pretty dumb way to go about implementing this, dont skip code review kids
Readit Newsthrown-0825 commented on The Evolution of AI Software Engineering medium.com/commbank-techn... · Posted by u/ghuntley
this article overuses the term engineering a lot and it dilutes the meaning of the word.
thrown-0825 commented on Bubbletea-rs: a Rust implementation of Bubbletea github.com/whit3rabbit/bu... · Posted by u/jasonjmcghee
was just looking for something like this the other day, i love bubbletea in go.
has anyone used this yet?
thrown-0825 commented on Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City cnbc.com/2025/08/22/waymo... · Posted by u/achristmascarl
I live in the bay and occasionally ride Waymo in SF and I pretty much always have a good time.
I visited NYC a few weeks ago and was instantly reminded of how much the traffic fucking sucks :) While I was there I actually thought of Waymo and how they'd have to turn up the "aggression" slider up to 11 to get anything done there. I mean, could you imagine the audacity of actually not driving into an intersection when the light is yellow and you know you're going to block the crossing traffic?
Imagine somewhere like Bangkok with millions of motorcycles that completely ignore traffic laws.
Self-driving is a non starter in many parts of the world.
thrown-0825 commented on Google scores six-year Meta cloud deal worth over $10B cnbc.com/2025/08/21/googl... · Posted by u/herpderperator
gotta keep that circular ai hype economy rolling
thrown-0825 commented on Building AI products in the probabilistic era giansegato.com/essays/pro... · Posted by u/sdan
Right now you have this awesome new dynamic capability that doesn’t mesh with how we are used to building software; well defined, constrained, correct. Software products are close ended. Imagine if they weren’t. Imagine if you were playing an open world game like Skyrim or runescape and new areas were created as you explored, new weapons, entirely new game mechanics spontaneously arose as you played. Or imagine an intent based business analytics app, that had a view on your company’s database and when a user wanted a report or a visual it generated it on the fly. We’re only limited by our imagination here.
imagine whatever you like, its your fantasy
in the real world we expect consistent behavior from engineered systems, and building everything on top of a gpu powered bullshit engine isn't going to give you that
its a nice narrative though, maybe you should pick up writing sci-fi
thrown-0825 commented on Building AI products in the probabilistic era giansegato.com/essays/pro... · Posted by u/sdan
this entire endeavor is a fools errand, and any who has used coding agents for anything more complex than a web tut knows it.
it doesn't matter how much jargon and mathematical notation you layer on top of your black box next token generator, it will still be unreliable and inconsistent because fundamentally the output is an approximation of an answer and has no basis in reality
This is not a limitation you can build around, its a basic limitation of the underlying models.
Bonus points if you are relying on an LLM for orchestration or agentic state, its not going to work, just move on to a problem you can actually solve.
thrown-0825 commented on Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems blog.trailofbits.com/2025... · Posted by u/tatersolid
Haha, yes! I'm only vaguely familiar with 40k, but LLM prompt engineering has strong "Praying to the machine gods" / tech-priest vibes.
its not engineering, its arcane incantations to a black box with non-deterministic output
thrown-0825 commented on The unbearable slowness of AI coding joshuavaldez.com/the-unbe... · Posted by u/aymandfire
cool, can you think of any differences between a human engineer, who is presumably employed by an employer and subject to review and evaluation by a manager and inherently assumed to be capable of receiving feedback and reliably applying it on a go-forward basis to their future work, and an LLM, when they each make this same kind of mistake?
yeah, when its a human its not a random chance and was them subverting testing and safety requirements to shortcut their way through their job.
i regularly see orgs with orphan machines running that no one understands or wants to touch