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Nice

Fair. Honest caveat - I keep seeing "a good instinct" everywhere now. Is this humans acquiring new phrases from Claude? Is there a name for this phenomenon yet?

Oh for sure, I'm not denying the value of AI as a teacher, just saying that it's not going to speed things up much over a quality personal teacher/tutor.

I'm not sure an AI will speed things up much. You would probably still need years of layers of foundational understanding to get the advanced material. We don't go through years of school to learn math just because teachers are bad - it's because complex subtle ideas are built on countless other ideas, and aren't necessarily compressible to something every layman can understand.

How do you get your kindle books on it?

I think FOSS is far better. Restrictive licenses lead to much less people inspecting and working with the code.

Kubrick

What does "spirituality" mean exactly and why is it so offensive to you?

I've ordered a physical keyboard that attaches to the back of the phone using magsafe to make it easier to use. I wouldn't be surprised if we see new types of hardware or at least new mobile UI paradigms that make AI coding on the go easier.

Yes

This is written on a OnePlus 13 with a slider running lineage os. Amazing phone.

I have a OnePlus 13. Best hardware ever. Running lineage with microg + magisk and use nix on top of termux to install stuff using sudo, including AI harnesses - it's my portable AI workstation now.

Are you all making sure to set charge limits at night?

Yes, roughly. I try out open source projects as a hobby and a vocation. I've looked at dozens in a day sometimes. It doesn't take more than a few minutes to figure out if the code is slop.

BTW, I'm not alone in my opinion on AI:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1uxbrw4/linus_t...

Honest caveat

I assume this is sarcasm?

Yes most people are not top tier devs and most code is slop whether written by AI or not. I've probably dug through tens of thousands of code bases in my over 30 year career as a software engineer and most are slop.

I also did not claim that all "top tier devs" would always produce better code with AI, but the qualification for a "top tier dev" in this case would be someone who verifies code multiple ways to make sure it is correct. I've seen amazing code come from bad interns that was reviewed mercilessly by season devs, and there's absolutely no reason it would not be the same with AI generated code.

You do realize that you can review the entire architecture and code line for line even if it's AI generated right? My black box comment did not mean you couldn't see the code, it meant you don't know whether a machine wrote it or not.

Why should I do anything but take your anonymous comment with a huge grain of salt. Is the irony completely lost here?

You must be replying to a different comment. Seems completely unrelated to what I wrote. I never claimed that there wasn't AI slop. My point is that there are different levels of code coming out of AI, both due to the quality of the model and harness, and the quality of the engineer that is driving it. Thus you can't just bucket all AI developed code the same.

100% there is slop created by humans and really solid code bases generated by AI driven by a meticulous developer. You are making the exact error I was addressing, which is bucketing all AI code as the same.

I phrased that improperly which made you and probably others misunderstand. What I meant is, is the quality of AI generated code correlated with the developer? The answer is yes, a bad dev will absolutely produce worse code using AI than a good developer - the point being that there isn't just one level of quality of code coming out of AI, even with the same model and harness.

Is there any measurable difference in quality between the two, or are you just going on "vibes"? Is there a correlation between the quality of the manually written code and AI generated code driven by the same dev?

Such crude takes only cause unnecessary friction. If you have a black box that spits out code, and you are unable to distinguish the quality between a top tier dev and an AI inside the black box, then the distinction is unnecessary. Most of the code on the internet is already a black box to you. What percentage of code running on your machines have you vetted by who wrote it and code quality?

AI coding isn't going anywhere and will likely end up generating most code going forward so instead of rejecting it outright or arbitrarily categorizing it we need to focus on solid quantitative and qualitative measures of code and functionality regardless of who wrote it.

Same, using NixOS as a NAS, though it kept growing and now I'm trying to share it with other people. I use BTRFS on MDADM though. It's ended up being an all-in-one home server and router now because I was tired of the noisy power hungry rack I had in my closet.

https://HomeFree.host

Except it does. It's not some law of physics. I've done exactly this on multiple projects, both personal and corporate.

No quite the opposite. It says everything that you think the only alternatives are voting or nothing.

This is the kind of mindset that has no grasp of the true nature of power and the political system.

This must have been a long time ago? Because that's leaving over a billion dollars "on the table" at the current price.

What's stopping you?

It seems that eventually you could build much more flexible and powerful if you build from scratch. Hacking existing cells is a shortcut but longer term we may get grey goo.

I'm working on an all-in-one box that has OTA updates, requiring virtually zero maintenance after setup. It's currently at the pre-alpha stage. It bundles a router/firewall, app server, and NAS. Not trying to be everything to everyone, but covers the basic functionality most people would need. Automatically handles DDNS, TLS certs, backups, and SSO wiring. Entire config is in a single JSON file, but the system can be extended using plugins. It's based on NixOS but doesn't require the user to know that.

https://HomeFree.host

Longer term goal is a sleek plug-and-play box anyone can connect to their ISP modem with minimal technical knowledge.

I'm currently running it on a Aoostar WTR Max NAS with my AT&T connection. Got another NUC connected to a Spectrum modem. My goal is to be able to flip back and forth between the two with a backup bundle within minutes.

Considering breaking up the router and app server functionality so they can be run separately. Another idea is to use custom a 3D printed case with Framework laptop motherboard and battery, switch, and wifi AP to make a true all-in-one box. I currently need an external switch, backup battery, and wifi access point.

Once the system feels mature, next steps would be things like federated tailnets with friends and family for things like distributed backups, compute/GPU, CDN, social networking, etc. Hoping that decentralized model training is cracked by someone at some point.

From a coding perspective I'm hoping to modularize everything (since it's NixOS) and add thorough testing and hardening. It's already relatively modularized considering it's built on Nix flakes.

We haven't created humans from scratch using genetic engineering yet, why would you think our current state has anything to do with the comment you are replying to?