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Got the test flight version installed no problem!
Well said! I learned about PBT in the first place because I watched a talk where the speaker referenced the story of foundationDB. Super interesting stuff. If anybody wants a link I can dig it up
I know it’s not the same thing, but PBT’s can catch all sorts of absolutely crazy bugs that I never would think to check for. Stateful stuff, cross-service stuff. My only gripe with PBTs has always been the tedious setup, but LLMs solve that.
I haven’t seen much discussion around PBTs lately, but you get a ton of bang for your buck in the LLM age
It was totally awesome. But the advertised promise of motion controls didn’t really land until Wii motion+ controllers. When I played skyward sword I thought “ok THIS looks like the ads”
Also I thought tumblers didn’t work anymore? Didn’t they figure out how to trace btc anyway?
I wonder if one was actually useful, maybe I’d notice it?
I feel like going slower gives you time to let the details form the solution. You think “hm maybe that doesn’t make as much sense as I thought, maybe there’s a better way to frame the issue…”. If you don’t let a problem really soak in, you don’t get the “hammock driven development” that Rich Hickey talks about.
Of course some problems don’t need to soak in. A lot of problems just need code to be cranked out. I love slopping together a monster script that solves exactly one problem perfectly
Even though opus 5.5 is like a goddamn genius, and I don't really even feel like I need to check the code, I still absolutely could not imagine a PM taking over most of my tasks. Not even close
I think "I'm working in a higher level of abstraction" is easier for some devs to say than "I asked somebody else to do the thinking and the work." I don't think there's anything wrong with asking an LLM to do the work. But pasting jira tickets into claude is not abstraction lmao.
I guess arguments on either side of this can get difficult for a reason that another commenter already mentioned: you can use LLMs on a wide spectrum of granularity. You can one-shot a whole project, or you can tell it to rename some vars in a single file. I guess there are uses that are probably closer to programming. But if you're not even looking at the code, I'd say that's closer to somebody else doing the work
But it is SO nice to not have any build step. All of my new projects start as a single babashka script now. You got html templating, throw in a stylesheet. Slap a datastar script tag in there for everything else. It’s just easy peasy.
I guess if you powered it with green energy, that’d be a net positive?
But I have one singular counterexample to most scary narratives and essays about LLMs writing software, which is my coworker who hardly uses LLMs at all. At least, he hardly uses them compared to me. He still writes most of his code by hand. He still greps around the codebase without claude code. Like he’s definitely using claude code, but only for like one-off specific tasks.
He’s a totally average developer, like everybody else on my team (including me). But he’s clearly more helpful than the rest of us. When people from other teams have questions about how something works, he’s always the first to respond. He’s always the one providing useful context in planning calls. He catches stuff in code review that I didn’t catch, and claude/copilot didn’t catch.
I think I’ve leaned too far into AI, partly because I’m a lazybones and am kind of burned out already. But there’s a stark contrast between me and my coworker that there didn’t used to be. I think the context rot is really setting in, and getting worse. So I think there’s still value in caring about the details
No, openAi hacked huggingface.
If my claude code hacked huggingface, because of instructions I gave it, would I be totally free of consequences because “AI did it”?
I’m almost convinced openAI used such a crappy sandbox because they wanted it to “escape”. It plays into their two most important narratives: LLMs are genius gods that are worth lots and lots of money, and they’re scary enough that open weight Chinese models should be regulated.
Didn’t follow anybody or provide any interests. Open it up for the first time, and saw a bunch of posts by Elon musk.
Instant delete
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