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Comment · 6 months ago
Yes, I am in SEA. Home internet here costs 10$ per month.

My point was: not every person browsing this site has high living standard, and the ability to spend 10k on computing is a privilege.

Comment · 6 months ago
In where I am living, 10k USD is a little more than 3 years worth of rent, for a relatively new and convenient 2 bedroom apartment.
Comment · 7 months ago
Haven't tried Claude for this, but I can't think how it could possibly do. I built a game bot using Win32 API to send input and screen capture to OCR and some OpenCV to recognize game elements. Dead simple and actually quite boring and repeatitive after I worked on it for a while. How could Claude agents possibly do this ? I did use Claude to refer docs and API, though.
Comment · 8 months ago
Do you think he used AI to generate that much code without ever understanding or having a look at the code ? Why was he hired ?
Comment · 8 months ago
When enshittification happens we would just simply go back to code by hand, then. We programmers don't lose the ability to do so when we use LLM, right ?
Comment · 8 months ago
Not forever. If that's their main business then they will eventually have to profit or they die.
Comment · 8 months ago
Waste ? They can become both an AI race winner AND a disruptive Jira vendor. Yet they don't. Why ? To be a successful Jira vendor will prove their point that software engineers are obsolete now. Why don't they do that already ?
Comment · 8 months ago
English can be ambiguous. Programming languages like C or Java cannot

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