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steezeburger··on Show HN: I made a 3D pose maker for artists
Does it just make it easier to get in a position you want or does it give you more natural looking positions as well or any other benefits? It's pretty fun to play with!
steezeburger··on AI is making me dumb
I've had pretty good luck with using playwright mcp to test web front ends. I think LLMs can totally test GUIs. Either via vision and computer control or via reading the GUI node tree (e.g. DOM) used by whatever you built the GUI with.
steezeburger··on AI is making me dumb
I think it's just the wrong metric to optimize for _first_. It's not generally a bad metric to keep tabs on though. Make it work, make it right, make it fast? Or something like that.
steezeburger··on God Damn AI is making me dumb
Yeah I totally agree! I also think people should still be reading as much code as they can. That's always been true imo. It is just hard to keep up with it now because of how much code an LLM can generate for $20/month. I do think we'll move to higher abstractions of course. We won't have to understand code as much as how the systems and components are architected. It would also be nice to use our new efficiency to return to producing truly optimized and fast software.
steezeburger··on AI is making me dumb
Experience is so so valuable right now. We can guide these agents super well, but I do fear for the juniors as you said. I would like to think I'd use the agents to dive deeper and learn faster. It was pretty rough piecing together solutions from Stack Overflow, various irc channels, Reddit, etc. But also, I cheated on my homework in college and didn't really review the answers, so not sure. Though I pursued programming out of interest and not just to complete a degree. Maybe it would have been different. In any case, I'm glad I came into the LLM era with a lot of experience and failures already.
steezeburger··on God Damn AI is making me dumb
I've been thinking a lot about the new primitives and paradigms we'll see.
steezeburger··on God Damn AI is making me dumb
I enjoy using and orchestrating agents a lot to build software, but have never really had the desire to replace my writing with LLMs. I don't write a whole whole lot, so maybe I just don't have enough writing to do to make it appealing, but my emails, blog posts, comments, whatever are the last thing I want to automate. Not only because it's less personal, but because I'm so tired of reading AI cruft myself. So much more text in tickets than there needs to be, for example.

And how are people forgetting to code by using LLMs? Do they just mean they forgot the syntax of a particular language? Or forgot how to architect features or how the development lifecycle works?

I've mostly used LLMs to build more complex things that would have been a lot to manage previously, or to build something completely new and learn how it works. I feel like I've only become a better engineer (and programmer too) because of LLMs.

steezeburger··on Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics
I'm actually not sure what you're saying. Are you implying inline 2d graphics are the same as inline 3d graphics? That's what the subtitle of Ratty was about. And that's not what was shown in original comment's video. Why does it matter if it was from 2013? It wasn't showing off the same thing as Ratty.
steezeburger··on Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics
So you're saying that the Xerox workstation didn't have inline 3d graphics rendering capabilities? And in fact this isn't an instance of UNIX trying to catch up to Xerox workstations' REPL from yester-decade?
steezeburger··on Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics
But that's not what was relevant to their comment.

"Here's this new thing that can Ⓧ!" "Pfft, Y could do X years ago."

Well, Ⓧ ≠ X. Come on now, we're programmers here.

steezeburger··on Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics
I think the original comment is actually a poorly chosen example vs me having a poorly chosen counter-complaint.
steezeburger··on Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics
That's not 3d
steezeburger··on Work with the garage door up (2024)
I actually made a Wikipedia browser directly inspired by Andy's blog: https://steezeburger.com/wikipedia-browser/

I find it a really intuitive way to browse notes and to get a feeling for the relationships between your collected information.

steezeburger··on Subscription bombing and how to mitigate it
This doesn't seem like a very good solution to be honest. And why use an LLM for this? What if I want a legit random ass string as my username?
steezeburger··on DoorDash Tasks
I don't quite get how that would work. They were completing tasks to train models but via sms? Can you elaborate?
steezeburger··on HopTab – Open source macOS app switcher and tiler that replaces Cmd+Tab
Fifty two feet?! Damn!
steezeburger··on Home Assistant waters my plants
I run an HAOS vm via VirtualBox and then use Tailscale for a secured network.
steezeburger··on Wired headphone sales are exploding
Haha whoops, I totally conflated the two! The Sony Atrac3Plus had a feature called "G Protection". It was the only "anti skip" cd player that I tried that actually worked really well back then.

I also exaggerated the year a bit. After looking it up, I think this cd player came out in 2004!

steezeburger··on Wired headphone sales are exploding
I use a pocket for this scenario.
steezeburger··on Wired headphone sales are exploding
I've used tons of wired as well. Maybe have bad one pair fail at the wire? I'm super active with them too. Snowboarding with them and my Sony g shock in 1998. Lots of cycling and running usage. You've had every single pair of wired headphones fail for you? Every single pair?
steezeburger··on Wired headphone sales are exploding
Tons of wired headphones have little controllers on them to change songs and pause.
steezeburger··on British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time
I couldn't believe it wasn't mentioned after that intro haha
steezeburger··on The happiest I've ever been
I love this! Stealing it! :) It reminds me of T.H.I.N.K. before you speak. Ask yourself if what you are about to say is true, helpful, inspiring, necessary, and kind!
steezeburger··on The happiest I've ever been
I don't think the grammar is "good", it just uses speech patterns like LLMs do.
steezeburger··on The happiest I've ever been
I 100% thought this was written by an LLM. You copy its style if it wasn't. Or it has copied yours! Lol
steezeburger··on Artist who “paints” portraits on glass by hitting it with a hammer
I'm not sure it's so fitting. You can see hoe this technique was done and how it's different from painting. Or like, a portrait made of pennies, or string and nails, etc, etc.
steezeburger··on Facebook is cooked
I think they definitely track how long you stay on something as you're scrolling. They show an attractive woman doing your hobby, then it just keeps going.
steezeburger··on Facebook is cooked
I don't like anything even slightly thirst trappy, and my fyp is clean.
steezeburger··on Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance
I think they take issue with how it was ultimately okay to do to catch the Joker as long as Batman didn't use it and gave power to Luscious who resigned, instead of just calling it out as terrible and not doing it. That's how I read their comment anyway. "apologia"
steezeburger··on Super Monkey Ball ported to a website
I completed stage 10 and it shot me into space but the timer kept going and then counted it as a failure and restarted the map.
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