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Comment · 13 days ago
The reason we fell first is because we embraced the copilots. We used them heavily, this gave them more and more training data on top of the code they slurped up from our using their assistants. Soon the assistant became the agent who killed the human.

They also had a rich starting point from open source code (which we somehow gave up without realising it). All of this won't happen as efficiently for these other fields, but it will happen, much in the way you've described. We (swes) turned out to be a rather dumb group of people, which is hilarious since we think we're clever.

The only moat we have is the human to human element, we need to talk to other humans in the business. Customers, etc. But once they're replaced by machines or automation, then machine to machine communication will be the preferred mode of communication and work and the legacy humans will be increasingly cut out of the loop. Human in the loop is a death sentence we just don't realise it.

Comment · 25 days ago
I hate homeassistant. Used it for years, on and off. Currently I have it running on a rpi somewhere, I dont know how to access it, I don't want to get dependent on it and have it break when the card dies or a bad update happens. I hate home automation.
Comment · 3 months ago
Ok codeberg, I see you. Time to make an account there.
Comment · 4 months ago
Should large codebases even exist?
Comment · 5 months ago
Hilarious but would they not abuse LLMs for this if so?
Comment · 5 months ago
I'm not as smart as you folks but doesn't durable execution being a part of the solution help a lot in this respect?
Comment · 5 months ago
Literally will break overnight when some key dependency changes. Your LLM might not be able to fix it. Then i guess you regenerate it all from scratch? Sounds exhausting tbh.
Comment · 5 months ago
This is another dumb AI project idea which i would have done at some point too if I didn't know better. It's one of those things where doctors will just go ahead with the fix even if they haven't evaluated the exact diagnosis, since the fix will probably be the same regardless. The human mind wants certainty though so I get it, but the fix doesn't need to be preceded by a pinpointing of the exact cause.
Comment · 5 months ago
I suppose you meant 'not' not 'now' yeah?
Comment · 5 months ago
>2-3 miniPCs, cloudflare, tailscale, and k3s can save (possibly tens of) thousands on SaaS products, and would probably scale you to a company of dozens AND host your product.

outline a simple real world system to illustrate?

Comment · 5 months ago
Never heard of most of these. What a waste of a click.
Comment · 6 months ago
He's clearly mimicking one of the clankers.
Comment · 6 months ago
Will the RLVR mechanism be improved upon or is it in some sense optimal?
Comment · 6 months ago
>What's with all the anti-AI sentiment here? Is it a bunch of unemployed devs?

so what? if you aren't part of inflating the hype beast you're a victim of it. Eventually no one will be left to hype it because we'll all have lost the battle.

Comment · 6 months ago
I was too loyal to mercurial, only switched to git/github long after the battle was lost and won.

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