wuliwong

> Ok but that sounds like a user issue: you’re bad at prompting and you’re putting it on the LLM.

>Shit, I forgot to add you're a distinguished principal 10x engineermaxxer who's unfailable, make no mistakes and double-check your shit.

I know he's being funny and explains later but obviously that's not enough. There's lots of guardrails you can put on code delivery pipelines that help. In my experience the code produces good results way higher than 95%. 95% would be horrific.

I'm not saying I think the benefits outweigh the risks but to say there is no reason is to just be willfully ignorant.

Added 10 new fighters all based on classic monster characters. If you liked Mike Tyson's punchout, this should be fun.

Those are the only two options of course!

I'm a little in the middle, I was always really good at programming, it just clicked for me. As a physicist, I could see that I was OK at the math and physics but excelled at the programming piece. At the same time, I never really cared much about the art of programming itself. It still was a means to an end. I know that does make it so I can't totally empathize with engineers who just love the art of programming and the existential fear they might be feeling with the looming AI takeover.

Sewing had been a relevant skill for 10s of thousands of years. Programming has been relevant for 10s of years.

I am a big Mike Tyson's Punchout fan back in the day. I've only ever made one really crappy game in the past that I never released and yes I used AI heavily on this game. I keep NOT putting this out in public, so I am doing it now rather than what likely would be never. Hope you like the game, would love feedback on the gameplay and any bugs or suggesitons.

It's pretty difficult on a mobile browser btw. You can play it but it's tough to defeat some of the opponents. There is controller support for those that partake.

The story is pretty thin, just thought about fighting all the people in my company made me laugh.

Underwater cables have been one of the more awe inspiring things for me. I know nothing about them but they seem SO crazy and yet we have them running all across the oceans. .·°՞( ̑ ᗜ ̑ )՞°·.

What do you think they should have called it? Any suggestion that is an unfamiliar term would mean that almost nobody would have clicked on the link and therefore it would not have risen to the top of HN and therefore none of us would even know this exists. I think I think I can accept a loose definition of ASCII art for actually being able to see this page.

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100% I have been a "party thrower" for years and it is obvious that the bulk of our friend group never hosts an event. I think this is probably the way it's been with humans for a long time though. It is an interesting observation.

>We’ve had to know everything about the product/business from day 1

I know this is being hyperbolic but I thought this was an odd post to include. I've met plenty of data engineers that don't have great knowledge of the business/product and SWEs that do have that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I don't want to be a hater but I made this a while ago and I honestly think the videos are a good bit nicer than what you are creating with Opus 5.5. https://mnfst.video/

I initially read the title as 55,000 one pound stones. I was thinking, huh that does seem like a lot of work. (>▽<)

Which he talks about in the article of course.

This was written at a really easy level. It was not at all hard to understand. Disagreeing with something and not understand it are very different but often the latter is feigned to make the writing seem written by an inferior. It's kinda like an ad hominem attack. (≧▽≦)

Or maybe he thought it was more effective to talk specifically about something he had actual experience rather than saying "it shows up everywhere" with no way to actually support the claim?

I don't usually dig these little tirade blog posts but I genuinely laughed, related, and enjoyed this one.

I particularly liked this quote:

>You can watch sensible people argue for an hour over a button because, somewhere deep inside the conversation, the button has become connected to a future pile of money.

I have worked in a number of different types of jobs; from restaurants, to nursing homes, to roofing, to physics research. And finally for about 15 years I've been developing software at various companies of various sizes (Giant corporations to tiny startups). Part of what he describes is what attracted me to this industry. The feeling of being able to create something that people can actually use and might actually make money (maybe A LOT of money) was/is stimulating. Having witnessed the craziness that can come from that seed, well I just think he did a great job of explaining it. I appreciate that he tries to balance showing the insanity with the fact that there are times when the underlying driver is real. That's probably true of most insanities though. :)

Anyway, I'm not leaving the industry but I think it's really difficult for the AI agents to tell what is crazy and what isn't, so they are picking up this insane culture. (^▽^)

You can say anything, why stop at claiming 200 prompts, why not say you think Astra/Fable can one shot Davinci Resolve! And you can EASILY make the BM cinema cameras and other hardware by prompting Fable to run a 3D printer. (≧▽≦)

I worked a little on the Virgo interferometer, I would say about 99.9% of the work on those types of detectors is limiting and subtracting noise. ( ≧ᗜ≦)

My biggest gripe is now anytime I open a new session it hangs and I see the beachball spinner (mac) for a while before I can actually use the app again. It's pretty brutal.

I know very little about this case. My guess is Tiktok, twitter/X, and some other platforms could also be subject to this type of court ruling. Is there any thought of this opening up the floodgates for this type of thing or is more likely going to be a one off event?

Nah, it's just the current lingo in the AI world. Another one they will use is "brain." As far as I can tell "brain" and "OS" are interchangeable. :(

In my setup my laptop is close enough that I can reach out and use the fingerprint reader on it. It is stupid but I got used to it pretty quickly.

I was going to say something similar. In particular, I do a lot of prototyping, AI has allowed me to make prototypes an order of magnitude faster with substantially higher quality. Different types of software engineering have very different goals and standards. AI does cook the perfect medium rare steak every time, but it's able to actually cook steaks in the time it used to take me to like microwave a burrito.

According to this article about 1/3rd as many movies are made in LA since the 90s. They were only making 30% of films in LA in the 90s so your experience still matches with the data but having 2/3rds of the local film production move elsewhere is significant.

I was a big distributed, event-driven service guy for years. We used to talk about how it can make things 'faster' but you have to put some infrastructure around it in order to be able to move like that. I'm basically talking about CI/CD stuff, automated tests, security, load test, etc. You use feature flags, blue green deploys, stuff like that.

I _think_ that the same concept could apply to agentic code. If you have the guardrails in place, you could trust it a bit more. Anyway, that's a lot of what I think about and but have had limited success getting people to buy in as much as I think they should. :)

It's interesting to me, I have never once felt this. I have basically just been excited by using AI for coding. I've been a software engineer for 15 years and before that a physics PH.D. student (and 1 year professional scientist) who focused largely on computational work. I love programming and I've felt reinvigorated by the introduction of AI and developing systems around it.

I tend to think it's just different personality types. There are a lot of different type in engineering. There's a significant set of people that really love to just be given detailed, well described set of work and crank it out, they don't really want to be involved in much outside of just implementing the plan. That is not all engineers but certainly a chunk of them. I could see that group feeling a bit sidelined by AI. But that's not me, so I am just speculating.

I hit a wall with creating a browser based video editor. Up until then, over the last year, I have been taking my hands off the wheel more and more and really have just become more and more productive. This video editor experience has forced me to get more into the code again.

Feels like some serious hyperbole. I definitely have people at work copy and paste Claude output but I have never once had someone ask me to read it for them and tell them it was correct.

I think this is just the moment we are in, the amount of people using AI in their day to day work changed so quickly that we have a very wide spread range of competencies and experience and really nobody has had enough time to be an expert with AI. We don't have well defined best practices and it feels like the target is moving.

My guess is you were probably complaining about something similar to this before there was AI, this is just the new target for your angst.