Seminar2250

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[–] Seminar2250@awful.systems 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

So when I see people using LLMs to create things instead of doing it themselves, I can’t relate. Why do that when you can get the pleasure from doing it yourself? I guess if making money is the primary motivating factor, then it makes sense. But for me it is totally self-defeating.

I have a theory (similar to that "it's been vibe coding all along" post) that it's a combination of wishful thinking, lack of knowledge of real science, and a lack of any liberal arts skills, that altogether produces this farce.

I think it's a good explanation for "the code has been battle tested because it's so old and widely used, if it had bugs/security issues, we would have discovered them by now", as well as the widespread "we invented a tech solution that is just a worse engineering solution". Looking at you, chain of self-driving cars.

[–] Seminar2250@awful.systems 10 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

The reason I do CS is because a professor of computer science lied to me about the kind of work I'd be doing to get me to enroll in the CS PhD program instead of math. Guy later physically threatened me in his office and plagiarized my work, but I'm not sure if this reflects poorly on computer scientists, academics, or CS professors.

Anyway I have a chip on my shoulder.

[–] Seminar2250@awful.systems 13 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

the students in my cs department are overwhelmingly promptfondlers and even my strong students are doing the "qualified praise" thing.

fuck me why did i go into computer science

[–] Seminar2250@awful.systems 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

i thought it was pretty funny <3

[–] Seminar2250@awful.systems 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

thinking about how often code will be like

[-1] * len(array) # -1 is a place holder because I don't know the vocabulary term "sentinel value"

and justified because "it just needs to work"

and now we have professional vibe coders

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anguish

[–] Seminar2250@awful.systems 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

half as good as expert human

60% of what a senior can do

is there like a character sheet somewhere so i can know where i fall on this developer spectrum

[–] Seminar2250@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago

fn silly is what it is

[–] Seminar2250@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

the closest i've ever come to being an idea guy is saying 'yeah, i have ideas, they are [shit them out explicitly]. they are half-baked at best but let me know if you do anything with it'

coming up with ideas is fucking easy, for example:

pick a (palatable) villain from anything
put them in a setting that is banal but unusual for them
write jokes

BAM

[–] Seminar2250@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Number magic?

they use numerology.ai as a backend

"we encode shit as numbers in an arbitrary way and then copy-paste it into chatgpt"

[–] Seminar2250@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Why are people paying for it… is it only for some fancy editor integration so it sends off/reads back the code as needed?

from what i understand, having had a promptfondling former friend try to sell me on it, is that it is just LLM-autocomplete for code, so yeah the editor integration

my best attempt at emulating it:

def what_was_that_sorting_algorithm_called_again(array, length_because_i_dont_know_python_semantics_so_i_use_cursor):
    if ... # [here, i guess it would suggest something stupid like checking if the array is already sorted]

edit: that is, i don't think this can be done directly through the LLMs they plug into. but idk, i haven't touched any of these since 2023

[–] Seminar2250@awful.systems 13 points 1 month ago (6 children)

trying to explain why a philosophy background is especially useful for computer scientists now, so i googled "physiognomy ai" and now i hate myself

https://www.physiognomy.ai/

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