Just learned about his position on security today. Been a Protonmail user for a while now. Initially I switched to detach myself from the US corp monopolies. Its just a matter of time now before I shutdown my Protonmail…
I also started to just abandon writeups obviously written by LLMs. They feel (and usually are) just cheap marketing/selling posts. Not to mention why would I read stuff nobody wrote and likely never read themselves?…
AI has become such a hollow term. A literal tautology if you will. Everything and anything follows from AI. From devaluing education to human extinction. As time goes on the AI bros are even turning it into a dystopian…
I think there's a balance to be had. Leaving everything to agents when it comes to throwaway prototypes, one-off test env. scripts, extra tests I'm fine with. Doing the same with features - absolutely not - especially…
Every senior I've ever worked with at some point embraced the idea of minimalism. Produce minimal changes with a minimal surface. Worked well at startups and especially well on large spaghetti legacy projects. Seeing…
Having been working on a lot of low complexity code over the last few years I don't really sympathize with the author. I mainly use LLMs for the chores. And there are many many chores in software development. CRUD APIs,…
I tried some of these note taking apps but eventually just ended up with a self-hosted wiki + Git/Forgejo/markdown. Once I had enough material, diy projects, scripts, random media just thinking about moving them around,…
I find LLMs are a hit&miss. Can be great at rewriting a function from lang A to lang B. Fails completely at a refactor. Great at coming up with a bunch of networking hosts/IPs to test a particular func. Fails when doing…
I used to be happy to have one conclusion derived from a meeting. Now with every word catalogued via AI summaries and pages of slop you'd think we have gotten somehow more productive. Alas the amount of conclusions…
AI-generated style right now has a what I'd call a grotesque aesthetic. Its offputting and immediately recognizable. The biggest offender being the rounded fonts and "wrong" smiles. Its probably going to get better but…
Software engineers are splitting into two camps either by choice or by being forced to by management. Those who have the self-discipline to use LLMs responsibly and those that are going all-in on AI. Imo there's a place…
The language of these LLM posts makes me think they're considering the option to be a defense subsidiary. It doesn't seem like they're actually constraining or limiting the models in any way. They don't seem to…
Lots of people mention this higher abstraction level but its not really the case. C has a grammar. You write C and get C as output. Assembly is hidden from the user. Natural language also has a grammar ("sort of"). You…
To be fair I think its far easier to automate leadership jobs despite how they believe in greater self-worth. As a developer I keep running into problems that require some measure of creativity to solve or workaround.…
Imo it can support the separation in meaningful ways. There are many political topics where opinions are flooding online forums much quicker than anyone with informed opinion can answer or digest them Having a quick…
I'm kind of hopeful AI some wikipedia-inspired AI "oracle" will happen in the future. Why not use some central AI to separate fact from fiction (faster than trolls and griefers can come to muddy the debate).
All this mindless droning about societal collapse, destruction of jobs, people moving on is really getting old. Sure people have caused mayhem by following (and enforcing) bad practices which resulted in a toxic…
I wonder if this book will eventually be bought up by LLM companies, scanned, shredded and become a source of ethics info for the future generations. Who knows...
