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I used LLM to teach me how to code and get through obstacles that would have me spending a lot of time doing ???. Typically, I just write code that I know a lot of time is absolutely wrong but the LLM helpfully point out mistakes.

I am slowly doing more of my own code and cutting out the LLM out of the loop in the unfamiliar territory I am working in.

My main concern is not so much productivity but understanding the code I have written and feeling agency over it.

The LLM is a very good teacher.

It's time to let people choose their own algorithm and force upon the platforms a marketplace for algorithms.

I used LLM as a tutor to tackle unfamiliar terrain. That is, I write code that I know very likely doesn't work but is the best code that I could have written. The LLM will happily tirelessly show me what I did wrong and what the correct code actually look like. Then, at the end of it, I got code that running. That's a tight feedback loop.

It's still very slow. It took me two hours to write code that generate JSON data and then to write a web page that displays a knowledge graph.

One thing you have to be aware is that the LLM will happily generate code for you and you have to discipline it from time to time. I notice that my reading comprehension begins to suffer if I don't write the code myself and have to understand what the LLM wrote for me as opposed to the LLM correcting where I went wrong.

One thing I would like to try with an LLM is understanding a large and complex existing codebase like OpenSCAD that doesn't leverage my existing skillset(high level programming languages with OpenSCAD as primary language in the past year). That has always been a barrier to contribution for me.

Make modifications and sell it, duh. It's something to contemplate when I am trying to solve a manufacturing problem.

I don't know why is it so difficult for you to conceive based on well known definition of open hardware and the analogy to free software.

No. It's easy. I develop tools. Some of which are tools I may want to sell to other. if I am dependent on a platform to make money, I don't want to ask permission to do so.

I don't know why it's so mysterious for you. It's not an open hardware platform and prusa is the gatekeeper here.

I don't want to ask Prusa for permission.

INDX is an up and coming option that will probably change how multimaterial printing done, hopefully. I bought the founder edition but it will be a long time coming.

As an aspiring business owner, I am looking to transition to a more open printer as the OCL isn't something I want to rely on.

Prusa work well. They're just expensive.

But let's not forget that if author cannot live of what they create, they, for the most part, won't be able to continue creating.

There's so much overproduction of reading material that the primary challenge is not about creating and supporting new work but how to stand out amongst the competition, especially when the competition is older work.

The older works are perfectly fine, they just needs to be resurfaced so that people don't go working on materials that other people already written. That means these materials should be widely available, such as being in the public domain.

All the more reason to go local.

This is assuming AI will take our jobs as opposed to making more mess for us to clean up.

Executive leadership bias older not younger, no?

Labor became too expensive to afford than technology obsoleting household labor. They can find better opportunities. Currently labor is too cheap due to the housing crisis and poor urban planning. Paradoxically labor will become more expensive once structural issues are fixed.

You don't need "virtue", "honour", and "duty" to have NOT have voted the way people did. It is plain to see which chosen leader will torch the nation and which will not, regardless of people's distaste for the establishment politicians.

It is worse than self interest. It is brazen ignorance.

The Chinese can be oppressive, thieves, and innovative.

There's nothing secret in these 3d printers. The Chinese are very capable of reverse engineering these products and out innovating these companies.

Share what? Nothing what Bambu is doing is remotely secret. There are no mystery sauce to figure out. Prusa genuinely got outflanked by Bambu when it comes to designing a printer.

But yes, fuck bambu.

The Chinese are very good at cloning, source code or not. Guess who they're cloning? Bambu.

The market leader gets cloned but somehow the market leader is still standing.

That market leader was previously Prusa. Prusa rested on their laurel and got outflanked.

Why do decision makers become out of touch?

The fundamental issue isn't unemployment due to automation, but the fact that society cannot benefit from unemployment.

It should be something for us to celebrate, because it means greater freedom for humans to pursue something else rather than spending time doing drudgery.

A hammer usually doesn't have the power to persuade people.

The tooling is the issue because humans designed the tooling wrong. It's a chatbot interface fined tuned to sycophancy. That's not a coincidence.

1) Some of them, yes. But also marketing.

3) is marketing and access to capital that Prusa don't have. 4) Prusa is of similar quality in my experience, or both machines have their problems for different reasons. I would need to run a scientific experiment.

There is no argument in which Bambu succeed solely on technical merit alone. Bambu can outspend Prusa due to access to venture capital funding and state support. That is a structural advantage that cannot be easily overcome.

The most common failure in my printing experience is just plain old dirty bed, especially when human hands interact with it. That takes operational discipline especially if you're printing lot of models over time.

Prusa does this perfectly fine. They're just more expensive.

I think it's fine for research, curiosity, aesthetic and coolness factor. Not everything need to be 'practical'.

How do you know if an artist drew it for you versus an AI? I think social proof and long term observation of artists help.

Approps of nothing, I think art is worth your while to make an investment of effort. I found Drink and Draw and made acquaintance of another maker from a local makerspace(not mine) and an artist. I wasn't technically adept but I want space to learn how to draw and they treated beginner(or at lease those three) with good vibes even though I was a clear beginner.

That's verification. An engineer still understands the bridge and the engineering decisions that they built.

It's not really the laundromat capitalist, but the landowner the capitalist paying rent to.