wanderlust123 (u/wanderlust123)

wanderlust123 commented on Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant media.mit.edu/publication... · Posted by u/misswaterfairy

PatronBernard · 22 days ago

> a hierarchical graph layout algorithm based on the Sugiyama framework, using Brandes-Köpf for node positioning.

I am sorry for being direct but you could have just kept it to the first part of that sentence. Everything after that just sounds like pretentious name dropping and adds nothing to your point.

But I fully agree, for complex problems that require insight, LLMs can waste your time with their sycophancy.

wanderlust123 · 22 days ago

There is nothing pretentious about what they said. Why are you so insecure/sensitive?

wanderlust123 commented on Don't fall into the anti-AI hype antirez.com/news/158... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

totallykvothe · a month ago

I don't understand the stance that AI currently is able to automate away non-trivial coding tasks. I've tried this consistently since GPT 3.5 came out, with every single SOTA model up to GPT 5.1 Codex Max and Opus 4.5. Every single time, I get something that works, yes, but then when I start self-reviewing the code, preparing to submit it to coworkers, I end up rewriting about 70% of the thing. So many important details are subpar about the AI solution, and many times fundamental architectural issues cripple any attempt at prompting my way out of it, even though I've been quite involved step-by-step through the whole prototyping phase.

I just have to conclude 1 of 2 things:

1) I'm not good at prompting, even though I am one of the earliest AI in coding adopters I know, and have been consistent for years. So I find this hard to accept.

2) Other people are just less picky than I am, or they have a less thorough review culture that lets subpar code slide more often.

I'm not sure what else I can take from the situation. For context, I work on a 15 year old Java Spring + React (with some old pages still in Thymeleaf) web application. There are many sub-services, two separate databases,and this application needs to also 2-way interface with customer hardware. So, not a simple project, but still. I can't imagine it's way more complicated than most enterprise/legacy projects...

wanderlust123 · a month ago

Do you have an example of something that was subpar and needed a 70% rewrite?

wanderlust123 commented on Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US and “debanked” lemonde.fr/en/internation... · Posted by u/lifeisstillgood

sillyfluke · a month ago

I think you and the original poster are being a tad careless in your reading. This article is specifically about sanctioned individuals not countries-- a sanctioned ICC judge who concurred with a very specific ruling. If you want to discuss sanctioning countries you should state explicitly that you're taking a slight tangent because though these topics are very related they are definitly not the same, and vastly different with respect to the magnitude of the practical consequences.

The article specifically states that there are some 15,000 sanctioned individuals, many of which are IS and Al Quaeda members. These actors are often considered non-state terrorists. If you wish to dispute the article's claim that these actors represent the majority of sanctioned individuals feel free to do so, otherwise please explain how much practical pressure sanctioning the rest of the lot-- those compromised mainly from the top brass of authoritarian regimes -- could have effects remotely comparable to sanctioning an entire country composed of millions of people. Those sanctioned individual are also the people least affected by sanctions, since they have direct access to their countrie's financial and natural resources and could care less whether their daughter's visa or mastercard works at that fancy ski resort in the Austrian Alps.

Trump is sanctioning ICC judges because their rulings are complicating his blatant direct personal enchrichment and his family business's real estate dealings for the "Gazan Riveria", which he wants implemented unopposed. It is just silly to say that this amount of in-your-face direct personal enrichment angle having an oversized impact on American foreign policy is just your regular American geopolitical machinations, as you would have to argue that the USA has always been a banana republic no different than any other.

wanderlust123 · a month ago

I think you should probably read a bit more on the history of sanctions, their effect and incentives before calling someone “tad careless”. Your argument basically devolves to semantics about the labelling of who is being sanctioned, vs the impacts.

Look up who the US has sanctioned historically, and what the geopolitical objective was. Someone is always being enriched, question is who.

wanderlust123 commented on Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS twitter.com/OfficialLogan... · Posted by u/qwertyforce

Ameo · a month ago

My perspective on this is that maybe Tailwind Labs shouldn't have been a for-profit business, or at least not one of the size that it grew to be.

I was reading a writeup on this history of Tailwind[1] made by Adam Wathan (who created Tailwind).

It seems like he was working on a variety of different business ideas including "Reddit meets Pinterest meets Twitter" and "a developer-focused, webhook-driven checkout platform". He created the basis of Tailwind just to help him build these projects, but it kept getting attention when he would post about his progress building them online.

