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Much ado about nothing

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@bgprior This is my area too, quite literally. No cuts the other side of Thames from Hanley. Where are these maps from?

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"AI is great at coding", and here I am, hours into fixing that great code. No, asking it to fix it didn't quite work, unless 'fix bugs' means 'just rewrite it using all different containers and logic, but keep the bug in'

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@davidtgoldblatt B200 is what gemini likes to mention in its 'i'll be cooling off B200s 'til' tomorrow' session goodbyes. I don't know where it got it from, but its attempts at 'I'm a real boy' are quite amusing

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@bmcnett I started young and still remember the “expert systems”, Prolog, object oriented components that “you just fit together”, etc. as the ultimate killers of programming

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woah, gemini AI torched c++ as a language... don't know where it got the inspiration from, but "When a language requires you to track whether a string allocation is transient, [and other c++ nonsense], it has stopped serving the developer and started demanding servitude."

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@bkaradzic And not one said “ma ne zajebavaj me bre ja ću da platim”. What is the world coming to

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Yes, the whole wide sweep of 'can make mistakes' is there, but which response is a mistake? All these models converge on the same set of data. Phone a friend with a PhD to double check? It's not there yet.

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It's fun to explore a new topic using Google Gemini AI. Esp fun when you catch contradictions and it needs to take a step back and rephrase the whole thing again. Over-reliant on YouTube sources which are _not_ a golden source for a lot of information.

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Eg I listened to a guy describing assisting person A in doing a thing B exactly. Then Gemini finds sources that converge on person A not doing B, but doing C instead. If I didn't know better I'd believe it. And how many other things do I not know better

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@RichardN7 We are just too old mate. Came back from Spain, 35C summer, complained every day, forgot that 35 summers are what I used to enjoy

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@bmcnett People were buying Amiga 500s just to "play" this (and Space Ace). And play frisby with the floppies every other minute.

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@davidtgoldblatt Our local private primary, in a posh leafy shire in England, is about $32K/year. Not _that_ much cheaper actually, but I guess SF bay gonna SF bay. Still don't see what educational ROI that provides (esp in England), unless it's all about parents meetings.

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@cjsnowdon It's difficult to pump people's brains with non-stop AI stories of 'super intelligence' and then be surprised when some take LLM's medical advice too seriously.

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@bmcnett It’s not that new either. I remember reading a quote from the 80s (70s even?) that programming is the only profession actively working on making itself obsolete

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Only watching other national broadcasters and their halftime match analysis in parallel with the bbc can show you how bad the latter is

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The internet is rapidly turning into a place where I need to prove to Cloudflare that I'm a human. What dystopia

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@ThePrimeagen No no, I like to let Claude do it, then spend an afternoon debugging that. "This mutex is not necessary, let's remove it"

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@bkaradzic What was the internal make tool called, nmake or something? It was a pita, but I'd use that IDE today if I could, kids can keep their VSCode.

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Apple's Podcasts app was taking up 200GB+ of disk space on this Mac, well hidden behind Library /Containers folder. Downloaded everything I've ever heard on iPhone. Whoever wrote this garbage should be fired, rehired, and then fired again immediately.