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Are you claiming that LLMs have an intent beyond producing the statistically most "correct" output? This sounds a bit like you are saying LLMs are conscious.

How would you define high-quality LLM output? How do you differentiate it from LLM slop?

I think all LLM output used "as is" for content/entertainment/art is slop.

Funny, I had a similar experience. I wrote a script that enabled players to "call in" mortar support, by looking at the target and selecting a distance. Also using shoddy trigonometry and also one of my earliest programming experiences. Very basic from today's perspective, but I was mighty proud back then and so hooked!

My impression is that smaller companies, that depend on rapid prototyping to gain clients, exert a lot of pressure onto their devs to use LLMs. At least that's the situation in the companies some friends of mine are working at.

I'm in a slow-moving, much bigger company. Lot's of talk about "AI" here and we can use copilot if we want to, but there is 0 pressure. I'm in a small team and one colleague uses copilot often. In the beginning there was a minor conflict between him and me, because I found the quality of the LLM code unacceptable and had to ask him to review it more carefully. I think that's settled now, but it makes me sad how a once motivated colleague now seems to try to cheat his way out of work.

I personally find it incredibly boring to write copilot prompts or read its answers full of boiler plate and sycophancy. I don't understand how anyone would want to replace the cognitive work of programming, that I find enjoyable for the most part, with the cognitive work of "talking" to an LLM.

Anyway, I think it will be like this at least for a little while longer: only vibe coding allowed in small companies and less vibe coding the bigger the company is.

But before vibe coding can take over the slow-moving big companies, all the accumulated technical debt will come back to haunt us and vibe-free software will be the new fad. That's what I hope at least.

No. They cut on maintenance to make line go up. And then they deconstructed existing switches, signal boxes, train lines, and train stations to cut costs even more. This is not an EU problem or a regulations problem or labour cost problem. These are the fruits of privatisation and capitalism.

Have you read the PR discussion?

Link is paywalled and archive.ph does not work on it. Could you please summarize the argument?

My mistake. I see my oversight now. `Either String String` is not equivalent to `String | String`, but to `Left String | Right String`. The same must be done for the C# version.

You are correct that this requires support for disjoint unions (aka tagged unions), which Haskell always had and C# will soon have.

My mistake. I see my oversight now. `Either String String` is not equivalent to `String | String`, but to `Left String | Right String`. The same must be done for the C# version.

Have you considered trying them out (maybe in F#) to understand why they are so popular in many other languages?

I think it's almost always about making code more concise and programming more ergonomic. Assembly could already solve all the problems higher-level languages can solve. Yet we didn't discard them as useless.

But you can have an `Either String String` which is what GP was talking about.

No, it's a union of a left value (that happens to be a string) and a right value (that happens to be a string). But the compiler-generated code can't tell them apart.

I don't think it's a matter of the type of problem and I always found it weird how F# is being framed as being only useful for "math-heavy" problems.

What matters is what libraries you are gonna use for your solution. If most of them are C#-only and don't have an F# equivalent then you'll lose the ergonomics and conveniences that make F# so easy to work with.

What's the company's name? And why the unnecessary secrecy in the first place? It's a publicly traded company so this information is public by definition.

Could you please show us an example of the change made to one of these if statements? I'm curious, because it seems absolutely wild to me to end up in such a situation (where that many changes are required and the usual refactoring tools of modern IDEs are insufficient) in the first place.

I'm not impressed with your comment.

What about shadows? The UV-C light can't reach everywhere, right? What about the back and undersides of product packaging you want to sterilise?

Interesting. It seems like you're one of those persons that actually believe what Trump and Hegseth are saying regarding the war. Is that so?

If you felt improvements with semiglutide only after many months, how long did the other trials last? It sounds like you went through hundreds of trials. Did they all went on for many months? When did you determine that a drug wasn't effective and abort the trial? How come you didn't abort the semiglutide trial earlier?

I'm pretty sure there is no diagnostic test for ME/CFS. What are you referring to?

Also I don't understand how semaglutide did help you while you're at the same time part of a minority risk group with a hypersensitivity to it. Isn't that a contradiction?

In your opinion: at what age does someone become unworthy of life?

I'm sure the other astronauts are really looking forward to fly with a person showing signs of suicidal ideation.

Could you please name a couple persons who matter in their professional domain, who post on LinkedIn, and who you benefited from by engaging with them on LinkedIn?

Why not Human Olympics?

Did you report that SQLite bug? What's the company's name?

What are the military objectives?

This sounds like a very odd and very lonely job to me. Reading your description I pictured a comically tiny room with only one opening for incoming requests and another one for outgoing responses. Obviously silly, but in an abstract sense maybe not that far from the truth?

It also sounds like you were overworked and when you started to use LLMs you've stripped yourself of the chance to work with a colleague.

What is an "eco warrior"? It sounds similar to the alt-right term "social justice warrior". Is this on purpose?

I can't tell if this is satire or has been built in earnest. It gives me such strong "The Platform" (2019) vibes, but at the same time I can imagine people actually paying for this.

For instance, did nobody ever stop and think that it might be bad for mental health if you force people to interact with a dating app daily? But the dating app industry is known for preying on the desperate, so maybe it's not surprising at all? I really can't tell.