Here's an important quote from the doc:

"Now at this point I had zero intention of maintaining any sort of open-source CSS framework. It didn’t even occur to me that what I had been building would even be interesting to anyone. But stream after stream, people were always asking about the CSS"

It seems like Adam's main goal was to start a software business, and Tailwind just happened to get popular and became what he pivoted his efforts into. There's obviously nothing wrong with wanting to start a business, but trying to take an open-source CSS framework and turn it into a multi-million dollar business feels unnatural and very difficult to maintain long-term.

To his credit, he did pull it off. He built a seemingly quite successful business and hired a sizable team, and apparently made a decent amount of revenue along the way.

But now, for AI reasons or otherwise, that business is struggling and failing to sustain the scale it was before. To me, it seems like the business is more or less completely separate from the open-source Tailwind project itself. It's, as far as I can understand, a business that sells templates and components built with Tailwind, and it uses Tailwind's popularity to bootstrap customers and sales.

If it were me who ended up building Tailwind, there's no way I would have pursued turning it into a big business. Maybe I would have tried some kind of consulting style, where I'd offer my time to companies evaluating or integrating Tailwind.

Now that Tailwind is getting hundreds of thousands (millions?) of dollars a year in sponsorships, it feels weird to have this for-profit business on the side at the same time.

Maybe it's just my own sensibilities and worldview, but I feel like Tailwind should just be what it is: an extremely popular and successful open-source CSS framework.

[1] https://adamwathan.me/tailwindcss-from-side-project-byproduc...

wanderlust123 · a month ago

Sounds like your conclusion is: work hard to create something and just give it away for free.

wanderlust123 commented on Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US and “debanked” lemonde.fr/en/internation... · Posted by u/lifeisstillgood

sillyfluke · a month ago

>The above poster is completely correct.

Not really. The poster you're agreeing with specifically stated that "nothing has fundamentally changed" and that the US has been "using human rights as an excuse". I don't know if you're completely unaware but Trump is definitely not using human rights as an excuse when sanctioning the ICC judges or whoever fits his fancy. In fact, he's not even using international law as an excuse as the term "human rights" actually means something under the UN. That is the change. And it's just as likely he'd do it if it was in his interest but not American interest. That also would be a rather fundamental change.

wanderlust123 · a month ago

Sanctions are an economic tool to punish opposition to and advance geopolitical aims of the sanctioning country.

The original poster is absolutely correct in this. Whether the excuse is human rights or something else, the key point being made is that its intention is to advance a geopolitical cause behind an excuse. It doesn’t matter what the excuse is.

wanderlust123 commented on Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US and “debanked” lemonde.fr/en/internation... · Posted by u/lifeisstillgood

epistasis · a month ago

Which geopolitical goals was it created for? Certainly not the ones it's being used for right now.

This sort of fallacy, of widening a category such that the initial meaning is lost, and then advancing an argument on that false category, is something I'm seeing a lot more these days in political topics. But I'm not sure I have a name for the fallacy.

It's like people that argue that the US civil wars was "actually" about states' rights and economic differences rather than slavery. It wasn't a war about the concepts of states rights in general, it was about the right of states to do one thing: legalize slavery. It wasn't about the idea of economic differences in general, it was about one specific economic difference: chattel slavery and whether those slaves get paid and have economic freedom.

wanderlust123 · a month ago

What point are you trying to make? The above poster is completely correct sanctions are an economic tool used to bend countries to will.

wanderlust123 commented on Karpathy on Programming: “I've never felt this much behind” twitter.com/karpathy/stat... · Posted by u/rishabhaiover

all_factz · a month ago

React is hundreds of thousands of lines of code (or millions - I haven’t looked in awhile). Sure, you can start by having the LLM create a simple way to sync state across components, but in a serious project you’re going to run into edge-cases that cause the complexity of your LLM-built library to keep growing. There may come a point at which the complexity grows to such a point that the LLM itself can’t maintain the library effectively. I think the same rough argument applies to MomentJS.

wanderlust123 · a month ago

Not all UIs converge to a React like requirement. For a lot of use cases React is over-engineering but the profession just lacks the balls to use something simpler, like htmx for example.

wanderlust123 commented on Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning (2011) norvig.com/chomsky.html... · Posted by u/atomicnature

wanderlust123 · 2 months ago

Pretty massive stretch making that inference based on the data don’t you think? Or is this an underhand way to get back at someone you disagree with politically?

wanderlust123 commented on Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning (2011) norvig.com/chomsky.html... · Posted by u/atomicnature

wanderlust123 · 2 months ago

Sounds like bit of an over-reaction if I am being honest.

Some of his books are deeply insightful even if you decide to draw the opposite conclusion. I wouldn’t say anything would create disgust unless you had a conclusion you wanted supported before reading the book.

Regarding the Epstein thing, bizarre to bring that up when discussing his works, seems like you hate him on a personal level.