If I were American I would be afraid of what my government does if I talk about Epstein a lot. In the most extreme case they would arrest you (theyve arrested/threatened got less). China does not care
I don't get this reasoning. You were tired of LLM wrappers, but what is your tool? These two requirements (felt like a CLI and respects your hardware) do not line up.
Still a cool tool though! Although it seems partly AI generated.
Seems like the post you're replying to has since been edited to clarify that he's referring to the wrappers that rely on third party AI APIs over the internet rather than running locally.
Reading between the lines a bit, but I think the point is that public ridicule and personal attacks as well a general lack professionalism is a page out of his book.
So I think OP is trying to insinuate POTUS' behavior inspires a general lack of decorum, a la trickle-down dickonomics. Which is a sentiment I can't in good faith disagree with entirely, but it seems like a stretch in this case.
is public ridiculing of somebody who intentionally submits garbage in order to potentially earn a few bucks a bad thing? it's like with patent trolls, dragging their shady actions to public and ridiculing them is best thing that can happen
I get your point, but regardless of how justified it may seem, I find behaving that way just isn't nearly as effective as kindness.
When I'm not being conscious, I tend to be pretty negative or sarcastic and even trend towards passive aggressive. I've found it to be rather damaging for a number of reasons.
I find when I choose kindness, not only is it more effective at accomplishing my goals, but I am happier and I set a better example for those around me. I find the kinder I respond ESPECIALLY in situations where it feels undeserved, the more positive impact it has.
To put it in more cliche terms, I want the world to be a kinder place, and I am trying to be the change I seek.
So yeah, personally I think it's a bad thing. Ban em, sure. But why take it any further? And FWIW, I'm sure the "threat" of ridicule is more tongue in cheek than anything, I was just trying to elaborate on what I suspected the other commenter was intimating.
I am on zen which you can consider to be as vertical tab mode in FF as well (considering zen is based on FF) (but all be it, I love how slick zen looks! Zen is amazing)
And I have the same texture too! I hadn't observed it until your message
The complex thing is that you would need to take into account the energy used to feed the programmers, the energy used for their education or simply them growing up to the age they are working. For the LLMs it would have to take into account energy used for the GPU, the machine building the GPUs, datacenters, engineers maintaining it, their education etc etc. It’s so complex to really estimate these things from bottom up if you are not only looking locally, it feels impossible…
If they are not programming then they could have more time to produce food themselves without using machines relying on energy (traditional vs industrial agriculture).
- AI generated article
- Overconfident claims (which are based on solo dev)
- Spending an absurd amount on an LLM subscription
- No actual details, just buzzwords and generic claims
Then I saw a few other people reference it and it's as good a term as any to describe the hot air of people telling us how amazing ai coding is without giving the code, the prompts, or the price of what they did.
Just like how that one kid in highschool had a Canadian girlfriend.
I think the journey means different things to different people. Not everyone is interesting in building their own power generation plant, mining silica and forging their own chips, writing a programming language from binary. I’d love to do that stuff if I didn’t have bills to pay, but sure am quite glad to skip through the knarley JavaScript implementation details and focus on the parts I know well (backend, data modeling, translating domain specific knowledge into product) and get something to market.
Ask your manager how they get humans to do those things, and copy that process.
So, get a bug tracker, track those bugs, tell Claude to pick tasks off it etc.
I'm not claiming this actually works, I've not tried it, I don't know how good it is for large brownfield projects, but that's the general sentiment I see.
I've tried it. It can work. My prompt was "Use the gh commandline tool to get the issues for the current repository, and work on them in order, with bugs taking priority."
Elsewhere there are steps for how to develop: 1. Create new branch for the feature you are working on; 2. implement the feature fully, thinking hard when you need to (toolcall think(low, med, high) switches the reasoning level);
Just vibe it, let AI take the lead; follow the flow, enjoy the ride and check the result. Be the manager the bot needs; those annoying details don't have to be your concern any more.
> Did we just stop caring about the art of programming altogether?
Yes. Decades ago for some.
I'm sure there have been a number of significant bugs caused by someone taking work from an outsourced team into production without sufficient review. Or even work from a local junior. Heck, even a local senior!¹
Outsourcing work to GlorifiedPredictiveText and friends should be treated the same was as passing it on to other humans, but at the moment it too often isn't as many have fallen for the marketing. Always remember: the models were trained on public code, and public code is far from always right. And the models hallucinate³ on top of that.
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[1] Around this time last year, I was that senior… Fun times. Luckily no permanent damage done², but that'll teach people not to trust me too much!
[2] It wasn't as smooth as I would have hoped, but the roll-back plan worked.
[3] Going back to the analogy of outsourcing to other humans: this is akin to “making shit up as they go along and hoping for the best”, which also very much happens and has happened for decades.
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