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dingnuts commented on Survey: a third of senior developers say over half their code is AI-generated   fastly.com/blog/senior-de... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
manoDev · 12 hours ago
> I tend to begin asking for an empty application with the characteristics I want (CLI, has subcommands, ...) then I ask it to add a simple feature.

That makes sense, as you're breaking the task into smaller achievable tasks. But it takes an already experienced developer to think like this.

Instead, a lot of people in the hype train are pretending an AI can work an idea to production from a "CEO level" of detail – that probably ain't happening.

dingnuts · 8 hours ago
> you're breaking the task into smaller achievable tasks.

this is the part that I would describe as engineering in the first place. This is the part that separates a script kiddie or someone who "knows" one language and can be somewhat dangerous with it, from someone who commands a $200k/year salary, and it is the important part

and so far there is no indication that language models can do this part at. all.

for someone who CAN do the part of breaking down a problem into smaller abstractions, though, some of these models can save you a little time, sometimes, in cases where it's less effort to type an explanation to the problem than it is to type the code directly..

which is to say.. sometimes.

dingnuts commented on Notes on Managing ADHD   borretti.me/article/notes... · Posted by u/amrrs
whycome · 10 hours ago
Nicotine. But not the smokeable kind. And low dosage. But not if you’re likely to get addicted. The absurdity is that your country definitely makes it legal for historical reasons rather than useful less addicting stimulants.
dingnuts · 10 hours ago
nicotine is ridiculously addictive. everyone is likely to get addicted to it
dingnuts commented on Agent Client Protocol (ACP)   agentclientprotocol.com/o... · Posted by u/vinhnx
Disposal8433 · 2 days ago
You can't disagree with facts. Every time I try to give a chance to all those LLMs, they always use old APIs, APIs that don't exist, or mix things up. I'll still try that once a month to see how it evolves, but I have never been amazed by the capabilities of those things.

> with popular languages

Don't know, don't care. I write C++ code and that's all I need. JS and React can die a painful death for all I care as they have injected the worst practices across all the CS field. As for Python, I don't need help with that thanks to uv, but that's another story.

dingnuts · a day ago
If you want them to not make shit up, you have to load up the context with exactly the docs and code references that the request needs. This is not a trivial process and ime it can take just as long as doing stuff manually a lot of the time, but tools are improving to aid this process and if the immediate context contains everything the model needs it won't hallucinate any worse than I do when I manually enter code (but when I do it, I call it a typo)

there is a learning curve, it reminds me of learning to use Google a long time ago

dingnuts commented on AI models need a virtual machine   blog.sigplan.org/2025/08/... · Posted by u/azhenley
greenavocado · 2 days ago
We need fusion power plants as soon as possible because pretty soon it we will need to boil the oceans to write a Hello World in a hypothetical LLM VM, nevermind actually running the thing, which will require a Dyson Sphere at minimum
dingnuts · 2 days ago
well Sam A said that is the plan

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dingnuts commented on Grok Code Fast 1   x.ai/news/grok-code-fast-... · Posted by u/Terretta
giancarlostoro · 3 days ago
I don't know what other people are doing, I mostly use LLMs:

* Scaffolding

* Ask it what's wrong with the code

* Ask it for improvements I could make

* Ask it what the code does (amazing for old code you've never seen)

* Ask it to provide architect level insights into best practices

One area where they all seem to fail is lesser known packages they tend to either reference old functionality that is not there anymore, or never was, they hallucinate. Which is part of why I don't ask it for too much.

Junie did impress me, but it was very slow, so I would love to see a version of Junie using this version of Grok, it might be worthwhile.

dingnuts · 3 days ago
> amazing for old code you've never seen

not if you have too much! a few hundred thousand lines of code and you can't ask shit!

plus, you just handed over your company's entire IP to whoever hosts your model

dingnuts commented on Grok Code Fast 1   x.ai/news/grok-code-fast-... · Posted by u/Terretta
_kb · 3 days ago
You just need to scale out more. As you approach infinite monkeys, sorry - models, you'll surely get the result you need.
dingnuts · 3 days ago
why's this guy getting downvoted? SamA says we need a Dyson Sphere made of GPUs surrounding the solar system and people take it seriously but this guy takes a little piss out of that attitude and he's downvoted?

this site is the fucking worst

dingnuts commented on Show HN: FFmpeg Pages – because I was tired of fighting FFmpeg   ffmpegs.pages.dev/... · Posted by u/CodeWithNeer
kevmo314 · 3 days ago
I wonder if it would be more productive to bake that into ffmpeg at some point.

For example, something like

> ffmpeg -llm "can you take input.mp4 and resize it to 720p, transcode to vp8 output to output.webm"

dingnuts · 3 days ago
then you have to ship a model with ffmpeg lol
dingnuts commented on Show HN: FFmpeg Pages – because I was tired of fighting FFmpeg   ffmpegs.pages.dev/... · Posted by u/CodeWithNeer
alehlopeh · 3 days ago
AI has been pretty solid with ffmpeg commands
dingnuts · 3 days ago
was literally the first thing I found LLMs to be good at

this website would've been awesome ten years ago.. it'll make great training data now I guess

dingnuts commented on In Search of AI Psychosis   astralcodexten.com/p/in-s... · Posted by u/venkii
colechristensen · 3 days ago
Also even things like cable news I'd say cause comparable symptoms.

I don't know how to say this in a way that isn't so negative... but how are people such profound followers that they can put themselves into a feedback loop that results is psychosis?

I think it's an education problem, not as in people are missing facts but by the missing basic brain development to be critical of incoming information.

dingnuts · 3 days ago
never heard of cable news convincing people that they're Jesus [0]

0 https://www.vice.com/en/article/chatgpt-is-giving-people-ext...

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