Thanemate

A few years ago I was wishing the same, but I was wishing it for someone knowledgeable enough.

Today I wish the same, but for someone with enough motivation and tokens instead.

Don't get the wrong idea: I would be glad for a OneNote/Obsidian alternative that's performant. I just lament the days where I'd stare in awe thinking about the levels of wizardry one must get to in order to build something that I admire. Now the first thing that comes to mind is "I wonder how many tokens did this took them to make".

I do not wish to share proprietary code that I'm being paid to boss agents around to write.

Since I'm detecting snarkiness in your words, let me clarify something important: How convincing something you read is doesn't have to match with how true it is.

Not trying to rain on someone's parade but, the only reason why would care about style guides nowadays is to feed them to our model of choice and let it do what it's supposed to be doing.

So it's not like I am willing to read through this and think to myself "I cannot wait to pick up some new ways of doing things". I'm the general to my agentic army now.

I guess you would code manually every now and then for your own enjoyment but at that point do you care about style guides written for scale?

That's not hype - that's the new norm. It's not novelty anymore.

I'm far from being an expert on this specific subject but, I have the impression that Ozempic does a lot of things in one's body in order to reduce the appetite and result in eating less. Which is to say that, the author sounds like he's implying that the solution to this was trivial all along, by deliberately omitting the underlying mechanism that makes it work.

The issue with is, as far as my personal anecdote is concerned, that competence doesn't translate across all activities. Me being good with figuring out Legos, video games, or programming doesn't translate to me being good with cooking, socializing, music, etc.

Furthermore, I find it completely reasonable for someone to care about the long-term financial focus of their children. I find this to be the second best antidote to all the uncertainty and fear older generations leave behind to the new ones.

The first best would've been to actually give a damn and make a stand to what the powers-to-be force you to accept as the new norm as if they're the force of nature that make decisions on how the 95% of the world's population must adapt to.

Thankfully, now that our machine God is here, we don't need to bother ourselves with learning new CSS features. Just feed the article to the machine as part of the spec and it will handle everything.

Tons of corporations rely on the fact that human interaction within software production will be as minimal as possible, and no one actually cares who trains the seniors of the future.

A parent doesn't necessarily knows best or acts with your best interests in mind, and that's really observable by all the toxic parents regardless of whether there's malicious intentions behind their actions or just sheer incompetence.

I'm too European for the rest of your argument and I just happen to be Greek so I fundamentally disagree with the premise that I'm voting a father or mother figure which I must blindly follow out of obligation or blind trust.

That's just awesome and makes me regret not switching to Linux earlier. I wish the creator of this made the start menu suddenly change after running Windows update, because Microsoft knows best on which folders you need to be visible by default. It can be customized, but you can't go back to how the start menu was.

Someone who knows that 1 + 1 = 2 will not decide that it's suddenly 3 unless we start accounting for health problems. Making mistakes is not the same as non-deterministic.

And it would still be shot down by optimists as "just fiction".

>but not to achieve anything of merit

Educating oneself to provide better quality of work still requires writing code by hand, and by extend is an achievement of merit.

> It is absolutely wild to me how a corporation can be so toxic and abusive to its users and still be in business.

It's easy: The choice was made from someone else, and you just accepted it as normal. Hardware vendors shipping PC's with Windows 11, corporations who went all in to Microsoft's tooling shove Microsoft Teams down your throat because "the company uses it", and the list goes on.

The statement "human civilization lives on", as far as capitalistic interest is concerned, stands true even if the ones who will survive are ultimately the oligarchs, and all art form is machine generated.

I don't agree with it, but it's true.

In a discussion about cost effectiveness, how subjectively fun the writing feels like to the reader isn't a factor, except maybe if we were working on writing comedy.

The vast majority of the Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel community has been begging Konami through surveys to remove cards like Maxx "C" from Master Duel's best of 1 format because it's the card that established Master Duel as the "coin flip format".

Guess how much Konami cared. Just because there's a survey doesn't mean that they're looking for any kind of feedback, but for very specific feedback. It's not Konami's balance team that tried to make for a fair game, but the C-suits that want to keep printing cards and keep power creeping, because the target isn't fairness or balance, but it's keeping the players who want to stay competitive swipe their credit cards more often.

>Why have we not seen an improvements in products?

This was never the goal, because it would influence the standards and expectations of the end user. Any gamer remembers when Baldur's Gate 3 came out everyone said somewhere between "this is the new standard in AAA games" or "this is an amazing value for money". The response from the rest of the gaming industry was pretty much "lol no, not really".

