Alex_L_Wood

Mobile Reddit is awful on Safari, but it speaks more about Reddit developers than it speaks about Safari.

I think SwiftUI is just a reflection of the times we live in. If you look around, many things which used to be done at "great" or "amazing" levels, are now just "good enough". Cars, houses, software, service - it all is just a reflection of the attitude, and even I noticed that I follow this in some of my day-to-day decisions.

Which parasites?

Yeah, my immediate picture was a blue hobo tent with some extenders sticking out of it.

I am so happy that just by setting Siri to an unsupported language I can kill Apple Intelligence across the whole system.

How much must one tie their self-worth to a chatbot to debase themselves like that? To think that a winner in the arms and intelligence race of animal kingdom, a member of the species that made this chatbot, would put down themselves like that in the defense of the thoughtless silicon is absolutely laughable and depressing at the same time.

You don't even know what "main character syndrome" is.

They aren't, it's just populating context window until "memory" is pushed out.

I heard that a year ago, I guess we still need to wait a bit more. Thought agents were fast!

LLM proponents always use some language like "these old, stuck up dinosaurs with their manual labor vs us cool smart kids with automated labor", but they forget one thing - with automated labor the performance and cost difference was easily measurable in favor of the automation. With LLMs it's neither measurable nor visible (no better software, no faster delivery overall in the industry), and the costs are pretty bad. Besides personal anecdotes of someone toiling away at yet another AI harness project on GitHub.

It's not just that, but the core is just that, even with reasoning models. Harness can only get you closer to the good result, but can't save you from every pitfall. As for PM analogy - don't forget that models don't learn and keep doing same stupid stuff they were doing a month ago.

Well, since the fundamental underlying structure is still the same, yes.

Not only we are looping, we are also adding layers of Idiocracy upon each loop. I kinda envy retired software engineers now, they can just grab the popcorn and watch this dumpster fire without a worry.

Gary Tan building something AI-related on top of your work is an anti-flex.

I can’t take anyone who puts probability on events like that seriously. How would you even explain the calculations behind that with a straight face?