Yeah. That's not the world I live in. I live in the terminal.
Congrats on being part of the 0.001% I guess?
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joks commented on AI is a front for consolidation of resources and power chrbutler.com/what-ai-is-... · Posted by u/delaugust
This is kind of a myopic view of what it means to be a programmer.
If you're just in it to collect a salary, then yeah, maybe you do benefit from delivering the minimum possible productivity that won't get you fired.
But if you like making computers do things, and you get joy from making computers do more and new things, then LLMs that can write programs are a fantastic gift.
But you're not making the computer do things, you're making an idea for a new thing a computer can do and then outsourcing the part of the "making it do things" that is actually fun and fulfilling. I don't get it -- the joy for me comes from learning and problem solving, not coming up with ideas and then communicating those ideas to a tool that can do the rest of the job for me.
Anthropomorphizing LLMs is not going to help anyone. They're not "lying" to you. There's no intent to deceive.
I really think that the people who have the hardest time adapting to AI tools are the ones that take everything personally.
It's just a text generator, not a colleague.
> It's just a text generator, not a colleague.
The person you are responding to is quite literally making the same point. This entire thread of conversation is in response to the post's author stating that using a coding agent is strongly akin to collaborating with a colleague.
joks commented on Intro to BirdNET-Pi: Eavesdropping on my feathered friends hannahilea.com/blog/birdn... · Posted by u/zdw
Long time BirdNET fan, but I used the Merlin app for the first time yesterday and found it much more useful [0] It’ll display multiple bird species at the same time, and highlight which song belongs to which species in real-time. Recommend giving it a shot if you haven’t!
BirdNET has some advantages -- it lets you select a segment of audio and it'll give suggestions, even if it's not extremely confident in those suggestions, meaning it can sometimes do better in noisy environments. Merlin is generally more useful, but the BirdNET app has its place for sure
And yet every bar I go to, as far back as I can remember, has slot machines and somehow that doesn't count? Even gas stations. Never understood this.
I never saw this in Pennsylvania until like 4 years ago and now they're everywhere. Most people I know hate them.
I love this article just for the spirit of fun and experimentation on display. Setting up a VPS where Claude is just asked to go nuts - to the point where you're building a little script to keep Claude humming away - is a really fun idea.
This sort of thing is a great demonstration of why I remain excited about AI in spite of all the hype and anti-hype. It's just fun to mess with these tools, to let them get friction out of your way. It's a revival of the feelings I had when I first started coding: "wow, I really can do anything if I can just figure out how."
Great article, thanks for sharing!
> It's just fun to mess with these tools
I think this is the main sentiment I can't wrap my head around. Using Claude Code or Cursor has been entirely a mind-numbingly tedious experience to me (even when it's been useful.) It's often faster, but 80% of the time is spent just sitting there waiting for it to finish working, and I'm not proud of the result because I didn't do anything except come up with the idea and figure out how to describe it well. It just ends up feeling like the coding equivalent of...like...copying down answers to cheat on a test. Not in the sense that it feels gross and wrong and immoral, but in the sense that it's unsatisfying and unfulfilling and I don't feel any pride in the work I've done.
For things where I just want something that does something I need as quickly as possible, sure, I wasn't going to care either way, but personal projects are where I find myself least wanting to vibe code anything. It feels like hiring someone else to do my hobbies for me.
A little context here since this website is highly misleading:
- EU Council holds more power in Europe than EU Parliament
- EU Council is pushing this regulation
- this website misrepresents the positions of most members of EU Parliament - it shows "Supports" despite most of them being "Unknown"
Overall, while people should be encouraged to contact their MEPs, I suspect many are already very informed on this & strongly opposed. Whether Parliament will end up having enough power to stop it is a different question.
The whole site has that vibe-coded-website look. I wonder if a lot of the information on the site was essentially hallucinated too.
joks commented on The current state of LLM-driven development blog.tolki.dev/posts/2025... · Posted by u/Signez
There’s an IntelliJ extension for GitHub CoPilot.
It’s not perfect but it’s okay.
Yeah for my uses it works fine. Not sure why OP thinks Copilot Chat doesn't exist anywhere but VSCode...
joks commented on GPT-5: "How many times does the letter b appear in blueberry?" bsky.app/profile/kjhealy.... · Posted by u/minimaxir
Actual scrolling seems normal speed, more or less, but it sorta looks rough (almost like dropped FPS or something). Using Fennec F-Droid (Firefox mobile). One quick thumb flick still gets me between the top and bottom, though.
on Firefox on my older Windows laptop it's like 5fps. Maybe mostly a Firefox thing?