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Bridged7756··on Accountability mechanisms can be joyful (2024)
AI Slop images interchanged...... Jesus
Bridged7756··on JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history
IDEs are for professionals. I understand that LLMs can one shot a weather app, and I get that it's exciting, but this is not the case with complex software.
Bridged7756··on ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos into a Palantir Database
Pretty telling how you somehow seem to conflate deporting people who have no documentation, and committing human right abuses, sending people to their death, murdering US citizens, recruiting racists and alt-right extremists, and anyone. Improperly training agents, racial profiling. Abolishing an organization that engages in those things is a "rhetoric" to you. You clearly don't have any problem with any those things, the only thing you care about, is well, deporting those "illegals".
Bridged7756··on Memory executives expect RAM shortage to continue through 2028
I got a 64gb 6000mt/s kit for 250 recently. Not a humble brag.
Bridged7756··on Don't Be Fooled by this Summer of AI Hype
Claude Anal is launching this fall, featuring an usage of quintillion liters of water per second and enough energy to pulverize the world, ten times over, kilowatts hour. It also managed to escape containment from our cutting edge UMBRELLA-like special facility by killing everyone and then impersonating one of our scientists to infiltrate human society. We've managed to apprehend this Claude Anal "bot" for now, but Claude Anal is so dangerous, we aren't sure what to do with it, if to release it at all. Anyways, it's coming out this fall for only $99/67 tokens. But it's totally dangerous so we might have to lobotomize it.
Bridged7756··on RTK reports token savings, but our cost benchmarks disagree
Jetbrains IDEs are a perfect solution for this. They expose IDE actions (e.g, search, see occurrences, go to implementation) in their MCP server, which the harnesses can then call directly instead of figuring out the code themselves.
Bridged7756··on Incident with Github.com
I'll never get lack of sex used as an insult, unless you are a teenager. Is your self worth that tied to sexual activity so to use it as an insult? Is it that a rare thing to "achieve" for you to put it on a pedestal and demean others based on the lack of it?
Bridged7756··on Gen Z has rediscovered the joy of going to the movies
I stopped caring for a couple of years during the Marvel slop era. Lately me and my girlfriend have gone to watch movies like the Backrooms, Obsession, and that has reignited my interest in movie theaters. Even though the food is really overpriced, it's fun to watch a good film, eat some popcorn.
Bridged7756··on Undocumented migration does not raise crime rates study finds
Local man refutes science because it disagrees with his beliefs. "I know I'm right, it's {X entity} trying to brainwash us".

Historically women couldn't vote, and black people were segregated and worse. I guess those things were "created and forced into the lexicon by political activists" terms back them I guess.

The core thing is that one term humanizes a group of people that contributes to communities, pay taxes, the other dehumanizes them and opens the gate to justifying well, criminalization and prosecuting. You decided to choose the later.

Bridged7756··on Undocumented migration does not raise crime rates study finds
Local man says science is wrong. "It doesn't align with my beliefs, so it's wrong. The {insert imaginary animous entity} controls science", he says.
Bridged7756··on Undocumented migration does not raise crime rates study finds
Exactly. They should be put in concentration camps or something. The children are little delinquents too, they should go too. We should also create an organization that hires highly motivated individuals without proper background checks, often animous against the group they're supposed to police, give them lousy training and let them run amok without oversight or punishment for abuse of authority, who cares anyways? They shouldn't have crossed the border, those pesky criminals. Asylum? Not our problem. Criminals don't deserve it. Send them down to be murdered or whatever.

Criminals don't pay taxes, don't contribute to communities as far as I know. That's a quite positive outcome for the "illegal" immigration given the history of the US's destabilization of southern countries. You could advocate for a better country, yet you decide to punch down. That's quite telling, not much has changed in the United States compared to the 19th century.

Bridged7756··on The Future, Made in China
Can you not be so obtuse? If you are implying that, as a generalization, to you, the West is superior, just say that.

Such broad categorization about that vast of a nation seems disparaging to me. Grouping an entire nation on a label, and marking it inferior to your own.

Bridged7756··on AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job
It seems to me this is the most reasonable approach. Using LLMs to remove the cognitive load from implementation details, scaffolding, and taking it from there to production grade code. In short, like an IDE on steroids.

I'm curious and hear a lot about agentic programming, yet hear little about the cognitive load from it. Having more code generated doesn't make you more productive, in fact, I would argue the contrary is the case. There's more code to understand, more code to discard, an extra decision (which result do I pick? How do I split the workload through my agents), which is not at all how we operate (I. E context switching, limited by our cognitive energy, working task by task).

I really don't buy the whole agentic thing. The only reasonable use case I can see for it, is to scaffold multiple projects at the same time.

