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grim_io commented on Awesome-Jj: Jujutsu Things   github.com/Necior/awesome... · Posted by u/n3t
grim_io · a day ago
I tried jj a few times but it seems to be incompatible with my workflow.

I tend to have lots of uncommitted files and changes that i want to keep around in this state while I move around branches and while having multiple change lists (jetbrains implementation) that I will commit at some point in time.

This loose, flexible way of using git seems hard to do in jj.

grim_io commented on Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?    · Posted by u/lemonlime227
prisenco · a day ago
Everyone's suggestions feel designed to frustrate me. Instructions on how to cajole and plead that seem more astrology than engineering.

This is the pattern I settled on about a year ago. I use it as a rubber-duck / conversation partner for bigger picture issues. I'll run my code through it as a sanity "pre-check" before a pr review. And I mapped autocomplete to ctrl-; in vim so I only bring it up when I need it.

Otherwise, I write everything myself. AI written code never felt safe. It adds velocity but velocity early on always steals speed from the future. That's been the case for languages, for frameworks, for libraries, it's no different for AI.

In other words, you get better at using AI for programming by recognizing where its strengths lie and going all in on those strengths. Don't twist up in knots trying to get it to do decently what you can already do well yourself.

grim_io · a day ago
I don't think anyone would say that the LLMs will produce better code, but they can do it much faster.

I personally did not hit the wall where the use of LLMs would slow me down in the long run.

It has been smooth sailing most of the time, and getting better with newer models.

For me it comes down to "know what you are being paid for".

I'm not a library maintainer. My code will not be scrutinized by thousands of peers. My customer will be happy with faster completion that does the same thing like the more perfect hand crafted version.

Welcome to the industrial revolution in programming. This is the way of things.

grim_io commented on Building small Docker images faster   sgt.hootr.club/blog/docke... · Posted by u/steinuil
grim_io · 2 days ago
I've seen so many devs not know that things like multi stage even exists.

Multi gigabyte containers everywhere.

grim_io commented on New benchmark shows top LLMs struggle in real mental health care   swordhealth.com/newsroom/... · Posted by u/RicardoRei
lkbm · 5 days ago
Yes, of course AI offered by a company can be sued. The reason corporations became legal people in the first place was specifically so we could sue them.
grim_io · 5 days ago
That doesn't sound right.

Not everywhere in the world do companies count as people, yet they can still be sued.

I'd wager the companies lobbied for this to gain extra rights.

grim_io commented on Vanity activities   quarter--mile.com/vanity-... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
foolserrandboy · 7 days ago
No, the author actually says: Acknowledge that they are hobbies.
grim_io · 7 days ago
What does that even mean?

Why does the author care that much anyway? Seems like a person I would not enjoy talking with.

grim_io commented on The state of Schleswig-Holstein is consistently relying on open source   heise.de/en/news/Goodbye-... · Posted by u/doener
nickff · 8 days ago
These institutions don’t bother making fixes where they can, so it seems unlikely that giving them more options will change much. Ironically, things like windows auto-update being the default probably actually help their IT departments maintain some level of security
grim_io · 8 days ago
Auto update is not rocket science. Linux distributions have it too.
grim_io commented on The state of Schleswig-Holstein is consistently relying on open source   heise.de/en/news/Goodbye-... · Posted by u/doener
lo_zamoyski · 8 days ago
> the ability to fix a bug in-house

Yes, but bureaucracies make this impossible. If you have worked at a bank before, you'll know how difficult it is to make a change to some in-house piece of software. And that's a bank, not a gov't institution. Think how much more friction there will be in the latter.

grim_io · 8 days ago
The culture can only change when it actually becomes possible to make any changes to the systems.

If all the software one institution uses comes in the form of proprietary binaries, there is simply no need to even think about making policies about fixing those systems in-house.

grim_io commented on I wasted years of my life in crypto   twitter.com/kenchangh/sta... · Posted by u/Anon84
jstanley · 8 days ago
That you don't understand something doesn't mean everyone else is wrong.
grim_io · 8 days ago
It's funny that you think of crypto bros as "everyone", when in reality they are very much the few.
grim_io commented on I wasted years of my life in crypto   twitter.com/kenchangh/sta... · Posted by u/Anon84
spicyusername · 8 days ago
I've never understood the initial arguments about Bitcoin, no matter how many times they've been explained to me.

The block chain is, and always was, an extremely inconvenient database. How anyone, especially many intelligent people, thought it was realistic to graft a currency on top of such a unwieldy piece of technology is beyond me. Maybe it goes to show how few people understand economics and anthropology and how dunning-krueger can happen to anyone.

Now the uninformed gambling on futuristic sounding hokum? THAT is easy to understand.

That being said, I'm sorry the author had to go through this experience, the road of life is often filled with unexpected twists and turns.

grim_io · 8 days ago
Ideology can be blinding. It was never about the technology.
grim_io commented on The unexpected effectiveness of one-shot decompilation with Claude   blog.chrislewis.au/the-un... · Posted by u/knackers
grim_io · 8 days ago
I need to try using a frontier LLM for deobfuscation. That's a huge pain in the ass for a noob like me.

u/grim_io

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