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My position, which has been the same since the beginning, is: I will never pay for a subscription service to program (nor rely on some Internet service), and I will never turn my brain off and stop caring about the details I care about today.
I am not inherently attached to typing every character, and I think the idea of human language processing and accelerating the production of programming language semantics is exciting. I would only ever do this using local models on my own hardware, and I would employ such tools very carefully (likely using them in my own tooling), and likely not in the ways that many people are employing them today.
If I can accomplish the same work I would’ve been doing by hand more quickly, that’s pure win. But if I accelerate yet lose attention to detail, or the ability to think through those details, that’s not the same work anymore, and so there is some loss. That loss is potentially very important.
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I reread this every year.
I cry like a baby every year.
Todd Beamer died a father, husband, and hero.
Todd: Hello… Operator… listen to me. I can’t speak very loud. This is an emergency. I’m a passenger on a United flight to San Francisco. Our plane has been hijacked.
Lisa: I understand. Can they see you?
Todd: No. There are three that we know of. They have knives — razor knives, like box cutters. Someone announced from the cockpit there was a bomb. It sounded fake.
Lisa: Your name?Todd: Todd Beamer. United Flight 93.Todd: They killed one passenger in first class. They forced most of us back. Fourteen of us here. Five flight attendants. The guy with the bomb ordered us to sit on the floor.
Lisa: Are you okay?
Todd: We’re going down… wait. No. We’re leveling off. We changed directions. We’re flying east again.
Todd: A guy named Jeremy called his wife. She told him two planes hit the World Trade Center. Lisa, is that true?
Lisa: I have to tell you the truth. It’s very bad. Both towers are gone. A third plane hit the Pentagon. Our country is under attack. I’m afraid your plane may be part of their plan.
Todd: Oh God. Lisa, will you do something for me? Call my wife and my kids. Promise me you’ll call.
Lisa: I promise.
Todd: Our home number is… You have the same name as my wife. Lisa. We’ve been married ten years. She’s pregnant with our third child. Tell her I love her. I’ll always love her. We have two boys — David, he’s 3, and Andrew, he’s 1. Tell them their daddy loves them and he is so proud of them. The baby is due January 12th. I saw an ultrasound. We still don’t know if it’s a girl or a boy.
Lisa: I’ll tell them. I promise, Todd.(Lisa patches in the FBI.)
Agent: Todd, your plane is on a course for Washington. Best guess is the White House or the Capitol.
Todd: I understand. I’ll be back.
Todd: Everyone knows this isn’t a normal hijacking. We have decided we will not be pawns in their plot.
Lisa: What are you going to do?
Todd: Four of us are going to rush the one with the bomb. Then the cockpit. A stewardess is getting boiling water. We’ll take them out.
Todd: Would you pray with me?They pray the Lord’s Prayer. Then: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.
Todd: God help me. Jesus help me.Are you guys ready? Let’s Roll.
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“Your computer is not a fast PDP-11 lol!!”
The idea that, because there are many abstraction layers between C and hardware, and there are many abstraction layers between Python and hardware, that therefore a C programmer’s understanding of a computer is roughly equivalent of a Python programmer’s understanding, is so absurd that it could’ve only been invented by the worst kind of midwit wordcel who spends more time chortling on Reddit / HackerNews than programming.
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Dear @ralsina: I'd like to reply, but you locked the thread so now I can't. I guess you don't want to know what my reply would have been, but, unfortunately you're going to get it anyway:
A) It's not that I "think that". It's just a fact, because it happened in the video.
B) I didn't say it was orthogonal. I have no idea if it's orthogonal. I said that it's something people who know how computers work would say, and we know that's true because there are numerous examples, including the aforementioned video. You are the one who said it was something people who didn't understand computers would say. Combining something you said with something I said, then drawing a conclusion, then claiming I said the conclusion is quite the stretch.
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Oh fuck right off with this
Double Fine Will Develop 'Brütal Legend 2' if it Hits $100M Kickstarter Stretch Goal insider-gaming.com/brutal-le…
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Schrödinger's code
1. fable wrote it, it must be great. in fact, i had Sol, opus 5, and Grok all review it.
2. if i look at it, its horrible
state changes based on observation
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The VOD for my BSC2026 talk "The Root of The Root of All Evil" is now available! It's the spiritual successor to last year's "The Big OOPs", so if you enjoyed that one, join me for one more adventure into the history of computer science:
computerenhance.com/theroot
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This comment was asking if I used LLMs/agents for anything, so I wanted to explain why I have been recently using them for.
I mostly use LLMs as a chatbot. I will most definitely never use "agents". Below is what I have been doing for my assembly project specifically:
As an initial way to bounce ideas for syntax so I could refine my concepts faster, even when the suggestions were bad. It was also weirdly passive-aggressive, especially about how my ideas were worse than its own, lol.
To produce a bunch of unit/regression tests for these `asm` templates once I give it the syntax (something LLMs are kind of built for, even if they make mistakes).
As a search engine (which I still verify through other sources).
To generate large tables from pre-existing data, and "clean" them up.
To suggest improvements to error messages, and general grammar and typo fixes in the messages too.
I give it the source code and ask it to find bugs, which it does sometimes (especially typo-related ones, which I'm well known for).
To give me new ideas on what to work on, even if a lot of them are pretty bad.
In general, I'm not using LLMs to program for me, because I very much doubt that they could even architect anything like what I'm trying to build. That takes deep subject knowledge and a real sense of code architecture. These tools are impressive, but damn are they also dumb in a lot of ways. I guess because they have largely been trained on the mean programmer's code, which has essentially no understanding of good architecture.
P.S. The whole idea of "LLM agents" seems insane to me, and even worse than the standard "vibe coding". Please just treat LLMs as a tool, and understand that tool's limitations.
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I basically don’t use any of it beyond free models for searching, but it’s very cool technology (albeit often misapplied, and hyped far beyond appropriate). The only version I’d ever regularly employ in any work, in any way, is local and open source.
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It's Oligarchy, fyi. oligarchy.fyi
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This is great! Only complaint is I'd like to have TaskSlinger, RAD Debugger, and FilePilot status on the same page if possible :)
isblickonlinuxyet.com/
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AI psychosis whataboutism levels are incredible. You say "wow this AI code is horrible" and they respond with "but code was bad even before AI" every single time.
So what, you clown, don't you want to make things actually BETTER for once?
We’ve recently spent an egregious amount of money to keep things from my Dad’s estate and replace the water heater. I was hopeful that this was the end of the big expenses and I could finally start to rebuild the savings.
Now, my desktop isn’t booting and I have no idea why 😑
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The original "Alien" was a creepy horror film. So how do you make Backrooms 2 while keeping it fresh? Easy, a squad of Marines with Pulse Rifles enters the Backrooms... I am available for consulting.
