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If robots do all the work (which is ultimately what all the lost jobs are about), why would UBI be unsustainable at scale?
Because the rich and powerful people who will reap the most benefit from all the automation will not redistribute the wealth to the now-useless ex-labor force.
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I've read enthusiastic reports about Cursor but my very short trial experience was quite similar to yours: refactoring by duplicating code, mixing up cases, server connection errors, to the point where I just gave up after one day. It might be me of course and my poor prompting skills but hey if it offers me "rename symbol" I kinda expect it to rename the symbol AND its occurences. Oh well. I'll check again in a year…
I have just complete as month long task of developing a highly complex library in C# (a parser that uses ANTLR) together with claude and cursor and it worked very well. For me trick was to do test driven development and write all the tests first. Then after each code change rerun the tests. This made it very easy for claude to work out what to do and what needed to be corrected for things to work. Then you get your t…
I've found numerous threads about this issue on their forums too.
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AI is a technology that, in principle, makes it possible to have a "Star Trek communism" society. I agree with you that it can also be abused to make the existing state of affairs even worse. But if we resist technical progress on this basis, we'll never get better, either.
I think Star Trek, while being one of my favourite shows, didn't take into account human instinct, which may in fact be incomaptible with AI.
What human instincts do you have in mind, and how are they incompatible with AI?
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For Qwen-32B, 32Gb should be quite sufficient to run it at 4-bit quantization with full context.
Thanks, I need to figure out something to run on M4 Mac Mini standard 16G
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I've had the opposite experience - I tried continue.dev and for me it doesn't come close to copilot. Especially with copilot chat having o1-preview and Sonnet 3.5 for so cheap that I single handedly might bankrupt microsoft (we can hope), but I tried it before that was availlable and the inline completions were laughably bad in comparison. I used the recommended models and couldn't figure it out, I assume I did somet…
The last couple times I tried "continue" it felt like "Step 1" in someone's business plan; bulky and seconds away from converting into a paid subscription model. Additionally, I've tried a bunch of these (even the same models, etc) and they've all sucked compared to Copilot. And believe me, I want that local-hosted sweetness. Not sure what I'm doing wrong when others are so excited by it.
And at some point I asked to change a pretty large file in some way. It started processing, very very slowly and I couldn't figure out a way to stop it. Had to restart VS Code as it still kept changing the file 10 minutes later.
Copilot was also very slow when I tried it yesterday but at least there was a clear way to stop it.
Is there some way to check what I currently use? I rarely use chat, so 50 per month probably wouldn't be an issue, but completion has become my main completion tool, not sure if I'd stay under 2000..
Can you see it here? https://github.com/settings/billing/summary I have Copilot from an org I'm in so I just see "You are assigned a seat as part of a GitHub Copilot Business subscription"
Working with people who use this stuff a lot has made my current job just so so much harder in every way its astonishing. I used to solve problems with code, now I feel like hermeneut or dream analyzer: absent of human intention, codebases quickly become these weird piles of different idioms, even without considering the hallucinations (those have definitely cost me a few sleepless nights now either way). But I am ju…
I have similar feelings though maybe a bit more optimistic take. Obviously the AI hype train hasn't taken us to anywhere objectively better. Software has in no way become less buggy (if anything it feels worse in the past few years) and most if not all of the software I use predates the LLM era. It feels like most developers en masse have taken on some masochist pleasure at deskilling themselves while becoming a prom…
It's a weird/delusional timeline, that's for sure.
Working with people who use this stuff a lot has made my current job just so so much harder in every way its astonishing. I used to solve problems with code, now I feel like hermeneut or dream analyzer: absent of human intention, codebases quickly become these weird piles of different idioms, even without considering the hallucinations (those have definitely cost me a few sleepless nights now either way). But I am ju…
It is part of the great plan: - Buy GitHub and devalue all individual projects by soft-forcing most big projects to go there and lose their branding. - Gamify and make "development" addictive. - Use social cliques who hype up each other's useless code and PRs and ban critics. - Make kLOC and plagiarism great again! This all happened before "AI". "AI" is the last logical step that will finally destroy open source, as…
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I've read enthusiastic reports about Cursor but my very short trial experience was quite similar to yours: refactoring by duplicating code, mixing up cases, server connection errors, to the point where I just gave up after one day. It might be me of course and my poor prompting skills but hey if it offers me "rename symbol" I kinda expect it to rename the symbol AND its occurences. Oh well. I'll check again in a year…
I personally love Cursor but never using prompts. I just use it's auto-complete and smart-tab features it saves me a tonne of manual typing. (I type fast, yet now find switching to a "manual" editor annoyingly slow). I don't let it write blocks of code, but usually I'm ~5 keystrokes into a line change or addition and it can complete the rest. I also use a text-file todo in the same project to help it with context of…
Working with people who use this stuff a lot has made my current job just so so much harder in every way its astonishing. I used to solve problems with code, now I feel like hermeneut or dream analyzer: absent of human intention, codebases quickly become these weird piles of different idioms, even without considering the hallucinations (those have definitely cost me a few sleepless nights now either way). But I am ju…
Where I work, we have a directive to use AI as much as we can wherever possible. I was handed a codebase that's been working on by many, many, many different people over the past ~2 years and was written almost entirely with AI (starting with GPT 3) The only way you can deal with the codebase is to fully embrace the AI. Whenever I want to make anything beyond a simple API change, I have to boot up Cursor and give it…
Humans themselves tend to write new code instead of using old code- a common problem- but with sensible code structures and CI, code will grow at a sustainable rate.
LLMs continuously barf a steam of new code, never deleting anything. Then you need to provide the barf as context, and the cycle surely must continue until it falls apart. How has this not happened yet?