denkmoon

"The algorithm" is quite powerful. Most of my view time comes from long form content, between 30 minutes and 2hrs. Sometimes it can be a struggle to get it to show me a 10 minute video I can watch over breakfast or something. What Youtube pushes people towards is not uniform

I’ve really been enjoying nix as my package manager on macos. It’s on a separate volume so feels even more isolated from clobbering my macos and has, in my uninformed opinion, better sandboxing and reproducible builds

I don’t care if my bare thighs were coated in the most potent prophylaxis known to man, I am not sitting on another man’s piss and or shit.

cool, thanks :)

yeah I wouldn't be able to put food on the table if my employer didn't have exclusive license to the glue we use to stick together all that open source code we rely on. Which we now generate exclusively using AI, products of which are of unclear copyright status.

Modern IP law inhibits productivity more than it helps, imo. LLMs have fundamentally changed our line of work, and they have done so by completely ignoring the existing legal framework for IP. We should not defend the current implementation just because some people might suffer reduced earning potential.

Excuse me for being dense but I'd love to know more, if you can share. So you offer a voice agent for checking appointments and orders and stuff, is that through your app or website or something? So you make a button in your app which says "talk to our AI", and you've got the button set up so that it can send the customer's input query, along with a bit of text saying "our MCP is here, use it to answer the query", to any one of the voice agent providers? then you get some audio data in return that you play to the user?

Exactly. Without Claude and GPT, we'd be limited to Grok. A lot of ink has been spilled telling us exactly how to use Sonnet, Opus, Sol or Luna in certain scenarios, Grok hasn't ever been recommended by our pointy haired friends even once.

>They get rewarded because they appear to move fast, eventually become management, and the whole thing gets worse as time goes on.

We've got a winner. Devs respond to the incentives set by management, and the message I have received loud and clear, my entire career, despite protestation, is that I should ship faster and not worry about bugs so much, big or small.

That I take pride in what I do is the only reason motivating me to not ship bugs. That and the thought of being the cause of an incident makes me physically ill, even though we have "blameless culture".

>as they will spend most of their times on what to name variables and how to structure the packages and modules.

Incredible strawman of dev behaviour, I can only assume you are a manager yourself. I assure you, that's not what we're doing.

God I hope so. My workplace enforces Cursor use, and to see it lose GPT and Claude would absolutely make my day. Much has been invested in getting us to "use the right models", a list in which Grok does not feature.

Bugs are a choice by managers, not developers.

Bin chicken is local slang for these horrible birds ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_white_ibis ), and “go full x” is also a common utterance, but I’ve never heard them said together like that.

why not version control those things? if they're static, there's no changes so version controlling them has little cost. maybe existing tools aren't adequate for this conception of the world, but I don't think that's a good reason not to work towards "version control everything"

Absolutely, have warned my juniors of this. Doesn't stop malicious compliance though, I can just prompt and burn tokens with source material from my assigned tickets for no reason perfectly fine.

I look at my colleagues' screens and they're prompting shit like 'restart this program' and 'is [service] running correctly'. I have below average prompt frequency because I know crazy shit like #!/bin/bash and ps aux. It's so goddamn insane.

And to top it all off, my token count is above the average, it's just the prompt count that is low. Got questioned about it earlier this week.

because my manager will ping me and say "anon you aren't prompting enough" like they never heard of Goodhart's law before.

Having also worked in a public position like that, there are so many dumb things that go on that didn't need to but the idea of pretending a 1hr job would take 40 would be unconscionable. 1hr jobs could routinely take 10 because of paperwork, approvals, etc (and same for my stupid bigcorp jobs), but not deliberately so they could bill more hours.

A few hours pf effort to liberate your email from Google. Well worth imo.

Maybe don't use CF if you don't want someone fucking with what you're serving. It's their entire raison detre.

You could just light the money on fire instead and get the same result. Contractors routinely screw the tax payer. I once had a job in one of these third parties where the entire operation was effectively defrauding the tax payer by claiming 1hr jobs would take 40.

An order to _continue_ operation? Has that ever happened before?

The type of mind that could genuinely benefit from a psychedelic…

Most of us aren't making software with fatal consequences. Most. I'd say the typical aviation job offers a few more chances for fatal consequences.

What device would I encounter in my day to day which would use 240W charging though?

You don't pay twice as much just because you can lol

What do you use? both in terms of hardware and software. I love the idea of a linux phone but I'm very skeptical.

Do you have any smarthome stuff? Standing around waiting 30 seconds for your light to come on would be moronic. A complete regression over the electric switch invented in 1884. I'd rip everything out right then and there. Your home should be reliable, smart or no.

US centric data, absolutely useless. This is just measuring american decline, not civilisation changes.

What's really freakin cool about AI development is other people can check rules into the repo which change the shape of my tools :)

Nobody cares. Nobody with the power to do anything about itcares because they don't bare the costs.

You can see this pre AI with how companies handle data breaches. They never cared about security outside of reducing financial liability. Why would they let such petty concerns, which they are already insulated to the hilt against with all the well practiced liability reducing procedures and checklists, prevent them from capitalising on "massive productivity gains"?

mate I wish I could retire from this hellscape.