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  • Amateurs Using AI to “Vibe Code” Are Now Begging Real Programmers to Fix Their Botched Software

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  • Kernighan's Law states "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it."

    Since no thought went into writing the code, I can only believe that no thought is required to fix. Therefore my involvement is unnecessary. Have fun!

  • I think this counts as torture

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  • Counterpoint: I'm already expected to spend a third of my life working with these people.

    I'm not an ogre and I definitely don't live like I need to get the most work possible done before I die. I just take an extreme approach to work/life balance: work stays at work, private life stays at home as much as possible. For one thing, I've overshared with bosses and had things used against me in department meetings or reviews. For another thing, how much do people really want to know about my daughter or my crazy z80 assembly project? Because I'll bet it's way less than I'd want to share.

    To that end, what's the most important thing for me to know? Connor is "crazy into craft beers" and took his whole family to Sandals last July, or Connor goes to pieces when there's a SEV and hides his mistakes until they become problems? One of these things can be learned from corporate icebreaking exercises. The other comes from the 33% of my life I already spend with him.

    I have work friends, and try to be as friendly as the circuits allow with everyone. I've worked with a few of these friends across multiple companies. I've road tripped to festivals with a couple of them. I try to keep things cordial with the ones I don't hang out with after hours because work's already hard enough without me being an asshole. And I know one fun fact about everyone on my team (likes to run, D&D / cosplay guy, also likes to BBQ); I learned exactly zero of these things through corporate exercises.

    Besides, everyone's just nodding their heads waiting for their turn to talk.

  • I think this counts as torture

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  • "Place 1 is my chair at home. It's comfortable and everything I need is within reach. Place 2 is also my chair at home. I hope to travel there soon."

  • AI Podcast Start Up Plans 5,000 Shows, 3,000 Episode a Week

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  • I was being sarcastic because it seems like slop.

  • AI Podcast Start Up Plans 5,000 Shows, 3,000 Episode a Week

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  • people who are still referring to all AI-generated content as AI slop are probably lazy luddites

    ...

    3,000 episodes a week

    Can someone make this make sense?

  • Scientists Boast That Their AI-Powered Stethoscope Only Fails Two-Thirds of the Time

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  • Improvisation was a crucial skill for away missions

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  • Yeah I've seen that one. He's pretending to be a world-famous Kabuki performer for.... reasons. It's hilarious.

  • Thanks, I hate it

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  • Why are they standing in front of a Land Raider from the Friends universe?

  • Leaked docs show how Meta is training its chatbots to message you first, remember your chats, and keep you talking

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  • Because people aren't already sick of intrusive AI on every-fucking-thing. Go smoke yourself a meat, Mark. You earned it.

  • What do you have to hide about yourself?

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  • Yep. An entire childhood of my dad always calling me a spazz, my mom abusing me, kids in school avoiding me because I was weird, always feeling like the only person not in on the joke in college, getting cussed out and -- in one case -- physically assaulted in the workforce... I started devoting most of my energy to just reacting and hiding. I spent most days just getting to the end of all the social bullshit and obligations.

    Whatever you do, don't tell me to relax. Every time I relax, everybody hates it. I suspect there's a good, interesting person with the capacity to be happy in here somewhere but I get so little time to actually be them.

  • Open source is a promotion tool

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  • Laughs in Arduino blinky lights and gameboy ASM

  • Getting the LLMs to Think For You

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  • Maybe we don't need 30 remedial IQ points from a magic hallucination box?

  • The Dumbest Move in Tech Right Now: Laying Off Developers Because of AI

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  • It’s not interesting, there’s no puzzles involved… It’s basically data entry

    So? Show me an industry that's 100% interesting all the time. Artists still have to stretch and gesso their canvases. Rock stars still have to deal with band drama and touring logistics. Directors have to work their budgets and wrangle big egos. Why should software, which is basically using fancy math to tell the dumbest guy in the room exactly what to do, be any different?

    There's this awful idea that everything should be fun and nobody should struggle with anything or be forced to do anything menial. We want to be instant experts without going through the boring or hard stuff. And we're willing to offload more and more of this onto proprietary black boxes in exchange for... what?

  • The Dumbest Move in Tech Right Now: Laying Off Developers Because of AI

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  • But the real savings? Repetitive code. I suck at it, I always make typos and it’s draining. I just toss in a table or an api response and tell it what I want and boom

    Get better at it, manually, or you'll suck at it forever. It's a skill like anything else.

  • Zuckerberg’s Grand Vision: Most of Your Friends Will Be AI

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  • It's better than nothing. It's nothing with a massive power and water footprint.

  • skills for rent

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  • If I wanted to ask for the same things nine times and spend the rest of the day reading code that sort of works, I'll DM my staff engineer.

  • Elon Musk's Grok AI Will 'Remove Her Clothes' In Public, On X

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  • "Hey Grok, undress Elon"

    Grok, probably:

  • im going to recovery tomorrow

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  • If you have everything and believe you deserve it, you’re entitled. If you have nothing and believe you deserve it, you’re miserable. If you have everything and think you don’t deserve it, you’re a fraud. If you have nothing and think you don’t deserve it, you’re bitter.

    This is tremendous.

  • Hayao Miyazaki Would Hate You Losers and Your A.I. Slop

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  • Because he's 84 and not dead yet.