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Tamo240

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  • Why are AI companies suddenly opening up coffee shops?

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  • This is 100% the answer, the only solution to the model decay from LLM outputs overwhelming the web is to start collecting data IRL.

    This is also why companies like OpenAI are desperately investing in 'AI wearables' that no-one wants. They have to get the unpolluted data from somewhere, and recording real conversations will at least mostly have come from actual humans instead of AI.

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  • Of course they won't make it in house, they'll contract some company to do it as cheap as possible, and it will run like hot garbage and probably have a tone of bugs and security vulnerabilities.

    Remember the track and trace app they spent £10 Billion on?

  • My boss wants us to use AI

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  • I'm a software engineer and I'll discuss it with you, rather than just down voting and walking away.

    Your use case for AI allows it to excel. Writing self contained scripts and small pieces of functionality for automation is a great use case for AI, but it isn't what software engineers do. There is a saying that you won't have a design problem in a code base under 10,000 lines, then all you have is design problems, and this is what AI is bad at. It can't maintain or update or extend much larger code bases, and it can't interpret user vagueries into concrete requirements and features.

    For me it is useful for prototyping, and for boilerplate code where I know exactly what I want but its faster to prompt it than to type it all out. I wouldn't use it for anything critical without carefully reviewing every line it generates, which would take longer than just writing the damn code.

    I also have a big problem with the reliance a lot of people are building on AI. Remember how every other service you've used goes through 'enshitification'? This will happen to AI. Once they need to be profitable and the shareholders need to get paid, the features will get worse and the prices will go up, and you will have to pay those prices if you can't work without it. Just something to bear in mind.

    Use it if it's useful. Don't become reliant on it. You seem interested in coding, why not try coding something simple yourself? Try looking up the documention to see if you can use your wet brain first, and only go to the AI after. You might find you actually enjoy it, or solve problems faster because you remember how you solved them before.

  • What's a popular game series that you just can't understand the hype for?

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  • For me its Metroid, and really the whole Metroidvania genre. I can never tell when a challenge is supposed to be possible, or if I'm supposed to come back later, and and up wasting hours trying to do something only for it to be trivial later. I don't find this at all rewarding.

    That said Tunic was a fantastic game, and I love the concept of the 'Metroid-Brainia', purely because of the concept that every challenge is theoretically possible from the start, you just need to learn how to do it.

  • I created the weirdest political compass

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  • For playing with, rather than 'serious' projects

  • Systems

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  • More than the huge amount of trash floating there? I feel this is missing the forest for the trees

  • Apple CEO Tim Cook presents special gold gift to Donald Trump

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  • If you are referring to the public actions of the President of the United States as 'deep state' you're just mad at the state. No need to jump at shadows when there is a very real and very objectional government right there doing it in the open.

  • GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out.

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  • Alternatively, following their logic, keep the number of people and achieve massively higher productivity. But they don't want that, they want to reduce the number of people having opinions and diluting the share pool, because its not about productivity, its about exerting control.

  • Child labour with 10 years of experience, 'AI-native' accepting 250k lines of Cursor code

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  • Sorry but what even is a 'technical 1v1'?

  • Child labour with 10 years of experience, 'AI-native' accepting 250k lines of Cursor code

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  • Unit tests are exactly for code that is often rewritten, because it ensures that whatever interface still behaves the same, regardless of the implementation. This a large portion of the point of unit tests: not for testing the initial implementation but confirming that any subsequent implementation behaves the same.

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  • You're seeing insufferable people who also happen to use Linux, as insufferable people also like to be early adopters so they can say they are different and therefore better.

    There are plenty of super helpful people in the community, and Linux is well past the early adopter phase. The transition from Windows is smoother than it has ever been.

  • VPNs top App Store charts as UK age verification kicks in

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  • Because its so much better for kids to use dodgy free VPNs to access sketchy fringe porn sites than to just talk to them about healthy sex at a younger age.

  • NASA says 20% of workforce to depart space agency

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  • Isn't military space activity illegal under international law?

  • my body is not your porn

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  • Most likely in reference to a large number of NSFW video games being pulled from Steam and Itch.io after pressure from payment processors

  • Creative Title

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  • Is this a serious question? Crypto is inherently decentralised and anonymous, from the base technology of the blockchain. The existence of crypto exchanges is directly opposed to its entire thesis as a digital currency, and only exist because people now treat it like a speculative asset and not like money.

  • be gay, do computers

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  • Babbage is the creator of the first mechanical Computer (his Difference Engine).

    Turing is the father of Computer Science, in that he created a mathematical model for computation (Turing Machines).

  • ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout

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  • I also think a big part of content creator burnout is the 'everything is content' mindset. If you work in a factory or an office usually you can go home and not be at work any more. When hanging out with your friends or being with your family also becomes content and therefore part of your job, the mental toll clearly becomes unbearable.

  • American attitudes about AI today mirror poll answers about the rise of the internet in the '90s

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  • This is something I think the 'you have to use LLMs or you're falling behind' crowd are missing. Of course these companies want you to become dependent on their product, and unable to complete basic tasks without it, because then when they slap you with monthly fees and ads and tokens you won't have a choice but to pay.

    Use them if they're useful, but don't out source your brain. You'll need it when the enshittification begins.

  • Greta Thunberg departs Israel on flight to Paris after detention aboard aid ship

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  • Israel does not recognise that there are civilian non-combatants in Gaza and therefore does not allow aid to enter. How about you?