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yarn_

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    Comment #49115604

    I genuinely cannot think of something less interesting than the ebbs and flows of whatever bryan johnson is doing

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    Comment #49115598

    [flagged]

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    Comment #48832987

    First of many I hope, god bless.

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    Comment #48345534

    thank you for this truly deranged comment

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    Comment #48345530

    Because they're for two completely different domains?

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    Comment #48345496

    as a fan of him this rationale did not make a shred of sense "Both parties can have their preference" - this was already true of C where you can just turn enable unused variable wa…

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    Comment #48345481

    Well its also just idiotic in terms of how some huge number of people write code. I know I'll need so-and-so import, so i write it at the top of the file before i even start, I pre…

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    Comment #48328110

    I really don't understand why people feel the need to include this stuff. I am not saying that out of some anti-AI sentiment, i just genuinely don't understand how peoiple have so …

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    Comment #48162928

    Me when I have literally no idea what im talking about

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    Comment #48162879

    > I was a little shocked that they could get it fully working in a week to be honest It shouldn't be shocking, it was done using only compute, and the codebase is owned by the comp…

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    Comment #48143951

    > I think much of the world of software has become incredibly myopic. > usually taking the easy way out is just deferring the costs to your future. Problem is that those costs accr…

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    Comment #48026394

    sad but true

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    Comment #48026270

    >the devil lies in the details This is true, but perhaps not uniquely so, when compared to platform dependence of the standard libary already. File semantics, sync primitive gauran…

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    Comment #48014676

    >People disagree on a bunch of extremely politicized topics within the realm of nutrition and health which is famously complex and hard to understand even for experts in the field.…

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    Comment #47929754

    >We don't hire juniors and throw them boilerplate and tiny bugs while expecting them to learn along the way ad hoc Huh? This is exactly what almost everyone does

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    Comment #47796040

    Another good example of "the people writing good code with AI are the people who could have done it regardless"

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    Comment #47581530

    >It seems we've uncovered several feasible answers to your question of "why would you want that?" Fair enough

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    Comment #47577528

    Right but these are bad actors, roughly speaking, so why should I expect them to disclose the fact that they're using LLMs to me? If someone is repeatedly sending me slop to look a…

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    Comment #47577325

    This mirrors my thoughts.

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    Comment #47576829

    I don't see what the "deceptive practices" would be though - you can just look at the code being submitted, there isn't really the same background truth involved as with "did the t…

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    Comment #47576760

    Yep other people pointed this out as well, this makes sense to me.

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    Comment #47576751

    Well if an agent is submitting it I'm just going to reject it, thats no problem. "Just send me the prompt".