tripleee

> if the AI is writing all the code, what value am I bringing?

What wouldn't an average person off the street be able to do?

I think you're mistaking typing characters on a keyboard for coding. Designing a system is coding. Knowing what refactorings to do to ensure things evolve in the right direction is coding.

Being able to recall all the syntax has lost value due to AI, but designing and leading the feature development hasn't and that can't (yet) be trusted to AI.

I'm not too worried about keeping skills sharp - if I'm ever put in a situation where they become relevant again I'm confident I can just relearn them.

+1

what a weird bias

jiggle one of the butts while making eye contact with passers-by

its only awkward if you quickly close it as if embarrassed

leave it up all day so others know it's intentional

ok

Completely missing my point there. I wasn't saying it's a calculator. I was saying it's not a human intelligence and there's no reason to think it'll stand in for every responsibility we have.

Name me one human that can describe grandmaster level chess strategy but also loses to a random-only chess bot - that was the case for LLMs for a long time

My point is LLMs aren't humans. They're not a toddler slowly getting smarter, and when they're smarter they'll be able to do everything a human can do. It's a different scale entirely.

Because smarter for an LLM isn't operating on the same scale as human intelligence

Making a calculator a billion times "smarter" isn't going to make it able to wash dishes

This is all caused because no-one understands the purpose of quality in software

Low quality = cascading bugs, issues, slow to iterate and add or change features

This is just as true for human written as it is for AI

Instead we have everyone giving up on code quality as if it was just "beautiful code" perfectly indented that was only there for people to ooh and aah at

Have you tried only using it through RSS feeds? https://hnrss.github.io/

Likewise with Reddit you can append .rss to get a feed

Peak internet was the brief period of time when it was available but we weren't permanently connected. It was an intentional decision to log on, do what you wanted to do, and then disconnect.

Your message is right that you can't spot AI, but from what I've seen professionals by large aren't using AI for from-scratch design.

I do have one way of telling: my wife's a designer, and she has many artist and designer friends so I see how they work first hand. AI is largely used for edits that need to be done quickly rather than from-scratch generation.

You talk about aesthetics but that's very secondary to communicating the precise thing you want to communicate. AI just isn't there.

From my years of watching people casually `curl randomsite.com/install.sh | bash` you might be a minority there

I don't think he should hold responsibility for people misunderstanding and misapplying his ideas

Not just travel. Australians can live, work and own real estate there last I checked

I do believe they were talking about Asutralia, not Asustralia. A common misunderstanding. Taiwan might not need to be involved.

Are you saying that pure vibe coding by a non-technical person produces better code than pre-LLM developers, or that experienced dev + AI produces better code?

Both of those things are very different, and AI shouldn't be the one taking the credit if it's the second case.

My wife had a free trial of Apple TV and we found we still preferred to use Jellyfin because it was a better experience

you don't have to torture yourself like that

The 7.6" screen here is far too small to function as a second monitor type device. This is going to be for pure content consumption

10% wider than a pro max. I can't imagine that's going to feel good in your pocket

That starting $2000 price tag.. is this going to be another Vision Pro?

Put MacOS on it and then we'll talk

A tablet the folds up and fits in my pocket is perfect. Tablets are better for reading and watching things - they just kinda suck to carry around.

in the current climate the definition of "better" might not be one you like

the "better" that will win will be what's more engaging and addictive

The scale of this is impressive. I think if you showed me a single puzzle / dungeon though it's something we've seen on par from previous models.

First impressions of the code quality also feel like it needs some serious refactoring, but then again I'm not a game dev:

https://github.com/emollick/zork-underground-empire/blob/cod...

https://github.com/emollick/zork-underground-empire/blob/cod...

Overall impression though yeah it's crazy AI can do this.

It does apply there. Probably because a manual is such an important part of the product it's attached to there's a high bar most people want to meet.

I don't think it applies to a series of blog posts even if they reach book length, though.

I do think the publishing medium is relevant and not just word count. Books tend to be better researched, edited, triple checked and well planned out to convey the full information they want to. This isn't always the case but there's an inherent push in this direction when you're publishing a book under your name that you want it to be good.

On the other end of the spectrum we have social media posts which are anything but.

> ridiculously polished detail

Can you point me to one of these? The only Astra game I tried was the incredibly janky Mario Kart clone from OpenAI where you could fly by spamming jump

AI has come for those blog posts and news articles. There's very little incentive for people to invest in quality content anymore - I'm seeing things like this more with many others just quietly stopping: https://exploringjs.com/

Even if AI were superhuman at all thinking tasks, that doesn't mean we'd lose our abilities.

Chess and games can be a lot more demanding than a lot of people's work lives - and AI is already superhuman there.

The heaviest thing I need to lift in my daily life is a laptop and yet I've gotten significantly stronger over the last few years from strength training.

If AI took over all the boring but hard things I'm required to do it'd free up lots of time for me to spend thinking about things, and solve problems I find more interesting.

I'm not sure what the point you're making is.

We're in the midst of figuring out what the tradeoffs are of LLM usage - all the things you list are already mostly known and found worth it. You trade a tiny amount of time and fuel to cook food in exchange for not getting sick. How is that relevant to anything?