snowe2010

There’s zero chance you know if your code is robust, it’s barely had any time in production. Comment back in two years.

Something degrading because of lack of use is literally the definition of rotting. If you forgot how to multiply then yeah, calculators rotted your brain. If you never knew how to multiply then no. You clearly knew how to write code before and now you don’t. Rotting.

It’s pretty funny that you don't see the absurdity here. Yes, our physical fitness has dropped. Mostly from cars, much less from public transit.

> Should we no longer drive or take public transit anywhere

Yes? It’s bad for the environment and living closer to the things you do is better for everyone. But not only that, but this has absolutely nothing to do with being a skilled professional. Is walking or running your job?

Yeah there’s nuance to everything.

Wait, your final outlook on the situation isn’t that the LLM rotted your brain? Are you sure that this isn’t a case of “I refuse to believe I could have done the wrong thing for 8 months”?

Companies (and countries) learned a hundred years ago that everything you own, all your assets, are actually liabilities. The more you own the more difficult it is to run your business or country. This isn’t the age of industrialism in programming, or maybe it is and we’ll very quickly learn that you don't want to be generating code this quickly. It’s all a liability, not an asset.

they would get bugs on every invocation of the software, not on a new version of the AI. it's equivalent to your compiler have a RAND function in it where it chooses between a billion different options every time it compiles, it's absolutely not equivalent to a compiler having a bug.

weirdly made up scenario. I'm the person in the very first sentence. Tab-completing lines is still dog-shit. The majority of the time it has no clue what I'm going to write. Just because it can now write a lot more stuff doesn't mean it isn't still just as incorrect.

Also, you've set up a huge strawman here. Who are these people saying these things in this order and why is that the argument and not "You need to be reviewing every line of code that gets written and understand it."

Your argument is nonsense.

> The other change is simpler: I'm doing the design work myself, by hand, before any code gets written. Not a vague doc. Concrete interfaces, message types, ownership rules.

That’s the hard part of coding. If you have an architecture then writing the code is dead simple. If you aren’t writing the code you aren’t going to notice when you architected an API that allows nulls but then your database doesn’t. Or that it does allow that but you realize some other small issue you never accounted for.

I do not know how you can write this article and not realize the problem is the AI. Not that you let it architect, but that you weren’t paying attention to every single thing it does. It’s a glorified code generator. You need to be checking every thing it does.

The hard part of software engineering was never writing code. Junior devs know how to write code. The hard part is everything else.

Why do you think this is LLM?

What affinity betrayal?

Yeah this really breaks down when you put the logic up against ANY sort of compliance testing. Ok you don’t meet compliance, your agents have spent weeks on it and they’re just adding more bugs. Now what are you going to do? You have to go into the code yourself. Uh oh.

That control is only held by Amazon with their drm scheme. It’s not held by the publishers or authors. It does nothing to prevent piracy and only helps Amazon consolidate more control.

Don’t comment if you don’t want to actually contribute. How are people supposed to know these things before buying the equipment. What if they’re the only provider in their region? There’s a billion reasons why your comment doesn’t contribute.

They literally played clips from actors in recent moon movies so yes, they definitely were taking notes from movies.

Then you’re also blocking legitimate users that don’t want to be tracked and use services like iCloud Hide my Emails

Your comment makes no sense. If plants weren’t around for humans to eat then how did the animals humans eat survive?

Humans eat animals because they are a denser faster nutrition than plants. More bang for your buck. Trying to act like humans “only eat animals because” is ignoring reality.

I’ve been using models just fine for months now. Codex is terrible, full stop.

Somebody said he’s shorting the stock

You have to be joking. I tried Codex for several hours and it has to be one of the worst models I’ve seen. It was extremely fast at spitting out the worst broken code possible. Claude is fine, but what they said is completely correct. At a certain point, no matter what model you use, llms cannot write good working code. This usually occurs after they’ve written thousands of lines of relatively decent code. Then the project gets large enough that if they touch one thing they break ten others.