The problem and what the article is pointing out is that original content is slowly and progressively being replaced by AI content. And since AI gets trained on this content as well it will eventually train itself on…
I have this nagging feeling that the depression, anxiety and pessimism is as-of-late coming from people from all the companies that risked it by adopting token maxing and AI usage enforcement. Its not representative of…
Rovo is one of those intrusive AI buttons that suddenly appeared everywhere without any warning. Its so annoying having already shitty UI get borked with features I never use. Almost as annoying as Whatsapp suddenly…
I feel any criminal is a big beneficiary of AI. Its something that's not being talked enough by the big AI players who are just chasing profit by burning books, consuming water, promising people getting thrown out of…
It doesn't really matter how much more productive a developer is if all other roles at the company don't follow suit. Before a developer picks up something to work on a series of roles had to set their eyes on work to…
I find this speed-obsession to just be a natural side-effect of obsessive toxic competitiveness that's plaguing the internet. And its been around for a while. Clickbait videos and articles like top 10 holiday…
Hacker news is so one-dimensional when it comes to China. Its like people here are living in an alternate dimension where everyone outside the horizon is playing catchup. Imo a sandboxed local expert handheld or mobile…
Just learned about his position on security today. Been a Protonmail user for a while now. Initially I switched to detach myself from the US corp monopolies. Its just a matter of time now before I shutdown my Protonmail…
I also started to just abandon writeups obviously written by LLMs. They feel (and usually are) just cheap marketing/selling posts. Not to mention why would I read stuff nobody wrote and likely never read themselves?…
AI has become such a hollow term. A literal tautology if you will. Everything and anything follows from AI. From devaluing education to human extinction. As time goes on the AI bros are even turning it into a dystopian…
I think there's a balance to be had. Leaving everything to agents when it comes to throwaway prototypes, one-off test env. scripts, extra tests I'm fine with. Doing the same with features - absolutely not - especially…
Every senior I've ever worked with at some point embraced the idea of minimalism. Produce minimal changes with a minimal surface. Worked well at startups and especially well on large spaghetti legacy projects. Seeing…
Having been working on a lot of low complexity code over the last few years I don't really sympathize with the author. I mainly use LLMs for the chores. And there are many many chores in software development. CRUD APIs,…
I tried some of these note taking apps but eventually just ended up with a self-hosted wiki + Git/Forgejo/markdown. Once I had enough material, diy projects, scripts, random media just thinking about moving them around,…
I find LLMs are a hit&miss. Can be great at rewriting a function from lang A to lang B. Fails completely at a refactor. Great at coming up with a bunch of networking hosts/IPs to test a particular func. Fails when doing…
I used to be happy to have one conclusion derived from a meeting. Now with every word catalogued via AI summaries and pages of slop you'd think we have gotten somehow more productive. Alas the amount of conclusions…
AI-generated style right now has a what I'd call a grotesque aesthetic. Its offputting and immediately recognizable. The biggest offender being the rounded fonts and "wrong" smiles. Its probably going to get better but…
Software engineers are splitting into two camps either by choice or by being forced to by management. Those who have the self-discipline to use LLMs responsibly and those that are going all-in on AI. Imo there's a place…
The language of these LLM posts makes me think they're considering the option to be a defense subsidiary. It doesn't seem like they're actually constraining or limiting the models in any way. They don't seem to…
Lots of people mention this higher abstraction level but its not really the case. C has a grammar. You write C and get C as output. Assembly is hidden from the user. Natural language also has a grammar ("sort of"). You…
To be fair I think its far easier to automate leadership jobs despite how they believe in greater self-worth. As a developer I keep running into problems that require some measure of creativity to solve or workaround.…
Imo it can support the separation in meaningful ways. There are many political topics where opinions are flooding online forums much quicker than anyone with informed opinion can answer or digest them Having a quick…
I'm kind of hopeful AI some wikipedia-inspired AI "oracle" will happen in the future. Why not use some central AI to separate fact from fiction (faster than trolls and griefers can come to muddy the debate).
All this mindless droning about societal collapse, destruction of jobs, people moving on is really getting old. Sure people have caused mayhem by following (and enforcing) bad practices which resulted in a toxic…
I wonder if this book will eventually be bought up by LLM companies, scanned, shredded and become a source of ethics info for the future generations. Who knows...
The problem and what the article is pointing out is that original content is slowly and progressively being replaced by AI content. And since AI gets trained on this content as well it will eventually train itself on…
I have this nagging feeling that the depression, anxiety and pessimism is as-of-late coming from people from all the companies that risked it by adopting token maxing and AI usage enforcement. Its not representative of…
Rovo is one of those intrusive AI buttons that suddenly appeared everywhere without any warning. Its so annoying having already shitty UI get borked with features I never use. Almost as annoying as Whatsapp suddenly…
I feel any criminal is a big beneficiary of AI. Its something that's not being talked enough by the big AI players who are just chasing profit by burning books, consuming water, promising people getting thrown out of…
It doesn't really matter how much more productive a developer is if all other roles at the company don't follow suit. Before a developer picks up something to work on a series of roles had to set their eyes on work to…
I find this speed-obsession to just be a natural side-effect of obsessive toxic competitiveness that's plaguing the internet. And its been around for a while. Clickbait videos and articles like top 10 holiday…
Hacker news is so one-dimensional when it comes to China. Its like people here are living in an alternate dimension where everyone outside the horizon is playing catchup. Imo a sandboxed local expert handheld or mobile…