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Norm does make some really beautiful content, but be warned that he can be a bit of a bastard in the comments if you say anything that disagrees with his opinion. I caught some strays myself once when pointing out that the largest second hand electronics market in Tokyo wasn't the one that he claimed it was.

> The software has more rights and privilege than actual humans at this point.

That's been true for some time though, right? For example if you have a community notice board in front of your store and someone pins illegal content to it you're held to a different legal standard than if someone posts the same content to a social media platform.

I don’t think that’s right either, but this kind of “tech exceptionalism” has been baked into law for decades. AI is inheriting those privileges more than inventing new ones.

"I am beer" is a pretty funny typo ;-)

But seriously, I wonder why this happens. My experience of working with LLMs in English and Japanese in the same session is that my prompt's language gets "normalized" early in processing. That is to say, the output I get in English isn't very different from the output I get in Japanese. I wonder if the system prompts is treated differently here.

In my experience it's less about the latest generation of LLMs being better, and more about the tooling around them for integration into a programmer's workflow being waaaay better.

The article doesn't explicitly spell it out until several paragraphs later, but I think what your quoted sentence is alluding to is that Cursor, Cline et al can be pretty revolutionary in terms of removing toil from the development process.

Need to perform a gnarly refactor that's easy to describe but difficult to implement because it's spread far and wide across the codebase? Let the LLM handle it and then check its work. Stuck in dependency hell because you updated one package due to a CVE? The LLM can (often) sort that out for you. Heck, did the IDE's refactor tool fail at renaming a function again? LLM.

I'm remain skeptical of LLM-based development insofar as I think the enshitification will inevitably come when the Magic Money Machine breaks down. And I don't think I would hire a programmer that needs LLM assistance in order to program. But it's hard to deny that it has made me a lot more productive. At the current price it's a no-brainer to use it.

Thanks for building this. Super stoked that the translation in on-device.

I'll be downlaoding it and giving it a try today!!

This hasn't been my experience with English/Japanese translation with Google Translate. For context I used Google Translate for pair programming with Japanese clients 40 hours per week for about 6 months, until I ponied up for a DeepL subscription.

As long as you're expressive enough in English, and reverse the translation direction every now and again to double check the output then it works fine.

This is fascinating to me as an ex-mainframer that now works on a niche hyperscaler. I would love to learn more!

Will you let me know some of the names in the space so that I can research more? Some cursory searching only brings up some questionably relavent press releases from IBM.

That was my first thought too. But like TFA says, that still wouldn't prtect you from clerical errors.

Not sure why I'm being downvoted. I'm aware that VMware used to donate to a lot of causes and now Broadcom doesn't (source: I also work there :)).

My point is that I'm surprised that the loss of a single sponsor would make-or-break an organization like this.

I say this as someone that supports their mission, formerly helped run an affiliated club (shoutout EMich WiCS!) and donates annually, or used to anyway.