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Anyone who uses LLMS should suck on my ballsack

You're a principle engineer who doesn't see the value in training juniors ...

Fair enough, maybe it was just the amount and variety of peptobismol products that I noticed were for sale everywhere. For example just in the Hotel where I was staying, they had a bunch chewable peptobismol gummy bears + the ordinary bottles for sale.

This has got to be a massive factor.

What shocked me about the US when I went, was how much peptobismol people chugged down. There was not one meal in my 1 week stay there that I could digest without issue.

This is cool, I always like to see local-first services on Mobile.

All of these features are great, and it's really cool that I can have them run locally on my phone, but what I feel is really missing on the Mobile App market right now is AI cross app automation.

I'm not sure it's possible with IOS right now though.

For instance: I went to france earlier this year, and before I went I saw this french vocabulary sheet that was just an image. I wanted to get the text from the image, format it into a csv with english in column 1 and french in column 2 and then export it to anki, which is also on my phone. AnkiDriod has this feature, and Gemini can deffinitely do OCR, translation and text formatting, however I had to do all the awkward app switching and input myself! This is the bit I wanted automated

It's not my job to convince anyone, all I have to be is the only person who does their job reliably and then watch the dollars roll in

It seems like the answer is to not use it then.

That would be bad for all those investors though. It's your choice I guess.

Look if your evil number 57, you'd better not use the random number generator.

If you use it for a critical system, and something goes wrong, youre still responsible for the consequences.

Much like if I let my cat walk on my keyboard and it brings a server down.

All it can do is reproduce text, if you hook it up to the launch button, thats on you

Im very happy to finally see this happen. It's so dangerous to centralize our digital services in the United States.

You're making leap of logic.

Before water sanitization technology we had no way of sanitizing water on a large scale.

Before LLMs, we could still write software. Arguably we were collectively better at it.

He's talking about "LLM Utility companies going down and the world becoming dumber" as a sign of humanity's progress.

This if anything should be a huge red flag

Why was this flagged?

For simple tedious or rote tasks, I have templates bound to hotkeys in my IDE. They even come with configurable variable sections that you can fill in afterwards, or base on some highlighted code before hitting the hot key. Also, its free

I trust chatgpt and gemini a lot less than stackoverflow. On stackoverflow I can see the context that the answer to the original question was given in. AI does not do this. I've asked chatgpt questions about cmake for instance that it got subtly wrong, if I had not noticed this it would have cost me aa lot of time.

I spent the weekend moving all my personal projects away from github & AWS to to dedicated hardware in the EU, still not in my own home, but I'm toying with the idea of purchasing some hardware to run gitlab etc from my home network.

Renting dedicated hardware is expensive though. I'm taking a financial hit for my paranoia.

I'm so glad someone is taking these forward. Her videos were a god send when I started out learning this language. Besides the sometimes strange rants about text-books, her videos are top notch.

This looks like it took a lot of effort to transcribe with all her helpful graphics too.

Thank you for doing this!

R.I.P Cure Dolly

I am a millennial and maybe I am just in the Minority of Millennials that quite likes talking to people even when It's contractual.

I walk to restaurants if I can to avoid using Wolt for instance.

Then again, I appreciate that AI is probably a better driver than 60% of taxi drivers.

Are the American's you're referencing living in the EU or back in the US?

The EU

Could the language barrier be a reason for their hesitancy?

No:

(and it's not a language barrier problem, because everyone speaks english)

I've heard stories about gen-z/alpha being more app brained

I think you might be on to something there, maybe it's more of a generational thing than a cultural difference between American and EU citizens.

How is it better for the worker? They just go hungry instead

This doesn't surprise me at all. I work in the EU but recently the Americans we hire are very hesitant to have conversations with service providers. They will pay more to use a service that has an app, rather than call up another taxi company by phone for example (and it's not a language barrier problem, because everyone speaks english). I can see this extending to not wanting to have a driver in their taxi.

I see this with UK people recently too. I'm not sure what it is. I'm not saying it's not an EU thing at all, but from my vantage point, the behavior is most prevalent in Americans

Edit: After reading this thread, it's possible this could be sampling bias and more of a cross-country generational thing from mellennials down. (I am a mellennial too)

What do you mean by "(and terrible practice)"?

Some news outlets are indicating that there are some survivors: https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/air-india-dreamliner-cras...

Several injured passengers have been evacuated from the scene and transported to local hospitals.

Edit: The BBC is reporting local police as saying: "There appears to be no survivors" https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c8d1r3m8z92t?post=asset%3A8731...

horrifying survey of genAI’s impact on secondary and tertiary education.

I agree with this. It's probably terrible for structured education for our children.

The one and only one caveat: Self-Driven language learning

The one and only actual use (outside of generating funny memes) I've had from any LLM so far, is language learning. That I would pay for. Not $30/pcm mind you . . . but something. I ask the model to break down a target language sentence for me, explaining each and every grammar point, and it does so very well. sometimes even going to explain the cultural relevance of certain phrases. This is great.

I've not found any other use for it yet though. As a game engine programmer (C++) The code I write now a days quite deliberate and relatively little compared to a web-developer (I used to be one, I'm not pooping on web devs). so if we're talking about the time/cost of having me as a developer work on the game engine, I'm not saving any time or money by first asking Claude to type what I was going to type anyway. And it's not advanced enough yet to hold the context of our entire codebases spanning multiple components.

Edit, Migaku [https://migaku.com/] is a great language learning application that uses this

As OP, I'm not sure it's worth all that CO2 we're pumping into our atmosphere.

This is probably the best opinion piece I've read so far on GenAI

The BEAM VM is generally terrible at any computationally heavy task. But what it lacks in performance, it makes up for in stability built-in to Erlang's OTP framework.

It's also "difficult" to integrate with existing C programs such as system drivers due to BEAM's execution model. It's possible to do, but there are a lot of foot guns & you have to be careful.

I disagree with calling Elixir a general purpose programming language.

I was going to comment this seperately, I'm glad someone pointed this out. +1

As a mid-late career coder, I’ve come to appreciate mediocrity. You should be so lucky as to have it flowing almost effortlessly from a tap.

If the kind of work this person is doing requires no thought, then of course an LLM will be perfect for it.

All this is to say: I write some Rust. I like it fine. If LLMs and Rust aren’t working for you, I feel you. But if that’s your whole thing, we’re not having the same argument.

Yes we are, because the kind of work you need to do in C++ or Rust is probably entirely different from the work this person manages to get the LLM to do in Go.

Does an intern cost $20/month? Because that’s what Cursor.ai costs.

So then where do the junior developers come from? And then where do the senior developers come from?