CaptSneeze

@CaptSneeze@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Which one has been best? I’m only a hobbyist, but I’ve found Claude to be my favorite, and the best UI by a mile.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Execs Mass Quit as Company Removes Control From Non-Profit Board and Hands It to Sam Altman⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been using Claude pretty heavily for the last couple of months and have been very satisfied. More satisfied than I was with ChatGPT for mostly helping me cobble together various powershell scripts, or troubleshoot complicated and complex excel formulas. The latter, I am often doing as part of my job, and have been for a decade. So, when I run into trouble it’s usually deeep in the weeds, and Claude has saved me several hours of manual investigation by pointing me quickly to the problem areas to examine. The only thing I wish it had is image generation, but that would mostly just be for making joke images to send to friends and coworkers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I spent ~$35 on new cables and my LAN speed increased 6x⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You pass! I’ve done several thousands of these over the past decade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Verge shows how Google search is useless⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I still sign up with them when I’m researching bigger, or long-lasting, purchases. Cars, washing machine, and that sort of thing. I’m always a little annoyed at the price, but the content is SO MUCH better than any other online review source that I’m always happy with my decision in the end. Reddit comments are probably second, but I’ve found those to be littered with what seem to me to be suspiciously positive reviews for items that are not significantly better than their competition. I feel like I need to dial up my critical nature to 10 to fight against the echo chamber and/or the covert advertising.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple iPhone sales decline 10% in first three months of 2024⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. Lemmy loves to trash on Apple, but this is actually something it’s hard to criticize them over. Especially compared with any other consumer electronics manufacturer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This sounds like user error to me. Hold the spacebar, then drag your thumb to move the cursor exactly where you want it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And you're telling me that code interviews don't work...⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow! Thanks for taking the time explain all of that. Makes complete sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And you're telling me that code interviews don't work...⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not a programmer, just an occasional hobbyist. Can you fill me in on why the second way is better? Is it because it’s asking for “all numbers between x and y” instead of “all integers between x and y”? I probably would have done it the first way assuming they meant integers, maybe incorrectly.