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leptons commented on A guide to Gen AI / LLM vibecoding for expert programmers   stochasticlifestyle.com/a... · Posted by u/ChrisRackauckas
bobsmooth · 3 days ago
Trying to get better at vibe coding is like trying to get better at sleeping. The whole point is not to put effort into it.
leptons · 3 days ago
Not a good analogy. You can put effort into getting better sleep. If the sunlight wakes you up too early, block out the windows. If your bed is uncomfortable, get a more comfortable bed. If the room is too hot, adjust the thermostat before you go to bed. A little bit of effort can go a long way towards getting better sleep.

But you can't change the fundamental operation of an LLM, by its very nature it is not suitable for producing consistently correct results. Getting better at "vibe coding" is an exercise in futility.

leptons commented on A guide to Gen AI / LLM vibecoding for expert programmers   stochasticlifestyle.com/a... · Posted by u/ChrisRackauckas
iLoveOncall · 3 days ago
The number of lines you have to review at once doesn't matter.

Vibe coding is letting AI write code so you spend less time writing the same amount of code (ideally not more, in practice definitely more).

If more code is written you have to review more code. Doesn't matter if you break it down in 10 lines PRs or if you review a million lines at once, you still end up having to review all the code generated.

leptons · 3 days ago
Is this a 1-person dev team? Because on teams, one person has to submit a PR and then someone else on the team has to code review it, right? So then you're doubling the review time of the code. If you wrote the code yourself, you would already know that it works, then you submit the PR, and then someone else reviews the code one time, not twice. And typically reading and understanding code you did not write takes longer than writing the code yourself. It does not seem like "AI" coding is really saving anyone any time, and is probably wasting more time than it saves.
leptons commented on A guide to Gen AI / LLM vibecoding for expert programmers   stochasticlifestyle.com/a... · Posted by u/ChrisRackauckas
shortrounddev2 · 3 days ago
If you have to describe the code to the ai and then read through each line of it anyways, why not just write the code yourself?
leptons · 3 days ago
It takes way more time to explain, and then re-explain, and then re-re-re-explain to the LLM what I want the code to do. No, it isn't because I don't understand LLMs, it's because LLMs don't understand, period. Trying to coax a fancy word predictor to output the correct code can be extremely frustrating especially when I know how to write the code.
leptons commented on Pixel 10 Phones   blog.google/products/pixe... · Posted by u/gotmedium
selcuka · 4 days ago
At least I have some numbers.
leptons · 3 days ago
You made up some numbers, that isn't the same as "having numbers".
leptons commented on Pixel 10 Phones   blog.google/products/pixe... · Posted by u/gotmedium
selcuka · 4 days ago
You asked "where are you pulling these numbers from?" and I answered. Is this your response?
leptons · 3 days ago
You made the numbers up. Got it.
leptons commented on Pixel 10 Phones   blog.google/products/pixe... · Posted by u/gotmedium
selcuka · 4 days ago
> they aren't being used by 80% of the world's population.

I said "iPhone is more appealing to 80%+ of world's population". I didn't say everyone who wants it can afford it.

It's pure speculation, of course, but given its current market share (27% of all devices sold) and its price point, I don't think it's too far fetched to say that its market share would be much higher if price wasn't an issue for people. This is somewhat hinted by the fact that it has a 78% market share in the $1,000+ segment [1], and most iPhone models are over $1K.

Also it still ships more phones than any other single vendor (unless you lump all Android phones into one bucket). In terms of revenue, it's by far the leader with 43% [2].

[1] https://www.netguru.com/blog/iphone-vs-android-users-differe...

[2] https://www.counterpointresearch.com/en/insights/global-smar...

leptons · 4 days ago
>I said "iPhone is more appealing to 80%+ of world's population".

The reality distortion field is alive and well.

leptons commented on Pixel 10 Phones   blog.google/products/pixe... · Posted by u/gotmedium
selcuka · 4 days ago
> Not surprising, this site is made for the Woz's of the world (and that's fine!).

I'm pretty sure Woz perfectly understands why iPhone has a larger market share.

I use a Pixel too, but I can see that an iPhone is more appealing to 80%+ of world's population.

leptons · 4 days ago
Except iPhone doesn't have a larger market share, and they aren't being used by 80% of the world's population. Where are you pulling these numbers from? iPhone only has a larger market share in the US, and not by much. Worldwide they are very small compared to android.
leptons commented on Phone searches at the US border hit a record high   wired.com/story/phone-sea... · Posted by u/mikece
mrtksn · 5 days ago
I wonder what people these days think about the song "Imagine" by John Lennon. Free travel, world peace and equality is so out of fashion that a strong majority seems to think that it is OK to restrict people's movement around the world and feel so terrified of foreigners and yet without seeing the irony the same people would talk about becoming interplanetary species. I wouldn't be surprised if the totalitarians drop the "think of the children" line and just doi everything for "national security".

I'm not fan of the trend, I'm open about it I despise travel restrictions and the security theater but I really want to hear from people who like the new way the world is headed for.

leptons · 5 days ago
> I wouldn't be surprised if the totalitarians drop the "think of the children" line and just doi everything for "national security".

Republicans are planning to ban all pornography under the guise of "national health crisis". It's in their Project 2025 playbook which they have been following very closely.

leptons commented on Phone searches at the US border hit a record high   wired.com/story/phone-sea... · Posted by u/mikece
owenversteeg · 5 days ago
This is bad, and the erosion of rights at the border is a serious issue of liberty in our modern age, but in many powerful ways the US is still ahead of many Western countries in terms of rights at the border, for both citizens and noncitizens.

For example, in New Zealand, you can be fined $5000 if you do not unlock your phone at the border, and later still compelled to unlock it. The US does not have any fines or laws to compel access. Of course, in any country, refusing the orders of a customs official will get you banned from the country, so that's a strong enough incentive for most tourists.

In terms of frequency: New Zealand searches 671 devices per year on 3M tourists, the US searches 46k/yr on 72M tourists, Australia 8.3k/yr on 6M tourists. That works out to 671/3M tourists is 0.02%, 46k/72M tourists is 0.06% and 8.3k/6M tourists is 0.14%.

Personally, I have fought against these searches for nearly my entire life. But to pretend that the US is on some sort of unique authoritarian slide is laughable. In the UK, today, most forms of protest are illegal. The EU has mandated cellular devices which record your car's location - on every new car. We should stand united against authoritarianism worldwide, not divided and pointing and laughing at each other in some sort of sad petty tribalism. I don't want to score cheap points on the internet, I want all people worldwide to enjoy liberty and privacy. United we stand, divided we fall.

leptons · 5 days ago
>But to pretend that the US is on some sort of unique authoritarian slide is laughable.

It is, but maybe you just haven't been paying close enough attention. Device scanning at the border is not the only indication of this, there are many. Masked federal agents arresting anyone they want without any warrant and then sending them to prisons in foreign countries without due process, should be ringing authoritarian alarm bells for everyone, including you.

leptons commented on Digg.com is back   digg.com/... · Posted by u/thatgerhard
Wonnk13 · 5 days ago
I was a refugee of the Great Digg Migration to reddit some 14 or so years ago. old.reddit and adblockers as well as very aggressive curation of subreddits have kept it to an overall positive experience over the decade.

I think overall I'm just less enthusiastic about the internet; everytime I come back from a week or two of backpacking without internet connection I realize how overstimulated with inane bullshit we all are.

leptons · 5 days ago
I remember Reddit before Digg users invaded it. Reddit used to be good. Digg refugees fucked it up nearly overnight. The comment sections quickly became garbage. It was like a bunch of teenagers decided to take over Reddit.

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