godshatter

Still, it's local, and I can't wait to see what it can do now that I know it exists.

> I agree that this technology is absolutely world changing, and am cautiously eager to see what comes of it, but it just bums me out, perhaps needlessly, that the people at the helm can be so artless, unreflective. Whatever.

This is something your average person can play around with. The filmmakers have been fumbling the ball a lot lately (not all the time, though) and I can't wait to see what rises out of the average populous. Lots of crap expected, for sure, but there will be gems in there that I'm willing to bet will blow away what we've seen in the industry. Kind of how indie game companies are eating AAA's lunch lately.

Humans should focus on coming up with conjectures and new problems to solve. I don't see LLMs doing that.

I have found a different method of using an AI when I'm making a hobby project. I have convinced it to only give me enough information about a topic such that I can have a chance at intuiting the rest. When I get stuck, I ask it specific questions about what I'm trying to code, or standard ways of getting around errors I'm encountering or making particular constructs work. We have long conversations about the goal I'm after and what might be involved in achieving it.

I don't use any code from the AI, and I don't give it code to look at, other than as something I have completed in the past. I'm not asking for code review, and I'm not asking it to optimize things for me. This works quite well for me. I learn more, and I keep doing what I consider the fun stuff.

It is similar to asking the AI for tricks on getting through a particularly harsh level in a video game, or how to get better at certain actions when playing. I'm not asking the AI to play the game, that's the fun part. I'm asking it how I can get better at it myself.

Also, as an early gen-Xer, I don't need anyone validating my enjoyment of something, thanks. I'll enjoy it whether the author likes it or not.

I'm still in the "tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment" camp. If you adhere to it, it makes your code look nice on any tab size.

I'm glad I'm not the only one. I can't do anything else if I'm listening to a podcast or an audio book, I lose the thread. So I end up just sitting there listening. I'd much rather read the book in whatever form because I get way more out of it, presumably because of the effort I have to put into it.

People are, in fact, animals.

You do give them something. All the data they can collect on you that might make them even a few pennies somewhere.

There really is an xkcd for everything.

I think everyone is missing the "...that nobody has thought of" part. You can have it switch known abstractions, but can it come up with one on it's own that doesn't exist in it's training data?

I always tend to think of the phrase "comfort kills" when I hear this kind of thing. The journey is at least as important as the end result.

Have you ever soured on a video game because you downloaded a "god mode" cheat?

Do they even have the equivalent of a game loop? I'll bump them up a notch when ChatGPT texts me, wanting to continue the conversation we were having yesterday.

What helped my RSI was learning a new computer layout (dvorak in my case). It went away and has stayed gone for 25-ish years. Keeping bikeyboardal between qwerty and dvorak probably helps.

I've been programming for fun for decades, at work and at home. I have no desire to have someone or something else write my code for me. However, I've managed to convince ChatGPT that I like to be mentored in a way that allows me to build intuition instead of just having the answer given to me (or worse) the code to build it. I'm building something like AlphaZero in C in my own way without any third party libraries, going my own way, building it as I go along and discussing how it all works with the AI. I find this even more fun than just trying it on my own.