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dexwiz commented on I'm worried it might get bad danielmiessler.com/blog/i... · Posted by u/conzar

Maybe NOS is a better analogy, since even the newest of drivers is going to need and get use out of the gas pedal.

dexwiz · 11 days ago

I think new devs could probably get use of it as a replacement for SO or Google. But if they slam on it and think they can vibe code a whole app, they are going to have a bad time.

But NOS may be better. It might make you faster but it doesn't make you better.

dexwiz commented on I'm worried it might get bad danielmiessler.com/blog/i... · Posted by u/conzar

AstroBen · 11 days ago

I shared your view a year ago. Hell half my posts here on HN are arguing against the annoying hype. Today I make heavy use of AI and my code quality has gone up, not down. It's better tested, better factored, with better error handling covering more edge cases

AI code is only buggy if no-one is guiding or reviewing it

I'm not sure how long we'll need someone in the middle to actually review the code

dexwiz · 11 days ago

I view AI like a gas pedal. For an experienced driver it can really help. For someone new, straight into a wall. For some code you go straight for hours and barely touch the steering wheel. For some code it's all wheel and too much gas is a mistake.

That said, we will need less coders overall. Just like you don't need human drafters or calculators in the same way. It will cut the bottom out of the industry, and entry level will be expected operate like a senior from 10 years ago.

dexwiz commented on Claude Code is all you need dwyer.co.za/static/claude... · Posted by u/sixhobbits

chaosprint · 13 days ago

The title is a bit exaggerated. The depth of the projects covered in the article is clearly not representative of "all".

In fact, I now prefer to use a purely chat window to plan the overall direction and let LLM provide a few different architectural ideas, rather than asking LLM to write a lot of code whose detail I have no idea about.

dexwiz · 12 days ago

That's my gist. All of these seem pretty basic apps I would see implemented to demo a new web or REST framework. Comment ranker is cool, but I can't imagine its doing much more than scrape text > call semantic api > modify DOM.

How much of this is buildings versus recalling tutorials in the dataset. For every vibe coded project with 20 lines of requirements, I have a model with 20 different fields all with unique semantic meanings. In focused areas, AI has been okay. But I have yet to see Claude or any model build and scale a code base with the same mindset.

dexwiz commented on Weathering Software Winter (2022) 100r.co/site/weathering_s... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

dexwiz · 12 days ago

I believe the author writes code as an artistic outlet. They use the word beauty/beautiful 12 times, the word love 8 times, and little (in a cute diminutive way) 10 times. The expresses a relationship with coding that most people don't have. It would be like an author expressing love for a pencil. Some may agree, but many would say "its just a pencil, the words are what matter." In a similar way programmers may say "its just a language, the features are what matter." Even then, Forth is chosen in the end for completely stylistic reasons.

Even the nostalgia factor for choosing a Forth is contrived. There are plenty of portable, modern languages that will likely be runnable for decades. Lua is embeddable and will likely be put into new systems for decades, and can run on low power hardware. But Forth is ancient. Its like learning calligraphy. Either you are in a niche, or you just love doing it. But no one uses it for the daily correspondences, they have messaging apps now.

I do agree that everything being connected to the cloud definitely excludes people and places. And that place may be anytime in the future. But you can combat this with more modern solutions.

dexwiz commented on 'I Feel Like I'm Going Crazy': ChatGPT Fuels Delusional Spirals wsj.com/tech/ai/i-feel-li... · Posted by u/Bostonian

techpineapple · 17 days ago

After talking to ChatGPT for nearly five hours, and inventing a brand-new physics framework dubbed “The Orion Equation,”

It’s wild that Travis Kalanick was bragging to the all-in folks recently about having a similar experience.

dexwiz · 17 days ago

There seems to be some obsession that otherwise intelligent men with no real physics background have with finding the Theory of Everything. I can't find it now, but I read an interview with someone that worked in science communication, and they would constantly get e-mails from men in their 50s and 60s claiming they have discovered a new unifying theory, but it reads like https://www.timecube.net/ to anyone with academic knowledge. They completely ignore existing wisdom and research in favor of their own view. Its like a less fringe version of flat-earthers.

My theory about their theories, is that its all about agency and control. If you find the Theory of Everything, its like finding the word of God, and by the transitive property you become God.

dexwiz commented on Ozempic shows anti-aging effects in trial trial.medpath.com/news/5c... · Posted by u/amichail

NoMoreNicksLeft · 19 days ago

>My opinion is to wait long enough to validate there are no long term harms,

What's your threshold on that? How many years is "long enough"? Trying to calibrate my own sense of risk.

dexwiz · 19 days ago

Not OP but 10-15 years for most drugs. Took about a decade for the general consensus around Oxy to change.

dexwiz commented on San Francisco to ban homeless people from living in RVs with new parking limit abcnews.go.com/US/wireSto... · Posted by u/harambae

BobaFloutist · a month ago

I think a big part of the problem is that if you allow large, semipermanent encampments or groups of RVs, you eventually end up with huge mounds of trash. Some of it is supposedly from other people dumping trash, but some of it is absolutely from residents hoarding, and it makes the footprint balloon out of control into sidewalks, streets, parks, and any other flat bit of space, until the area becomes pretty unusable for anyone not living there. Which makes a hands off approach politically untenable.

dexwiz · a month ago

Absolutely. The overnight tents I see are much tidier. Usually they take up a very small footprint, have a well secured tarp, and look like they get rolled up neatly every day. They aren't accompanied by a hoard of refuse.

dexwiz commented on San Francisco to ban homeless people from living in RVs with new parking limit abcnews.go.com/US/wireSto... · Posted by u/harambae

pengaru · a month ago

Seems pretty obvious the intention is to push them up into housing or out of the city, not into tents on the sidewalks.

Tents aren't tolerated anymore: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/28/supreme-court-homel...

And it shows. I encounter tent residents far less often now vs. last year, and there's no way those people have all moved into added RV capacity. It was already at its limit.

(I've skateboard commuted through SOMA in SF most days for coming up on 2 years)

dexwiz · a month ago

Temporary tents seem to be more tolerated. There are a few I see every night in my area, but they aren't there during the day. Its the semipermanent encampments that are really being targeted. I see less full-time living on the sidewalk, but there are definitely people still sleeping there.

dexwiz commented on If writing is thinking then what happens if AI is doing the writing and reading? hardcoresoftware.learning... · Posted by u/whobre

evolve2k · a month ago

The sci-fi movie Brazil (nothing much to do with the country), is set in a beauracratic dystopic future and at the start of the movie a literal real world bug falls into “the machine that never makes mistakes”. The error plays out over the course of the movie having a somewhat (negative) butterfly effect.

I feel the movie well captures the tone of the current moment.

Worth a watch.

dexwiz · a month ago

For anyone who wants to watch, there are a few endings in similar flavors to the Blade Runner endings.

dexwiz commented on A creek with atomic waste from WWII is linked to increased cancer risk npr.org/sections/shots-he... · Posted by u/geox

dexwiz · a month ago

My partners mother is from this area. She is nearly 70, so definitely in the impacted timeframe. According to her over half the people who attended a nearby elementary school died of cancer before 50. This incident has been public knowledge for several decades now.