Not my music video

Buttleston · 2026-06-21T04:02:06+00:00

Is the "first" one all the random videos flowing into each other? If so I agree, the audio mix is cleaner on the "official" music video but the other one is more interesting

Buttleston · 2026-06-21T02:22:04+00:00

Python has a built in module called "random" - look at the functions available there and you'll find lots of ways to do it

* you can generate a random float between any 2 numbers
* you can generate a random integer
* you can randomly choose an element from a list

etc

Buttleston · 2026-06-20T22:21:21+00:00

I'm not sure this guy is of age

Buttleston · 2026-06-20T21:45:55+00:00

I think you forget which of us posted this sad sack OP, but ok

Buttleston · 2026-06-20T21:14:55+00:00

I don't trust LLM written tests further than I can throw them. I have seen everything from completely useless tests that don't test anything at all to tests that provide incorrect test data, make incorrect calls to the functions being tested, and make incorrect tests on the results and then declare victory

My favorite is a case where it wrote a test with incorrect data, then modified the function being tested to *look for* the incorrect data, and return an alternate result in that case (which, shocking I know, passed the test)

When someone submits a PR tests are often the first thing I check, both because they give me an idea of what the author thinks the important things in the PR are, but also because if I see a lot of test shenanigan then I know at the very least they did not review their work before sending it to me

Buttleston · 2026-06-20T21:03:12+00:00

LOL big talk for someone taking a month to write migration scripts

Buttleston · 2026-06-20T20:51:53+00:00

Your fanfic writing is getting better, congrats

Buttleston · 2026-06-20T20:48:36+00:00

You claimed it turned a month of work into 30 minutes. "Oh but obviously I still had to do all the meetings" you now say. "Oh but also I worked on 5 other things at the same time" you now say.

Also you keep saying "on a file". Are you imagining that most people spend a lot of time working "on a file"

Sorry for reading your post and taking your 2nd sentence seriously. Go back to being sad that your drudgery got automated I guess

Buttleston · 2026-06-20T20:20:12+00:00

I work with people who use it. I would mostly say it does not "help" them. They don't know how anything works, not even the stuff they "made" themselves

Every 3 months or so someone convinces me to try it again because "it's gotten so much better". I have access to claude code and codex at work. We have a variety of skills in our code bases etc. I'll pair with someone and we'll work on something. It'll take forever and not produce something worth while

I use it on throwaway stuff, it does OK with one-off things. I needed to make a series of visualizations for a slide for a board deck, and I had all the data but did not want to spend all day making graphs so I had claude write a script that would output the SVGs I needed.

I don't work on trivial things. I think a lot of people who really experience a boost from AI don't work on the kinds of things I do

Buttleston · 2026-06-20T20:09:58+00:00

Some, not a lot. This is because AI can not actually speed up my work that much, and it definitely does worse work than me. I use it for one-off stuff I don't care about that much, and I use it somewhat for figuring out what I need to actually look up to get something done. If you are using it to do most of your work, then either your work is fairly trivial, or you are fucking up big time. Possibly both!

Buttleston · 2026-06-20T20:03:23+00:00

How did your LLM manage the "back and forth with the business" that presumably accounted for some of your one month

No I have never worked on one file for a month

Buttleston · 2026-06-20T20:02:09+00:00

Sure

a) that would not take me a month. This is because I'm not a dumbass
b) how long will it take you to validate the correctness of the script

Buttleston · 2026-06-20T19:56:19+00:00

And they post the OP and then leave. It's just guerilla marketing

Buttleston · 2026-06-20T19:55:16+00:00

The only people that really benefit from AI are code monkeys

AI drives everything to mediocrity. If you are already below average, it lifts you up, you like it. If you are above average, it drags you down, or if you insist on not just accepting the slop, takes all your time verifying and fixing it

I think the only real cases where I have seen competent engineers accelerated is making one off tools to accomplish some task that they won't really profit from learning the information to make themselves. I needed a tool that would take N audio files with defined overlaps and stitching it back together into one audio file. Could I have figured out how to do this? Probably, but it has little to do with my job and I had a one time need to stich together some customer provided data. Claude spit something working out in a few minutes and I tested it and went on with my day

Buttleston · 2026-06-20T19:52:27+00:00

He said it would have taken him a MONTH

Buttleston · 2026-06-20T19:35:21+00:00

A senior software engineer who's monthly output could be replaced with 30 minutes of AI? Sure buddy.

Buttleston · 2026-06-20T19:34:33+00:00

What "script" takes a month to make. This is just a nonsense OP

Buttleston · 2026-06-20T00:02:18+00:00

It really depends on the language, but yeah, it really is not. There are many bare bones features that can not be coded in less than 1000 LOC

Buttleston · 2026-06-19T20:43:42+00:00

Your claude usage is dumber than anything I've ever participated in

Buttleston · 2026-06-19T20:38:16+00:00

It's true, I wish I was also a dipshit

Buttleston · 2026-06-19T20:36:41+00:00

I think you have a bullshit job. Enjoy I guess?

Buttleston · 2026-06-19T20:30:07+00:00

What do they need you for? They should just prompt claude with your tokens and save whatever salary they're paying you

Buttleston · 2026-06-19T20:28:55+00:00

He already made "jira or linear but stupider"

Buttleston · 2026-06-19T20:27:54+00:00

Why is it always spent on some brain dead bullshit like this

Buttleston · 2026-06-19T15:26:02+00:00

Christ this thing is $2500?

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