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JCTheDenthog

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    Comment #48619699

    Poe's law is making it hard to tell if your comment is sarcasm or AI-induced psychosis.

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    Comment #48615695

    >I’m curious if that matters if humans are never going to even read this code? If by never even read you don't include attaching a debugger to solve an issue. 1,000 global mutable …

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    Comment #48614617

    Got any specific examples? I believe you, I'd just like some concrete examples to show my coworkers.

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    Comment #48614454

    >Dude, stop with “slop”. No. It's a useful term, just like "clickbait" was 10 to 15 years ago (and still is). Trying to police other people calling it slop is reminiscent of Micros…

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    Comment #48613866

    >I hear a lot of complaints about bun but nothing concrete about what broke in the migration. Because it hasn't been released yet (at least not outside of some unstable branches). …

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    Comment #48613322

    Given that even the unsafe audit article appears to be written by AI that doesn't seem like much thought to me.

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    Comment #48586374

    Given that LLMs are capable of generating code from open source projects verbatim (and entire books like Harry Potter verbatim) and no one gives a damn it seems like copyright is e…

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    Comment #48579878

    Assuming it all works 50k scanners running nonstop at 60 seconds a scan is 2.1 billion scans a month. Assuming they aren't lying/exaggerating about anything, and assuming there is …

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    Comment #48551063

    >Actually good quality stuff is more affordable than ever. People just don't want to pay for quality and things that last. You might want to read *A Market for Lemons".

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    Comment #48548660

    For me, the painful banging my head against the wall to figure something out is usually the most rewarding sort of learning experience.

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    Comment #48546935

    https://www.tomshardware.com/news/why-most-roms-are-illegal,... https://answers.justia.com/question/2025/08/04/is-downloadin... https://www.howtogeek.com/262758/is-downloading-retr…

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    Comment #48542948

    >citing that it's illegal even though I own the games In the. US at least it is actually illegal to download ISOs/roms of games, even if you own a physical copy. It's a stupid law …

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    Comment #48536011

    Libraries like Guidance guarantee that the output of an LLM will be syntactically correct (i.e. it will be valid JSON or whatever output format you are wanting). They do not , and …

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    Comment #48531305

    >rather than giving it in a well-specified and tested form So, code?

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    Comment #48529066

    At my employer (megacorp with tens of thousands of employees) daily use is mandated. Our annual bonuses and pay raises for our performance reviews were explicitly tied to this.

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    Comment #48528460

    How much of that use is driven by corporate mandates to use AI anywhere and everywhere (even when it's a terrible fit)?

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    Comment #48528432

    Or just write it yourself?

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    Comment #48528235

    >Aren’t human coders non-deterministic? Sure, but LLMs are non-deterministic in ways that no sane human ever would be . See the "Is it better to drive or walk to the carwash" scena…

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    Comment #48527786

    >what "sense of rigour"? it's way too soon to put those rose-tinted glasses on. I don't think OP is claiming that prior to LLM coding everything in the software development world w…

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    Comment #48517029

    Then why did it take Anthropic over a year just to fix the flickering issue in one of their main products when they have internal access to the latest and greatest models?