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Re: ChatGPT Pulse

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Post by fbxio »

blks wrote: post #182
jama211 wrote: post #145

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Not this again. That study had serious problems. But I’m not even going to argue about that. I want to raise something no one else seems to mention about AI in coding work. I do a lot of work now with AI that I used to code by hand, and if you told me I was 20% slower on average, I would say “that’s totally fine it’s still worth it” because the EFFORT level from my end feels so much less. It’s like, a robot vacuum mi…

Often someone’s personal productivity with AI means someone else have to dig through their piles of rubbish to review PR they committed. In your particular case it sounds like you’re rapidly loosing your developer skills, and enjoy that now you have to put less effort and think less.

I’d love not to have to be great at programming, as much as I enjoy not being great at cleaning the canalization. But I get what you mean, we do lose some potentially valuable skills if we outsource them too often for too long.

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Post by CuriouslyC »

thegrim33 wrote: post #193
CuriouslyC wrote: post #141

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If you want another data point, you can just look at my company github ( https://github.com/orgs/sibyllinesoft/repositories ). ~27 projects in the last 5 weeks, probably on the order of half a million lines of code, and multiple significant projects that are approaching ship readiness (I need to stop tuning algorithms and making stuff gorgeous and just fix installation/ensure cross platform is working, lol).

I don't do Rust or Javascript so I can't judge, but I opened a file at random and feel like the commenting probably serves as a good enough code smell. From the one random file I opened: /// Real LSP server implementation for Lens pub struct LensLspServer /// Configuration for the LSP server pub struct LspServerConfig /// Convert search results to LSP locations async fn search_results_to_locations() /// Perform searc…

Sure, this is a reasonable point, but understand that documentation passes come late, because if you do heavy documentation refinement on a product under feature/implementation drift you just end up with a mess of stale docs and repeated work.

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Post by ip26 »

carabiner wrote: post #200
SirensOfTitan wrote: post #27

My pulse today is just a mediocre rehash of prior conversations I’ve had on the platform. I tried to ask GPT-5 pro the other day to just pick an ambitious project it wanted to work on, and I’d carry out whatever physical world tasks it needed me to, and all it did was just come up with project plans which were rehashes of my prior projects framed as its own. I’m rapidly losing interest in all of these tools. It feels…

Yeah I've tried some of the therapy prompts, "Ask me 7 questions to help me fix my life, then provide insights." And it just gives me a generic summary of the top 5 articles you'd get if you googled "how to fix depression, social anxiety" or something.

Argue with it. Criticize it. Nitpick the questions it asked. Tell it what you just said:

you just gave me a generic summary of the top 5 articles you'd get if you googled "how to fix depression, social anxiety" or something

When you open the prompt the first time it has zero context on you. I'm not an LLM-utopist, but just like with a human therapist you need to give it more context. Even arguing with it is context.

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Post by unbalancedevh »

domatic1 wrote: post #209
jasonsb wrote: post #66

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> I’m rapidly losing interest in all of these tools. It feels like blockchain again in a lot of weird ways. It doesn't feel like blockchain at all. Blockchain is probably the most useless technology ever invented (unless you're a criminal or an influencer who makes ungodly amounts of money off of suckers). AI is a powerful tool for those who are willing to put in the work. People who have the time, knowledge and crit…

>> Blockchain is probably the most useless technology ever invented so useless there is almost $3 Trillion of value on blockchains.

Unfortunately, the amount of money invested in something isn't indicative of it's utility. For example: the tulip mania, beanie babies, NFTs, etc.

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Post by lxgr »

stavros wrote: post #217
jasonsb wrote: post #82

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Objectively. I’m now tackling tasks I wouldn’t have even considered two or three years ago, but the biggest breakthrough has been overcoming procrastination. When AI handles over 50% of the work, there’s a 90% chance I’ll finish the entire task faster than it would normally take me just to get started on something new.

Same. It takes the drudgery out of creating, so I can at least start the projects. Then I can go down into the detail just enough that the AI doesn't produce crap, but without needing to write the actual writes of code myself. Hell, in the past few days I started making something to help me write documents for work ( https://www.writelucid.cc ) and a viewer for all my blood tests ( https://github.com/skorokithakis/bt…

Same here. I’ve single-shot created a few Raycast plugins for TLV decoding that save me several seconds to a few minutes per task which I use almost daily at work.

