sampullman

That's a very slippery slope. What are you going to ban next, extreme sports? Running too fast? Eating french fries?

Price and speed are the difference. But deepseek flash is usually fast and cheap enough, so the use cases are somewhat limited.

I just click "Install" and then "Play" in Steam on my non-Windows machine. I guess you can't play Fortnight or whatever, but it works great for me.

Writing is a means of expression and communication. Code can be those things, but that's not its primary purpose.

I think "solved coding" is taking it too far, but for many projects, the mechanical aspect of it has been removed or reduced greatly.

LLMs will have a much harder time "solving writing", because they cannot develop their own style and so are severely limited, creatively. This is less important for coding.

There's always going to be skill expression, whether you can find a way to make that part of it interesting is a different question.

This is the one thing I'm curious about, what's the next generation of devs going to look like? Just a bunch of people who treat the codebase as a black box, pump out slop, and call it a day when the feature works?

I imagine there will be value in being able to understand every line of code for a while, because many (most?) things don't seem amenable to long term vibe coding. But how will that knowledge be obtained? Maybe there will be a much smaller pool of devs with the patience to actual learn bespoke software development.

Or, AI will actually get good enough that vibe coding is better in every case than mindful development. I guess the main factor is how long it takes for that to happen.

Models don't necessarily produce documentation that's good for other models. It's still good to spend some time paring down AI to something simpler, clearer, and more concise.

Any of the latest models can one shot a modern 2FA workflow given the right context in a sane codebase.

The critical part is providing it a way to validate its work end to end. Without that, it's similar to asking a human to implement a feature with pen and paper.

70% extra on top of a trillion or two in investment is a relatively small price to pay when faced with the possibility of that being your only option at some point in the future.

It's still true for now. AI can't yet make a game with complex mechanics feel good to a human, although it can speed up a lot of the implementation.

It's about a hundred billion total, and there's a single reason the war won't end - the invading nation refuses to leave. There is no other reason.

And anyway, it's not as if the money is freely given. Some of it's expiring equipment, some are loans or exchanges for the promise of resources, etc. Yes, it is a modicum. A few days of bombing Iran has cost us almost half the total amount given to Ukraine, for negative value.

Framing it as trillions and blaming the nation being attacked (all for what, having some nice land with resources?) makes it very hard to take any of your other points seriously.

It feels totally different than offering a modicum of aid to a western aligned country fighting an existential invasion from an antagonistic former superpower.

I'm not so sure, I love tinkering but mostly see the code as a means to an end.

AI lets me flesh out both hardware and software side projects quickly that I never had time for. Most of them are experiments that won't be shared.

It's nice to have Codex/Claude whip up an SPI DMA driver while I'm doing something more fun, for example.

It's good to have dedicated bus lanes, but the point of a bus isn't to get from point A to point B faster than a car.

It's a part of a transit ecosystem that makes it possible to survive without a car. It fills in the the gaps where it's not economical to add train/metro lines.

What's the point though? I'd like to think scrolling HN is healthier than Facebook. But is it better than curated subreddits, or Instagram/TikTok showing you stuff about your friends and hobbies?

I don't think it's pedantic to have a bit of self awareness, although engaging in the discussion instead of writing a pithy one liner would be better.

It's unfortunate, but to come across as genuine now I think you have to actively avoid AI-isms.

In this case it feels AI generated with human polish, or vice versa. A couple tells are "One caveat worth stating up front..." and of course, "...the shape of the language itself...".

But it takes so little effort to wade through an LLM readme and cut out or edit it down to something palatable.

Just the bare minimum effort to do that would be nice.

I'm not sure what your argument is. I don't have anything against fanfiction, but a couple of sites with a few million users falls under my definition of niche. "Extreme" might be taking it a bit far, but it's a long distance from mainstream.

Fanfiction is already an extreme niche.

If you don't have the authenticator backup codes and you didn't turn on cloud sync in the app, you might be out of luck.

You can get a replacement SIM though and use it with a new phone, so the phone number recovery option should work.

We'll have to check back in 5 or 10 years to see if anything new has been created.

I don't think that's true. Domain experts with the desire to create and experiment aren't going away any time soon.

The feedback loop is too long, it's not like a software development harness that can direct the model to write some tests for complex behavior, and iterate until they pass.

There a lots of things that can be subtly wrong, and it gets much worse as your signal frequency increases, or you have to deal with high power/radio/etc. The model (agent) has no way to validate its work.

How is that not a form of censorship? It is direct suppression of certain forms of speech.

YouTube has its problems but I don't think it's had quite as strong of an effect on language.

It's not the sole cause, but I believe it's the main driver behind a bunch of specific substitutions that are mainstream now or nearly so. For example, dih, ahh, and unalive. They may not have been invented on tiktok, but that's where they incubated.

America is partly guilty, but TikTok censorship is a big part of the younger generation's tendency toward self censorship.

I randomly had a conversation with a guy at a bar in Taipei who was an administrator during the transition to self rule, and he said basically the same thing.

He said about many of the tribes modernized within a generation or two, and the ones that didn't still dropped the cannibalism stuff in the 50s.

What's your criteria for mundane? Basically every decent sized island in that part of the world is going to have beautiful beaches, coral reefs, mountains, and jungles.

I'm sure that's part of it, but I run it side by side in my review bot, and Astra medium effort consistently catches more issues than Sol 5.6, using fewer tokens.

For coding it's a little harder to tell, but at least the prose feels a little better.

Write a decent comment, for one. It struggles with some of the firmware stuff I do, though that's more due to a lack of a proper automated feedback loop.