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They will sometimes choose the simple slow options, true. But there's a very trivial fix. I just regularly ask the AI to review the entire codebase for bugs, performance bottlenecks (it will happily profile your code), possible simplifications and YAGNIs. I get it to give me a ranked list and then I review that and ask it to do some of them.

Occasionally I do spot things and get a "you're right, I was wrong". But it's got to the point that my thought is no longer "of course I am... shitty slop machine" but "phew, I'm not totally obsolete quite yet!".

I agree with you. It's gotten extremely good very recently and I think a lot of people haven't realised.

And they also won't believe you since they formed their opinion 6 months ago when code quality was 80% slop. Their loss though I guess? At least they'll be more surprised than us when they actually do lose their jobs? Maybe blissful ignorance is better!

This is like claiming that the web is a failure in 2001.

The tone of this article is "I guess everyone else is stupid now", but his reason for not using LLMs is that he likes doing it the hard way.

Good for him but I don't think that justifies such a snooty position.

I will agree that it kinda sucks not being able to claim credit for your work. I've vibe coded or vibe finished several apps now that are extremely impressive, better than the existing alternatives. But I feel weird saying "I made this" because it feels like I barely did anything.

I wouldn't go as far as evil but they are bad for code quality because they obscure the behaviour of functions. You never know what exceptions can be thrown. Can a function even fail? Impossible to tell. (Don't say "documentation" lol)

The standard answer is checked exceptions, which I'm on the fence about, but they don't seem to be very popular in any case. Python doesn't have them. C++ removed support for them which shows you how unpopular they were. Java has them and IIRC they were kind of ok to use in Android. Kotlin doesn't have them though so I guess the Java people didn't really like them either.

Err yeah except actually you'll just pull out your mobile phone and use that.

> Meanwhile, some other projects will take the core idea of "language aware differ" and release BSD, and one of those will win, including perhaps making it into git/future version controls.

Diffsitter and Difftastic have been around for a while, both MIT, so I doubt it.

A casual less knowledgeable user doesn't know it's 8 terabytes.

Edit: nm, according to the link someone else posted it actually is 8 TB, so yeah that wouldn't make any sense.

Very many people have learnt that exceptions are bad and should be avoided, because they are bad and should be avoided. Some of those people work at Google.

I think there's some bad nomenclature here. "Property based testing" literally means you're writing properties, which can be verified formally, or randomly (fuzzing / constrained random testing).

For example in SystemVerilog you can write properties (literally with the `property` keyword), and then they can be checked in simulation, and with formal tools.

TLA+ can do the same I believe - there are tools to verify a model randomly or formally.

Yes, words that label parts of continua are useful, even if they don't have well defined boundaries.

Kind of amazing how simple that fact is and how many arguments are caused by people not realising that it's true.

Here are some examples: town, artery, yellow, loud, tall, kind, woman, road...

Honestly it's hard to think of words that do not exist on a continuum. The exceptions are mostly low level maths/physics things.

Ah yes, it's just everyone else that's stupid; not you. You're still more capable than Claude right?

And just in case you haven't used the latest AI models and are being genuine, no it really is superhuman. Even if you are an AWS CLI expert, nobody in the world is going to be as fast as AI. And of course nobody is an expert in everything. You're always going to find some random domain where AI is read all of the research papers on it and you haven't.

That's nonsense. If what felixrieseberg said is true this is very clearly a compromise of Cursor and not Anthropic. Trying to spin it as a compromise of Anthropic is absurd.

Especially if you don't support private repos at all... That's where the money is!

"Of course we don't make mistakes. There's no need to delay our updates."

Based on my 10 seconds of Googling, for transactions under $100, Bitcoin is actually more expensive to transfer.

I don't know much about bitcoin but surely you don't store this all in one wallet? You split it into thousands and then use hardware security modules with a risk management system so it doesn't let you transfer $5bn instantly. Unless it was an inside job maybe?

I'd be really curious to know what their security architecture was.

And Patrick Steward didn't enjoy life?

It's really enticing to think that there's some nice controllable reason why some people live longer (assuming you don't smoke, do drugs to excess, etc.) but really it's mostly genetics and chance.

Yeah I think the article would have more weight if he posted the actual discussion, because it's linked elsewhere here and it very clearly shows that Pyon is a nitpicking arsehole.

Probably because the post starts "To ease the transition for new users..."?

The post says "To ease the transition for new users".

Well not that surprising given that the results are now 80% ads.

The real trick is that they're pretty much the only relevant ads on the entire internet. That and they pretty much force companies into paying so that people that search specifically for that company actually see that company as the first result.

> Perhaps all that needs to be known to use atto at a basic level is that holding the control key, pressing x, then pressing w will write the currently open file, and holding the control key, pressing x, then pressing c will exit the editor.

Very beginner friendly lol. These people have no idea.

Micro is a beginner-friendly console text editor. This isn't.

Agents are a lot more useful if they can execute code.

Anyway this story is clickbait because they explicitly asked the agents to find a clever way to communicate without network or file access. They're doing exactly what you would want.

> isopropyl alcohol are toxic as well

As long as you have moderately good ventilation and don't drink it, IPA is completely safe. If the resin is similar I wouldn't worry about it because of this.

But I agree about the waste, and in general it looks like a right hassle. IMO the online MJF printing services are cheap enough that it would take quite a lot for me to bother with owning a resin printer, at least for occasional use.

SO's extreme hostility definitely drove people to the first viable alternative (AI) as quickly as possible, so it might have survived longer if it hadn't been so hostile.

But to be honest I expect that would have just delayed its death. AI is so good now I think I'd use it even if Stackoverflow was really friendly.

The problem was it was a discussion forum. They just didn't like that.

There isn't one unfortunately. Some nerd is ok on Lemmy but you'll never find stuff like knitting or local communities. Not with any people on them anyway.

Isn't that basically how supercavitating torpedoes work?

Do you even need to fine tune? What happens if you just pick the next token but exclude options that contain e? Or would that send you down cul-de-sacs? Maybe it would work with diffusion based models...