natecox
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- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 2 weeks ago:
It’s funny to me that this is even up for discussion. It’s been a truism for as long as I can remember that reading code is much, much more difficult than writing it.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 2 weeks ago:
It’s funny that you’re not even sure you can do that extremely simple thing in my original comment faster than I could prompt an LLM.
No, see, this is called “having integrity” by not asserting as fact a hypothetical. I am 100% certain that I could knock out your hypothetical in one command in less than a minute but since I didn’t go actually do it I didn’t pretend that I did.
I do love the whole “oh but it knocks out all of the mundane stuff” as if that’s the primary part of our job. I have been doing development for about 30 years and I have spent so little time on mundane tedious tasks in that time. Certainly not enough time to justify the ecological impact of LLM data centers (even if they actually worked as well as advocates claim).
I wish all of you people would stop knocking what you’ve never even tried.
This is your prejudice showing (the only way someone would not like this is if they haven’t tried it). I have tried it, and I found it to be a waste of my time. What I saw was a stochastic parrot providing me objectively wrong answers to questions and code that I needed to completely rewrite before it would function as advertised.
That product is not worth drinking the worlds water and ruining people’s quality of life near data centers over. It’s not worth the theft of IP and original thoughts, the obvious copyright violations as it crawls the web (ignoring every standard “do not crawl” marker I know of), the extra cost to site hosts as LLMs savagely barrage their pages. It’s not worth lining the pockets of already super rich VCs as they exploit blockchain 2.0 until the bubble bursts. It’s not worth the real human beings who have already lost their livelihood because an executive is frothing at the mouth to replace people with machines and has been promised AGI “any day now” by LLM spokespeople who don’t seem to understand that whole integrity thing above.
The hate that you see might have something to do with the willingness to ignore all of the above so “save some time” on the alleged “mundane tasks” people seem to think dominates the industry.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 2 weeks ago:
This is what LSPs are for, or even like just a baseline knowledge of CLI tooling (honestly, like, just
mvandsed). You do not need an LLM for any of what you’ve described, and I would argue that I can probably do it faster by hand than you can prompt your LLM and debug the slop it hands you back.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 2 weeks ago:
It’s hard to find programmers these days who aren’t using AI coding assistants in some capacity, especially to write the repetitive, mundane bits.
God damn it, stop it with this. No it isn’t. Most of the devs that I personally know won’t touch LLMs with a ten foot pole.
- Comment on Microsoft uses 'Copilot' for practically everything. A watchdog wants the company to change its advertising. 2 months ago:
NAD
You’d think people who think a lot about advertising would have picked a different agency name…
- Comment on Forget foldable phones – LG's 'stretchable' in-car display can grow physical buttons when you need them, and I can't stop watching it 3 months ago:
It still seems like you have to be doing a lot of looking at the controls to use them, which is the whole complaint about a lack of physical buttons.
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 6 months ago:
Maybe so, but honestly gps on the dash makes my life easier routinely, and safer in that I don’t need to touch my phone or try to drive while reading a paper map.
Also having the backup camera there is just a win for everyone.
I don’t like the idea of needing to lose these things because advertising ruins them.
- Comment on Hogwarts Legacy Reportedly Getting New Content & A Sequel 6 months ago:
I’ve tried to get through HL twice and I really struggle with it. About the time they introduce discount-Pokémon into the game I start to struggle.
A major improvement to the game would be contextual actions. Stop making me swap my equipped spells for every context specific thing.
- Comment on Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again' 9 months ago:
Lest there be any doubt about his motivations, Musk wrote in another post, “Can’t they just make good games and skip the woke lecture?”
I assume we’re all done with pretense and he’ll just go ahead and call it “Bigot games”.
- Comment on dBrand Releases New Steam Deck Skin Based Off of $1 Million Counter-Strike Skin 1 year ago:
I know you’re going to get downvoted to oblivion, so I’m reaching out to say that I am with you on this completely.
The edgelord “I’m a 90’s kid look how sarcastic and obnoxious I can be I don’t even care (but actually I deeply fucking care)” marketing is terrible. I refuse to buy anything from them on general principle.
- Comment on Turkish student creates custom AI device for cheating university exam, gets arrested 1 year ago:
Finally a use for AI I can approve of.
- Comment on Valve has little to worry about as new Steam Deck rival arrives 1 year ago:
Like less than a month ago.
- Comment on Valve has little to worry about as new Steam Deck rival arrives 1 year ago:
I used bazzite on my ROG Ally for a couple of days before I went back to windows because it didn’t reliably work. Crashes abound and some games that work fine on my Steam Deck just refused to open.
Hopefully one day it gets ironed out.
- Comment on It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine 1 year ago:
Honestly it sounds like you’re more interested in winning what you think is an argument than the substance of what I was saying.
A PS5 out of the box gives you a 4k picture at 60fps for many games using clever techniques that the average end user doesn’t care about in the slightest. That should be the benchmark.
- Comment on It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine 1 year ago:
MiniPCs are surprisingly good at this price point; good enough that I would say for most people’s average use case they would be satisfied.
I’d like to see them get more popular.
- Comment on It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine 1 year ago:
Well… you were responding to a post by me… which had no mention of “native” anything.
- Comment on It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine 1 year ago:
On the ps5: FF14, borderlands 3, Monster Hunter: World, Destiny 2, Metro Exodus, Far Cry 6, Resident Evil: Village, etc…
Most of them run dynamic 4k so there is periodic upscaling which is seamless in my experience.
- Comment on It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine 1 year ago:
I’ve tried this, and I think it’s worth providing a more powerful console if playing on the tv is your primary use case.
It works fine but it doesn’t really hold up to the 4k 60fps HDR experience that most people are getting used to from the main console makers.
- Comment on Dakota Johnson on ‘Madame Web’ Blowback: “I’ll Never Do Anything Like It Again” 1 year ago:
I’m poochy the rockin’ dog!
- Comment on Gina Carano Sues Disney Over ‘Mandalorian’ Firing In Lawsuit Funded by Elon Musk 1 year ago:
Remember folks, it’s a crime to force a baker to bake a cake for a gay person, but totally fine to force a company to employ a bigot against their will.
- Comment on [Game] MONSTER HUNTER RISE adds new DRM that breaks it on Steam Deck 1 year ago:
My two refund rejections from steam disagree with you.