mentions), but it's perfectly usable. You don't have to look hard to see that the Emacs maintainer
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by uludag 1y ago
I think this is a uncharitable take. I don't feel at all that the maintainers have this level of disdain for non-free OSes. Just type C-h n and you can see work done for non-free OSes (e.g. "'NSSpeechRecognitionUsageDescripti
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by uludag 1y ago
No surprise seeing as they authored this: https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/11/09/modern-ide-vs-vim-emac... Maybe they think the certain generation who uses Emacs has died off or something. Last years results
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by uludag 1y ago
It's unfortunate that the ideas of things to test first are exactly the things more likely to be contained in training data. Hence why the pelican on a bicycle was such a good test, until it became viral.
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by uludag 1y ago
Reading this, I was getting vibes from another book I read recently: "Less Is More" by Jason Hickel, which I can recommend. A lot of the topics in this article like enclosure are covered in the book, with complementary conclusions
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by uludag 1y ago
I totally understand this situation. I actually never had a good mobile set up when I was on iOS and only when switching to Android was able to finally setup something I liked using orgzly-revived, syncthing, and android Emacs. As for GTD,
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by uludag 1y ago
I'm on my seventh year of using org-mode for my task management. My system has slowly evolved over time but I'm pretty much still using the same single text file to manage everything. My main getting-things-done org-mode file is n

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