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durumu commented on Gemini 2.5 Deep Think   blog.google/products/gemi... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
thunky · a month ago
> Even IF that were true (and I'd argue that it is NOT)

Can you share what these "hard problems" are that > 1% of developers are working on?

durumu · a month ago
Even if most of the code you write is solving repetitive plumbing tasks, today's models are incredibly bad at API design taste. IMO designing software in a way that minimizes side effects and is easy to change and test is more than 1% of software engineering.

Lately most of the code I write has been through LLMs and I find them an enormous productivity booster overall, but despite the benchmarks they're not expert human level quite yet, and they need a LOT of coaxing to produce production quality code.

As far as things LLMs are bad at, I think it's mainly the long tail. I'm not sure there's one singular thing that >1% of programmers work on that LLMs suck at, but I think there are thousands of different weird sub-specialties that almost no one is working on and very little public code exists for, thus LLMs are not good at them yet.

durumu commented on LLM Inevitabilism   tomrenner.com/posts/llm-i... · Posted by u/SwoopsFromAbove
hammyhavoc · 2 months ago
LLM inevitablists definitely assume future developments will improve their current state.
durumu · 2 months ago
Yes, LLMs are currently useful and are improving rapidly so they are likely to become even more useful in the future. I think inevitable is a pretty strong word but barring government intervention or geopolitical turmoil I don't see signs of LLM progress stopping.
durumu commented on LLM Inevitabilism   tomrenner.com/posts/llm-i... · Posted by u/SwoopsFromAbove
0xAFFFF · 2 months ago
durumu · 2 months ago
I think that's more reflective of the deteriorating relationship between OpenAI and Microsoft than an true lack of demand for datacenters. If a major model provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI) were to see a dip in available funding or stop focusing on training more powerful models, that would convince me we may be in a bubble about to pop, but there are no signs of that as far as I can see.
durumu commented on Amazon’s delivery drones are grounded in College Station, Texas   wired.com/story/texas-ama... · Posted by u/impish9208
fnfjfk · 6 months ago
They are working on that, well... kind of. They somehow convinced the NYC government to allow them to legally operate little trucks in bike lanes. They claim that they are "bikes" (bikes have two wheels, that's what "bi" means, these have four)

https://www.reddit.com/r/NYCbike/comments/1gw1wlj/amazon_box...

durumu · 6 months ago
I like those vehicles, honestly -- delivery trucks are going to park in the bike lane regardless and these are much smaller and safer to maneuver around. I want to see more of them and hope it leads to more bike lanes being built in NYC.
durumu commented on Augment.vim: AI Chat and completion in Vim and Neovim   github.com/augmentcode/au... · Posted by u/knes
mempko · 7 months ago
It's sad that neovim split the community like this. Now efforts are split.
durumu · 7 months ago
Neovim is fully backwards compatible, no? I'm not sure what the downside of switching is.

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durumu commented on Interview with DeepSeek Founder: We're Done Following. It's Time to Lead   thechinaacademy.org/inter... · Posted by u/oli5679
cchance · 7 months ago
Is that why if you ask it... it says it's based on ChatGPT4 ?
durumu · 7 months ago
Most LLMs do this due to the proliferation of ChatGPT-generated content in the training data.
durumu commented on Ask HN: Is there an equivalent of Cursor for Vim?    · Posted by u/cft
durumu · 7 months ago
I doubt there is a service that bundles a bunch of API access for one subscription fee and works with vim. But there are a few plugins that provide cursor like functionality and let you bring your own API key. Avante and code-companion are the most widely used ones. Magenta.nvim looks promising.
durumu commented on Google "We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI" (2023)   semianalysis.com/2023/05/... · Posted by u/shihab
Suppafly · 7 months ago
>And their AI answered me and gave me an enthusiastic and utterly useless paragraph about how some holidays are sometimes on mondays.

The AI summaries are almost universally wrong or incomplete in an important way for everything I've search for lately. It's honestly devaluing the site in ways that might be hard to recover from.

durumu · 7 months ago
I think AI capabilities perception in general is being greatly damaged by the Google search AI summary. Whatever model they use is so cheap and crappy, yet I can't opt out of it or even get my eyes to skip the box... Claude or Perplexity or whatever can comfortably and concisely answer questions about Auckland holidays without hallucinating, yet the Google search AI thinks you can eat rocks and put glue on pizza, and I see people trot similar examples out all the time to prove that "AI is dumb".
durumu commented on NYC Congestion Pricing Tracker   congestion-pricing-tracke... · Posted by u/gotmedium
Lanolderen · 8 months ago
I mean, I'm definitely biased but I've been sick once since ~2015 and that was Covid I caught at a large anniversary celebration. Before that I was <18 and would get sick every winter in my opinion due to people caughing all around me on the bus for 45 minutes per direction.

With crazies it's not that bad. I remember the bus getting pulled over once by a car with people with pipes/bats who beat a grandpa for getting in an argument with one of the guys prior. That was the only actually violent occurance over thousands of rides, however I still have yet to feel as threatened with a personal vehicle. With a car I could have rammed the fuck out of them or ran them over, with a bike I could have been gone in a second, when the bus driver stops and opens the front door you're just stuck. Again, realistically it's mostly crazy homeless people who pose no threat but I prefer to have some control at least.

My issue with electric bicycles is:

If limited they don't fit with pedestrians or cars so you need to complicate infrastructure. Good for going to the post office but not as a daily since they're just not fast enough. Lovely for old people and to an extent kids.

If not limited they are less tested motorcycles with usually shitty tires and brakes, no ABS, TC, etc with pedals to fulful some potentially existing legal loophole since there's no way you're doing anything close to the motor output manually yet since you feel inclined to pedal gear becomes problematic.

I still have yet to try an electric motorcycle but I'd guess the little electric scooters would be great for commuting. I'm guessing an electric scooter that can do 100-140kmh would be the utility sweet spot. You'd be able to go everywhere and charge for pennies with minimal maintenance. You'd also get the scooter benefits of improved road muck/weather protection and actual underseat storage.

durumu · 8 months ago
In Manhattan ebike access is excellent -- there are tons of bike lanes and bikeshare stations. They are typically as fast as Ubers for getting around the city since traffic is so bad here, and much cheaper. The main issue is that it's not very safe. Probably this does not generalize to most other US cities.

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