@jbscript

Programmer/web developer from Norn Iron living in Australia. Making Control Panel for Twitter and Control Panel for YouTube at https://nitter.cf/t.co/ZlvkRfy6xS

Brisbane, Australia
Joined August 2012
Oh no! Not my personalised recommendations!
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How are we going to repackage Markdown as an exciting new AI experience tonight, Brain?
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Gee, Brain, whadda you wanna do tonight? The same thing we do every night, Pinky - try to get the ADHD to sit down and drive the autism
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Unfollowing your former tech heroes as they go fully into "AI" bullshitposting
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When your "${song} for 1 hour" video has 10% of the views of the original song - made this loop because I wanted it to exist
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*clap* Every time I clap *clap* someone explains their _totally unique process_ *clap* for using Markdown files with an LLM *clap* on Hacker News *clap*
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The pro-slop push-back in the comments tho
I just declared a moratorium against AI-written change descriptions (e.g. PR and commit messages, also issues/tickets) from my team. AI was writing change descriptions that were worse than useless to me as I tried to review PRs: outlining details of the code that could easily be seen by looking at the code, but omitting the higher-level framing needed to understand broadly what the code is doing. I think people like having AI write these things because the output looks structured and thorough, which makes it feel professional in a way. But this isn't actually valuable. Concise, high-level descriptions are better for everyone. If I need to use my own AI to interpret what your AI wrote then something is wrong. Let AI write code, sure, but for the description, I'd rather see your prompt than your output. We could maybe have extended agents.md with guidelines on writing descriptions, but this seemed a bit pointless since a good, concise change description only takes a few minutes to write -- not a significant time savings to delegate to AI. At least, it doesn't take long if you understand the code -- and if you don't understand the code, then I'm definitely not merging it.
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People just pushing the slop README without even the most cursory of self-respect edits, like removing the pointless directory listing, or even just replacing the dashes with hyphens
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fix this code make no mistakes
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Ad breaks in the middle of a football half? This is not a serious country
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I have come here to chew bubblegum and prompt Fable, and I'm all out of... oh, actually, I'm all out of Fable
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Looks like enough people logged in to kill the Destiny 2 servers 🫡
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Reinstalled Destiny 2 ahead of Monument of Triumph coming out, and having not even looked at it since the early Echoes era, I had no idea just how badly they ruined this game
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The second-funniest thing you can do with an LLM is ask it to generate software project estimates The funniest thing you can do is send those estimates to someone else
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