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surajrmal commented on LLMs as the new high level language   federicopereiro.com/llm-h... · Posted by u/swah
matheus-rr · a day ago
The intermediate product argument is the strongest point in this thread. When we went from assembly to C, the debugging experience changed fundamentally. When we went from C to Java, how we thought about memory changed. With LLMs, I'm still debugging the same TypeScript and Python I was before.

The generation step changed. The maintenance step didn't. And most codebases spend 90% of their life in maintenance mode.

The real test of whether prompts become a "language" is whether they become versioned, reviewed artifacts that teams commit to repos. Right now they're closer to Slack messages than source files. Until prompt-to-binary is reliable enough that nobody reads the intermediate code, the analogy doesn't hold.

surajrmal · 17 hours ago
Note that a lot of people also still work in C.
surajrmal commented on DoNotNotify is now Open Source   donotnotify.com/opensourc... · Posted by u/awaaz
tgsovlerkhgsel · a day ago
Most apps that are in need of notification control either:

a) bundle everything in one category, from critical notifications without which the app can't fulfill its purpose to "HEY YOU HAVEN'T USED ME IN A DAY, USE ME NOW" spam

b) create a new category for spam every time they feel enough users have turned off the previous one, which is often

surajrmal · 17 hours ago
I wish app review checked for this. It's hostile anti user behavior.
surajrmal commented on Google staff call for firm to cut ties with ICE   bbc.com/news/articles/cvg... · Posted by u/tartoran
bhouston · 2 days ago
That is what they did to those protesting Google’s complicity in Israel actions in Gaza. But it is unclear if they hold Palestinian sympathy in the same contempt as sympathy for fellow Americans but we will see.
surajrmal · a day ago
They only did that to employees who performed an occupation of some cloud exec offices. That's not quite the same as signing a petition and equating them is silly. I'm not trying to justify what happened, but I can at least appreciate why that might cross a line too far.
surajrmal commented on Why I Joined OpenAI   brendangregg.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/SerCe
buzzerbetrayed · 2 days ago
You believe someone taking a fat paycheck isn’t doing it for the fat paycheck?

Wanna buy a bridge?

surajrmal · 2 days ago
Humans are complex and have multiple sources of motivation. You don't know whether he took the offer with the highest pay. He's likely wealthy enough that he can pay less attention to his income and focus on his other sources of motivation if he wants to. That's not to say pay is not a factor in his choice, but it need not be the only or primary one. This is a luxury of the privileged for sure, which can make it difficult to relate to.
surajrmal commented on Why I Joined OpenAI   brendangregg.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/SerCe
I_am_tiberius · 2 days ago
If it's in your power, make sure user prompts and llm responses are never read, never analyzed and never used for training - not anonymized, not derived, not at all.
surajrmal · 2 days ago
No single person other than Sam Altman can stop them from using anonymized interactions for training and metrics. At least in the consumer tiers.
surajrmal commented on Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years   millert.dev/... · Posted by u/wodniok
qznc · 6 days ago
It seems to have features I was not aware of. I would not have guessed that it contains anything networking-related.
surajrmal · 6 days ago
I really prefer the design of run0.
surajrmal commented on VisualJJ – Jujutsu in Visual Studio Code   visualjj.com/... · Posted by u/demail
vivzkestrel · 7 days ago
stupid question: why do people want to move away from git? and why is this vcs being talked about a lot these days?
surajrmal · 7 days ago
Git makes certain workflows more difficult than they could be. Using a different tool that makes you feel more productive is generally nice.
surajrmal commented on Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf]   help.apple.com/pdf/securi... · Posted by u/pieterr
digiown · 8 days ago
> It's your choice

Ah, classic false choice. Do you know it is illegal to do cash transactions over a certain amount in most Western countries now? In my mind, if I have a right to do something (buy a home), and there is only one approved way to do it, then I automatically have the right to use the approved way.

Similarly, having a government ID might technically be a choice now, but it won't be soon with all these age verification BS rolling out. So no, this is not entitlement. Your argument would work for anticheat in online games or DRM media, but not banks or government services.

surajrmal · 7 days ago
I know this argument is used a lot, but it it really doesn't make sense to me. A government is expected to give you reasonable accommodation, but it's not their duty to let you run their software via a means they don't trust. It's convenient to use their app, but again not required.

Having controls is part of participating in society. I don't believe you should be able to make large transactions in total anonymity either. It's robbing you of a freedom, but society has deemed it a worthwhile tradeoff for preventing crime via money laundering and what not.

surajrmal commented on VisualJJ – Jujutsu in Visual Studio Code   visualjj.com/... · Posted by u/demail
3eb7988a1663 · 7 days ago
I mean the Google CLA kind of says otherwise.
surajrmal · 7 days ago
Fair point, I thought it had been eliminated, but apparently that is pending the adoption of the project by a foundation such as Apache or the Linux foundation.
surajrmal commented on Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors   notepad-plus-plus.org/new... · Posted by u/mysterydip
maxkfranz · 7 days ago
Everyone is entitled to their opinions.

My opinion is that open source documentation is like polite dinner conversation: It’s not the proper place to discuss politics.

If an author wishes to use their open source project as a platform to discuss politics, that’s the author’s prerogative. But then, as perhaps in this instance, it could be to the detriment of the project itself.

surajrmal · 7 days ago
This is a very head in the sand approach to life that only those who are entitled may partake in. Reality is that most cannot live in ignorance of what is happening around them because it is also happening to them. Obviously not everything needs to remind you of stressful reality, but we also shouldn't avoid reality just because we are privileged enough to do so.

u/surajrmal

KarmaCake day1732October 31, 2017View Original