drrob

All my work and personal coding is still by hand. The software we build just isn't suited to LLM coding.

There's plenty of places that still don't use any AI for coding - I work at one of them. There's far too many lies and nonsense out there, with "research" stating that 90% of software companies are using AI for most of their programming. This is clearly bollocks.

Well if he's not AI he needs to rewrite his blurb, because it sounds awful.

It's so awful it might not be written by AI, as AI normally writes stuff that's sterile and soulless but precise, whereas his description is just all over the place.

You're really not missing anything I'm afraid; if you're a shit coder it'll seem like voodoo magic, if you're a good coder it's good in certain circumstances (parsing logs, interpreting debug messages, that sort of thing) but won't replace you.

Faster? Maybe. Better? Ha. If you honestly think the code quality and perf of AI's code is better than a half-decent human engineer then you're in the wrong line of work. Or you're just an AI bot...yep, that one.

They've been trained on thousands of productivity/influencer/passive-income grift blogs that surfaced in the post '4 Hour Work Week' era, when hustle culture was born.

I consumed A LOT of those blogs back then, and let me tell you they're clearly the basis that AI has learnt from, if you dig some up and read them it's very obvious.

And 6' is basically 6'2"...

You've not been a member here that long, so showing off stuff you've built will appear disingenuous and like you're just here to self-promote and grift. HN isn't really about that.

Spend a couple of years engaging with the site, adding to the discourse, and then look into showcasing your own stuff after that.

Indeed, I have tried this route, but for anything more than a really simple app it's just not effective enough.

I'm have a game on both app stores, built in .net Maui. It earns enough to keep a roof over my head.

AI is useless when developing with Maui, as it's too new of a development framework for any AI's knowledgebase to have a clue what to do with it.

Fair enough.

The original Colonization.

It's a good job I wasn't being interviewed for this job, as I have not one iota of a smidge of a clue what PEFT and LORA are. And I have no idea what varieties of prompting technique there are.

Not bothering with any kind of git setup any more, I've reverted back to some good old fashioned folder snapshot backups every time I finish a new version of what I'm working on.