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trashchomper

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trashchomper··on The Programmer Identity Crisis
I genuinely don't think it's hard to compete. I use AI sometimes, I don't use it more than I use it. I find myself at least just-as-productive as people who primarily use AI.

I personally tire of people acting like it's some saving grace that doubles/triples/100x your productivity and not a tool that may give you 10-20% uplift just like any other tool

trashchomper··on LLM Inevitabilism
Calling LLMs trivial is a new one. Yea just consume all of the information on the internet and encode it into a statistical model, trivial, child could do it /s
trashchomper··on AI coding tools can reduce productivity
On the flip side, why would I use AI today if it presents no immediate benefit. Why not wait 5 years and see if it becomes actually helpful.
trashchomper··on A Typology of Canadianisms
As an Australian I always find it funny going places and having to remember which dance-around word everyone uses for "toilet". Washroom, restroom, bathroom, there's so many!
trashchomper··on It's Known as 'The List'–and It's a Secret File of AI Geniuses
Is it that secret? I imagine you could get 90% the way there within a day or two with just a combo of highly cited papers + Linkedin scraping
trashchomper··on OpenAI charges by the minute, so speed up your audio
Assuming sarcasm but if not, because deterministic vs. nondeterministic output?
trashchomper··on Teaching Program Verification in Dafny at Amazon (2023)
Having played with Dafny only in a university course, I really enjoyed it as a way of implementing algorithms and being certain they work with much less cruft than unit tests.

I haven't gone looking but verifier tools compatible with languages people already use (typescript/rust/go/whatever is the flavour of the month) feel like the way to go

trashchomper··on Tech companies are telling immigrant employees on visas not to leave the U.S.
"They all do". Just categorically not true but ok buddy
trashchomper··on The reality of working in tech: We're not hired to write code (2023)
I assume they're trying to work on three features at the same time
trashchomper··on German parliament votes as a Git contribution graph
I feel like you answered your own question...

Like I get it, but English is fluid and is it really that far to make the assumptive leap from "git" to "github/lab/service", seems pretty clear what they meant (even if it's not completely/technically/um-actually correct because git != github).

trashchomper··on AI Guesses Your Accent
Yep, as a New Zealander/Australian (spent half my life in both) I was curious what it would give me. Turns out "native english speaker" is all you get. Even if I really put it on thick