tatterdemalion

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on Welp · c/programmer_humor · 15 pts · 5d

Yea if you don't explicitly give it direction on how to keep the code maintainable, it will gladly just spew shit into the same file until you have 10K LOC in it.

Maybe I'm just ignorant about this, but it feels a bit "gatekeepy" to outlaw answering questions about the law itself. Like... so I can't use an LLM to help do taxes? Or if I'm served a confusing legal document, I have to pay an expensive attorney to understand the legalese? I can't even just get a rough idea from an LLM first?

EDIT: Also I've literally had a professional accountant send me a ChatGPT conversation they had because they didn't know tax law well enough. I feel like if anything that should be outlawed. Professionals should actually have to know shit and know how to research primary sources.

You don't know the direct impact of this project on data center usage because you haven't observed the development process. And you don't know whether it infringes on copyright because you haven't read the code.

If you identify with this post and you are in a manager position, please heed my warning. Throw away your prototypes. Stop vibing "quick fixes to unblock me". Stop trying to help your devs because you think you're superman now. You are only pissing everyone off, I promise. The devs who didn't stop coding while you were off doing important manager/product stuff are the ones who understand what's best for the codebase. And yes, they also know how to use LLMs.

Just because you feel like you have a new superpower doesn't mean that everyone needs to be saved. Follow the damn engineering process.

on Capitaleftism · c/whitepeopletwitter · 3 pts · 36d

Although it might seem contradictory, something can be abstract and concrete at the same time. These are relative qualities.

Relative to anarchy, the state is abstract. It depends upon a socially shared model of thinking that gets acted out by individuals. Take away this layer of abstraction and you are left with anarchy, i.e. the precursor of the state.

Prison is itself an abstraction, though its consequences feel very concrete to a prisoner. All of your thoughts and feelings are abstractions, and yet they seem concrete to you.