blinkbat

could be an interesting idea if the article wasn't slop as pure as the driven

Faq doesn't seem to indicate whether it works or not

Does this shit actually work lol

several sessions in one or multiple instances of vscode.

Terrible slop copy.

LLMs

Bit vague innit

The art of https

Lol

Writing is the slowest part

at the risk of sounding dismissive, fuck this lame shit

Tests and community are far better indicators

yes, you get better _at programming_, specifically your own programs, and in a general sense. but is there a way to hone the reading of code that is not yours?

> Now we are using LLMs to write the code to the point where we need to assign ourselves homework to keep our skills?

yes!

> Why not just use the LLM in a way that doesn't prevent us from absorbing the knowledge?

the economic viability of this is unproven in our new future.

typing speed was never my strong suit, I also was heavily into readable formatting which I often did by hand in a mixed team. so I'm not one of these stays-in-vim people that can pop out reams of code. in this way I appreciate the manual lift an LLM gives me.

I will never be able to type out a large feature at even 1/100th of the speed of today's frontier LLMs -- even if I literally had a complete plan of every line of syntax I'd use.

now, the correctness of said feature is still up for debate, but we cannot argue that the thing came into existence faster than human hands could have wrought.

panning is choppy, I would expect to be able to arrow or wasd pan as well.

I mean, if the AI can improve your program's speed by 2-3x, and you want people to use the program happily, you should probably run it past that AI at SOME point.

maybe it can teach you, if you do it methodically, how such speedups are possible for you to handmake in the future.

there's a real disconnect between "I liked making this" (which is great!) and "my users would be happier if this were faster". the users, sadly, do not care how much you liked writing the code if that code is their bottleneck.

I do extremely regular audits

Yep seems like we could wrap that up in a day

If you find it useful someone else might.

Wow a good post I agree with almost entirely.

can we get the version with a lot of the slop refined out?

the guarantee that people on the internet could be trusted to leave sound, safe comments would persuade me to add one, but that'll never be

I assume yes they would have to verify it somehow...

what could go wrong

I make games if that counts.

Mysterious HN Post

claude also recently tried to incorporate my dead mom into a joke after I offered it that knowledge. the apology after wasn't exactly heartfelt.

I talk about this with my wife a lot. what I keep coming back to is "astra/opus/fable has jokes, but they aren't funny." recent exchange, from memory:

me: lua was an odd choice for that script

astra: it's the scripting lang for aseprite, convenient for pixel editing

me: ahhh. also convenient if you think arrays should start at 1...

astra: perfect pixels, but it steals your zero index

like, this has the timing or cadence or something of a joke, but it isn't exactly funny.