tommyage

Putting all my requirements into words just to be misunderstood is the worst part. In my brain I have everything layed out. Then, the clanker will miss nuances and I have to elaborate or realgin. It would be okay if it would be a junior. But it is advertised as a superior.

I understand that faster results may be rewarding; But nothing as rewarding then refactoring some legacy application by hand and deleting 50% more LoC then adding/modifying. Or picking the exact right abstraction now which I will use in two weeks from now and happily grind on my solid, craftsmen stones layed out beforehand.

Imho our craft was not understood beforehand. Now folks think they can grasp everything one mentions on the same level - they have "built" similiar things with ai. So it is even more frustrating to argue about stuff.

It is the worst technology ever emerged imho.

> Of course. As I noted before, dripping in European condescension. Nothing you can actually point to, just condescension from a region that has been left behind over the past century.

Let's see about that; Just me, some small guy with no knowledge on the topic.

> Which right or in what way has the right to privacy been attacked?

The US scans your device if you enter their land, e.g. Oh; I heard ICE uses cameras to spy on their own citizen? What about the raising Flock Cameras?

> But I do not think privacy in the US today has suffered. Please educate me.

A giant corporation just attacked another one. There were no repercussions. If you think that isn't privacy: How about leaking civilian data to outsiders of the government? DOGE, anybody?

> I am not implying anything. The Freedom Act curtailed a bunch of activities. You are implying nothing has changed. All of the Snowden revelations implicated many European countries: intelligence agencies spying on each others populations. I am asking you if you believe nothing has changed in the US do you 1) have any evidence of this and/or 2) believe that anything has changed in Europe? You've answered neither.

Why does he has to provide evidence but you don't? Also, I have never heard that an European Country spied on civilians from another country. That's an US and Chinese business model. Things changed in the US. It is now a lawless country. A war mongering state which dumps its allies for their own benefit. They are actively hostile. Your second question is so unspecific I have to require elaboration: "believe that anything has changed in Europe?" - I assume you are referring to Privacy Laws? We had plenty of new laws _protecting_ consumers in this regards. Handling data responsible. Wait; What are you guys doing over there? Ah, right: You are pushing Age Verification and demand information on our criminal record systems. You are pushing biometric tracking. You are telling buys of your weapons that you have the right to disable them. Honestly: The US sucks right now. You guys have elected the stupidest idiot, twice. And now without any regulation you are actively supporting a technology which will undermine _all_ citizen in the world.

> Do you understand that the mass surveillance of European people was done at the behest of the intelligence agencies of those countries? And ditto for the NSA. The agreement was "you spy on mine and I'll spy on yours and we'll swap the intel". I am not talking about espionage. Foreign intelligence agencies spying on foreigners...what did you think they did?

Again: You are accusing all twenty five member states in one statement. To me you are just yelling polemic nonsense. EUROPOL is _cooperating_ with the US. They are hunting people breaking our laws. If any individual is lawless within our boundaries of justice, European states have the rights to try to prosecute them.

> God, it's so painful. Yes in the same way that you talk about the US as a monolith and not 50 individual states. You don't care what Rhode Island does any more than I care what Latvia does.

You are implying your behaviour. The US has _one_ president in order to bundle the power. Your states have their national rights. If you compare the US to the EU you are not informed.

> Christ you guys are insufferable. It's no wonder everyone is leaving in droves.

By appearing with such statements on the Internet as an European Civilian you are undermining our values. Maybe if you can not align with them you should proceed your journey.

They already did, didn't they. Should be an applicable law in 2027. Though I can not refer or interpret the actual laws, sorry.

Another one:

`:earlier 1d`.

persistant undo is like a second brain to consolidate.

`:h 'undodir'`. Also undofile is off by default.

Maybe neovim should advertise like: Your fully configurable vim instance as a full IDE on your developer machine, only.

Driven by <3, passion and bravery.

Anyhow; I switched back to vim after one year of neovim shrugs. Still a Junior, here.

A GUI is indeed superior to a TUI. And keyboard driven should be both. But neither is my preferred UI. I want CLI programs callable from my shell.

This way I can quickly repeat an action from the past. I get a history of commands inserted. _And_ I can bind my own keyboard shortcuts if necessary. TUI and GUI do not meet this level of platform independence.

