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Comment · 7 days ago
what the freaking hell
Comment · 11 days ago
It really reads like it was passed 3 times through Claude.
Comment · 22 days ago
This is missing the point. If you want to run a software solution, application security still must be properly done.
Comment · 22 days ago
But we are kind of in a inverse situation, a huge amount of software is a one size fits all solution. Probably every small SaaS starts out with a number of extremely happy customers, but scaling means you can't satisfy everyone, so happiness turns into frustration. Big tech also supplies a lot of software that is one size fits all and not everyone is perfectly happy with.

If creation of customized software solutions is consistently getting cheaper and good enough in quality, the near future is about creating much more custom solutions for considerable smaller customer or consumer groups.

Mind that we still need people who understand tech and verify that a system does what it claims to do, in a safe and efficient way. Every non-technical vibe coder will at some point realize, that he maybe can prompt away every problem he has, but that is still considerable effort and also includes all the mistakes a professional already eradicated from his habits. Many vibe coded projects will also collapse under their own weight, rethinking a strategy - with tech in mind - is also professional effort.

Even if LLMs would produce perfect, high quality code all the time, instructing the "perfect" prompt is still a human problem. LLMs cannot mind read and fully understand the environmental and social circumstances. Understanding these things and model them into solutions, are also human problems.

All this still requires profound technical knowledge, even more now considering security is under fire.

Comment · 29 days ago
What are the reasons why you want dark mode so badly?
Comment · 2 months ago
It is weird because the last time I've heard about MTurk was about developing countries being rather reliant on it for doing AI grunt work. If am not totally wrong this must mean that the data work has moved to other services.
Comment · 2 months ago
Hysteresis is nonlinear.
Comment · 2 months ago
By contrast, england could summon anything from their colonies.
Comment · 2 months ago
I don't think it's superficial, but two problems adding up. Previous poster is talking about general latency issues because everything is networked and potentially quite far away.

What you point out is slowness once you hit the entry point. Go, or similar languages, as a server language platform could have solved that problem from a computational perspective. But it did not for the most part. In my opinion people choose the faster stuff because it's cool and they have more wiggle room to cram in to get back to the slow status quo.

Everything is overengineered, software or distributed architectures, sound to naive human logic but alien to computers. It's an cultural problem, development is so deeply entrenched into "business logic" that the minimal viable and computational economic solution isn't even on the table. I don't even think it has to do with cost or feasibility, it's just that your random e-com manager wouldn't know what to do with you, if a programmer really starts talking about hardcode tech stuff.

Comment · 2 months ago
I think warning about the other extreme is valid. But the way you wrote your comment it could be perceived as justification of the categorical slashing of grants by the trump administration. Which doesn't seem right either, because the progressive canadian policies are still in place, just less nonsensical.

You comment was also just made invisible due to low rating. Which can be disabled in settings. So my fault thinking it was deleted.

Comment · 2 months ago
thanks, didn't knew about that.
Comment · 2 months ago
LLM aren't logic machines. It's concepts of "root cause" and "faster" are purely linguistic, including all the internal conflicts of those loose definitions.

In that sense an LLM wouldn't even think it "lied" being confidently incorrect, in human terms it's just a "whoopsie". Apparently we want exactly that.

Comment · 2 months ago
The comment is removed. I was also a bit confused, so I've looked it up. So a very rough overview: Under Trudeau in Canada some regulations around gender politics and climate change, got a bit out of hand in terms of absurd requirements to state how they are helpful in the matter. Even for trivial things, they were not a hard requirements but helpful.

Unlike the US gov in this post, they didn't slash projects with good intentions, they just changed and clarified the requirements.

Correction welcome, I am far away from canadian politics.

Comment · 2 months ago
You are governed by fairly average people.

As a fairly above average person you can certainly adapt.

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