FancyPantsFIRE
@FancyPantsFIRE@lemmy.world
- Comment on Lemmy is ... ahhrrr, c'mon ... WTF? ... the door! ... who the hell would ... ? ... where is this darn towel ... AHHH, FUUU ... hnnnrrghhh ... 1 week ago:
🤔 reads more like /c/aneurysmposting@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on The good old days 1 week ago:
- Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds 2 weeks ago:
I’ve used cursor quite a bit recently in large part because it’s an organization wide push at my employer, so I’ve taken the opportunity to experiment.
My best analogy is that it’s like micro managing a hyper productive junior developer that somehow already “knows” how to do stuff in most languages and frameworks, but also completely lacks common sense, a concept of good practices, or a big picture view of what’s being accomplished. Which means a ton of course correction. I even had it spit out code attempting to hardcode credentials.
I can accomplish some things “faster” with it, but mostly in comparison to my professional reality: I rarely have the contiguous chunks of time I’d need to dedicate to properly ingest and do something entirely new to me. I save a significant amount of the onboarding, but lose a bunch of time navigating to a reasonable solution. Critically that navigation is more “interrupt” tolerant, and I get a lot of interrupts.
That said, this year’s crop of interns at work seem to be thin wrappers on top of LLMs and I worry about the future of critical thinking for society at large.
- Comment on McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data to Hackers Who Tried the Password ‘123456’ 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Max Hardcore and the Zodiac killer give updates on likely preventable flood deaths 2 weeks ago:
We can’t be sure, but we can send him to a prison in El Salvador on the vague hypothesis that he is.
- Comment on Look out its the D*tch 3 weeks ago:
Based on the body scaling in this chart you’re at least as tall as a two story house then.
- Comment on The Computer-Science Bubble Is Bursting 4 weeks ago:
Cursor (which everyone at my job is now “heavily encouraged “ to use) spat code at me today that attempted to hardcode credentials. Good luck guys!
- Comment on Don't tell me what to do. 4 weeks ago:
“RFK questions guidance on not putting spring rolls up your anus.”
- Comment on LLMs factor in unrelated information when recommending medical treatments 4 weeks ago:
Their analysis also revealed that these nonclinical variations in text, which mimic how people really communicate, are more likely to change a model’s treatment recommendations for female patients, resulting in a higher percentage of women who were erroneously advised not to seek medical care, according to human doctors.
This is not an argument for LLMs (which people are deferring to an alarming rate) but I’d call out that this seems to be a bias in humans giving medical care as well.
- Comment on Lamp. 4 weeks ago:
I love lamp.
- Comment on Rich people know their cosmetic surgery is obvious and uncanny, but that's the point; it's a way of signalling that you belong in a certain income bracket and that you're part of the 1% 5 weeks ago:
Agreed. I’m not advocating for it, but subtle surgery with a reasonably skilled practitioner often flies under the radar if you didn’t know the person. The most common things like nose jobs and face lifts are almost routine at this point.
It’s not for me, but there is a confirmation bias around plastic surgery where bad results are highly visible and good results are almost invisible.
- Comment on Trump extends TikTok ban deadline by another 90 days 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Uhh... 1 month ago:
Results may vary.
