Anoian

If you use open models you can also read the thinking tokens, I think this makes a huge difference because one tends to read them leading to better understanding of the end results and also giving opportunities to correct course if its hung up about ambiguity and stuff like that. It also helps a lot with not being distracted while the clanker is working, instead of going to youtube or reading up on whatever, you spend more time with the code and the thoughts behind it.

It stops the constant context switching.

I have told llms all kinds of stories to find out what its answers would be. I always make it sound like it is the truth to make sure the AI answers in a way that it would if somebody actually said this. I also tested internal flagging systems of the ai company I work at with the most evil things a person can ever say to find out if it would flag them.

Of course I did not mean any of that stuff, but how can you make sure a human reviewer knows you did not mean it while the llm does not know that you did not mean it.

I guess its a miracle I am not in jail yet.

Flagging people for anything said to an llm sounds wrong to me because an LLM is not a real person and while some people put in their internal thoughts, others just roleplay and the two are inseparable just from reading it.

I think this highly depends. I would feel comfortable with giving my older relatives a linux mint cinnamon machine.

PSA: Soon german brand AVM will have dns blocking of advertising right in their routers (fritz box). Search the web for Fritz!OS 8.40 if you are interested.

I have never seen a comment this gray

I mean I am not part of the same company, so I am just talking out of my butt, but I cannot imagine a dev worth their money taking more than two weeks, to fix a bug, especially today with AI assistance, most bugs are found the same day, the gnarly ones maybe take two days and in my lifetime as an engineer (10 years), I have not yet seen a bug that took me more than a week.

Taking 9 months to fix a bug sounds alarming to me.

Respect for the consumer has long been gone generally except for a few brands.

I am still wondering why consumer respecting brands are not emerging more and thriving.

As an european I approve of the claim being "Its not this, its that", because for once its an actual good use of it, as many things claim to be european when in actuality they are american companies, hosting their stuff in an aws/azure european data region, so not really european at all.

I feel like they only exist so that google can claim that competition exists.

Its sad that you gotta be a software engineer, to immediately get this joke, because its pretty good

It just feels hollow and cheap.

People do not want to talk to their devices because they are in the room with other people and they dont want to disturb them. I think their device is going to be a flop.

But a big part of software engineering is literally defining the requirements.

Chrome became popular in the time where firefox was already more popular than IE.