Notices by fasterthanlime 🌌 (fasterthanlime@hachyderm.io)

Wonder how long we’ll get “LLMs do nothing for productivity” takes from folks who have ~zero first-hand experience with current-day solutions.

I respect y’all a lot, but come on.

Things I agree with:

- there's an AI bubble
- many uses of "AI" are shit/vile/immoral
- LLMs are bad at many things (counting etc.)
- LLM output /must/ be human-reviewed
- the copyright/labor question remains open

And:

- current-gen LLMs are a tremendous tool for programming

I do believe there are domains where LLMs are /completely useless/: domains where you have to think hard about every little bit of every little line and every little detail matters.

And I'm kinda jealous of people working in those domains. Those are the exception.

LLMs bridge the gap whenever repetition is needed, whenever you need to "draw the rest of the fucking owl".

If you can read/review/validate faster than you can write all these details (maybe you have RSI?), then LLMs are valuable.

All the architectural decisions should be made by humans. Humans are in the driver's seat, always.

I don't give a shit about the "my 8yo built a React app" demos (maybe I will when I have an 8yo?). I care about senior developers being able to think at a higher level.

Most folks work in boilerplate-heavy environments.

You can write macros, you can do codegen, you can use types or use dynamic typing to reduce repetition, there's still a lot of things that "a whole bunch of weights" can figure out for you, filling in the outline you created.

I'm fairly sure I alienated part of my audience by "not shitting unconditionally on LLMs" and, well, too bad?

What's happening to artists is vile and I will commission art as much as I can. What's happening to developers is exciting: you can build so much on your own now!

@aral I don’t believe in promises from private companies, but I do believe in open source licenses.

They could close up shop tomorrow and they still would’ve completely changed the game UI-wise

@aral Being a huge downer and lamenting catastrophes that haven't even happened yet, pretending the world is nothing but awful, always has been, always will be, does not make someone wise or virtuous.

I'm done with this mindset. I'm going to appreciate the little things. It's a matter of survival. If I end up blocking you or people with similar viewpoints, it's not because I don't share your concerns — it's because I don't need the constant fucking reminder.

If you're sleeping on https://zed.dev "because AI" I get it, but you're genuinely missing out — it is an incredible engineering feat, a jewel of product design, and a very active ecosystem.

I think you owe it to yourself to find out what code editors could be.

lmao, if I'm reading this right, a check in the xz CMakeLists.txt for whether a certain sandboxing mechanism is supported was disabled by... adding a period before the "void" keyword, making it fail.

https://git.tukaani.org/?p=xz.git;a=blobdiff;f=CMakeLists.txt;h=0e4d464faba62a1270b40a0cb24c2c59e4ace409;hp=1f0191673b453ed789d915e35ee874a17818494a;hb=f9cf4c05edd14dedfe63833f8ccbe41b55823b00;hpb=af071ef7702debef4f1d324616a0137a5001c14c

Why can’t all licenses be like the GPL and have a lesbian variant (LGPL), an ace variant (AGPL) etc.??

it seems the purpose of any single piece of logitech software is to prompt you to install another piece of logitech software

unifying software, logi tune, g-hub, options+???

I've lost count

If you ever feel misunderstood, remember Linus Torvalds said this in 2002:

https://lwn.net/2002/0425/a/ideology-sucks.php3

therapist recommended trying CBT, now I still have anxiety /and/ my balls hurt

the future is here, old man

Ok I guess my next article is called "Just paying figma $15/month because nothing else fucking works", jeeze

If I had a dollar every time I saw an "open source" project vaguely recreate a handful of surface-level features of some commercial solution then go "there you have it folks, YOU'RE FREE" while Nothing Actually Works, I would be able to, like, pay rent with it.

lol @ porkbun's sign up form

Why the fuck would an "Add calendars" dialog (which shows an endless spinner btw) be powered by Bing?