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The only way companies seem to respond in a reasonable manner is when you call them out publicly so here goes. @Wise are holding our accounts hostage. I received a random email saying I need to upload all my bank statements from all my accounts including personal accounts, and tax return otherwise they will close my account in 1 week. Only 1 week to jump through all their hoops, creating extra work for me out the blue for no reason. They are unable to provide a reason they need this intrusive, sensitive, personal information. They are unable to show any documents or legislation saying they require this information. They have not provided a secure way to upload this information. They suggest replying to a random email from "Fred" or "Lisa". The secure upload area in the app and the website says I do not need to upload any documents and blocks me from doing so, support agents on chat say it's not required on my account, but I get threatening emails saying it is and my account is getting closed tomorrow. It's an absolute sham and a scam. Speaking to support is useless, they just go round and round in circles with the same support script and send me a broken link and then say just reply to the email. Is there anyone competent and intelligent at Wise who can help? One message I received even said 'I understand you don't want to reply to a random email with personal documents so you can just reply to this random email with your documents". Is this support in the AI era or just Wise being awful?
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I am so much more exhausted when I program with AI than without it. I reflected a bit, and I think I know why.
First, I think about how to solve a problem. This step is the same with and without AI. Then, with AI I have to write a prompt with a decent bit of precision and somewhat more long-term than if I just jumped into straight implementing it and figuring out the details as I go.
Then you start up the agent, and you immediately have some other work to do and you jump to another prompt for another task, where you also think really hard and try to formulate what you want quite well.
By the time you're done, first agent has some code for you to review, and you can't slack - you need to actually review it and be diligent about it. And when you're done - second task is there for your review. So really there's not time to rest.
When I program manually, I can decompress while typing the code in, I can rely on my muscle memory for typing and navigating the codebase, so there's periods of deep think and some relaxation. With AI, there's only deep think. And as soon as you try to think less - you open the doors for slop.
It's so tiring.
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One of the most universal truths about software quality is that the less code you have per some useful functionality the better. Just because code generation became cheaper, this doesn't become less true.
The more code you have to do something the worse the outcome, AI or no
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WSL containers is now generally available
msft.it/6014acIIa
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Day 2 of saying "AI is Just Software" every day until everyone stops perpetuating a legally-useful delusion on behalf of giant corporations
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Even frontier models write a lot of slop to achieve any goal, and it takes some real effort to unbloat the code they produce. And if you don't do this - your next task ingests this bloat and generates even more bloat.
You'll end up paying more to achieve less if you don't actively debloat your codebase. But of course, you need to know what you're doing to do this.
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I don't mean to sound arrogant by saying this, but I just think it is just true that if people learned more neuroscience, and had a better idea how the human nervous system and brain actually works, then they would be better prepared to understand how machine intelligence is really not the same as human intelligence
For example, neural networks are sort of loosely inspired by cortex, but that's about it
I'm not trying to be a dick, but it's hard to have conversations on here sometimes because people's level of knowledge is just so low
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Few would even really consider whether Jev or FSD are conscious if there were no LLMs around, they would just be considered useful pieces of software
In fact, I’ve never heard anyone argue that nano banana pro is conscious
What’s different about the LLM is that they give text-based output, which activates the mirror neurons in our brain and hijacks our social infrastructure, so that it is easy to get mesmerized into thinking that there is a mind on the other side of those words
But there is no mind there, it is an illusion
The world‘s greatest puppet show
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i don't really give a 🦉 about whatever we're supposed to be doing by hand or not.
I'm trying to achieve perfection with Flux
Sometimes that's a ton of AI and sometimes it's a pen, pad, and some handwritten CSS
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LLMs and agents are computer programs. We should use that language a little more often.
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As Linux user for almost 15 years, I would choose Windows over MacOS any day.
Regardless of how hard Microsoft is trying to butcher Windows, it still remains much more open and customizable system than MacOS ever been. Also, games and superior tooling for literally anything.
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The worst part about delegating work is when the actual delegation part + having to review the person's work for errors takes longer than you doing it yourself.
It's not even "i could do it better myself."
It literally takes me longer because I have to QA your work.
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Most software engineers have no idea how to make maintainable software, with or without AI.
Most for-hire SWEs hop jobs every 1.5-2 years because this is the only reliable way to get a raise, so they never have to deal with consequences of their own decisions.
They change 7-8 jobs in 10 years, and then never have to think about 5 years in the future.
I had a privilege of maintaining same set of projects for 5+ years, and I know how it is to meet your own temporary hacks 4 years down the road. How many of you can say the same?