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sirnicolaz

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    Comment #49020582

    Lol, since when Crypto == PoW. Ignorants

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    Comment #49004109

    vibe-coders should be pretty happy about the fact that places like this exist, given that's it's ultimately thanks to non-vibe-coded OSS that LLM can improve.

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    Comment #48962175

    I'll join the rebels

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    Comment #48831516

    This does still not include any QA. The fact that A.I. tells you the implications of your changes does not take away the effort and time you need to verify the correctness end to e…

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    Comment #48830086

    One week to both refactor a big code base and also make sure everything works as expected? Not the estimate I would expect from a senior analyst, too optimistic. Fine that you fix …

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    Ask HN: Is there anything good in the existence of LLMs?

    I keep asking myself. What I see is: cognitive atrophy, cultural halt, information slop, energy and water depletion (and cost surge), anxiety (yes because you need to be faster now…

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    Comment #48804316

    Ironic that this very article has been partially written with AI... kind of lost the drive to read it

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    Comment #48791137

    Now, let's imagine your work all day with an LLM...

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    Comment #48771588

    I spent 10 minutes figuring out how I could just follow a few instances without having to run a docker container on my machine or keeping N tabs open all the time. Not a chance to …

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    Comment #48639413

    Oddly comforting

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    Comment #48603319

    https://archive.ph/z24oE

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    Ask HN: What do you do with LLM articles?

    I don't want to make a rant about articles written entirely or partially with the aid of LLMs. I do myself sometimes resort to that type of help if I get stuck. I just would like t…

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    Comment #48297440

    I remember when working for one of my old clients last year that the business as usual slack conversation was: - lead AI engineer asking tech advice - me proposing something (out o…

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    Comment #48290845

    I hope for his mental sanity that he didn't

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    Comment #48268836

    "people should aim to reengineer humanity and eliminate illness, old age, suffering and vulnerability" sure, that's exactly where AI is headed. also: just imagine a world where peo…

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    Comment #48160473

    > AI usage > I used ai for a single rust scope issue that google wasn’t giving me clear answers for. Nowadays, this needs to be highlighted. Congrats

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    Comment #48106323

    I had a professor at my CS university (one of the greatest I had) who used to say (in 2008): "a developer should write no more than 5 lines of code a day"

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    Comment #48104183

    Because the SWE benchmarks for LLM coding are done on python code bases, hence you are likely gonna have superior results

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    Comment #48086131

    Thanks for the breakdown! I myself tried to do some poor man calculation, and using this website https://tokenomy.ai/tools/energy-usage-estimator I have came to the conclusion that…