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Sounds fun! Any plans to release something on itch/steam?

So Using it as my emotional dumbing machine is wrong ?

I have started using LLM tools recently after taking a new job where a lot of people do it. I've discovered that it's actually fairly helpful not only for explanations, but in two other respects

• Sifting through immense amounts of documentation. I have to deal with some datasheets that are hundreds of pages, where there will be info scattered throughout. It's very helpful sifting through those.
• Doing boiler plate "plumbing work" in my code. I'm mostly drawing a line where I don't want it doing the "core" work in that which I'm an expert, since I agree that if I stop doing that, I'll atrophy. However it can help accelerate my process if I pass off some of the minutiae that I don't feel the need to do.

However all that said, I am honestly pretty impressed how well it works. I've mostly been using Claude, and damn, it's honestly pretty competent. I had it make me a helper Python GUI program for me to test some stuff (I'm not a UI/high level engineer like that, I'm an FPGA Engineer), and it did a decent job. It definitely needed a good amount of massaging and guidance. However I can definitely see the appeal, and I think it's a slippery slope, and I need to make sure I remain disciplined in not letting it do everything

I don't think that's a good idea, if you can't find an explanation online that means that there's not much info available in which case the best thing would be to ask on a forum, that way other people that look for that info will find it.

I’m a software developer and I say that AI is the greatest force-multiplier that’s been introduced into the field since the compiler.

As a person who works with coworkers who fully embraced it, it doesn't look like they are any faster. There is one group that is faster, but they don't verify their code and provide burden of it on another person who reviews PR to go through their shit code (sorry, but it is unnecessarily complex, does things in weird ways, I've seen it had bugs that even canceled each other (I guess this is probably due to re-running until things work))

I kind of agree it's a multiplier. But so far every time I've had it do something its written such an ugly turd I have to rewire it all taking more time than if I'd just solved the problem to start with. Maybe someday but it's not up to the quality I expect of development.

There isn’t any credible evidence out there that actually shows LLMs are a “force multiplier.” That is almost certainly just a made up marketing term for unprofitable chatbot companies.

In the late 1980s there was a time where we seriously weighed the option of hand assembly vs using compilers and hand assembly didn't always lose. In the early 1990s I wanted to use C++ but the available compiler for IBM compatible PCs was too buggy to be of value.

By the mid 1990s that had changed, good C compilers were exceeding all but the highest effort human assembly code - if you didn't like how it looked in assembly, you could much more easily "fix it" with a tweak to the C code instead of the assembly. I feel like we're sort of getting there with AI agent LLMs today - if you don't like what it provided, tell it why and let it try again - it's usually faster and easier and gets a better product for the time invested to use the tool instead of calling it a slop box and doing it yourself.

I didn’t read this as “people who like it in some situations being forced to use it in other situations,” but rather people who are against it as a whole being forced to use it at all. And yeah those folks are going to have a bad time, and won’t be in their jobs long. Just facts.

Self awareness is all too rare.

isn’t it fun how every major operating system is vibe coded now

windows is an unstable mess, macos’s new ui is the most broken it’s been in decades, and linux is getting one new vulnerability per day. the future is exciting!