You may be right but it seems like a different type of tool when it does the thinking for you. I feel like your analogy is closer to a good autocomplete rather than an agentic LLM loop. Agents feel like a genuinely…
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If it were a human (going off of memory as it has been a while), they would probably be using mathscinet and their university library to obtain copies of these papers online. Many old papers are digitized and available…
I am skeptical of using AI for a tutor and would not give it to my kid, but I find the staunch no-screens sentiment equally ridiculous and similar to saying no-books. Do you have kids? Are you telling me that you and…
Screens are a medium. I don't see how they are inherently bad, although it is probably correct that screens carry the most bad content out of any information medium. But my kid has learned how crayons and instruments…
You would learn way more by asking an LLM how postgres works. Nobody is even reading this Rust code. There are 7000 commits over 2 weeks. What is being learned from that?
> Just run both pgrust and postgres and compare the output. The space of inputs and outputs is infinite. You can't prove programs are the same by "just" testing a bunch inputs.
Of course, if the rewrite is all of those things, then it seems like a good option. The whole point is how do we know if it actually is better.
Genuine question - do you feel that you understand a code change well enough by only viewing diffs, enough to push the Claude code as “your own”? I can see this for some types of PRs but for anything that is relatively…
Every time people point out a limitation or constraint of LLMs, I see a comment that is to the effect of “but humans…”. I don’t understand why this comparison is relevant to this particular thread. Is it just an amusing…
The point is that there is a 0% chance you can meaningfully understand the impact and consequences of what a 10k line change is doing in a couple hour review, so there’s no way for you to know if it’s “bad” in any sense…
The entire PR description is filled with LLMisms. I find this style so hard to read, it’s almost nauseating these days. My eyes start to glaze over and I stop reading pretty quickly after. I’m having to deal with this a…
I think the answer to your question depends on what you mean by a “completely egalitarian world”. Depending on the answer, I would ask: why does the kid desire to charge people to earn money in a society like that in…
> As an AI optimist, I think all forced labor should eventually be done by AI. People can then spend their time pursuing their own hobbies. Just as many people still play Go after AlphaGo appeared, because they…
The sibling has pointed out some things and you can check that, but — This has AI fingerprints all over it and it was clear to me too. The fact that not only do people not notice this, but also that the comment pointing…
> What all these theories have in common is the underlying belief that our brain/mind works as the machines we build It’s interesting to note that this is not a new phenomenon. If you read writers from the past, they…
> The logical conclusion is that the brain makes me The logical conclusion under the popular axiomatic framework of materialism, for sure. But there are other possible logical conclusions depending on your philosophical…
I would not trust LLMs with the final word on anything financial. Not exactly accounting, but ChatGPT (whatever the paid model was in March) told me that paying down principal early would have virtually no effect on…
This doesn't make any sense to me, and seems like the exact opposite of what eBay is, but maybe we use eBay differently? When I use it, I am looking for something specific. The chance a random location nearby has that…
Honestly, even if that takes into account housing and everything, doesn't that seem... pathetic? All of the automation and technological advancement and productivity gains over the past 45 years, and average workers in…
> annoying meme in feminism and history generally, that people in prior eras were idiots This sounds like a strawman to me but I’m not well versed in feminism. Do you have examples? On the topic of science, isn’t the…
> If you want to reduce air travel for environmental reasons, then tax it more. > Shaming individuals doesn't seem to be productive or helpful. First, none of us have any power to "tax it more" so this is a dead end of…
> You always have to review overall diff though and go back to agent with broader corrections to do. This thread is about vibe coding _without_ looking at the code.
Assuming you are in the US, consider that your perspective may be influenced by the modern (since second half 20th century) education system which so strictly stratifies by age. It actually is much stranger to me that…
Animal cruelty is alive and well in the factory farming industry, at a yearly scale orders of magnitude higher than the sum of all research experimentation in science during the 1960s.
