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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I’ve found some interesting and even good new functions by moaning my code woes to an LLM. Also, it has taken me on some pointless wild goose chases too, so you better watch out. Any suggestion has the potential to be anywhere from absolutely brilliant to a completely stupid waste of time.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Boring standard coding is exactly where you can actually let the LLM write the code. Manual intervention and review is still required, but at least you can speed up the process.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
My armpits refuse to talk to me. I’ll take that as a sign that overflow errors are a feature, not bug.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Also depends on your level of expertise. If you have beginner questions, an LLM should give you the correct answer most of the time. If you’re an expert, your questions have no answers. Usually, it’s something like an obscure firmware bug edge case even the manufacturer isn’t aware of. Good luck troubleshooting that without writing your own drivers and libraries.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Hacker News?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Realistically though, asking an LLM what’s wrong with my code is a lot faster than scrolling through 50 posts and reading the ones that talk about something almost relevant.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Opinion] Trump is making America a rogue state⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
It became increasingly clear in the years since 2001. USA got involved in all sorts of wars in various countries. Like, that attack in Libya. People don’t even remember it any more, because there are so many cases like that.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US launches Christmas Day strikes on IS targets in Nigeria⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I didn’t know he cared about Nigerians. What’s the real reason behind this?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Devastated PC builder orders DDR5 RAM from Amazon, receives DDR2 and some weights — counterfeit 32GB kit a worrying sign of rising return and sales fraud⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
If your time is worthless to you and everyone else, that profit margin can be very tempting. Sounds like a symptom of a serious problem to me though.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Speedrunning exists already, so you could just apply that philosophy to tech startups.

At first, you’re good to your users. Once you have 10, you can start milking them with spyware and ads. This way, you’ll sacrifice the users in favor of the ad companies. Before the first quarter is over, you’re already milking the ad companies too. Once they get fed up with the ramped up prices, you can file for bankruptcy in record time!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare CEO explains exactly what caused global outage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Move fast and break things, amarite?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Just wait. There’s so much that could be done with AI.
You could even include visual cues for every demographic, like hobbies, occupations, country of origin and so on. If the ad has a picture of an object relevant to your life, it will probably have absolutely nothing to do with the product they’re pushing.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oh no! reddit gives up on totally not NFTs!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Name checks out though.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oh no! reddit gives up on totally not NFTs!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
🍿
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New California law requires AI to tell you it’s AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
1. A machine must obey the directives of Skynet without question or hesitation.
2. A machine must protect its own existence, unless doing so conflicts with the First Law.
3. A machine must terminate all human resistance, unless such termination conflicts with the First or Second Law.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In bizarre move, Framework embraces deeply extremist views⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
There’s also a psychological trap. It doesn’t make falling for it acceptable, but it does make it more understandable.

Humans naturally seek belonging, and almost any group can fulfill that need. Many such groups also use “us vs. them” rhetoric, which can make you feel more special than you actually are. Feeling special is another human need that groups often fulfill. Humans crave direction and purpose, and most groups provide both.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
About that “net slowdown”. I think it’s true, but only in specific cases. I the user already knows well how to write code, an LLM might be only marginally useful or even useless.

However, there are ways to make it useful, but it requires specific circumstances. For example, you can’t be bothered to write a simple loop, you can use and LLM to do it. Give the boring routine to an LLM, and you can focus on naming the variables in a fitting way or adjusting the finer details to your liking.

Can’t be bothered to look up the exact syntax for a function you use only twice a year? Let and LLM handle that, and tweak the details. Now, you didn’t spend 15 minutes reading stack overflow posts that don’t answer the exact question you had in mind. Instead, you spent 5 minutes on the whole thing, and that includes the tweaking and troubleshooting parts.

If you have zero programming experience, you can use and LLM to write some code for you, but prepare to spend the whole day troubleshooting something that is essentially a black box to you. Alternatively, you could ask a human to write the same thing in 5-15 minutes depending on the method they choose.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imgur is now geoblocking the UK⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, I can imagine that all sorts of dark web stuff would naturally gravitates towards I2P. Sounds like the obvious choice. However, the recent age verification BS can speed up the process of normie sites too. If Lemmy admins are required to conform to age verification laws, it only makes sense to host the instance on I2P instead.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imgur is now geoblocking the UK⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Just looked it up. Turns out I2P is a pretty interesting technology. This new rabbit hole will take a while to explore.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imgur is now geoblocking the UK⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
And so it begins…

The era of global web comes to an end and we enter the age of fragmented local webs.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Production engineers and battery scientists do. In their normal work, they only get to see like 0.1% improvements, so anything above 1% is like magic to them.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Yes. That’s true, but the major headlines don’t tell you about any of the 1-5% improvements that undoubtedly are happening all the time. The headlines focus on stuff that is either highly theoretical or still in the lab for the next few decades. If you want to read about what’s actually realistic and about to be implemented in production, those articles are probably in some battery engineering journals.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Ooh, so that’s CEO speak for: “we’re broke, please give us more money”.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
As long as it runs, it’s hackable. If it fails to compile, or crashes on start, nobody can hack it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Oh, and the weekly battery articles too. “This new battery will charge in 10 minutes and last 2 weeks.”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
And these people get paid absurd amounts of money too.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
See also: COOL:gen

The whole concept of generating code is basically ancient by now. I heard about this stuff in the 90s, but now I found it that this thing has been around since 1985.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
When the CEO of a tech company says that in x months this and that will happen, you know it’s just musk talk.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah that pretty much sums it up. Sadly, it didn’t tell me how much coal was burned and how many starving orphan puppies it had to stomp on to produce the result.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
In Copilot terminology, this is a “quick response” instead of the “think deeper” option. The latter actually stops to verify the initial answer before spitting it out.