I really tried to get into the vibe coding thing - just describe the thing I need in human language and let the agent figure it out. It was incredible at first. Then I realized that I am spending a lot of time writing clarifications because the agent either forgot or misinterpreted something. Then I realized that I am waiting an awful long time for each agent step to complete just to write another correction or clarification. Then I realized that this constant start-stop process is literally melting my brain and making me unable to do any real work myself. It's basically having the same effect as scrolling any other algorithmic feed. Now I am back to programming myself and only bouncing the boring bits off of ChatGPT.
Readit Newsparasti commented on If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C? stephenramsay.net/posts/v... · Posted by u/sramsay
parasti commented on Accepting US car standards would risk European lives etsc.eu/accepting-us-car-... · Posted by u/saubeidl
Why do they need to do this? Is this a real problem in Europe? Are lots of people being killed by these imported trucks?
Implicitly you appear to be saying that we need to reach that point before action is taken?
parasti commented on 10 years of writing a blog nobody reads flowtwo.io/post/on-10-yea... · Posted by u/thejoeflow
One of the tough pills I and probably many other developers have had to swallow when maturing is that "non-programming skills" from schools are useful and very valuable, actually. Writing is one of them. Everyone loves a programmer that can explain themselves. An opinion isn't worth having if you aren't able to defend it either. Maintaining a blog therefore seems like a great way of improving your writing skills while also testing your own opinions.
Writing down opinions on things have done wonders for my ability to reason about them, especially when the opinions are built on 10 years of "hunch" and no discussion.
I upvoted but I was not taught this! I have had to slowly figure it out on my own. Writing things down is kind of like augmenting your brain. It's a memory that does not forget. When working through a problem, writing it down tends to point out the holes in your understanding. A corner case is never lost or forgotten when written down, it just stares at you until you write down a solution. The next step after realizing this is to develop the discipline to write things down and to organize your environment so it's effortless to write things down.
parasti commented on Study finds memory decline surge in young people onepercentrule.substack.c... · Posted by u/drcwpl
Bacteria (and your body) like sugar because it’s an easy to use fuel source. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with having reasonable amounts of sugar in your diet.
"Eating sugar" and "reasonable amounts of sugar in your diet" are two very different things.
You are not immune to propaganda
I don't disagree but I feel like having spent a couple of decades filtering bad Linux advice on sketchy forums has honestly built up some resilience.
As a EU citizen, I don't care? People are not swayed by political ads. They're swayed by influencers who push political agendas covertly.
The problems that you’re highlighting are self correcting. If the fertility rate drops, houses and spots at colleges become more available.
First-home buyers aren't the ones causing prices to go up.
What problem does this solve. The silence is better.
Reminds me of recommend engines in general. Or ads. Bothering my cognition with stuff I have to ignore.
Yeah, this is just an algorithmic feed - or, at least, the first attempts. After a while you'll stop asking questions yourself and just scroll the feed, just like you do on every other platform.
parasti commented on Microsoft to force install the Microsoft 365 Copilot app in October bleepingcomputer.com/news... · Posted by u/mikece
What's Microsoft thinking here? We got Windows on our kids' laptops and it's a pain to do anything with every time, just an amalgamation of decades worth of UIs held together with duct tape, looks terrible and performs even worse than it looks. When I'm thinking of the next big upgrade, Windows isn't even on the list of options anymore, and that's not even an ideological statement in any way.
parasti commented on The case against social media is stronger than you think arachnemag.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/ingve
I think to be clear that’s “The case against algorithmic*” social media”, the kind that uses engagement as a core driver.
I recently learned that Tiktok has a thing called "Streak Pets". Imagine taking a dopamine addiction-inducing activity and imagine gamifying that to maximize engagement in that activity. Imagine the brainstorming sessions at Tiktok where they navigate around the glaring issue of the fried brain circuitry of their own users.