You may be right but it seems like a different type of tool when it does the thinking for you. I feel like your analogy is closer to a good autocomplete rather than an agentic LLM loop. Agents feel like a genuinely…
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If it were a human (going off of memory as it has been a while), they would probably be using mathscinet and their university library to obtain copies of these papers online. Many old papers are digitized and available…
I am skeptical of using AI for a tutor and would not give it to my kid, but I find the staunch no-screens sentiment equally ridiculous and similar to saying no-books. Do you have kids? Are you telling me that you and…
Screens are a medium. I don't see how they are inherently bad, although it is probably correct that screens carry the most bad content out of any information medium. But my kid has learned how crayons and instruments…
You would learn way more by asking an LLM how postgres works. Nobody is even reading this Rust code. There are 7000 commits over 2 weeks. What is being learned from that?
> Just run both pgrust and postgres and compare the output. The space of inputs and outputs is infinite. You can't prove programs are the same by "just" testing a bunch inputs.
Of course, if the rewrite is all of those things, then it seems like a good option. The whole point is how do we know if it actually is better.
Genuine question - do you feel that you understand a code change well enough by only viewing diffs, enough to push the Claude code as “your own”? I can see this for some types of PRs but for anything that is relatively…
Every time people point out a limitation or constraint of LLMs, I see a comment that is to the effect of “but humans…”. I don’t understand why this comparison is relevant to this particular thread. Is it just an amusing…
The point is that there is a 0% chance you can meaningfully understand the impact and consequences of what a 10k line change is doing in a couple hour review, so there’s no way for you to know if it’s “bad” in any sense…
The entire PR description is filled with LLMisms. I find this style so hard to read, it’s almost nauseating these days. My eyes start to glaze over and I stop reading pretty quickly after. I’m having to deal with this a…
I think the answer to your question depends on what you mean by a “completely egalitarian world”. Depending on the answer, I would ask: why does the kid desire to charge people to earn money in a society like that in…
> As an AI optimist, I think all forced labor should eventually be done by AI. People can then spend their time pursuing their own hobbies. Just as many people still play Go after AlphaGo appeared, because they…
The sibling has pointed out some things and you can check that, but — This has AI fingerprints all over it and it was clear to me too. The fact that not only do people not notice this, but also that the comment pointing…
> What all these theories have in common is the underlying belief that our brain/mind works as the machines we build It’s interesting to note that this is not a new phenomenon. If you read writers from the past, they…
> The logical conclusion is that the brain makes me The logical conclusion under the popular axiomatic framework of materialism, for sure. But there are other possible logical conclusions depending on your philosophical…
I would not trust LLMs with the final word on anything financial. Not exactly accounting, but ChatGPT (whatever the paid model was in March) told me that paying down principal early would have virtually no effect on…
This doesn't make any sense to me, and seems like the exact opposite of what eBay is, but maybe we use eBay differently? When I use it, I am looking for something specific. The chance a random location nearby has that…
Honestly, even if that takes into account housing and everything, doesn't that seem... pathetic? All of the automation and technological advancement and productivity gains over the past 45 years, and average workers in…
> annoying meme in feminism and history generally, that people in prior eras were idiots This sounds like a strawman to me but I’m not well versed in feminism. Do you have examples? On the topic of science, isn’t the…
> If you want to reduce air travel for environmental reasons, then tax it more. > Shaming individuals doesn't seem to be productive or helpful. First, none of us have any power to "tax it more" so this is a dead end of…
> You always have to review overall diff though and go back to agent with broader corrections to do. This thread is about vibe coding _without_ looking at the code.
Assuming you are in the US, consider that your perspective may be influenced by the modern (since second half 20th century) education system which so strictly stratifies by age. It actually is much stranger to me that…
Animal cruelty is alive and well in the factory farming industry, at a yearly scale orders of magnitude higher than the sum of all research experimentation in science during the 1960s.