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djaychela commented on Open Sauce is a confoundingly brilliant Bay Area event   jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/rbanffy
obscurette · a month ago
As a teacher I have become more skeptical about whole maker movement. Don't get me wrong - I really appreciate what has become possible. I couldn't even dream about most of it when I grew up in seventies in Soviet Union. I use a lot of open source hardware and the results maker movement myself as a hobbyist and as a teacher.

But the problem is that while kids like it a lot, it doesn't translate to engineering careers. Kids don't want to become engineers as result, they want to become content creators, tinkerers etc. Even rather good students with a lot of potential see all this engineering stuff more as a media career or a fun hobby.

PS. I don't say the engineering hobby isn't cool and fun. I don't say that maker movement doesn't produce incredibly cool and deep stuff. I'm not even saying that it's the only reason why there is a shortage of engineers. But it's certainly contributing because I see it.

I'm a member of local engineering community and I see a lot of stuff like the quality of civil engineering sinking and we're all paying for mistakes in it. I see a lot of local production closing only because all R&D engineers are 60+ and planning to retire.

djaychela · a month ago
> But the problem is that while kids like it a lot, it doesn't translate to engineering careers.

I think there has always been that though. When having a guitar was cool and people thought they'd be famous doing it. Of course 0.00001% actually managed it, but some craft out a career in music or related areas such as being studio engineers etc. (I did)

And for some it shows that it is possible, that people like them can be enabled and make their own stuff.

It might be that they're are organisations needed to bridge this new gap and get people into more formal engineering, but they'll also hopefully realise that people like them might work one day at top tier engineering companies.

djaychela commented on It's a DE9, not a DB9 (but we know what you mean)   news.sparkfun.com/14298... · Posted by u/jgrahamc
djaychela · a month ago
For me, if I ever say IEC mains lead I get a blank expression. C13 even more so.

"Kettle lead" (Which is notched to indicate it can take a higher temperature and most of cables aren't that, they will be the c13 type), and their face lights up and a cable will be handed to me.

Just one of those things that's wrong, but it's not worth being pedantic over it, imo.

djaychela commented on I tried vibe coding for 30 days (YouTube)   youtube.com/watch?v=PDMxb... · Posted by u/djaychela
djaychela · a month ago
Not my video but I found it interesting to see someone commit to it from the background he has and the projects that were worked on.
djaychela commented on How Tesla is proving doubters right on why its robotaxi service cannot scale   aol.com/elon-gambling-tes... · Posted by u/Bluestein
djaychela · a month ago
With respect, I disagree. Musk is obsessed with the "the best part is no part ". Which only works if you don't actually need it. Combined with an obsession with cost cutting, and you get tunnel vision insisting on a course of action which does not know with 100% certainty about the world it is trying to navigate. And this has led directly to people dying.

Being obsessed only works when you turn out to be right, and tesla's system does not work as well as lidar.

djaychela commented on How Tesla is proving doubters right on why its robotaxi service cannot scale   aol.com/elon-gambling-tes... · Posted by u/Bluestein
samrus · a month ago
can binocular cameras replace lidar you think? they should result in just as reliable distance estimation
djaychela · a month ago
No, they don't. Look at what has happened when a tesla has mistaken a motorcycle with two small rear lights that is nearby for a car that is further away but with the same lighting configuration. Did not end well for the motorcyclists.

He's just wrong about this.

djaychela commented on My experience with Claude Code after two weeks of adventures   sankalp.bearblog.dev/my-c... · Posted by u/dejavucoder
postalcoder · a month ago
It's likely you're running into "too deep into mediocre code with unclear interfaces and a lot of hidden assumptions hell" that LLMs are generally poor at handling. If you're running into an inextricable wall then it's better to do a controlled demolition.

ie, take everything written by chatgpt and have the highest-quality model you have summarize what the game does, and break down all the features in depth.

Then, take that document and feed it into claude. It may take a few iterations but the code you get will be much better than your attempt on iterating on the existing code.

Claude will likely zero-shot a better application or, at least, one that it can improve on itself.

If claude still insists on making up new features then install the context7 MCP server and ask it to use context7 when working on your request.

djaychela · a month ago
Thanks.

I think I should have made it more clear in my post, the code is claude's and was done from scratch (the first app was a mandelbrot viewer which it added features to, this is a platfrom game).

It's a single file at the moment (I did give a suggested project structure with files for each area of responsibility) and it kind-of-works.

I think I could create the missing method in the class but wanted to see if it was possible by getting the tools to do it - it's as much of an experiment in the process and the end result.

Thanks for replying, I shall investigate what you've suggested and see what happens.

djaychela commented on My experience with Claude Code after two weeks of adventures   sankalp.bearblog.dev/my-c... · Posted by u/dejavucoder
djaychela · a month ago
Can someone offer me some help? I've just been messing about "vibe coding" little python apps with local llm, continue and vscode. And I got so far with it.

Then I found the free tier of claude so I fed in the "works so far" version with the changes that the local llm made, and it fixed and updated all the issues (with clear explanation) in one go. Success!

So my next level attempt was to get all the spec and prompts for a new project (a simple manic miner style 2d game using pygame). 8 used chat gpt to craft all this and it looked sensible to me with appropriate constraints for different parts of the projrct.

Which claude created. But it keeps referring to a method which it says is not present in the code and that I'm running the wrong version. (I'm definitely not). I've tried indicating it by reference to the line number and the surrounding code but it's just gas lighting me.

Any ideas how to progress from this? I'm not expecting perfection, but it seems it's just taken me to a higher level before it runs into essentially the same issue as the local llm.

All advice appreciated, I'm just dabbling with this four a bit of fun when I can (I'm pretty unwell so do things as and when I feel up to it)

Thanks in advance.

djaychela commented on Signs of autism could be encoded in the way you walk   sciencealert.com/signs-of... · Posted by u/amichail
flanked-evergl · a month ago
Society is tolerant of diversity in people.
djaychela · a month ago
Is it? Certainly hasn't been the experience of my two autistic daughters who had years of difficulty and which led to real problems for a decade or so each during later later schooling and early work years. Both are now doing much better but it's been a long uphill battle for them. The same of my two sons but society is much more tolerant (but bit fully) off their symptoms as they tend to be viewed as 'male' tendencies, just severely amplified.
djaychela commented on Myanmar’s proliferating scam centers   asia.nikkei.com/static/vd... · Posted by u/WaitWaitWha
kragen · 2 months ago
Will AI take their jobs? This seems like what current LLMs would be best at.
djaychela · 2 months ago
From what I've read, the cost of an llm would be greater than the current operators who are effectively enslaved. If it were cheaper then possibly - certainly easier to manage than people who would try to escape their dire situation here.

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