betenoire (u/betenoire)

betenoire commented on The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” (2009) ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07... · Posted by u/janandonly

sdenton4 · 4 days ago

to hazard a guess: the better your coding model is, the less you have to assess your fundamentals, and thereby suffer arrested development.

betenoire · 3 days ago

I was thinking of our natural reluctance to adopt newer and better tools because of our comfort and expertise with old ones.

I know I should have experimented with LLMs sooner, but leaned into my instinctive "VIM has gotten me this far" attitude.

betenoire commented on The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” (2009) ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07... · Posted by u/janandonly

bananaflag · 5 days ago

See the Scott Alexander review:

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-the-gervais-pri...

betenoire · 5 days ago

> arrested development is the dark side of strengths in the sense of Positive Psychology

I see some correlation here to hesitancy in adopting LLMs for coding.

betenoire commented on I'm not worried about AI job loss davidoks.blog/p/why-im-no... · Posted by u/ezekg

bobthepanda · a month ago

Also, you don’t need AI to replace your job, you need someone higher up in leadership who thinks AI could replace your job.

It might all wash out eventually, but eventually could be a long time with respect to anybody’s personal finances.

betenoire · a month ago

Right, it doesn't help pay the bills to be right in the long run if you are discarded in the present.

There exists some fact about the true value of AI, and then there is the capitalist reaction to new things. I'm more wary of a lemming effect by leaders than I am of AI itself.

Which is pretty much true of everything I guess. It's the short sighted and greedy humans that screw us over, not the tech itself.

betenoire commented on LLMs bring new nature of abstraction – up and sideways martinfowler.com/articles... · Posted by u/tudorizer

pixl97 · 8 months ago

Yep, there are plenty of things that aren't computable without burning all the entropy in the visible universe, yet if you exchange it with a heuristic you can get a good enough answer in polynomial time.

Weather forecasts are a good example of this.

betenoire · 8 months ago

I understand there are probabilities and shortcuts in weather forecasts.... but what part is non-deterministic?

betenoire commented on YouTube's new anti-adblock measures iter.ca/post/yt-adblock/... · Posted by u/smitop

dmd · 9 months ago

Except they want it both ways. I tried Youtube Premium for a few months. Slowly but surely the ads came back, so back to blocking and not paying I went.

betenoire · 9 months ago

what? I don't see ads unless the creator themselves are doing it, and even then it's two clicks on the right arrow button and we move on

betenoire commented on Human coders are still better than LLMs antirez.com/news/153... · Posted by u/longwave

vouaobrasil · 9 months ago

I acquire skills to enjoy applying them, period. I'm less concerned about the final result than about the process to get there. That's the different between technical types and artist types I suppose.

Edit: I also should say, we REALLY should distinguish between tasks that you find enjoyable and tasks you find just drudgery to get where you want to go. For you, audio editing might be a drudgery but for me it's enjoyable. For you, debugging might be fun but I hate it. Etc.

But the point is, if AI takes away everything which people find enjoyable, then no one can pick and choose to earn a living on those subset of tasks that they find enjoyable because AI can do everything.

Programmers tend to assume that AI will just take the boring tasks, because high-level software engineering is what they enjoy and unlikely to be automated, but there's a WHOLE world of people out there who enjoy other tasks that can be automated by AI.

betenoire · 9 months ago

I'm with you, I enjoy the craftsmanship of my trade. I'm not relieved that I may not have to do it in the future, I'm bummed that it feels like something I'm good at, and is/was worth something, is being taken away.

I realize how lucky I am to even have a job that I thoroughly enjoy, do well, and get paid well for. So I'm not going to say "It's not fair!", but ... I'm bummed.

betenoire commented on Claude's system prompt is over 24k tokens with tools github.com/asgeirtj/syste... · Posted by u/mike210

int_19h · 10 months ago

All modern LLMs seem to prefer XML to other structured markup. It might be because there's so much HTML in the training set, or because it has more redundancy baked in which makes it easier for models to parse.

betenoire · 10 months ago

In my experience, it's xml-ish and HTML can be described the same way. The relevant strength here is the forgiving nature of parsing tag-delimited content. The XML is usually relatively shallow, and doesn't take advantage of any true XML features, that I know of.

betenoire commented on The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything notashelf.dev/posts/curse... · Posted by u/Lunar5227

pmarreck · 10 months ago

Oh wow. This hits hard in the feels.

Here's my personal submission for "UI problem that has existed for years on touch interfaces, plus a possible solution, but at this point I'm just shouting into the void":

https://medium.com/@pmarreck/the-most-annoying-ui-problem-r3...

In short, an interface should not be interactable until a few milliseconds after it has finished (re)rendering, or especially, while it is still in the midst of reflowing or repopulating itself in realtime, or still sliding into view, etc.

Most frustratingly this happens when I accidentally fat-finger a notification that literally just slid down from the top when I went to click a UI element in that vicinity, which then causes me to also lose the notification (since iOS doesn't have a "recently dismissed notifications" UI)

betenoire · 10 months ago

counterpoint, and I know it's not apples to apples, but have you ever used an old terminal app? Buffering the key strokes and then applying them _once_ the menu was ready was awesome. You could move so fast through an app

betenoire commented on I just want to code (2023) zachbellay.com/daily/i-ju... · Posted by u/SCUSKU

alkonaut · 10 months ago

Do many people hobby code with that entrepreneur mindset thing? Or sit down to play guitar thinking they want to make a hit and feeling bad if they just noodle some cover songs? What a miserable existence that must be. How do you get that way? Should we blame LinkedIn or what is it?

betenoire · 10 months ago

I do both of those, it's a constant battle in my own head. I'm always reminding myself that it's ok to make music just for my own enjoyment, and that don't need a potential monetary angle for some hobby.

I'm not justifying this mindset, which preceded LinkedIn. I don't like it.

betenoire commented on Writing "/etc/hosts" breaks the Substack editor scalewithlee.substack.com... · Posted by u/scalewithlee

orlp · a year ago

This is like banning quotes from your website to 'solve' SQL injection...

betenoire · a year ago

"magic quotes" have entered the chat :D