I don’t really think it counts as data loss when you actually choose to delete it and get a prompt confirming as such.

You’re making up your position here though. They have a stable API. It’s the built in wordpress API. It’s on almost every Wordpress site on the planet. It’s about the most stable API you could use. You just want to use html and not be bothered with an API so don’t pretend like you would do something else if it was “stable”.

I understood what you meant about GDA. It just doesn’t come out to that unless you put stuff in and never touch it, which is a valid use case! Don’t get me wrong, I planned on doing the same but with restic it would cost so so much more than wasabi and backblaze that it was a massive waste of money and really revealed amazon’s strategy, which is lock your data away and charge you to access it.

I wasn’t talking about B2 though, I was talking about Backblaze personal, which you can run on a NAS with a docker container.

What are you talking about. It’s literally open source. Here’s the server code https://github.com/immich-app/immich/tree/main/server You run the server. You can make the entire thing e2e encrypted if you want.

You could even set it up so that it could only backup over tailscale or wireguard through a tunneled connection so ALL of your traffic is e2e.

> AWS S3 Glacier Deep Archive is $1 a month.

Only if you’re backing up nothing and using non-encrypted files and making sure you don’t delete anything (rsync with delete turned off). I tested this not even three months ago. I hit $30 with only 3 tb of data with deep archive while wasabi AND backblaze cost less than that. No need to even trust a single provider. If you’re never changing your files AND you don’t care about encrypting them then yes GDA is fine and pretty cheap. Otherwise wasabi and backblaze get more done for less cost.

If aws decided to block your access to their ecosystem you would lose so so so much more than Apple blocking your access to theirs. If the US decided what you said, t1 networks would restrict your access across much of the planet.

Your logic makes no sense since you can easily switch to Google or whatever other smartphone providers there are (China has a bunch).

But of course those providers can also cut you off, so what I said still applies.

It’s not reasonable because you’re assuming that 1) they have the time to set up that network infrastructure 2) their skills align with that 3) they have the knowledge to do so 4) they live in a country without strong regulations that would make such a thing unnecessary.

Just because you know objective-c doesn’t mean you know a damn thing about raspberry pis, backup programs, NASes, or anything else. It doesn’t mean you know or want to manage your own network infrastructure. They’re a Mac app programmer, not a Linux professional, not a micro-computer professional, not a network engineer, not a sys admin.

Time Machine wouldn’t work here, because it needs the files locally and he’s already stated he doesn’t have a 6tb drive.

And that website is hosted somewhere, you’re using several layers of network providers, the registrar has control over your domain, the copper in the ground most likely has an easement controlling access to it so your internet provider literally can just cut off access to you whenever they want, if you publish your apps to a registry the registry controls your apps as well.

There are so many companies that control access to every part of your life. Your argument is meaningless because it applies to _everything_.

A trustless society is not one that anyone should want to be a part of. Regulations exist for a reason.

That applies for any device you buy, yes even if you plan on putting graphene on it. So you’re getting downvoted because your comments are pointless and disingenuous. Also, you can jailbreak an iphone so no it’s not bricked.

Yeah literally the exact same thing can happen on android and windows. The solution is regulation, not ridiculous solutions like telling billions of people to back up their own stuff.

Why would you need it to be end to end encrypted anyway? You’re running it. Set it to only upload photos when you’re on your home network and you’re fine. Or fork it and make a PR and make it e2e encrypted.

Backblaze doesn’t erase after 30 days… I’ve had a computer be offline from it for several months and it still retained all data. And you can use the backblaze docker container to run on a NAS, much much much cheaper than B2.

Wasabi is much cheaper than AWS as well.

Finally the best solution for backing up your iCloud Photos is definitely Immich. Set it up on your own NAS or a VPS, back up to that, and then back up that server to an S3 storage using rsync or restic. I’ll note that I still backup to Backblaze because its so dang cheap.

I spent months trying to find the best setup a few months ago and this is by far the cheapest.

But still, this shouldn’t be required for normal people. They should get what they pay for.