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BinaryIgor

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About BinaryIgor

Curious, passionate and versatile software developer/programmer; likes going deep and broad at the same time. Writes @ binaryigor.com

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    Exactly. Verification is not cheap at all

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    "I have a hard time imagining a future where knowing how to solve problems with computers and how to control the complexity of those solutions is less valuable than it is today, so…

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    That's a valid point - I largely agree with you, I can make it generate mostly corrected & acceptable code with a solid level of quality, given smaller & scoped features and detail…

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    I think that the bottom line is that the bottlenecks are - the specific model you use & your skills, experience and reasoning capacity (intelligence); and you control only the latt…

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    "Perhaps there are frontiers of digital addiction we have yet to reach. Maybe one day we’ll all have Neuralinks that beam Instagram Reels directly into our primary visual cortex, a…

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    It also the most portable - no codecs, no formats and standards; most English texts are just ASCII :)

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    Hunger and drive can definitely lead to unexpected initially results; they cannot replace relevant experience, but if somebody has at least done something similar, it's often worth…

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    What makes you think that they will just keep improving? It's not obvious at all, we might soon hit a ceiling, if we haven not already - time will tell. There are lots of technolog…

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    I don't know whether I would go that extreme, but I also often find myself faster writing code manually; for some tasks though and contextually, AI-assisted coding is pretty useful…

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    Are guardrails, CI/CD, to make code at least compile-able and require minimal quality standards also possible to change via PR or managed somewhere else? With this possibility, it …

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    Ahhh, the problem with incentives; maybe it's more the case that, had the Linux Foundation behaved in a more aligned with the pure open-source ethos way, Linux would not be so wide…

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    Exactly this; for some tasks, it can speed up you dramatically, 5 - 10 x; with others, it actually makes you slower. And yes, very often writing a prompt + verifying results and po…

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    "The counter-scenario: as AI handles the routine 80%, humans focus on the hardest 20%. Architecture, tricky integrations, creative design, edge cases: the problems machines alone c…

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    Weird - it should be completely up to the developers, whether they write code by hand or partially/mostly with LLMs. If the code meets set standards and the author understands it a…

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    I have similar experiences with Claude Code ;) Have you used it as well? How does it compare?