If a tool is TUI only I will not adapt it. That's not the case with a GUI, though.

I, temporarly, banned some ip range. I didn't find a source for pinpointing countries; though I am interested. Could you point me to some sources which, deterministically, resolve to some countries? To my knowledge you can not reliably identify countries by ip since this would be dependent on DNS servers. Though I am just a application programmer!

Thanks in advance.

I want append:

We have studied. We constantly educate ourselves (I have still not yet managed to work through the entire SICP on my own). Our tools are changing constantly. We are juggling information through devops, requirement engineers and customers. We advise daily. We get consolidated if something is complicated to summarize. We do forensics. Constantly under the pressure that some bit rot may open a new urgent bug we have to investigate. Money AND reputation on the line. It is a damn stressful job. So if we do our craft, we do it with incremental knowledge. Carefully. We build community of trust in our free time to get connected and improve. Any new member gets welcomed and onboarded. His knowledge im the future will supplement ours. So we mentor additionally.

Now comes AI. Collects the knowledge and hands it over to anyone. And we know: It is UNSAFE. Don't get me wrong; I consolidate it now as well, just to keep up with the increasing pressure to investigate. But the thing is:

While we did our craft so that we won't have to touch it in the next five years, the complexity increases every single day. And its out of our hands. If some junior comes in and starts writing decent code with ai it is nice. Until it breaks and AI won't help. Or worse: Gets applied on customer data in the wrong way.

A new ticket for the greybeards (by no means, I am not such). I think we are on the wrong track. Using ai decreases my abilities. It increases the load.

I think we should get twice the salaries. It has become unbearable.

Could you imagine that your local file server for your family consists of a enterprise database, a key-value store, possibly multiple reverse-proxies, a vector database.... my point beeing: Complexity. Invariants, frameworks to get familiar with... And the tool to supplement the demand is intransparent (but probably deterministic? Idk). It feels just so wrong.

Wait; So you say you outsource development to a LLM fully knowing that it will not write sound/deterministic code and your quality requirement are your test cases, right?

I further suppose you are not writing the test cases in its whole by hand. But you try to specify them before you hand out the development task to the LLM, right?

It sounds like you just introduces a new team member which is not trustworthy yet. Normally you would review each change of him and explain how to improve hisself and the code. But that's not possible to a fixed-state LLM. That sounds exhausting.

If your Markdown Files should aim at improving the LLM contributions, you are again stuck with the fact that it did not follow in the first place.

So I conclude: You pay for an Intern who is not trustworthy and pay additional input token on Markdown Files to still no be certain about future contributions.

I just don't grasp how we as engineers are accepting this and integrate it into our craft. And: Everybody using External LLM Services, possibly providing the entire project as context, is allowed to let the source code of your company be leaked to some third party. I hope that party is trustworthy and does not have a track record of copyright infridgement. Because this would be fairly naive and reason to be fired. So we as Engineers knowing the implications should therefore point to these issues at the correct management level.

At least that's what I am doing shrugs

All of software is hard-coded algorithm.

If you differ between AI source code and engineer source code say so. "Getting things done" is a business need. Which things get translated to a deterministic language executable by a computer is code.

There are entire languages dedicated for lesser engineers/domain experts to formulate business requirements.

Anyhow; What's your point? That we received a framework for "soft algorithms" where the output does not need to be correct and deducible? What's even the point of putting it into software. Just forward your input to the reader and let him judge on its own.

I am also wondering about this.

To me, your FAQ quickly addressed all questions I had to get a first grasp of the capabilities. It appears to me that you had a determined scope and I very much like that!

> Unfortunately moving to Gitlab or Sourcehut doesn't really help, because the underlying model (GPT-x) is trained on the entire internet, so that includes all scrape-able websites. The only way for your data not to be used in GPT (and therefore Copilot) is to not to put it on any website or make it very difficult to access, like encrypting it.

Having the entire git history decorates specific chunks (at least entire commits) with context by the commit message. So you may not only process the entire repo at one specific state in time, but the entire history in at this point in time. There is valuable knowledge while making sense of it; But this is not accessible to us. It relies in the knowledge base of one company (or two).