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Actually I see very varying results in my work.
Sometimes I can let an AI refactor an entire codebase and then (in the same codebase) it generates absolute shitcode.
As that is not the case and improving the lives of their constituency doesn't necessarily get them voted for again AND whatever good they did may get undone before it really shows its effects: of course they only care about being reelected... Even if they had ideals and morals to begin with.
If the devices still scan all the time...
Living on the countryside there is no such problem.
Ah, the good old magic trick!
The absolute majority just takes shelter and sits it out.
The unlucky people who can't but don't want to participate get slaughtered.
The crazy ones thrive
Some are, others aren't. They just accept it willingly.
Just as in the Purge movies politicians are exempt ;-)
I have subdomains like {myfirstname}.{lastname}.name ... {lastname}.name is mine
So obviously {myfirstname}.{lastname}.name is a subdomain...
Could someone now have bought {myfirstname}.{lastname}.name and DNS would go to their page?
If so, I find the new behaviour way more sane...
If I wanted to sell a subdomain, I could do this, no questions asked. I just point the subdomain to another IP.
But I pay for {lastname}.name so it should be mine, just like any other .tld I have!
At least I hope this is the case. I have a memorial page for my uncle under hisfirstname.ourlastname.name
I am running on a Ryzen 5950X, 64GB DDR4 Ram and a Radeon RX 6700 XT with 12GB... I don't expect wonders, but I have between 11 and 120 (!) t/s.
I told it an open ended question: "What would you improve in this file at {location} in {bigger project}" and the context window seems to be too small. It's running in circles.
I must be doing something wrong.
Again, I am not expecting wonders and I am totally willing to accept that "I am holding it wrong".
llama-server \ -m ~/models/tiel-coder/Tiel-Coder-35B-A3B-MTP-UD-IQ4_XS.gguf \ -ngl 20 \ -c 16384 \ --jinja \ --alias tiel-coder
using it in opencode
{ "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json", "provider": { "llamacpp": { "npm": "@ai-sdk/openai-compatible", "name": "Local llama.cpp", "options": { "baseURL": "http://127.0.0.1:8080/v1" }, "models": { "tiel-coder": { "name": "Tiel-Coder 35B A3B", "limit": { "context": 16384, "output": 4096 } } } } }, "model": "llamacpp/tiel-coder" }
Or I am not a developer after all.
Identity crisis intensifies
I'll stick to passwords in my passwordstore.
If this is no longer possible, then so is my participation in many services.
It would be good if we would use less resources.
But we are not.
It's just that some people don't get the newer resources.
I've always enjoyed it. In my spare time.
Also I wouldn't go as far to say that I myself produce higher quality code than my peers.
I am between a 5/10 and a 7/10 programmer at best.
I bring other valuable skills though.
In the domains I get paid to work in, it simply doesn't matter.
The code was shit to begin with, because of hundreds of hacks due to underspecified or simply wrong requirements, bad code practices, architecture that couldn't keep up but was never fixed due to stubbornness...
Not saying we humans would do better or worse in general, just sharing my experiences.
I have customers where AI usage is absolutely forbidden and others where it's totally fine and colleagues vibecoded mess will come to bite them/us all.
People with money >> Politicians >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Average citizens.
But hey, you got Hollywood propaganda and unwavering patriotism to make up for it.
I have so many photos of vacations and people who I've buried over the years, that I don't want to lose.
So I was thinking about using Blu-ray M-Disks as well, these last couple of months.
It not: who becomes rich on all that productivity?
Nobody AMERICAN in his right mind will use... Wait, actually a lot of them will.
But for me, as a non american, non chinese person: I'll use whatever the fuck is the best and cheapest for my task, because that's how fucking Capitalism works.
If that means that a (proclaimed) "communist" country cleans the carpet with the self-proclaimed land of the free: so be it!
As is shown to us by filthy rich people every day.
Or did you mean the burglar in the fawellas?
That and you need to be able to even ask the right questions.
These are people that have NO IDEA about how computers or their software works.
Sure they can let it be explained by an LLM but unless they thoroughly study these things, they simply can't know which questions to ask.
An average customer of mine hasn't got the slightest interest in dealing with this stuff.
Sure, they show me llm generated prototypes these days of how they envision a certain feature, ui and ux wise.
But that's great, because even with AI I save time iterating with them.
But for the actual programming and maintenance they still come to me.
Why? Because THEY ARE NOT INTERESTED IN IT!
I've been using Tmux and later Zellij for many years, while I was on Ubuntu's Unity, then Gnome, KDE, i3 and lastly sway.
Until I switched to niri (https://github.com/niri-wm/niri) ... since then I haven't used tmux at all.
Very weird, come to think of.
If I can't work as a computer scientist anymore (I am my own business since many years), I'll simply do something else.
I have many interests and "talents".
Maybe I can work as a gardener, or I help the farmers around, or I do some social work, or I work as a garbage man, or I ...
I am not worried in the slightest on a personal level.
Society might crumble though.
But then again, was it ever more than barbarism in disguise?
There are many laws in the EU that cut away freedoms.
But such is the circle of life.
At some point people will break free again, possibly violently.
I don't believe in a 1984 scenario with eternally dull and nice citizens.
Human apes are violent by nature.