Customer satisfaction rarely aligns with C-suite goals. The faster you understand this the better for your mental health.

If customer satisfaction actually aligned with corporate goals then planned obsolescence wouldn't be a thing. Yes, this doesn't apply to software... or does it?

I don't hate AI art because it's bad, but because it signals a really specific amount of low effort. If a company wants to signal to me "I am doing just enough to get your attention" then don't blame me when you don't.

It's like dating someone who only uses a perfume/cologne but they do so because they don't want to take a bath. You could have done BOTH but you opted to do just enough to not make me not want to hold my breath.

Right now I'm leaning towards using it at work because I'm being paid to ship stuff, but it really forces me to NOT use it after work in order just to keep my personal skills sharp. That last step used to be optional, now it's not imo.

>No, software engineering is fundamentally changed because of AI. No amount of digging our heads in the sand is going to undo that.

Yet anyone who claims that fails to procure sufficient evidence or instruction on how exactly training the to-be software engineer in the age of AI should be. Until that happens, people still learn DSA, write code manually, and train their problem solving skills with programming exercises.

And I mean handwriting them, not ordering "one solution for Leetcode 1133 in Rust, please" so we can proclaim that we're writing Rust so fast that I don't have to read a book about it anymore.

Absolutely Utopic (for the AI owners).

But not all members of society are treated like a symbol whose behavior and manners we ought to revere and draw inspiration from. In such scenarios, pointing out that they were flawed is to humanize them.

It's clear that there was something that compelled you to write "yeah, so what?" as a rebuttal. But I can't tell if that came from a need to protect Franklin's public image, and to what end.

Throughout human history, there has been sparse evidence of historical figures which we draw (correctly) inspiration and admiration. I'll never forget reading Marcus Aurelius' Meditations where he was writing down in his journal how he was struggling to keep his sexual attraction to young boys at bay, who were also probably slaves. And he's still considered one of the five good emperors of Rome.

I'm not writing this to say whether any of them deserve it. I'm just pointing out that abuse of power isn't something new, and its expression isn't always known. For those people, the difference wasn't in their desires but that they had the power to act on them with no one batting an eye, and if they noticed they'd just walked it off.

Not that far from what we have today.

I recently decided to use my google calendar to track my mood, as part of my CBT therapy.

What baffles me is that, there's no way in the web app to assign a default calendar for new events. When I create a new event on the web, I have to scroll through all the calendars that I have and choose the one that I want every time. Meanwhile, in the mobile app, I can simply tap on a new block, the event window appears, and the selected calendar defaults to what I used for my last added event.

OR new languages and frameworks ever again, since they'll slow down code generation due to lack of training, and from LLM generation standpoint this is a terrible thing to trade off.

What OP said is an insult to first year philosophy students who try too hard to sound smarter than everyone else. You're reading too much into it.

I once uploaded a 700 pages book and quizzed chatGPT strictly on its contents. It answered somewhere between 60-90% across 6 quizzes. This was 2 months ago. Those quizzes were fact checking statements, not even problem solving.

I'd be extremely cautious to ask it to have it explain any specialized concept even from a document.

We're basically at the point where people can build their own "X", with "X" being internal tooling.

Relevant: I'm just sad that most turn-based JRPG's nowadays start off with you thinking about which move is appropriate for each situation, but halfway through they end up to making you use the same 3-4 moves over and over again.

Trails games are even worse because there's tons of them who feel like they never gotten properly play tested. Killing a level 120 boss with a level 60 squad because you can delay the opponent's turn just isn't satisfying, especially when the boss is meant to be (narration-wise) so much stronger than you.

>Unfortunately, as the industry grew, all the wrong personalities entered it. Project managers, product managers, scrum/agile masters, terrible mid level managers, talentless clowns, bozos, cheerleaders, jocks. The lot of them. The non-weird, non-geeky, non-obsessive, non-nerdy types. And then they co-opted the culture. They thought wearing glasses and wearing a backpack and carrying the latest tech devices made them "it".

Something in that sentence reminded me of the following Jobs' quote:

"Many companies forget what it means to make great products. After initial success, sales and marketing people take over and the product people eventually make their way out."

Capitalism suddenly gets gamed to the point where the quality isn't rewarded. I'm not just talking about software, but also hardware. There's a reason why planned obsolescence is a thing. In a way, software bloat is unplanned obsolescence.