Let's all do each other the professional courtesy of not lowering our standards and expectations so low that this level of shoddy, expensive slop looks impressive.

The hype has gotten completely out of control. Yes AI is super cool and has its place, but come on! We should at the very least expect these flashy AI demos to work and deliver better value than what's already available.

That token usage probably used somewhere on the order of ~10MWh of electricity, roughly the average usage of a Canadian household for an entire year. Plus the $20k in cash; that could have been used to hire some recent grads who would have delivered a better result.

Everyone's talking about the $20k C compiler that doesn't work but the tone is excitement, not a huge collective eye roll -- what am I missing? This seems like a classic case of real harm and imaginary benefit. This is a well and truly solved problem if there ever was one.

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Writing "agents" is like writing a book on good software engineering practices.

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Three panel thing. In the left panel we use error bars. In the second, we take statistical significance as the biggest number but still have error bars. In LLM science, we just have the biggest number

What if we did a single run and declared victory

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So since they removed launchpad from macOS and you can only launch things from spotlight now, does that mean you can't open an app until spotlight finishes indexing?

The world is being cleaved into people who overuse AI and people who deal with the fallout of people overusing AI. Frustratingly, I don't really like being in either of these camps. Where do we go from here?

I don't want non-deterministic, randomly wrong answers to my vaguely worded spoken-language requests. Do people really want this? I want tools that reliably do one thing well and consistently.

My boss: Can't you get Copilot to validate the info in the spreadsheet?
Me: Well, do we want it to be accurate or not? Because either I check it myself or I ask Copilot and then check its output *and* the spreadsheet, so...
Boss: What's the point of Copilot then?
Me: Exactly.

I wish people realized how unreliable these tools are -- they're great and useful, but can't be counted on. We shouldn't become dependent on them for important workflows because these kinds of performance fluctuations and pricing instability are completely predictable and expected.

Just WHY Javascript

You're killing me.

Working with AI assistants/LLM-driven development feels like coaching a really dumb, belligerent, and obsequious intern _all day_. It's exhausting and no fun. Super curious how other people are working with these tools for positive outcomes

How do you use LLMs in your day to day, if at all?

🤣 this is hilarious

My trusty robot that will take my job any day now.

Lol that is hilarious. I need to find the setting to turn the drama down. They’re so pitiful sometimes 😆

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It just keeps getting better -- the more I tell it it's wrong and to keep trying, the more confident it gets with each subsequent (wrong) guess 😂 Delightful.

Narrator: The machine had not, in fact, found the source of the error.

It's just not feasible as an industry to continue wasting the vast majority of our efforts keeping up with trends -- most of these things are solved problems.

The frequency with which front-end developers are expected to _completely_ re-architect fundamental aspects of their apps, like state management or data fetching or caching is sheer madness.

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LLMs might just be the thing that convinces developers that good docs and well described APIs are worth writing.

Apple really shilling hard for pizza today 😂

I mean.. that’s exactly what is happening. This is the gestapo, there’s no telling who those people are or who they’re accountable to. Americans are still severely under reacting to how completely fucked they are.

how did web apps work at all before Typescript

How long do you spend upgrading JS libraries?