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by zkry 3mo ago
But isn't getting an LLM to n-shot something just going to produce non-unique, non-original interpretations of an idea?
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by zkry 3mo ago
I asked claude code to troubleshoot why a certain strange behavior was occurring in a Go service. Only then I realized that the behavior I described wasn't actually occurring. A few minutes of thinking pass and Claude code confidently
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by zkry 3mo ago
I can imagine in these cases the LLM is telling the "contributor" how smart they are and how much the project is loosing out, maybe saying something like: "It's not about maintaining project boundaries, it’s not about en
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by zkry 7mo ago
At least this Schadenfreude is better than the Schadenfreude AI boosters get when people are made redundant to AI. I can totally see some people getting warm fuzzies, scolling Tiktok, watching people crying having lost not only their job, b
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by zkry 1y ago
I don't think this line of reasoning holds. The only thing people should look at are peer reviewed studies, lots of them ideally, and with no conflict of interest. Who's getting productivity gains? What kinds of work are they doin
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by zkry 1y ago
And I have to say that the whole trope of "Emacs may be able to do anything but you have to configure a lot to get it to work" has has got to be pure exaggeration at this point with things like eglot. I had the most painless exper
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by zkry 1y ago
I was thinking the exact same thing. As long as you're not depending on any external packages things are very stable. Like, if you're package depends on adding advice to some other package's random internal function, then yea
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by zkry 1y ago
On the other hand though, automated refactoring like in IntelliJ can scale practically infinitely, are extremely low cost, and are gauranteed to never make any mistakes. Not saying this is more useful per se, just saying that different appr
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by zkry 1y ago
From reading this, it sounds more like a management problem more than anything else. For example, retention goals should be such that all a companies experts (at anything, not just language) don't evaporate overnight and hiring goals s
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by zkry 1y ago
I find that this is on point. I've seen a lot of charts on the AI-hype side of things showing exponential growth of AI agent fleets being used for software development (starting in 2026 of course). Take this article for example: https
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by zkry 1y ago
Magit is truly a magnificent application and it's telling how it's ideas are ported to other editors. Reference to the previously posted "You Can Choose Tools That Make You Happy" > Emacs is a Gnostic cult. And you kn
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by zkry 1y ago
Use cases like the ones you mentioned having are truly amazing. It's a shame that the AI hype machine has left us thinking of these use cases as practically nothing, leaving us disappointed. My belief is that true utility will make its
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by zkry 1y ago
I feel like managers are having a heyday over tools like cursor having a user-by-user breakdown on AI code generation stats. I feel this is only the beginning and a whole new world of in-editor workplace monitoring will pop up.
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by zkry 1y ago
Even before AI I've always had the perception that writing software felt more intellectually on the level of plumbing. AI just feels like a having one of those fancy new tools that tradespersons may use.
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by zkry 1y ago
Im curious why there's this sentiment in regarding advances in AI. High level programming languages didnt in the least bit take away the value of the SW profession, despite allowing a vast number more people to write software. The amou
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by zkry 1y ago
Ironically LLMs have made Emacs even more relevant. The model LLMs use (text) happens to match up with how Emacs represents everything (text in buffers). This opens up Emacs to becoming the agentic editor par excellence. Just imagine, some
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by zkry 2y ago
Surely though limiting the government's positive freedom of ubiquitous surveillance, like this example of printers, is something that I'm sure would be resoundingly popular in a democratic society. This seems as clear cut as limit
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by zkry 2y ago
Wouldn't it be more correct to say that Muslims spread through conventional warefare and Islam spread through proselytization and incentivising conversion? I would imagine Muslim empires could expand without conversion (as they mo
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by zkry 2y ago
> Everything in this part of the world is on a rinse snd repeat cycle ever since the Assyrians and the Babylonians That's an incredible statement, as if the rest of the world is somehow different. The only thing special about these
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by zkry 2y ago
Logically this makes sense: every model has a context size and complexity capacity where it will no longer be able to function properly. Any usage of said model will accelerate the approach to this limit. Once the limit is reached, the LL
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by zkry 2y ago
> Furthermore, the article is so bereft of detail and gushes so profusely about the success and virtues of their newly minted "senior level" AI that I can't help but wonder if they're selling something... With all the
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by zkry 2y ago
> In February, a Canadian small-claims tribunal upheld the customer’s legal complaint, despite the airline’s assertion that the chatbot was a “separate legal entity that is responsible for its own actions.” Wait, companies are claiming t
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by zkry 2y ago
I get how I could be wrong on that front. I guess what I was trying to say was that there needs to be legible, predictable infrastructure for these AI systems to work well. I actually think that an LLM workflow in a constrained, well under
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by zkry 2y ago
I'm pretty sure most people, developers especially, have had magical, life-changing experiences with LLMs. I think the problem is that they can't cant do these things reliably. I get this sentiment from a lot of AI startups, that
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by zkry 2y ago
I don't think comparing star counts would be a good measure though, as with AOC 90% of the effort and difficulty goes into the harder problems towards the end and it was the beginning, easy problems where the bulk of the sonnet's
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by zkry 2y ago
I really enjoyed the conference this year! It had a good mix of project updates, emacs internals, configuration, Emacs rewrites in different languages, org-mode applications, community, interesting packages, and things that went over my hea
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by zkry 2y ago
> My natural instinct when I encounter this kind of person is to lavish scorn on them, but I have to hold myself back from that. Partly because it's the mature thing to do, and partly because the coming years will be hard enough on
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by zkry 2y ago
I 100% use LSPs and other modern tooling, but I find it weird as well too. Like, if I found out a favorite author of mine wrote everything on paper first I'd find that amusing and quirky. Obviously a developer not using LSPs can be co
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by zkry 2y ago
This is a great tie in point. I've had simmilar feelings that a lot the conveniences we have as developers only end up letting us dig ourselves into ever deeper messes of complexity.
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by zkry 2y ago
There's definitely a lot of choices in Emacs land for these new LLM tools. There's copilot mode, chatgpt shell, gptel, theres so'e more from other AI startups. Plus writing LLM integrations for Emacs is a breeze with everythi

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