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this post was submitted on 28 Oct 2024
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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we really shouldn’t have let Microsoft both fork an editor and buy GitHub, of course they were gonna turn one into a really shitty version of the other
anyway check this extremely valuable suggestion from Copilot in one of their screenshots:
aren’t you salivating for a Copilot subscription? it turns a lazy error message into… no that’s still lazy as shit actually, who is this for?
I want someone to fork the Linux kernel and then unleash like 10 Copilots to make PRs and review each other. No human intervention. Then plot the number of critical security vulnerabilities introduced over time, assuming they can even keep it compilable for long enough.
Does a kernel that crashes itself before it can process any malicious inputs count as secure?
Technically yes, but a rock is even more secure and cheaper than a computer and a programmer
Sshh don't tell the investors, I've managed to be paid for a decade by updating my code to work with other people updating their code to work with other people updating their code, all without actually doing anything new.
We as a profession have developed a careful balancing act where we're always busy doing nothing. If the balance was off just a little someone might actually have to think about new features instead of, say, migrating from CGI to PHP to JavaScript to jQuery to AngularJS to Angular to React to ???, rejecting LLM generated changes, "fixing" the same bug year after year, or reverting reverts of reverts of reverts of reverts of changes.
And thinking is hard.
that’d be an interesting experiment but also that’s $2400 you could spend on more useful things, like bootstrapping your whiskey collection
$2400 is hardly a number compared to whatever we're already spending on genAI so fuck it
@self did somebody make an extension that replaces github copilot with ELIZA yet