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> "Exponentially growing costs" I don't think people thing don't think enough about the exponentially growing costs with AI. The cost of tokens, the cost of bugs, the cost of techn…

I moved to a self-hosted Forgejo, with a self-hosted runner on another cheap Hetzner server. It's amazing how clean, snappy, and reliable it is.

Here's a guy who does more than make simple, bloated end-user apps. He tries to dig into the code and make novel performance optimizations etc. He sees that AI can't code everythin…

> by writing N parsers (“readers”) and M renderers (“writers”), one could support N × M conversions. Beautiful writeup for a wonderful project. In an age of vibe-coding hype it's a…

One book probably doesn't do it. I know the LLMs have been trained on one particular book that explains some crucial things about the grammar of a low-resource language. The LLMs w…

It almost feels like alchemy.

> In the same way high-level languages are a layer on top of writing machine code manually. Another layer, yes, but NOT "in the same way." It is a new, different kind of layer. The…

This looks great. It seems crazy how we got to this point where this is a revolutionary, unique product.

But is the information really scanned and preserved for direct access? Or is it just trained into an LLM so that we can only get fuzzy answers about the information?

This is an excellent analogy that shows how LLMs are fundamentally different than linters, auto-complete, or transpilers.

Fair point, but I mean perhaps it's not fair for them to have to impose usage limits (which would limit everybody) when they could just make a decision to avoid certain types of pr…

They're not obligated to deal with the higher load brought on by people's LLM coded projects, CI pipelines etc. In order to keep things freed up and flexible for others, I think it…

Making a principled ban against LLM would seem to allow for more freedom and flexibility with usage limits. People who are creating more by hand would still be allowed to have more…

> In addition, Codeberg conflates “having a community” with “being legitimate software worth hosting” I don't think this is a fair summary. I don't see this conflation in Codeberg'…

I've seen some extremely unnatural ones, like börek that looks overstuffed or Afghan Kabuli Palau with what looked like chocolate squares instead of meat chunks! It feels like look…

Exactly. I've been trying to say this. Some people think that because people can write CRUD APIs and end-user apps with AI, no-one will need to write code anymore. There is so much…

It's sad now to see a university library where students sit among endless shelves of amazing books, sitting on laptops, almost all of them with ChatGPT open. The library has become…

And then the AI gets trained on the advice and information subreddits, and we see an exponential growth downwards in quality?

I see people talking about the negative experiences, and I'm sure they are real, but I also had some very positive experiences. I remember being amazed that some internet stranger …

The book takes you through simpler examples, but I found that the exercises did an excellent job of drilling a kind of recursive problem solving skill into your head. You represent…

Natural language phrase generation in a very complex foreign language that follows recursive syntax trees. And making a GUI to handle and edit these syntax trees visually.

How to Design Programs with Racket was life changing. https://htdp.org That helped me to think about recursion, functional programming, and type driven development. After going thr…