Quibblekrust
@Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club
- Comment on how do you slice it?? 4 hours ago:
I once saw a snake half the size of a garden hose.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 2 days ago:
It was just a contrived example for the purpose of the comment, and I admit it wasn’t a good one.
How about turning a directory tree of dozens of .url files (Windows web shortcut files) into an HTML file? Directory names as section headings, and nested bulleted lists of hrefs using the .url file names as the link text, minus the “.url”. Can you do that on the CLI? Sure, but it would be a hell of a hack. It would be a disgusting blob of awk code, probably. You’re much better off writing it in something like Python.
It’s not hard stuff. It’s simple directory recursion, string building, and file writing. It’s just so mind-numbingly boring to write, and it takes time. Instead, Copilot made that for me in 10 seconds. As fast as I could articulate the need in text. No debugging needed. Worked the first time. All I had to ask for in a second pass was more indenting of each nested list, and I could have just added that myself.
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.
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. And your prejudice is showing by assuming I had to even debug it, or that the code was slop. The code looked great. It was perfect Python.
I wish all of you people would stop knocking what you’ve never even tried. Because it just makes you sound bigoted, using words like “slop” and making assumptions about the quality of the output while never having tried it yourself. Prejudice is never a good thing.
I’ve written a fair amount of advanced command line stuff using grep and sed and whatever else. Anything non-trivial takes just as much debugging as Python code, and it’s harder to read and debug. And when it’s boring, one-off code, why would you even want to do it yourself?
I’ll never understand the LLM hate on lemmy. Feel free to hate on capitalism, or on using fossil fuels to power LLMs, or on having no social safety net when LLMs displace jobs, or any number of other things, but to be prejudiced and assume it’s always slop when you’ve never even tried it just makes no sense to me. It’s a revolutionary tool in its infancy, and it’s already very useful on certain tasks.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 2 days ago:
That hasn’t been my experience for something this simple. Not at all. I vibe coded a 75 line Python script the other day and it worked perfectly the first try.
- Comment on human geography 3 days ago:
Everyone knows they’re properly called “sparkle butts”.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 3 days ago:
And most devs I know use it everyday, so… 🤷
Especially for repetitive mundane code, like they said. It’s much faster to check code for correctness than it is to write it in the first place.
“I need to restructure this directory tree. If a file has “index” in the name, then it has to go in a parallel directory structure starting at “/home/repos/project/indexes/” with the same child folders as the original.”
There, I just finished a custom Python script to accomplish that. Can I do it myself? Yes. Can I do it in 30 seconds? No. Why would I waste my time writing such a mundane script for a one-off thing?
- Comment on Study Finds That School-Based Online Surveillance Companies Monitor Students 24/7 1 week ago:
I’m sorry, but it doesn’t sound like you read the article.
Some salient quotes:
Companies cited a variety of ways they gain access to student digital activity, including browser plug-ins, API integrations and device software.
Many companies collect and flag sensitive data, including students’ private messages and search histories.
So, they work with shady spyware companies to collect private student data, retain it, and then try to sell it to schools.
I, for one, am fucking shocked!
- Comment on Any good Android games that aren't roguelikes? 1 week ago:
No, it’s rogue-lite. Not -like. Rogue-lite games have randomized runs, permadeath, and (often tons of) meta-progression involving spending stat points, or unlocking new skills or weapons. In many games, the difficulty decreases by unlocking new skills and adding stats. Sometimes the games increase their enemy difficulty as you earn victories, in order to balance the difficulty with all the new choices and skills you have.
Rogue-likes, on the other hand, are turn-based dungeon crawlers that have very little or no meta progression. They may have training wheels like being forced to start with a simple class and unlocking additional ones doing simple things in-game. They do this to avoid overwhelming new players with character choices, and not to make the game easier as yoy play. You get better by learning the game, and not by unlocking more things or adding to stats.
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 1 week ago:
let $random_game_publisher = "Ubisoft"; print("But on windows every {$random_game_publisher} is allowed...?"); > But on windows every Ubisoft is allowed...?
I’d like to report an issue with your code.
- Comment on AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified 2 weeks ago:
Thanks! That was a good read.
- Comment on AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified 2 weeks ago:
ERROR: File or directory not found.
- Comment on NSFW on Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
That image is 100% NSFW
- Comment on Is there anything I can do to decrease the gap in my blinds? 2 weeks ago:
Measure the height, and buy a length of some narrow, white board at Low’s Depot. Stick it onto the glass with a small amount of double-sided tape.
- Comment on Home sales are down. So why are prices at an all-time high? 4 weeks ago:
X = 52?
- Comment on Wood heater pollution is a silent killer. Here's where the smoke is worst 4 weeks ago:
Does he not own a calendar?
- Comment on Blocking communities doesn't work at all 4 weeks ago:
I wish there were giant lists of related communities and an easy way to import them as blocks. Want to block all sports team communities? Here are all 1,000 of them. All the anime communities? Here are all 90,000,000 of them.
- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 4 weeks ago:
😁 It’s an elite club.
- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 4 weeks ago:
No, not directly. Not any more than your average tech leader who goes to conferences and discusses it.
- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 4 weeks ago:
He invented JavaScript, so definitely don’t use that either. For real. JavaScript sucks.
- Comment on Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database 5 weeks ago:
There was a backup, and it was restored. However, the LLM lied and said there wasn’t at first. You can laugh all you want at it. I did. But maybe read the article so you aren’t also lying.
- Comment on Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database 5 weeks ago:
You didn’t read closely enough.
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 5 weeks ago:
Just send an AI selfie problem solved.
- Comment on salty 5 weeks ago:
Nature’s Pop-Rocks
- Comment on "Literally" literally does not mean "similar to in some way". 1 month ago:
What a hot take.
- Comment on Caption this. 1 month ago:
Norman Rockwell getting his weekly injection of inspiration.
- Comment on NVIDIA is full of shit 1 month ago:
Those 4% can make an RTX 5070 Ti perform at the levels of an RTX 4070 Ti Super, completely eradicating the reason you’d get an RTX 5070 Ti in the first place.
You’d buy a 5070 Ti for a 4% increase in performance? Ok.
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 1 month ago:
For real, though, what is it?
- Comment on What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality 2 months ago:
The term you’re looking for is “Extra Medium”.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I don’t understand the question. Why wouldn’t you put a space after a question mark? You did so yourself twice in this post.
- Comment on Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers - Ars Technica 2 months ago:
I feel like that’s all you need. You don’t have their apps installrd, so the problem is already solved. If you use uBlock Origin to block their trackers, the problem is solved. So you’ve solved it twice.
- Comment on Its gotta suck to be the guy who has to text out all the two-factor authentication codes. 2 months ago:
How do you know my Lemmy password?
