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59nadir

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    Comment #49255296

    Just so everyone who reads this understands; despite the criticism in this comment, it's being incredibly charitable to LLMs in the context of making games. They're not particularl…

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    Comment #49224406

    People who don't know things are usually very impressed by solutions that LLMs come up with. I saw one recently that was very impressed that their chosen LLM took screenshots of th…

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    Comment #49216894

    There's also the fact that it's basically vibecoded.

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    Comment #49052955

    Yes, I always use `du . -h 2>/dev/null | sort -k1hr | head -nN` where that last N is however many directories I want to show. I run this regularly and have for a very long time pre…

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    Comment #49003504

    $ ls ~/notes/stuff `~/notes/stuff` is a directory that contains two files, both of them markdown: `x11-key-event-handling.md` and `x11-resources.md`. These seem like good files; I …

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    Comment #48981113

    Honestly, I wasn't harsh enough... Though I don't think I could write a better post showing how useless your opinion on things actually is than the one you wrote yourself. And no, …

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    Comment #48970562

    Well, yeah, it's just good marketing and Bun ultimately doesn't matter anyway, not to the wider ecosystem and especially not to Anthropic. The only purpose Bun had for Anthropic wa…

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    Comment #48970501

    I haven't even stated whether I agree with the opinion that Zig is worth it, in fact I do think Zig is worth it for a large set of problems and I wrote Zig for years, I am stating …

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    Comment #48967198

    You, by your own admission, haven't even written a single line of Zig despite having ~31 Zig projects on GitHub. I don't think your knowledge of the language is to be trusted in al…

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    Comment #48870046

    Both of these are near useless for systems programming and predictable behavior when caring about performance.

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    Comment #48695918

    Do you have any sources for the claim that LLMs meaningfully help in the production of LLMs?

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    Comment #48695906

    > Any country that developed sufficiently advanced models will pursue the same path. Looking at most of the available evidence, Mythos is an incremental upgrade over other models a…

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    Comment #48678041

    Not really. I have one I made for fun where I let LLMs control a text editor called Kakoune, and then give them no other way to do things, to see how they deal with it, but that's …

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    Comment #48670586

    > What provider do you use? 1. My own harness + Local (which usually means Qwen3.6-35B-A3B), I use this fairly often for research gathering on topics, info gathering on code bases,…

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    Comment #48656955

    I saw someone on lobste.rs proudly say that they haven't written a line of Zig code in their life. They have 31 Zig repositories on GitHub. GitHub is useless at this point. (As you…

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    Comment #48656938

    Open Source is the company takeover of the good that Free Software represents, I don't really see it as a "movement" by people. It's set up precisely to exploit the people for free…

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    Comment #48656578

    I'm not really commenting on that, I just want to remind people that Open Source is highly overrated and should not be looked at as a point in favor of a company .

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    Comment #48656384

    Corporate open-source (Open Source) is done for free labor and PR, it shouldn't be bonus points for any company that does it, unless they commit to it and pay their contributors, h…

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    Comment #48644009

    I suspect we agree more than our comments make it seem. There are code generation use cases that make sense for LLMs to do, I'm already with you on that, and I suspect that your si…

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    Comment #48643418

    If your "disposable scripts" require large-scale code generation, they're probably not "disposable" or "scripts".

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    Comment #48641858

    > What would take months/years can be done in a day or a week. Hahahaha, this reads like pure unadulterated marketing. I sincerely hope you're getting paid for these things at leas…

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    Comment #48635242

    I don't know, I think a lot of games are worse because they've shoehorned their game into an overly general piece of tech that's meant to serve everyone and ends up doing a pretty …

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    Comment #48633364

    Anyone who heavily uses LLMs for their work is pretty obviously ill-equipped for their work, and likely getting even worse at it with time, yes. You can throw around as many "thing…

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    Comment #48633177

    That's a dumb way to do it, it should just write the frame buffer to a PNG instead of taking screenshots. I guess you can't take the dumb web developer ways out of these models at …