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Comment · 7 days ago
A few years ago I was wishing the same, but I was wishing it for someone knowledgeable enough.

Today I wish the same, but for someone with enough motivation and tokens instead.

Don't get the wrong idea: I would be glad for a OneNote/Obsidian alternative that's performant. I just lament the days where I'd stare in awe thinking about the levels of wizardry one must get to in order to build something that I admire. Now the first thing that comes to mind is "I wonder how many tokens did this took them to make".

Comment · 8 days ago
I do not wish to share proprietary code that I'm being paid to boss agents around to write.

Since I'm detecting snarkiness in your words, let me clarify something important: How convincing something you read is doesn't have to match with how true it is.

Comment · 10 days ago
Not trying to rain on someone's parade but, the only reason why would care about style guides nowadays is to feed them to our model of choice and let it do what it's supposed to be doing.

So it's not like I am willing to read through this and think to myself "I cannot wait to pick up some new ways of doing things". I'm the general to my agentic army now.

I guess you would code manually every now and then for your own enjoyment but at that point do you care about style guides written for scale?

Comment · 10 days ago
That's not hype - that's the new norm. It's not novelty anymore.
Comment · 10 days ago
I'm far from being an expert on this specific subject but, I have the impression that Ozempic does a lot of things in one's body in order to reduce the appetite and result in eating less. Which is to say that, the author sounds like he's implying that the solution to this was trivial all along, by deliberately omitting the underlying mechanism that makes it work.
Comment · 11 days ago
The issue with is, as far as my personal anecdote is concerned, that competence doesn't translate across all activities. Me being good with figuring out Legos, video games, or programming doesn't translate to me being good with cooking, socializing, music, etc.

Furthermore, I find it completely reasonable for someone to care about the long-term financial focus of their children. I find this to be the second best antidote to all the uncertainty and fear older generations leave behind to the new ones.

The first best would've been to actually give a damn and make a stand to what the powers-to-be force you to accept as the new norm as if they're the force of nature that make decisions on how the 95% of the world's population must adapt to.

Comment · 11 days ago
Thankfully, now that our machine God is here, we don't need to bother ourselves with learning new CSS features. Just feed the article to the machine as part of the spec and it will handle everything.
Comment · 23 days ago
Tons of corporations rely on the fact that human interaction within software production will be as minimal as possible, and no one actually cares who trains the seniors of the future.
Comment · 29 days ago
A parent doesn't necessarily knows best or acts with your best interests in mind, and that's really observable by all the toxic parents regardless of whether there's malicious intentions behind their actions or just sheer incompetence.

I'm too European for the rest of your argument and I just happen to be Greek so I fundamentally disagree with the premise that I'm voting a father or mother figure which I must blindly follow out of obligation or blind trust.

Comment · 1 month ago
That's just awesome and makes me regret not switching to Linux earlier. I wish the creator of this made the start menu suddenly change after running Windows update, because Microsoft knows best on which folders you need to be visible by default. It can be customized, but you can't go back to how the start menu was.
Comment · 1 month ago
Someone who knows that 1 + 1 = 2 will not decide that it's suddenly 3 unless we start accounting for health problems. Making mistakes is not the same as non-deterministic.
Comment · 1 month ago
And it would still be shot down by optimists as "just fiction".
Comment · 1 month ago
>but not to achieve anything of merit

Educating oneself to provide better quality of work still requires writing code by hand, and by extend is an achievement of merit.

Comment · 1 month ago
> It is absolutely wild to me how a corporation can be so toxic and abusive to its users and still be in business.

It's easy: The choice was made from someone else, and you just accepted it as normal. Hardware vendors shipping PC's with Windows 11, corporations who went all in to Microsoft's tooling shove Microsoft Teams down your throat because "the company uses it", and the list goes on.

Comment · 1 month ago
The statement "human civilization lives on", as far as capitalistic interest is concerned, stands true even if the ones who will survive are ultimately the oligarchs, and all art form is machine generated.

I don't agree with it, but it's true.

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