derpyzza

Location: Pakistan

Remote: Yes — Async preferred, but not required.

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: C, C++, Rust, Typescript, Python, Go, Lua, OpenGL

Resume: https://github.com/derpyzza

Email: [email protected]

Hi! i'm a systems dev interested in embedded dev, graphics programming, game engine dev, and backend dev, but willing to try out almost anything :)

Back to the future

> I'm doing my best to go back to just coding as much by hand in my professional life while just switching to pure vibe coding in my private life.

isn't this backwards?

yeah, let's all be stupid together

Meh, the rules for what an "X sandwich" refers to tends to differ by types of sandwiches. In terms of normal sandwiches, an "X sandwich" does indeed refer to X being in between two types of bread, like a chicken sandwich, or an ice cream sandwich, or a knuckle sandwich, etc. But on the other hand, sometimes an "X sandwich" refers to two things sandwiching some other thing, like a compliment sandwich — where you sandwich criticism between two bits of compliments, or a croissant sandwich — which refers to a sandwich that uses a sliced croissant as the bread. So calling it a "brain sandwich" works fine I think

> spaghetti code wow, that's a term i haven't heard in a minute. almost makes me nostalgic for all the human-made slop we had to deal with

> If the LLM went away tomorrow I'd still know how to do most things in Linux, set up my opnsense router, reinstall xcp-ng, do everything in docker, and a boatload of other things that would've been so much more tedious to learn before an LLM.

This makes sense, but i'm assuming you have some sort of technical background to begin with? I imagine people that have been around pre-LLMs would be better equipped for not only prompting the LLMs for accurate information, but also internalizing that information. I wonder if the post-LLM generation would be the same.

: Though I imagine that there's going to be a cutoff date for people born before a certain point pre-LLMs too. Old people rn seem to be much more blindly accepting of whatever the LLMs spit out than younger adults.

i dunno but i certainly am more intrigued now

"how odd, my plagiarism machine spit out the exact same thing as your plagiarism machine!"

Location: Pakistan

Remote: Yes — Async preferred, but not required.

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: C, C++, Rust, Typescript, Python, Go, Lua, OpenGL

Resume: https://github.com/derpyzza

Email: [email protected]

Interested in low level dev, embedded dev, graphics programming, game engine dev, and backend dev, but willing to try out almost anything :)

kinda. there'd still be a lot less demand for software devs than there used to be, a lot of people would still be jobless/would have to pivot to some other career.

there's https://pirateface.co/ which is like huggingface but distributed via torrents

it might also have something to do with the orange glow of the sodium lamps resembling the orange glow of fire and torches, which were the primary medium of lighting in the dark for humanity for thousands of years

an opus isn't a magnum opus fyi. magnum opus is a phrase with means one's greatest work, where opus in latin means "work". but in this context opus refers to an ordered series of musical compositions

i think ai bros just don't read much

i mean... is it? i don't think the author mentioned using an LLM anywhere on this post

oh neat, another pakistani on hackernews

this is really cool and yet i absolutely hate it. ggs

it seems like with every passing year we're progressing towards making Wall-E a reality and idk how to feel about that

It also annoys me that it uses the word "we" when talking about humanity

i suspect in some time people might begin to flag every bit of text they see online as "LLM sounding", even if it's very clearly not

this is awesome, but also code samples being in PNG images does not make them safe from LLMs anymore unfortunately, LLMs are really good at reading text from images now

they are native, the typescript is transpiled to c++

definitely do!

utopian for them, dystopian for us

so it's YOUR fault then, get em boys!

in all of hackernews' shitty UX decisions, gray unreadable comments is one of the worst ones

i just figured it was mainly stylistic tbh. something that may have been a relic of some past limitation that we kept around just because it was "how it's always done". didn't really realize it actually helps people with reading, it's never really bothered me

this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49474143

huh i didn't even notice, that's how i write all my blog posts too. it looks nicer to me and i don't have to bother checking for "proper" capitalization if everything's just lowercase anyway.

didn't realize people struggled to read text that way though, maybe i should change my writing style if this is a common pain point

...string's aren't a pointer to a pointer to a character. they're pointers to characters directly.

maybe you need to wrestle with that concept some more...