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But isn't getting an LLM to n-shot something just going to produce non-unique, non-original interpretations of an idea?

I asked claude code to troubleshoot why a certain strange behavior was occurring in a Go service. Only then I realized that the behavior I described wasn't actually occurring. A fe…

I can imagine in these cases the LLM is telling the "contributor" how smart they are and how much the project is loosing out, maybe saying something like: "It's not about maintaini…

At least this Schadenfreude is better than the Schadenfreude AI boosters get when people are made redundant to AI. I can totally see some people getting warm fuzzies, scolling Tikt…

I don't think this line of reasoning holds. The only thing people should look at are peer reviewed studies, lots of them ideally, and with no conflict of interest. Who's getting pr…

And I have to say that the whole trope of "Emacs may be able to do anything but you have to configure a lot to get it to work" has has got to be pure exaggeration at this point wit…

I was thinking the exact same thing. As long as you're not depending on any external packages things are very stable. Like, if you're package depends on adding advice to some other…

On the other hand though, automated refactoring like in IntelliJ can scale practically infinitely, are extremely low cost, and are gauranteed to never make any mistakes. Not saying…

From reading this, it sounds more like a management problem more than anything else. For example, retention goals should be such that all a companies experts (at anything, not just…

I find that this is on point. I've seen a lot of charts on the AI-hype side of things showing exponential growth of AI agent fleets being used for software development (starting in…

Magit is truly a magnificent application and it's telling how it's ideas are ported to other editors. Reference to the previously posted "You Can Choose Tools That Make You Happy" …

Use cases like the ones you mentioned having are truly amazing. It's a shame that the AI hype machine has left us thinking of these use cases as practically nothing, leaving us dis…

I feel like managers are having a heyday over tools like cursor having a user-by-user breakdown on AI code generation stats. I feel this is only the beginning and a whole new world…

Even before AI I've always had the perception that writing software felt more intellectually on the level of plumbing. AI just feels like a having one of those fancy new tools that…

Im curious why there's this sentiment in regarding advances in AI. High level programming languages didnt in the least bit take away the value of the SW profession, despite allowin…

Ironically LLMs have made Emacs even more relevant. The model LLMs use (text) happens to match up with how Emacs represents everything (text in buffers). This opens up Emacs to bec…

Surely though limiting the government's positive freedom of ubiquitous surveillance, like this example of printers, is something that I'm sure would be resoundingly popular in a de…

Wouldn't it be more correct to say that Muslims spread through conventional warefare and Islam spread through proselytization and incentivising conversion? I would imagine Muslim e…

> Everything in this part of the world is on a rinse snd repeat cycle ever since the Assyrians and the Babylonians That's an incredible statement, as if the rest of the world is so…

Logically this makes sense: every model has a context size and complexity capacity where it will no longer be able to function properly. Any usage of said model will accelerate the…

> Furthermore, the article is so bereft of detail and gushes so profusely about the success and virtues of their newly minted "senior level" AI that I can't help but wonder if they…

> In February, a Canadian small-claims tribunal upheld the customer’s legal complaint, despite the airline’s assertion that the chatbot was a “separate legal entity that is respons…

I get how I could be wrong on that front. I guess what I was trying to say was that there needs to be legible, predictable infrastructure for these AI systems to work well. I actua…

I'm pretty sure most people, developers especially, have had magical, life-changing experiences with LLMs. I think the problem is that they can't cant do these things reliably. I g…

I don't think comparing star counts would be a good measure though, as with AOC 90% of the effort and difficulty goes into the harder problems towards the end and it was the beginn…