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Pet projects are getting too big to pet

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Re: Pet projects are getting too big to pet

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They can be monstrous cos they can take my job which means my money and identity partially

Pet projects can take your job?

Yeah, I mean, what happens when someone’s pet project grows into a giant that eats my company’s business?

Or when everyone can build their own pet to solve their own problem?

I easily with this irrational fear thoug, there are a lot of counter argument to that apocalyptic view)

Re: Pet projects are getting too big to pet

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post #11

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You are right! Not everyone is using AI for coding. I see your point. But I also disagree with your claim saying agentic coding is nay less of care or less engineering. I have 13 years of industry experience and was doing hand coding with vim. But I adapted agentic coding which I believe is very empowering

Your comment is as empty as the prose from am LLM. I worry about the level of discourse LLMs train us to accept as normal. Assuming, of course, that this is even human-written.

You see, I am jut not afraid of LLLs, or I can cope with my fear. They are just piece of technologies:)

Re: Pet projects are getting too big to pet

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These blog posts, lamenting losing something, create fascinating juxtaposition against posts from people having more fun than ever, and they’re often published on the same day. Hot take: Coding by typing sucked. Being stuck on some esoteric problem and having to rubber duck your way out of it. Your value being connected to the amount of stuff you could do that few others had the patience for, instead of how empatheti…

Yeah, I think the point is that software has always moved by letting go of lower-level control in exchange for more leverage. We've been through this quite a few times already. We have outgrew many technologies and ways of working in this history

And I agree. The craft doesn’t disappear, it just moves from typing and debugging every detail to judgment, taste, testing, and shaping messy systems into something useful.

Re: Pet projects are getting too big to pet

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The ai art is atrocious - the styles are all over the place (flat cell shaded vs ghiblified vs hyperdetailed with too much text), repetition ad nauseam, varying color schemes and shapes around the same subjects (is the scaly monster pink? Green? Rainbow colored scales?), the scale is wildly inconsistent, absurd composition (the dog is going nowhere instead of the door), the ever present piss filter and just way too m…

You have a really sharp eye. I think you could be an artist yourself :)

Yes, you’re technically correct, but I believe you won’t be in a few months, or maybe a year.

I’m saying this from a point of awareness. I do know about all of those issues, but I also can’t wait until they change for good.

For instance, style consistency. Yeah, AI still can’t keep it fully consistent, but I think it will be fixed, the same way character consistency is almost fixed now. And that’s already huge progress.

Re: Pet projects are getting too big to pet

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post #11

There's a lot of good descriptions and observations on this article. But I don't like this language that just assumes we all use AI, we've all pulled away from the code. It all seems to be part of the collective brainwashing and psychosis that says "it's a new age now, everyone is doing it this way." > It’s less coding than it used to be, or a different kind of coding. More describing and steering and deciding, less…

You are right! Not everyone is using AI for coding. I see your point. But I also disagree with your claim saying agentic coding is nay less of care or less engineering. I have 13 years of industry experience and was doing hand coding with vim. But I adapted agentic coding which I believe is very empowering

This comment amounts to "you said agentic coding is less engineering, but I think you're wrong"

But somehow it takes five times as many words to say that. It doesn't feel AI-written, but could this be an effect of habitual AI use, that it trains a person to write extra words to disguise what they are saying?

Re: Pet projects are getting too big to pet

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post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your comment is as empty as the prose from am LLM. I worry about the level of discourse LLMs train us to accept as normal. Assuming, of course, that this is even human-written.

You see, I am jut not afraid of LLLs, or I can cope with my fear. They are just piece of technologies:)

Yes, they are just technology. And just like we shouldn't try to roll down the road like the wheel of a car, we shouldn't try to talk like LLMs.

Re: Pet projects are getting too big to pet

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post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pet projects can take your job?

Yeah, I mean, what happens when someone’s pet project grows into a giant that eats my company’s business? Or when everyone can build their own pet to solve their own problem? I easily with this irrational fear thoug, there are a lot of counter argument to that apocalyptic view)

Compete or die is the fundamental rule of business.
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