Would have never done that without LLMs.

Re: ChatGPT Pulse

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Post by fbxio »

wussboy wrote: post #199
blks wrote: post #182

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Often someone’s personal productivity with AI means someone else have to dig through their piles of rubbish to review PR they committed. In your particular case it sounds like you’re rapidly loosing your developer skills, and enjoy that now you have to put less effort and think less.

We know that relying heavily on Google Maps makes you less able to navigate without Google Maps. I don't think there's research on this yet, but I would be stunned if the same process isn't at play here.

Whatever your mind believes it doesn’t need to hold on to that what is expensive to maintain and run, it’ll let go of. This isn’t entirely accurate from a neuroscience perspective but it’s kinda ballpark.

Pretty much like muscles decay when we stop using them.

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Post by CuriouslyC »

mym1990 wrote: post #186
CuriouslyC wrote: post #141

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If you want another data point, you can just look at my company github ( https://github.com/orgs/sibyllinesoft/repositories ). ~27 projects in the last 5 weeks, probably on the order of half a million lines of code, and multiple significant projects that are approaching ship readiness (I need to stop tuning algorithms and making stuff gorgeous and just fix installation/ensure cross platform is working, lol).

Sooo you launched https://sibylline.dev/ , which looks like a bunch of AI slop, then spun up a bunch of GitHub repos, seeded them with more AI slop, and tout that you're shipping 500,000 lines of code? I'll pass on this data point.

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Re: ChatGPT Pulse

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Post by ip26 »

anon-3988 wrote: post #38

LLMs are increasingly part of intimate conversations. That proximity lets them learn how to manipulate minds. We must stop treating humans as uniquely mysterious. An unfettered market for attention and persuasion will encourage people to willingly harm their own mental lives. Think social medias are bad now? Children exposed to personalized LLMs will grow up inside many tiny, tailored realities. In a decade we may me…

It doesn't have to be that way of course. You could envision an LLM whose "paperclip" is coaching you to become a great "xyz". Record every minute of your day, including your conversations. Feed it to the LLM. It gives feedback on what you did wrong, refuses to be your social outlet, and demands you demonstrate learning in the next day before it rewards with more attention.

Basically, a fanatically devoted life coach that doesn't want to be your friend.

The challenge is the incentives, the market, whether such an LLM could evolve and garner reward for serving a market need.

Re: ChatGPT Pulse

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Post by animex »

rpdillon wrote: post #201
jsheard wrote: post #76

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> My personal productivity has skyrocketed in the last 12 months. Has your productivity objectively, measurably improved or does it just feel like it has improved? Recall the METR study which caught programmers self-reporting they were 20% faster with AI when they were actually 20% slower.

My personal project output has gone up dramatically since I started using AI, because I can now use times of night where I'm otherwise too mentally tired, to work with AI to crank through a first draft of a change that I can then iterate on later. This has allowed me to start actually implementing side projects that I've had ideas about for years and build software for myself in a way I never could previously (at lea…

This, 1000x.

I had a dozen domains and projects on the shelf for years and now 8 of them have significant active development. I've already deployed 2 sites to production. My github activity is lighting up like a Christmas tree.

Re: ChatGPT Pulse

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Post by meowface »

kenjackson wrote: post #123
jasonsb wrote: post #82

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Objectively. I’m now tackling tasks I wouldn’t have even considered two or three years ago, but the biggest breakthrough has been overcoming procrastination. When AI handles over 50% of the work, there’s a 90% chance I’ll finish the entire task faster than it would normally take me just to get started on something new.

This. I had this long standing dispute that I just never had the energy to look up what needed to be done to resolve it. I just told it to ChatGPT and it generated everything -- including the emails I needed to send and who to send them to. Two weeks later and it was taken care of. I had sat on it for literally 3 months until then. If I could have something that said, "Here are some things that it looks like you're p…

Exactly. Agentic LLMs are amazing for people who suffer from chronic akrasia.
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