Bridged7756··on AI Is Getting Way Too Expensive
I didnt realize employers are paying for your education. Or have you somehow replaced having offspring with AI too?
Bridged7756··on Kagi releases official Kagi Assistant apps
Kagi's small web and news apps are pretty good too. Personally I think this will replace other LLMs for me, at least for QA usage.
Bridged7756··on UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions
Disrupting the pace of the game twice as many times, oftenly during critical moments is inconsequential to you? You don't sound like quite a sports person.
Bridged7756··on UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions
Russia a pariah state, as opposed to the US. Good thing freedom won and the US was allowed to host.
Bridged7756··on Kids who own phones have poorer reading comprehension scores VS those who don't
I don't partake in the whole "dopamine addiction" nonsense, but you can literally feel your cognitive performance getting worse the more you use your phone. Not only infinite feeds, also shopping at the tip of your fingers, at all times, the possibility of immediately searching, finding something. Even your interests completely change; suddenly reading is boring and something you have no energy for. Movies and TV Shows are boring. Videogames are not rewarding. Like a switch, I suddenly start reading again, enjoying these things the moment I block all such immediate-hit distractions from my phone.

I think phones are the real issue. Even if you have unlimited access to whatever short form apps, eshopping, information on a computer, it's the ease of being able to immediately get a hit as you lie comfortably in your couch, or while you wait for something, that's the issue. No time to simmer in your thoughts, or to be able to put in some effort to get a reward. We are lazy by nature, smartphones exploit that to make profits, and as a consequence to that, we rewire our brains to prefer the seamlessly of just scrolling down ad infinitum.

Bridged7756··on Nuclear receptor 4A1 linked to health effects of coffee: study
I love coffee. It's good for you, it smells and tastes so good. It wakes you up, and prevents sleepiness after meals. Its stimulant nature is a plus, but not necessarily the main thing.
Bridged7756··on Nuclear receptor 4A1 linked to health effects of coffee: study
Not everything is dopamine. Maybe nitpicky on my end but it gets tiresome when everyone is just like dopamine this, dopamine that, when no one really understands neurotransmitters.
Bridged7756··on Uncle Bob: It's Over
He's an idol, didn't you know? Much like his software architecture takes, they'll be taken as gospel.
Bridged7756··on DeepSeek V4—almost on the frontier
It wouldn't surprise me the US government is behind it. As it wouldn't surprise me the government of China is subsidizing those OS models. A lot of things at play, and all over a huge bubble.
Bridged7756··on The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy
Crazy how this doesn't register in people's heads. Has the real bottleneck ever been code written and not the review of code and everything involved? Understanding the nuance and implications behind design decisions; strategy.

In any REAL, workload, with good processes, code review makes speed of code generated a moot point. You still move as fast as you can review the code, and no, I won't debate that you can rely on LLMs, a deterministic language predictor, to determine the correctness of code; in the context of the business, and technical implications.

Bridged7756··on The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy
Shit processes. I don't know what places most of those people work at that crap is being merged into production at insane pace. You would expect any serious piece of software would be important enough to have the code be reviewed by at least one human.

Kind of.... I don't know. To get placed such requirements from the top down and not fight back, just take it head on, not even maliciously, don't even oppose it on a technical basis, just be like "yeah, you've now gotta ship faster or you're left behind, so therefore LLMs must be the future!", no critical thought attached. Is this shit coming from experienced engineers?

Preposterous we're relying on "it's better because I feel like", "dudes who don't use it are falling behind at work", "they ask for it in job interviews".

Bridged7756··on The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy
It's significantly slower to use LLMs for some things. The only thing it excels at is generic, broad tasks. Getting the 90% done. I find that it's less cumbersome to get it mostly right and touch it up yourself than to prompt over details like syntax.
Bridged7756··on Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs
More like a bright future being someone's fall guy. The ignorance to think that a large tech giant like Facebook would give a crap about any of those concerns makes this person too politically inept to make it anywhere
Bridged7756··on Bugs Rust won't catch
I call it FOTM engineering. Let's throw everything out of the window so we can use X novel thing!
Bridged7756··on Commenting and approving pull requests
I think it's a fine line to walk. At my job what we do is discuss any complex implementation or risky change or blockers in the dev eng meeting. For smaller stuff, or more straightforward solutions, we don't bring it up. If you make it a hard rule to first discuss all tickets, it just seems draconian.

Code review is specifically for code quality, more lower level stuff.

Bridged7756··on Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)
Ditto.

It circles back to the question, is this unimportant enough for me to delegate it to a LLM that might get it wrong? If the answer is yes, why even do it to begin with. If the answer is no, you have to do it manually.

I personally though, see value in this type of automation. Stuff like tag categorization, indexing, that otherwise would've been lost seems like a good fit for LLMs. Whether or not they're an ideal solution and something else like a search engine would've been a better fit, is a different question.

Bridged7756··on Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)
It all boils down to the same thing. Work out a system that makes you function. It's as simple as a PKMS of your liking, the problem is that people are allergic to writing their thoughts down.
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