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TheFunkyMonk

@ TheFunkyMonk @lemmy.world

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  • Open source projects drown in bad bug reports penned by AI

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  • I’ll take it.

  • Open source projects drown in bad bug reports penned by AI

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  • I use LLM-type AI every day as a software developer. It's incredibly helpful in many contexts, but you have to understand what it's designed to do and what its limitations are.

    I went back and forth with Claude and ChatGPT today about its logic being incorrect and it telling me "You're right," then outputting the same/similar erroneous code it output before, until I needed to just slow down and fix some fundamental issues with its output myself. It’s certainly a force multiplier, but not at any kind of scale without guidance.

    I'm not convinced AI, in its current incarnation, can be used to write code at a reasonable scale without human intervention. Though I hope we get there so I can retire.

  • I disturbed him when I got under the blanket.

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  • Update: the judgement continues.

  • I disturbed him when I got under the blanket.

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  • His name is Brimley 😂

  • I think it's a group of hard core stoners or something....

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  • I asked a guy at the bar if I could say hi to his dog and ended up chatting with him and his wife for a bit. He asked if I smoked weed and mentioned he worked for a single-use vape pen manufacturer, then pulled out a sealed pen he gave me. I laughed and told him this was the first time since DARE that a stranger had actually given me drugs.

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  • There really aren’t enough novels about aimless, gay werewolves called Brian... ― Sunday Times, Books to Watch in 2023

    My expectations have been exceeded.

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  • What book is this?

  • Tesla recalls Cybertrucks for faulty inverter, the 6th recall this year

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  • It’s a trip seeing them around. Somehow they look even worse in person.

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  • 1 bed/bath to myself (and my cat). Happier here than anywhere I’ve been with a partner.

  • What seemingly random thing do you vehemently hate?

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  • Birthdays make me so uncomfortable. Even when they’re mentioned in work chat and it’s flooded with gifs/“happy birthday!”s, I just don’t get it.

  • Do any non-corpos actually like AI slop?

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  • Tbh it’s made a pretty significant improvement in my life as a software developer. Yeah, it makes shit up/generates garbage code sometimes, but if you know how to read code, debug, and program in general, it really saves a lot of grunt work and tedious language barriers. It can also be a solid rubber duck for debugging.

    Basically any time I just need a little script to take x input and give me y output, or a regex, I’ll have ChatGPT write it for me.

  • Opera explains how it plans to keep uBlock Origin support as Google Chrome disables it

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  • I know I’m a drop in the bucket but I have always been a diehard Google fanboy and, in the recent years, have switched to iOS, Firefox, and DuckDuckGo. No regrets.

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  • Instagram has been getting me with this. I like to post sometimes, but my friends and I recently compared our screen time stats and I couldn’t believe I was regularly wasting hours a day mindlessly scrolling IG. I uninstalled the app and will just occasionally post from my computer.

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  • What's something you've improved at recently?

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  • I’ve gotten better about taking book notes.

    I was thinking of ways to eliminate as much friction as possible, so I made an iOS shortcut that takes a URL from a share link in The Storygraph (the app I use for tracking my books) and sends it to an API endpoint I made that returns a deep link for Obsidian (the app I use for notes) which automatically creates a note for me with Title - Author format in my preferred subdirectory for book notes.

    It seems like a silly thing to go through so much trouble to automate, but it was a tedious barrier to get a new note going when a thought came to me as I was reading, and I actually have gotten much better at taking book notes since I made it.

  • Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate

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  • I thought the same. Interesting strategy cutting the people who are good enough to get another job.

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    What kind of messaging apps do you use?

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  • I’ve tried to get my friends consolidated in one app in the past, but have given up. I prefer Discord, but use a combo of that and Slack, Signal, GroupMe, IG, FB Messenger, SMS, email, and probably some others I’m forgetting about. Discord is the only one I directly open, the others I’ll just rely on notifications.