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Claude Sonnet 5 22 days ago

this seems rather counter-productive, wouldn't a model with less cybersecurity capabilities be more likely to produce insecure code? Not to mention, Chinese models don't have these restrictions and can be used to exploit said unsecure code.

I supposed I shouldn't be surprised at how the trump admin is approaching AI regulation, counter-productive is really all they do

I've vibe coded a codemirror table editor (as a plugin for joplin) using a nested codemirror instance for the cell editor, in my case using joplin's built in command to render markup for the inactive cells: https://github.com/bwat47/joplin-rich-tables

it works well but I'm not much of a programmer and probably ended up with a crazy over engineered architecture lol

I was surprised that there weren't any existing libraries for this (there is one now but it was created after I started work on my plugin: https://github.com/ckant/codemirror-markdown-tables)

ChatGPT for Excel 3 months ago

its baffling how badly microsoft has handled copilot, this is exactly what copilot in office should have been

It does matter because oil is a global commodity, the fact that the US is a net exporter doesn't stop the prices from going up and other follow-on impacts to the global economy.

the big difference with Iran is the strait of hormuz. It doesn't matter how "well" it goes if it stays closed and torpedos the global economy

inconsistent communication

I feel like "inconsistent communication" is putting it lightly, with trump going back and forth between "we won", "we'll take the oil", and "whatever we'll leave" often within the same day.

GPT-5.4 5 months ago

yeah claude is great... but only if you pay $100-$200 a month

Yeah a trend that I've noticed in online comments is people taking LLM generated text and just removing punctuation and making it all lowercase. It's like dude, it's still so obvious xD

yeah I actually use AI a lot, but copilot is... useless. When microsoft adds copilot to their various apps they don't seem to put any thought/effort behind it beyond sticking a copilot button somewhere.

And if the copilot button does nothing but open a chat window without any real integration with the app, what the hell is the point of that when there's already a copilot button in the windows taskbar?

AI Usage Policy 6 months ago

I would hope that actually testing the changes is done regardless of whether or not AI is used

LLMs are far more flexible in what you can create, opening up many niche use cases for non programmers (or those with very limited programming experience).

For example, I use LLMs for one specific thing, making plugins for an app I use (which need to be written in javascript/typescript). No code tools wouldn't be of any use to me here.

No code tools put you in a box that limits what you can create, whereas LLMs allow you to code pretty much anything (though of course how far you can get does depend on having at least some technical ability/knowledge).