Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe
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Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
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Joined Apr 2022
Plural system? You mean a Mixture Of Experts network? 🤪
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I think LLMs constitute in a real way a potential "end" of software. if they have their way we are going to start producing generations of people who cannot actually write software anymore, and it's completely unclear in that scenario how software maintenance let alone production is supposed to happen. who is maintaining the Linux kernel in this world. who is maintaining Python, CUDA, all of the conventional software that makes up the world and, incidentally, lays the foundation for LLMs themselves.
the guy in this PR is not doing it, and this is the kind of guy LLMs produce. in the near term he is an enormous waste of time and resources which is a wrench in the already precarious machine that is software production. but in the long term if the project of LLMs wins this guy is the baseline software developer, having known nothing but AI generated code his whole life and career, having never struggled to make a computer program do what he wanted it to do, bending his brain into the appropriate shapes to think in terms of computation. just "prompt engineering" and an insistence that the face he sees in the cloud sees him too.
I've had two conversations with people where I asked who is maintaining Linux kernel in this scenario and the answer on both occasions was that the expectation was that the models would get good enough that they could do it with good prompting. and, like, I don't know how to interpret that other than the end of software as a human project.
@nasser This is actually disgusting. The pride in admitting his ignornance is one of the worst symtoms of slop induced brainrot
I've now become the "morning person" of my household so I have to be quiet and patiently wait for my partners to wake up before I do anything fun.
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Zig is Migrating from GitHub to @Codeberg
Putting aside GitHub’s relationship with ICE, it’s abundantly clear that the talented folks who used to work on the product have moved on to bigger and better things, with the remaining rookies eager to inflict some kind of bloated, buggy JavaScript framework on us in the name of progress. Stuff that used to be snappy is now sluggish and often entirely broken.
@nasser Hell. 💀 I always just open a terminal and cd to the project dir cause the VSCode stuff is too glitchy
Coding while getting a filling redone at the dentist. 🤓
@nasser When there's "terminal themes" built in but no way to get it to just use the default background and text color 😵
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I have a talented, hardworking, totally blind student who wants to program.
I want to give her a chance to do research.
Any advice from the programmers out there?
P.S. one of the best vision scientists of the later half of the 20th century was blind. (Gordon Legge)
Neat, you can induce smell perceptions in humans with ultrasound. https://writetobrain.com/olfactory
I'm at the "How did this test ever pass in the first place?" stage of debugging.
Dreading catching up on the 1.5k missed messages in the chat I haven't read in a couple of weeks 💀
Don't tell anyone but I'm starting to appreciate JSDoc type checking. Especially seeing other projects that don't use it and have weird errors all over the place as a result.
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Sauron was 54,000 years old when he forged the One Ring. It's never too late to follow your dreams.
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@gwynnion I think rather than human beings and their intelligence, what the AI folks really want is slaves that cannot rebel and can be ordered to perform tasks and replace humans that still have hopes of rebelling.
18. This "neural band" is neat. It can be programmed to recognise hand gestures and output keyboard events. Could be a good companion for my twiddler so I can type with my left and navigate with my right. https://mudra-band.com/pages/mudra-link-main
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The lack of functional discovery features on Mastodon is so nice. One of the worst experiences on Bluesky is making a post and then 18 hours later completely random people start Discovering it. And they're almost never happy to see it, nor do they remotely understand the intent or context. Make a post for your friends on Bluesky and wake up the next morning to a bunch of messages from mystery people along the lines of "why did you post this??". And I just want to know well why did you read it??
@jsbarretto Yeah that's fair. I just use the smallest dose to give me a bit of focus during work. Been doing a good job reworking my life to make the symptoms less of a problem in recent years. Mostly switching so I can quit caffeine.
> test failing
> uncaught exception
> no stack trace 💀
*something* is opening a file descriptor after test close but there's a huge mess of code where it might be happening. 🙃
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Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Yap with me and send me cool links relating to my interests. 👍
Joined Apr 2022
