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Thanemate

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    Comment #49253416

    What OP said is an insult to first year philosophy students who try too hard to sound smarter than everyone else. You're reading too much into it.

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    Comment #49243623

    I once uploaded a 700 pages book and quizzed chatGPT strictly on its contents. It answered somewhere between 60-90% across 6 quizzes. This was 2 months ago. Those quizzes were fact…

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    Comment #49243574

    We're basically at the point where people can build their own "X", with "X" being internal tooling.

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    Comment #49228892

    Relevant: I'm just sad that most turn-based JRPG's nowadays start off with you thinking about which move is appropriate for each situation, but halfway through they end up to makin…

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    Comment #49221084

    >Unfortunately, as the industry grew, all the wrong personalities entered it. Project managers, product managers, scrum/agile masters, terrible mid level managers, talentless clown…

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    Comment #49220979

    >I love chatting with the bots as they can build the thing I want, how I want it, much faster than I could. The output still feels mine. Maybe not line by line, but definitely arch…

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    Comment #49193146

    >I’m not sure how people get joy out of constantly vibe coding new projects. It feels like binge watching Netflix shows. It's just power fantasy. It's amazing the first couple of t…

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    Comment #49193067

    My annoyance with Zed is the inability to disable the "collaboration/multiplayer" functionality, so much that I'd rather just use VS Code.

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    Comment #49170382

    Last Christmas I caught our municipality (I'm from Greece) posting announcements about Christmas events on brochures that were choke full of obvious AI-generated images with Santa …

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    Comment #49168235

    >In fact it is kind of stupid to insist someone slavishly draw something by hand that could have been done an easier way. Communicating low effort used to be insulting to the consu…

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    Comment #49166541

    >Plenty of people are making money from AI? Is the amount of people making money from AI greater than the amount of people who lose money from AI? Is maximizing prosperity across h…

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    Comment #49164919

    The LLM industry is deliberately consuming human expertise on a grand scale, so that eventually knowledge work is delegated to any machine, yet I have to gain some sense of comfort…

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    Comment #49154392

    At the beginning of my professional journey I was coding along youtube tutorials to learn, and I can tell you for a fact that all writing reinforces is syntax, which is reinforced …

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    Comment #49154369

    My counterpoint to that is, you never know when the factuality of its analysis is mistaken because you're making it the point of authority over knowledge you should be working to a…

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    Comment #49124685

    >There's no one single way to use it The fact that people jump on the "you're simply using it wrong" wagon in every HN comment section whenever someone shares their negative/neutra…

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    Comment #49120275

    >but the customer will almost certainly let you know when this happens The customer won't be able to tell you "you're going too fast", but he will tell you that stuff break. On top…

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    Comment #49109512

    >I think the biggest realization to me of this whole thing is that most people don't want to turn off their brains. I think there's a sample bias that affects this perception.

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    Comment #49047907

    AI is here to stay. Embrace the future of to-be-summarized-by-another-LLM content.

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    Comment #48976793

    Checking all the past "what are you working on?" threads just to realize that, somewhere in August 2024 stuff just exploded and the average thread goes reached ~1000 messages, from…

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    Comment #48904462

    >The people are confused, it's a fact. So it is confusing. Stop gaslighting people. I don't think this sort of aggression is warranted, as the fact that I find something confusing …

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    Comment #48892592

    >As for actual coding… LLMs will always do better work in a well known stable language than something relatively new. Say that louder for the people in the back, who still think th…

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    Comment #48892466

    The moment technical decisions are influenced by LLM compatibility and LLM performance, they basically are. Remember the days where teams would adopt technologies based on how fami…

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    Comment #48879658

    But we can't have that experience when we deem the experience acquisition as sub-optimal to the grand scheme of things, which is to produce software.

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    Comment #48879650

    I can't enjoy life with my people if I can't eat, drink, and have a roof over my head.