zbyte64

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[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

A junior developer actually learns from doing the job, an LLM only learns when they update the training corpus and develop an updated model.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 3 points 3 months ago (8 children)

It’s usually vastly easier to verify an answer than posit one, if you have the patience to do so.

I usually write 3x the code to test the code itself. Verification is often harder than implementation.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago

DOGE has entered the chat

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

When LLMs get it right it's because they're summarizing a stack overflow or GitHub snippet it was trained on. But you loose all the benefits of other humans commenting on the context, pitfalls and other alternatives.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 3 points 3 months ago

Pepper Ridge Farms remembers when you could just do a web search and get it answered in the first couple results. Then the SEO wars happened....

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 6 points 4 months ago

I wonder how much of it is vibe coded at this point....

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 4 months ago

Last century: whistling tones into the phone to get a free call

This century: faking an accent to get the police to respond

Wait, that sounds like the last century as well...

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Just unlock it using your white voice.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 2 points 4 months ago

Developers destroyed the internet. Or do you think normies built the new advertising surveillance paradigm on their own? Hopefully they were well compensated.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 5 points 4 months ago

The oligarchs wouldn't like that precedent but they might go for purchasing SpaceX since it is owned by a foreigner. Kind of like with TikTok....

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems -2 points 4 months ago

Communists are just as selfish as anyone else. Their point is that if we want a better life we need to move beyond capitalism, communism is an appeal to our selfish nature as much as it is a call for cooperation.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

It's important to understand that any argument against improving one's material conditions is going to be rightfully ignored. Better to point out that without removing the yoke of power, any concessions can be easily removed.

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