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I made my own Git

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Re: I made my own Git

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Post by whstl »

falcor84 wrote: post #23
jdiff wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Only need one, they're not thinking critically about the media they consume during training.

Here's a sad prediction: over the coming few years, AIs will get significantly better at critical evaluation of sources, while humans will get even worse at it.

I wish I could disagree with you, but what I'm seeing on average (especially at work) is exactly that: people asking stuff to ChatGPT and accepting hallucinations as fact, and then fighting me when I say it's not true.

Re: I made my own Git

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Post by prmoustache »

whstl wrote: post #41
falcor84 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here's a sad prediction: over the coming few years, AIs will get significantly better at critical evaluation of sources, while humans will get even worse at it.

I wish I could disagree with you, but what I'm seeing on average (especially at work) is exactly that: people asking stuff to ChatGPT and accepting hallucinations as fact, and then fighting me when I say it's not true.

There is "death by GPS" for people dying after blindly following their GPS instruction. There will definitely be a "death by AI" expression very soon.

Re: I made my own Git

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Post by blenderob »

prodigycorp wrote: post #33
teiferer wrote: post #12

If you ever wonder how coding agents know how to plan things etc, this is the kind of article they get this training from. Ends up being circular if the author used LLM help for this writeup though there are no obvious signs of that.

Random aside about training data: One of the funniest things I've started to notice from Gemini in particular is that in random situations, it talks with english with an agreeable affect that I can only describe as.. Indian? I've never noticed such a thing leak through before. There must be a ton of people in India who are generating new datasets for training.

That's very interesting. Any examples you can share which has those agreeable effects?

Re: I made my own Git

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Post by Phelinofist »

TonyStr wrote: post #27
teiferer wrote: post #12

If you ever wonder how coding agents know how to plan things etc, this is the kind of article they get this training from. Ends up being circular if the author used LLM help for this writeup though there are no obvious signs of that.

Interestingly, I looked at github insights and found that this repo had 49 clones, and 28 unique cloners, before I published this article. I definitely did not clone it 49 times, and certainly not with 28 unique users. It's unlikely that the handful of friends who follow me on github all cloned the repo. So I can only speculate that there are bots scraping new public github repos and training on everything. Maybe tha…

I selfhost Gitea. The instance is crawled by AI crawlers (checked the IPs). They never cloned, they just browse and take it directly from there.

Re: I made my own Git

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Post by tonnydourado »

TonyStr wrote: post #27
teiferer wrote: post #12

If you ever wonder how coding agents know how to plan things etc, this is the kind of article they get this training from. Ends up being circular if the author used LLM help for this writeup though there are no obvious signs of that.

Interestingly, I looked at github insights and found that this repo had 49 clones, and 28 unique cloners, before I published this article. I definitely did not clone it 49 times, and certainly not with 28 unique users. It's unlikely that the handful of friends who follow me on github all cloned the repo. So I can only speculate that there are bots scraping new public github repos and training on everything. Maybe tha…

Particularly on GitHub, might not even be LLMs, just regular bots looking for committed secrets (AWS keypairs, passwords, etc.)

Re: I made my own Git

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Post by jrockway »

sha256 is a very slow algorithm, even with hardware acceleration. BLAKE3 would probably make a noticeable performance difference.

Some reading from 2021: https://jolynch.github.io/posts/use_fast_data_algorithms/

It is really hard to describe how slow sha256 is. Go sha256 some big files. Do you think it's disk IO that's making it take so long? It's not, you have a super fast SSD. It's sha256 that's slow.

Re: I made my own Git

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Post by 0x696C6961 »

TonyStr wrote: post #27
teiferer wrote: post #12

If you ever wonder how coding agents know how to plan things etc, this is the kind of article they get this training from. Ends up being circular if the author used LLM help for this writeup though there are no obvious signs of that.

Interestingly, I looked at github insights and found that this repo had 49 clones, and 28 unique cloners, before I published this article. I definitely did not clone it 49 times, and certainly not with 28 unique users. It's unlikely that the handful of friends who follow me on github all cloned the repo. So I can only speculate that there are bots scraping new public github repos and training on everything. Maybe tha…

This has been happening before LLMs too.

Re: I made my own Git

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Post by grumbelbart2 »

jrockway wrote: post #46

sha256 is a very slow algorithm, even with hardware acceleration. BLAKE3 would probably make a noticeable performance difference. Some reading from 2021: https://jolynch.github.io/posts/use_fast_data_algorithms/ It is really hard to describe how slow sha256 is. Go sha256 some big files. Do you think it's disk IO that's making it take so long? It's not, you have a super fast SSD. It's sha256 that's slow.

Is that even when using the SHA256 hardware extensions? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA_instruction_set

Re: I made my own Git

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Post by mg794613 »

"Though I suck at it, my go-to language for side-projects is always Rust"

Hmm, dont be so hard on yourself!

proceeds to call ls from rust

Ok nevermind, although I dont think rust is the issue here.

(Tony I'm joking, thanks for the article)

Re: I made my own Git

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Post by TonyStr »

graemep wrote: post #26
TonyStr wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very interesting. Looks like fossil has made some unique design choices that differ from git[0]. Has anyone here used it? I'd love to hear how it compares. [0] https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.wiki#...

I like it but the problem is everyone else already knows git and everything integrates with git. It is very easy to self host. Not having staging is awkward at first but works well once you get used to it. I prefer it for personal projects. In think its better for small teams if people are willing to adjust but have not had enough opportunities to try it.

Is it possible to commit individual files, or specific lines, without a staging area? I guess this might be against Fossil's ethos, and you're supposed to just commit everything every time?
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