I feel like the future will have this, plus ads displayed while the work is done, so websites can profit while they profit.
Every now and then I consider stepping away from the computer job, and becoming a lumberjack. This is one of those moments.
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silversmith commented on AGENTS.md – Open format for guiding coding agents agents.md/... · Posted by u/ghuntley
Compile, test, architecture would be very welcome in the readme too Id wager
Where contributors are the audience, yes. For things like libraries, I care about those things only if I run into a bug, and have enough resources to attempt a fix.
silversmith commented on The vibe coder's career path is doomed blog.florianherrengt.com/... · Posted by u/florianherrengt
Wouldn't it be better if it did work and they did not need programmers? Oh wait...
It would. And some projects will manage to stay within the bounds of what AI tools can do, and require precisely no programmers.
Who knows, maybe couple years down the line the bounds expand, and "some" transforms into "many", maybe even "most" way, way later.
silversmith commented on The vibe coder's career path is doomed blog.florianherrengt.com/... · Posted by u/florianherrengt
> “Soon, everyone will be a developer”
This is the wrong view. It's more like "Soon, everyone will be able to go from idea to a prototype". IMO, there's a different value perception when people can use concrete things even if they are not perfect. This is what I like about end-to-end vibe coding tools. I don't see a non developer using Claude Code but I can totally see them using Github Spark or any similar tool. After that, the question is how can I ensure this person can keep moving forward with the idea.
I had an epiphany about this couple days ago.
You know how the average dev will roll their eyes at taking over a maintenance of a "legacy" project. Where "legacy" means anything not written by themselves. Well, there will be a lot more of these maintenance takeovers soon. But instead of taking over the product of another dev agency that got fired / bankrupt / ..., you will take over projects from your marketing department. Apps implemented by the designers. Projects "kickstarted" by the project manager. Codebases at the point antropic / google / openai / ... tool became untenable. Most likely labelled as "just needs a little bit more work".
These LLM tools are amazing for prototypes. Amazing. I could not be anywhere near as productive for churning out prototypes as claude code is, even if I really tried. And these prototypes are great tools for arriving at the true (or at least slightly better) requirements.
Prototypes should get burned when "real" development starts. But they usually are not. And we're going to do much, much more prototyping in very near future.
silversmith commented on Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized nodaysoff.run... · Posted by u/friggeri
I've had those days where a 10-minute shuffle felt more restorative than a full night's sleep
Lymphatic system is actuated by your movement. Sure, it will work with just the little movements that your body does to keep in one piece, but for full performance so to speak you need to move around.
Understanding or experience?
Because my experience is not at all like that. If I use both Google Translate and ChatGPT on an image, ChatGPT is pretty much always better. It can even translate Japanese hand written menus quite well. With the added benefit of it being able to add context and explain what the dishes are.
I'm passively interested in small, local LLM OCR, due to couple ideas kicking around between my ears. Tried some a while ago, but most of my recent knowledge is second-hand. Waiting for someone to exclaim "hey this works now!" before committing more time :)
With the big commercial offerings like chatgpt I'd fully expect them to work fine, due to the absolutely massive horsepower in use.
I'm curious, how does it do with non-english texts? It's my understanding that LLM-based OCR solutions fall way behind traditional ones once you introduce other languages.
silversmith commented on The Claude Bliss Attractor astralcodexten.com/p/the-... · Posted by u/lukeplato
Agreed that o3 can be brutally honest. If you ask it for direct feedback, even on personal topics, it will make observations that, if a person made them, would be borderline rude.
Isn't that what "direct feedback" means?
I firmly believe you should be able to hit your fingers with a hammer, and in the process learn whether that's a good idea or not :)
;) the thought was more about reduce energy consumption and cost
Aranet runs on e-ink, with silly low energy refresh rate. The two (or was it one? ages since I last checked) AA batteries last me well over two years.
As for vendor lock-in, the basic readings get broadcast over bluetooth advertisments, and you can establish connection to get all the data. I have couple of them working nicely with HomeAssistant.
The cost, yeah, I'd love it to be cheaper.
I often think about quitting tech myself, but becoming a full-time lumberjack is certainly not an alternative for me.
But man, if tech goes straight into cyberpunk dystopia but without the cool gadgets, maybe it is the better alternative.