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slight digression, but i feel like alot of the want for using llms for coding is because people are tired of dealing with all the complexity of implementing things that should be simple and easy; like llms are a crutch for complexity we are drowning in and people just want to "throw it at the llm" and be done with it...
> just drive easy for a couple minutes.
> Computing is held back by corporate legacy, and PARC was lucky to build all its own hardware and software.
is it better than before and welcome improvement? yes, but fundamentally conservative compared to what parc was doing with much much less...
> It's a tool, dude. Relax.
most of the time, a bad (or non-existent) ui is responsible for even a need of a chatbot; its lazy (and i say this a someone who was forced to implement a chatbot!) from a product design perspective.
that being said, could some complex apps benefit from adding both a command-line style interface to 'pop open the hood' so-to-speak for advanced users and provide a chat interface for beginners as well? yea why not?
it seems really sad that these books data isnt open in the first place...
> If the labs end up with only 1-2 models ahead of the others, while spending 10x more than last year, that can only go on for so long. There just isn’t enough money in the world!
> all that remains is the ugliness of stupid power
i think llms will be the same.
n=1 but at $work they are forcing us off enterprise and on to personal claude max that caps at $200 and people are like “you don’t need the top end models anyways just use the cheaper one for coding”, which begs the question how long till those “good enough” models run locally (with relative ease) and our company can cut that huge monthly cost with just the macbook pro they are gonna buy anyways.
> Capitalism isn't an ideology
> Jev is a new type of model that just makes decisions based on given options.
but i wonder how much these token costs are sustainable or not, it may be in the long term cheaper to have your own hardware if token costs go up (and hopefully hardware gets cheaper again)
what about `exclude()` or `keep()`?
in those cases its less ambiguous (to me anyways) that returning true means 'yes' to 'keep' or 'exclude', whereas saying yes or no to filter is like 'filter to exclude or include?'
thats my take anyway
> amnesia is driven by materialist consumerism
> resulting in 10GB stored in a few days for what should have been like 5 MB of data
> Why does it feel like we've forgotten how to automate things?
> I always struggle to remember if ‘filter’ keeps elements that match the condition or removes them
`filter(where:)` like in swift...?
yes, regardless how one feels about "ai", its obvious to me its basically gasoline being dumped on this "faster and more" culture we are all suffering from...
i think this is a problem larger than just programming; we see it everywhere in western(ish) culture more and more ime....
> We're souless automatons feeding a machine god.
> something as mundane and non-violent as computer programming gets compared with violent combat
> I still wouldn't want to put in the capital resources towards it.
> cause your business to really spend a lot of time shepherding the tech over the finish line