Seems like a lot of people use AI to code in their private commercial IP and products. How are people not concerned with the fact that all these ai companies have the source code to everything? Your just helping them destroy your job. Code is not worthless, you cannot easily duplicate any complex project with equal features, quality, and stability.
I miss thinking hard
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I dunno, when you've made about 10,000 clay pots its kinda nice to skip to the end result, you're probably not going to learn a ton with clay pot #10,001. You can probably come up with some pretty interesting ideas for what you want the end result to look like from the onset. I find myself being able to reach for the things that my normal pragmatist code monkey self would consider out of scope - these are often not u…
import claypot trillion dollar industry boys
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#243I refer to it as "Think for me SaaS", and it should be avoided like the plague. Literally, it will give your brain a disease we haven't even named yet. It's as if I woke up in a world where half of resturaunts worldwide started changing their name to McDonalds and gaslighting all their customers into thinking McDonalds is better than their "from scratch" menu. Just dont use these agentic tools, they legitimately are…
Short term thinkers versus long term thinkers. Just look at the end goal of these companies and you'll see why you shouldn't give them anything.
To say it will free people of the boring tasks is so short sighted....
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#244This March 2025 post from Aral Balkan stuck with me: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/114160190826192080 "Coding is like taking a lump of clay and slowly working it into the thing you want it to become. It is this process, and your intimacy with the medium and the materials you’re shaping, that teaches you about what you’re making – its qualities, tolerances, and limits – even as you make it. You know the least about wha…
Coding is not at all like working a lump of clay unless you’re still writing assembly. You’re taking a bunch of pre-built abstractions written by other people on top of what the computer is actually doing and plugging them together like LEGOs. The artificial syntax that you use to move the bricks around is the thing you call coding. The human element of discovery is still there if a robot stacks the bricks based on a…
> Coding is not at all like working a lump of clay unless you’re still writing assembly.
Isn't the analogy apt? You can't make a working car using a lump of clay, just a car statue, a lump of clay is already an abstraction of objects you can make in reality.
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Spot on. It’s the lumberjack mourning the axe while holding a chainsaw. The work is still hard. it’s just different. The friction comes from developers who prioritize the 'craft' of syntax over delivering value. It results in massive motivated reasoning. We see people suddenly becoming activists about energy usage or copyright solely to justify not using a tool they dislike. They will hunt for a single AI syntax erro…
I disagree. It's like the lumberjack working from home watching an enormous robotic forestry machine cut trees on a set of tv-screens. If he enjoyed producing lumber, then what he sees on those screens will fill him with joy. He's producing lots of lumber. He's much more efficient than with both axe and chainsaw. But if he enjoyed being in the forest, and _doesn't really care about lumber at all_ (Because it turns ou…
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We need a new word for on-premise offshoring. On-shoring ;
> On-shoring I thought "on-shoring" is already commonly used for the process that undos off-shoring.
How about "in-shoring"? We already have "insuring" and "ensuring", so we might as well add another confusingly similar sounding term to our vocabulary.
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You can't without hacking it! That's my point! The only places you can easily are via the API directly, or "coomer" frontends like SillyTavern, Oobabooga, etc. Same problem with image generation (lack of support for different SDE solvers, the image version of LLM sampling) but they have different "coomer" tools, i.e. ComfyUI or Automatic1111
Once again, porn is where the innovation is…
Please.. "Creative Writing"
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#249Seems like a lot of people use AI to code in their private commercial IP and products. How are people not concerned with the fact that all these ai companies have the source code to everything? Your just helping them destroy your job. Code is not worthless, you cannot easily duplicate any complex project with equal features, quality, and stability.
I think that is a very good point. Code is definitely not worthless, but I don't think that capitalism has the right tools for pricing it properly. I think it will become a lot like mathematics in that way.
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#250I'm not sure I agree. Actually, I don't agree. You only stop thinking hard if you decide to stop thinking hard. Nobody, no tool, is forcing you to stop thinking, pushing, reaching. If the thinking ceiling has changed, which I think it has, then it's entirely up to you to either move with it or stay still.