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mbrumlow
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Comment #49214171
Policies like this will result in the death of the branded software. As we move forward it will be easier than ever to just maintain and keep your fork of software with the changes…
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Comment #49160517
Some products and companies require windows. It might please you to know that this driver was vibe coded from a linux vm based sandbox.(that was also vibe coded)
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Comment #49160255
Idk about sold. But it’s loaded on all the windows machines in a fairly big company that solves a real world problem. It allows us to apply custom ACLs to AI agents and the child p…
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Comment #49159340
What does the benchmark even mean when people are using AI to make real world things that solve real world problems? I see people, and my self making amazing things with AI and fix…
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Comment #49102007
Having jobs for the sake of having jobs sounds like living in hell. From what I can tell your argument works out to be as simple as we can’t do this because we want to keep people …
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Comment #48594297
It’s fairly silly to work at Amazon if you don’t like data centers. And also stupid for Amazon to employ you if you don’t like data center and are actively making efforts in your f…
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Comment #48492697
Your company might fail then. Because I won’t be fighting to work at your company, I’ll just compete with your company and get paid what I deserve. We already have CEOs is vendors …
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Comment #48439128
Correct, the word “and” is a coordinating conjunction. It joins two parallel adjectives. They’re related, but they’re not the same axis.
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Comment #48438605
Maybe those who participate in democracy should have to demonstrate some level educations on the topics they vote on? Because if you are right it’s a loosing battle. The masses wil…
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Comment #48438478
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Comment #48438458
> Those algorithmic biases have demonstrable behavioral consequences. The algos optimize for engagement, which can roughly translate into the people drive the algos, as they would …
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Comment #48352417
I thunk you are right. This is just the same old stuff. I think people are reacting because AI is doing something, and that something seems to be accelerating the process of softwa…
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Comment #48201307
This. We don’t have a housing problem. We have a “I want to live here problem.” And if we could snap our fingers and everybody in the world who wanted to live in NY could, it would…
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Comment #48116828
Wtf. I use OpenAI for all my shopping now. How to match clothing and finding things I have seen. ChatGPT has helped me with all the wired social things I have no clue about. Like h…
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Comment #48085662
> “Put an Idempotency-Key on the request. Store the response. Replay it on retry.” Is this the new normal? Assert something, that id clearly broken as the correct, then write a blo…
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Comment #48051435
> The second is when people generate artifacts in disciplines they were never trained in. This screams gate keeping. My self and many who are experts in their fields were never for…
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Comment #47983414
I have been saying this for years. When I was young I somehow figured out how to control my dreams. By the time I was an adult and working in software all my dreams were always ite…
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Comment #47914448
And? I why do we keep posting headlines like this. It’s not if the data center is going to take the power away from other people. The metric of “more than X” in this case seems use…
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Comment #47615621
I use eat. So far it’s been the best one. But I did have to fix a few bugs, and add kkp support to it. It’s not the fastest but it gets the job done.
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Comment #47567796
I am always having these arguments. We are paying this other company x a year for something we should build if we really need it. The rebuttals I always get are “I want you working…
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Comment #47567605
I look a Claude / ChatGPT as an extension of my thought. It should be held as such in all court proceedings. It’s used to allow me to think and reason about things. Idk how that wo…
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Comment #47567538
Idk about you. But I know lots of well qualified ICs who are enamored with AI. They are also boring it to build and fix things that would take months, in just days.
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Comment #47407265
Decisions are less costly. When a swe can take 4 days to do what would have cost 6 months, the math of making sure you are doing the right thing before executing goes away.
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Comment #47389387
> Now I'm pretty sure that people who say they "vibecoded an app in 30 minutes" are either building simple copies of existing projects, produce some buggy crap, or just farm engage…
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Comment #47360198
True.