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sobchak

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  • I just tried vibe coding with Claude

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  • Key is having it write tests and have it iterate by itself, and also managing context in various ways. It only works on small projects in my experience. And it generates shit code that's not worth manually working on, so it kind of locks your project in to being always dependent on AI. Being always dependant on AI, and AI hitting a brick wall eventually means you'll reach a point where you can't really improve the project anymore. I.e. AI tools are nearly useless.

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  • I don't think it's so much "fear" of defying the president as it is they're getting what they want from him (white christo-fascism), and they're getting bribed by the same people. Most of the Dems are also dependant on the same interests as well (not necessarily the white Christian-nationalist stuff, but the same money). The concentration of wealth has put far too much power into too few hands. These same people are heavily influencing politics and public opinion worldwide. Idk, how we get out of this mess; have to bring the entire global economic system to its knees; forcibly redistribute their wealth or make it worthless I guess.

  • Mastodon is about to launch its take on Bluesky’s starter packs

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  • Yeah, chronological is an algorithm, and can be and is gamed. Would be cool if they had multiple algs like Lemmy that you could easily switch between.

  • In search for a new self-hosted LLM

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  • I tried some new ones recently (though I have a 24GB GPU). Qwen3.5 9B is pretty impressive for such a small model for agentic stuff like Claude Code. (I can run the Opus distilled model quantized to 6 bit with the full 256k context and no CPU offloading). Gemma4 26B is good if I don't need agentic stuff or a lot of context (it sucks for agentic stuff). You can probably run the smaller versions of these, or with less context.

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  • I had a friend who had a janitorial position. Cleaning a particularly stubborn toilet and dumped a bunch of bleach into the bowl. His coworker came in behind him and proceeded to piss in said boil, creating a toxic miasma that forced them to exit the restroom quickly and heavily ventilate it before returning.

    Lol, I've done that before in my apartment. Guessing it's the same thing as an ammonia-bleach reaction.

  • Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over

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  • I do try to give it a chance and use it every once and a while (most recently Claude Code; last year, Cursor), and it has been my experience that it personally decreases my productivity and quality. I found that even CoPilot's autocomplete would introduce bugs if I decided to "trust" it and try to work too fast without meticulously reviewing every token generated. I have seen people I work with use AI to quickly create decent looking prototypes (i.e. bog standard, boring design), but I think this is still detrimental because they lose the full benefit of exploratory programming (and of course, the prototypes just have all kinds of faked data and functionality, glaring security problems, bad architecture). I've also experienced people submitting nonsense vibe-coded pull requests that would break tons of things they shouldn't have even touched for the issue. I could see a less interested or overworked reviewer letting stuff like that through, which is why I think we're seeing all these failures and bugs at these big tech companies. So for me, at least, I haven't seen the benefit. Using CoPilot in VSCode actually caused me to go back to using nvim and lsp plugins :)

  • Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over

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  • /rant

    These are weird times. I feel like any developer who's tried letting AI write code should recognize that it hurts productivity when you have chase down bugs in badly written code nobody on your team understands. For anything important, that will need to be maintained, less time would be spent designing, writing, and maintaining the code yourself. There are even studies showing AI hurts productivity. Yet, many developers seem to have bought the hype, and managers and investors doubly so.

    AFAIK, few of these startups that tout heavy AI usage ever ship anything. The large companies that are forcing AI usage are progressively degrading their products.

    Seems like the owner class is just going to keep on deluding themselves, companies are going to keep laying off, everybody is going to keep shipping shit that doesn't work, if they ship anything at all, and investors are going to keep dumping money into businesses producing no value. The entire system has never felt so fake. At least during the dot-com bubble corporations weren't doing mass layoffs to excite investors.

    I feel like the owner class has got so powerful now, society has regressed to the point where we're back to being ruled by dumb, delusional, psychopathic royalty imposing their will onto the masses. (Yeah, it's kind of been that way for a long time, but it seems to be quickly getting worse).

  • Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over

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  • He's still using a Studio Ghibli pfp? I thought they asked OpenAI to stop using their style. These people are actively hostile to the idea of consent.

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    Ubuntu's trust problem in 4 concrete issues - verified facts, no FUD

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  • It's also using unicode emojis for Linux distros (that don't really make sense) instead of their logos. The whole thing is likely AI generated.

  • Lmao

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  • I liked The Office, at least the earlier seasons. I do hate anything with a laugh track though. Always found them a bit creepy.

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  • I see an em-dash on a comment in MainActivity.kt on line 278, so I'm guessing it was used extensively. Also, a "→" character on 291.

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  • Impossible. Signal said they have no choice but to use AWS for this kind of thing.

  • Forced age verification is comming sooner than we thought.

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  • Will be selectively enforced and they'll gradually tighten down over time.

  • The Junior Developer Is Going Extinct

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  • And offshoring to vibe coders. Saw an article the other day about Indian Amazon devs (well, probably the managers) saying that being forced to use Amazon's in-house models instead of Claude was hampering their productivity.

  • The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents

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  • There are studies that show the tactile nature of books and hand written notes improves retention and encourages more thought, so it would seem likely that going more digital would have negative impacts on education.

    Even that grifter Sam Altman was talking about how he takes notes a while back.

  • Jack Dorsey's New Company Falling Apart as It Forces Employees to Use AI

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  • I don't think LLMs will become AGI, but... planes don't fly by flapping their wings. We don't necessarily need to know how animal brains work to achieve AGI, and it doesn't necessarily have to work anything like animal brains. It's quite possible if/when AGI is achieved, it will be completely alien.

  • Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage.

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  • I've seen them installed in pairs that watch each other. I also see them in the vicinity of store security cams or intersection cams. I don't know of one in my area that isn't in range of another camera.

  • Advice for setting up baremetal k8s lab

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  • I think I'd install proxmox on all machines because there is a proxmox provider for Terraform. Then, manually create the VMs, and to learn the barebones, use kubeadm to set everything up, and kubectl to manage it. Once comfortable and knowledgeable with that, start messing around with Terraform and Ansible.

  • I Started Programming When I Was 7. I'm 50 Now and the Thing I Loved Has Changed

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  • Just don't use AI coding tools then? Studies show they make people less productive anyways.