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dsjoerg commented on AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions github.com/ghostty-org/gh... · Posted by u/freetonik

Waterluvian · 6 days ago

I’m not a big AI fan but I do see it as just another tool in your toolbox. I wouldn’t really care how someone got to the end result that is a PR.

But I also think that if a maintainer asks you to jump before submitting a PR, you politely ask, “how high?”

dsjoerg · 6 days ago

You haven't addressed the primary stated rationale from the linked content: "I try to assist inexperienced contributors and coach them to the finish line, because getting a PR accepted is an achievement to be proud of. But if it's just an AI on the other side, I don't need to put in this effort, and it's rude to trick me into doing so."

dsjoerg commented on AI is a floor raiser, not a ceiling raiser elroy.bot/blog/2025/07/29... · Posted by u/jjfoooo4

smiley1437 · a month ago

> people aren't aware of how wrong they can be, and the errors take effort and knowledge to notice.

I have friends who are highly educated professionals (PhDs, MDs) who just assume that AI\LLMs make no mistakes.

They were shocked that it's possible for hallucinations to occur. I wonder if there's a halo effect where the perfect grammar, structure, and confidence of LLM output causes some users to assume expertise?

dsjoerg · a month ago

> I have friends who are highly educated professionals (PhDs, MDs) who just assume that AI\LLMs make no mistakes.

Highly educated professionals in my experience are often very bad at applied epistemology -- they have no idea what they do and don't know.

dsjoerg commented on Batch Mode in the Gemini API: Process More for Less developers.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/xnx

dsjoerg · 2 months ago

We used the previous version of this batch mode, which went through BigQuery. It didn't work well for us at the time because we were in development mode and we needed faster cycle time to iterate and learn. Sometimes the response would come back much faster than 24 hours, but sometimes not. There was no visibility offered into what response time you would get; just submit and wait.

You have to be pretty darn sure that your job is going to do exactly what you want to be able to wait 24 hours for a response. It's like going back to the punched-card era. If I could get even 1% of the batch in a quicker response and then the rest more slowly, that would have made a big difference.

dsjoerg commented on AV1@Scale: Film Grain Synthesis, The Awakening netflixtechblog.com/av1-s... · Posted by u/CharlesW

mmastrac · 2 months ago

There's no need for low-quality comments cutting and pasting from your favourite LLM. You can literally just type it into your browser's search bar and learn what it is, or spend a minute reading the wiki page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1).

dsjoerg · 2 months ago

I disagree. I wish that when obscure terms were used, there would be an explanation of that specific term either in the article itself or, failing that, in an HN comment. This is especially helpful because sometimes a term will have multiple meanings in different verticals, which then requires each reader to not only search for the term but work out which context it's all about. Rather than each reader do that work, why not attach a good & appropriate explanation closer to the article itself? That's what I was attempting to do.

dsjoerg commented on The rise of judgement over technical skill notsocommonthoughts.com/b... · Posted by u/kohlhofer

physicsguy · 3 months ago

A similar debate has happened in education where people seem to think that having ability to critically analyse texts is more important than knowledge. and to some degree that’s true but personally I think that without building on some decent level of foundational level of knowledge and having a mental model of a subject, you can’t tackle thorny questions because you don’t have enough to draw upon as examples and counterpoints about how to proceed.

My current employer is currently going on a top down driven “one tech” mission and trying to rationalise the technology stacks across diverse product lines. Which is all fine but the judgement is a poor one because the biggest developer bottleneck that comes up in internal developer surveys is the corporate mandated IT things and a relatively hostile setup without even local admin rights, which make sense for general office workers and don’t make sense at all for software developers.

dsjoerg · 3 months ago

> a relatively hostile setup without even local admin rights

Taking a diversion into this -- how about local admin rights to a virtual VM / sandboxed machine? I imagine that would allow developers to be productive, while protecting everything that IT wants to protect.

Once you do that, I imagine everyone will discover the issue isn't actually _local_ admin rights, but having admin rights to a machine that's on the internal network and can access internal company resources. Which might mean that IT has taken a strategy that once you're inside the local network, you have access to lots of valuable goodies. Which is a scary strategy.

dsjoerg commented on How to Automate Software Engineering mechanize.work/blog/how-t... · Posted by u/Tamaybes

martin-t · 3 months ago

One of the dumbest things a smart person can do is work for an AI company.

At best they don't believe actual AI will be created and they are helping a scam.

At worst, they are actively working to make their own job redundant and when they're fired, they will own nothing of what they built. All the money from their work will go to the owners who fired them.

dsjoerg · 3 months ago

> At worst, they are actively working to make their own job redundant and when they're fired, they will own nothing of what they built. All the money from their work will go to the owners who fired them.

Except that's the case with literally every meaningful information-work job. Your goal is to obsolete yourself. If you do it well then your success becomes your calling card for your next job. Your career is a series of such jobs.

dsjoerg commented on How to Automate Software Engineering mechanize.work/blog/how-t... · Posted by u/Tamaybes

gerdesj · 3 months ago

I'm quite handy at what I do. You will not replace me with AI.

Today I set up a remote network with a couple of switches, a router and the rest. From the outside. The customer had already got the router to the internet (good skills) and a LAN. I had a router (pfSense) with six 2.5 GB connections.

I turned it into a 10 VLAN effort with access and trunks and so on, ports at layer 2, without disconnecting myself.

It's quite hard visualising a network, with VLANS and even harder working out how to pivot from the current setup to another. Anyone who has had to change the default VLAN across a site knows what I'm on about.

Just in case anyone here is in any doubt, networks are quite tricky. On a par with programming.

dsjoerg · 3 months ago

> You will not replace me with AI

Ever? Forever is a long time. Or do you mean with today's AI, assuming no improvements are made?

dsjoerg commented on Why do we get earworms? theneuroscienceofeveryday... · Posted by u/lentoutcry

anton-c · 3 months ago

As a producer lemme tell you i can create some pretty bad melodies than get stuck in my head cuz I heard em too many times. I'm not sure how well earworms can be dissected beyond music theory.

I also had a therapist suggest that the music stuck in my head(smth is going almost always) reflected my mental state. There could be some truth but also think this overplays a psychological connection. Sometimes I just listened to "hold the line" and it gets stuck. I'm not actually strugglin'.

dsjoerg · 3 months ago

hold the line is an amazing song tho

dsjoerg commented on British naval dominance during the age of sail lesswrong.com/posts/YE4Xs... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

lupusreal · 3 months ago

The more history I read the more I think the British have an unreasonable amount of plot armor

dsjoerg · 3 months ago

Yeah it was a good run.

Britain only became a thing after union in 1707. They had a good ~200 years, what with a great empire and industrialization and then an added bonus with America speaking English and britain being less damaged by WW2 than the rest of europe.