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Re: I'm Archiving Picocrypt

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Post by neomantra »

DaSHacka wrote: post #18
reasonableklout wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a nice message and I sympathize with the frustration, but the critique falls flat with the author's decision to pivot into AI research.

Also the AI ghibli pfp...

The entire thing was crafted, including the profile pic.

His low-quality “petty comments” are to the low-effort haters.

Re: I'm Archiving Picocrypt

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Post by penguin_booze »

Obscurity4340 wrote: post #23
nurettin wrote: post #6

LLMs are glorified "LMGTFY" tools. AI assistance doesn't make people experts at anything. Some genz vibe coder isn't getting your job guys calm the heck down.

What does that stand for?

That answer is designed for exactly this question.

Re: I'm Archiving Picocrypt

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Post by dewey »

rikafurude21 wrote: post #47
latexr wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Considering the author is explicitly going into AI research, has an AI-generated profile picture, and claims front-and-centre on their website they are excited about LLMs, I don’t think that analogy works. Or rather, it is like a knitter throwing away their needles to eagerly go work in the loom manufacturing industry.

I dont think many people would be excited at the thought of going from handcrafted artisan knitting to babying machines in the knitting factory. You need a certain type of autism to be into the latter.

The author is a student at a university. There's many paths to take that early in the career, I don't think people have to read too much into it.

Re: I'm Archiving Picocrypt

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Post by 000ooo000 »

raincole wrote: post #15

I don't get it. (I'm not trying to throw shades at the author. I know they have no obligation to maintain an open source project. I'm simply having a hard time gasping what's happening.)

Did you not read the comment he wrote? It's straightforward

Re: I'm Archiving Picocrypt

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Post by uludag »

I've felt similar to the author, a sort of despair that the only point of writing software now is to prop up the valuation of AI companies, that quality no longer matters, etc.

Then I realized that nothings stopping me from writing software how I want and feel is best. I've stopped using LLMs completely and couldn't be happier. I'm not even struggling at work or feeling like I'm behind. I work on a number of personal projects too, all without LLMs, and I couldn't feel better.

Re: I'm Archiving Picocrypt

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Post by Timshel »

tromp wrote: post #67

How does "a very small (hence Pico), very simple, yet very secure encryption tool" come to depend on OpenGL, threatening its future on MacOS?

> It's not easy to fix in the code either because it'll require major changes to the GUI library which can get messy, especially since GUIs were never a strength of Go.

Re: I'm Archiving Picocrypt

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Post by kevingadd »

tromp wrote: post #67

How does "a very small (hence Pico), very simple, yet very secure encryption tool" come to depend on OpenGL, threatening its future on MacOS?

If you're using a portable library that needs to render graphics on mac, it's probably using OpenGL to do it unless it has a platform-specific backend.
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