jaynetics (u/jaynetics)

jaynetics commented on AI is forcing us to write good code bits.logic.inc/p/ai-is-fo... · Posted by u/sgk284

eru · 3 months ago

Well, we let humans write both business logic code and tests often enough, too.

Btw, you can get a lot further in your tests, if you move away from examples, and towards properties.

jaynetics · 3 months ago

Can you give an example (pun not intended) of testing with properties?

jaynetics commented on Talent Is Alignment xlii.space/thoughts/talen... · Posted by u/xlii

jaynetics · 5 months ago

The piano piece is nice. You might enjoy Lubomyr Melnyk.

I think its a good approach to discover and build upon what feels good. There are plenty of pianists that can play a catalogue of songs, or improvise "flawlessly", but rareness or uniqueness are great qualities for art to have.

I'm not sure how well the same applies to work, though, where fulfilling implicit or explicit standards plays more of a role. A developed "taste" plays a role in doing e.g. a good sysadmin job, but if you're creating something unique here, any successor is likely to have a bad time, no matter how beautiful this creation seemed at the time.

I do agree with the idea that passion can be a big driver in both worlds, it just seems to me that in work there's more to gain if it is harnessed to some degree.

jaynetics commented on DOOMscrolling: The Game ironicsans.ghost.io/dooms... · Posted by u/jfil

felineflock · 6 months ago

Am I the only one who finds in bad taste to use "Epstein victims demand release ..." in the game? Is rape and pedophilia already normalized and I didn't notice?

jaynetics · 6 months ago

Maybe the game should have a kind of "trigger warning" on its start screen, telling you that it incorporates current news. Not everyone will read the blog, and few people click the "about" button before trying a basic game.

jaynetics commented on Vibe Coding Through the Berghain Challenge nibzard.com/berghain/... · Posted by u/nkko

caminanteblanco · 6 months ago

>PS: And the kicker? Claude wrote this entire article too. I just provided the direction and feedback. The AI that helped me solve the Berghain Challenge also helped me tell you about it.

>Meta-collaboration all the way down.

Would've preferred to know this going in.

jaynetics · 6 months ago

I mean, it only takes a few paragraphs of filler text, hyperbole, "catchy" juxtapositions, and loose logical threads to raise suspicions.

But yeah, I would also like these two minutes of my life back.

Well, as someone who has also generated some text with LLMs, at least I learned that it's still possible to generate truly excruciating stuff with the "right" model and prompt.

jaynetics commented on Rv, a new kind of Ruby management tool andre.arko.net/2025/08/25... · Posted by u/steveklabnik

lutzh · 7 months ago

I'm sure rv is great, but am I the only one who needs one such tool not only for Ruby, but also Python, JavaScript, and Java, at least, and finds it weird to run 4+ of those?

I put my hope in mise-en-place - https://mise.jdx.dev

What do people think? One tool per language, or one to rule them all?

jaynetics · 7 months ago

I'm a happy long-term user of asdf. https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf

jaynetics commented on AI is different antirez.com/news/155... · Posted by u/grep_it

keiferski · 7 months ago

Just to further elaborate on this with another example: the writing industry. (Technical, professional, marketing, etc. writing - not books.)

The default logic is that AI will just replace all writing tasks, and writers will go extinct.

What actually seems to be happening, however, is this:

- obviously written-by-AI copywriting is perceived very negatively by the market

- companies want writers that understand how to use AI tools to enhance productivity, but understand how to modify copy so that it doesn’t read as AI-written

- the meta-skill of knowing what to write in the first place becomes more valuable, because the AI is only going to give you a boilerplate plan at best

And so the only jobs that seem to have been replaced by AI directly, as of now, are the ones writing basically forgettable content, report-style tracking content, and other low level things. Not great for the jobs lost, but also not a death sentence for the entire profession of writing.

jaynetics · 7 months ago

As someone who used to be in the writing industry (a whole range of jobs), this take strikes me as a bit starry-eyed. Throw-away snippets, good-enough marketing, generic correspondence, hastily compiled news items, flairful filler text in books etc., all this used to be a huge chunk of the work, in so many places. The average customer had only a limited ability to judge the quality of texts, to put it mildly. Translators and proofreaders already had to prioritize mass over flawless output, back when Google Translate was hilariously bad and spell checkers very limited. Nowadays, even the translation of legal texts in the EU parliament is done by a fraction of the former workforce. Very few of the writers and none of the proofreaders I knew are still in the industry.

Addressing the wider point, yes, there is still a market for great artists and creators, but it's nowhere near large enough to accommodate the many, many people who used to make a modest living, doing these small, okay-ish things, occasionally injecting a bit of love into them, as much as they could under time constraints.

jaynetics commented on How AI is upending the software development industry reuters.com/lifestyle/boo... · Posted by u/wglb

biglost · 7 months ago

I'm tired and bored yo remove eval from codecamp and ai agent code. Now every fucking sprint has a few jira shit cards with titles like "fix the bug introduced by ai, fix performance issue from bootcampers. This is not what i became a code monkey for. Get me out of programming!!! This current time driven development mixed with fix the above shit Is making me crazy

jaynetics · 7 months ago

What did you become a code monkey for?

jaynetics commented on The current state of LLM-driven development blog.tolki.dev/posts/2025... · Posted by u/Signez

rustybolt · 7 months ago

> "There's no learning curve" just means this guy didn't get very far up

Not everyone with a different opinion is dumber than you.

jaynetics · 7 months ago

I'm not a native speaker, but to me that quote doesn't necessarily imply an inability of OP to get up the curve. Maybe they just mean that the curve can look flat at the start?

jaynetics commented on Typed languages are better suited for vibecoding solmaz.io/typed-languages... · Posted by u/hosolmaz

pyrale · 7 months ago

I'm not sure I agree with the author's conclusion. While python was never a great language for large codebases and it thrived because people with little development knowledge could get going pretty easily, a large part of its current appeal is the profusion of great specialized libraries which you would have to code yourself in other languages.

I suspect vibe coding will not be a good fit for writing these libraries, because they require knowledge and precision which the typical vibe coding use probably doesn't show, or the willingness to spend time on the topic which is also typically not what drives people to vibe coding.

So my conclusion would be that vibe coding drives the industry to solidify around already well-established ecosystem, since less of the people producing code will have the time, knowledge and/or will to build that ecosystem in newer languages. Whether that drive is strong enough to be noticable is another question.

jaynetics · 7 months ago

Then again, LLMs are well-suited to translate stuff, a relatively grunt work kind of task, so porting libs to your ecosystem of choice is a lot more feasible now.

Perhaps there is a future where individuals can translate large numbers of libraries, and instead of manually porting future improvements of the original versions to the copies, just rerun the translation as needed.

jaynetics commented on I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links noperator.dev/posts/o3-po... · Posted by u/noperator

ulf-77723 · 8 months ago

Tell me what you read and I tell you who you are. Even though it might be surprising in which detail the model might give a feedback, it‘s not so hard to do this as a human, or is it?

From my perspective the most interesting thing might be the blind spots or unexpected results. The unknown knows which brings new aha effects

jaynetics · 8 months ago

It's not hard to do this as a human, at least if that human is trained in gathering and transforming written information.

What makes a huge difference here is the ease and speed. I recently did a similar analysis of my HN posts. I have hundreds of posts, and it took like 30 seconds with high quality results. Achieving this quality level would have taken me hours, and I have some relevant experience.

This certainly opens up some new possibilities - good ones like self-understanding, potentially ambiguous ones in areas such as HR, and clearly dystopian ones ...