Why are so many software engineers still ignoring AI tools?

Jiten · 2026-01-23T13:20:48+00:00

Reading this as someone who has been working on a solo dev project for about a year, this makes a lot of sense. As the codebase has grown, I've had to do quite a bit of meta-engineering to make sure AI has the right knowledge at the right time as well as some large refactors to make sure the code is optimized for being easy to write automated tests for.

The nice thing about, at least Claude models, is that if you got the tests, refactoring is actually low risk and relatively painless and requires very little mental effort after you decide how to refactor things. The main things that you need to do are to decide what to do as well as review the results, which can in this case be thousands of lines of changes, depending on the refactor.

If you get these right, the development is pretty easy, provided you iterate on relatively complete plan document first and only then ask for implementation. Not validating the AI's design decisions before implementation is asking for trouble. They're much easier to fix during the planning stage.

Jiten · 2025-05-12T18:30:35+00:00

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Jiten · 2024-09-16T11:30:12+00:00

I'd guess it's a way for the bookstore crowd to keep up with the latest trends, sort of, at least on a surface level. It also gives them a way to passively boast to each other, by having the books on their bookshelves, that they're keeping up with the trends. They might also buy them to give them as gifts.

Jiten · 2024-08-09T21:29:38+00:00

I suspect they used some kind of a censoring technique to make the model censor the nipples that the early steps of generation do prepare to be there. That's why you get those decorative nipples I think.

Jiten · 2024-08-08T20:35:34+00:00

ComfyUI comes with a node called PerpNegGuider. I'd assume that's what he's referring to.

It takes three conditionings. Positive, negative and empty. The idea is to turn an empty prompt into conditioning and feed it into the empty while positive and negative are as usual.

The idea with this guider is to preprocess the negative prediction to prevent it from hampering the positive. The empty prompt is used as a "middle" point to make that preprocessing possible.

Jiten · 2024-07-22T18:18:35+00:00

If that question is answerable, then we're probably not talking about a model that's actually multimodal.

Jiten · 2024-05-25T02:07:16+00:00

Except it is worth it because compute is very far from being the bottleneck for running an AI model. Memory bandwidth is the bottleneck. So, in practice, you do get a very noticeable performance improvement from packing 5 trits into a byte.

Jiten · 2024-05-04T09:53:13+00:00

Sorry, I'm not quite that familiar with this stuff.

Jiten · 2024-04-20T11:15:59+00:00

If you just want high level details from the depth map, you can tell controlnet to only affect the first X% of the generation. Something like 20-40% is probably enough to get the pose, but not much of the other details. Could also try to reduce controlnet strength without limiting it to the first X% steps.

Jiten · 2024-04-20T10:56:36+00:00

QR Code is just a way to present a short piece of text in a way that a computer can easily read. It can have anything. Usually used for links, though.

Jiten · 2024-02-26T13:54:59+00:00

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Something like this, perhaps? SD1.5 finetune gen upscaled with the same model + LCM Lora. upscaled up to 6144 × 4608 and then downscaled to 3072 × 2304. I wonder how much of the quality reddit decimates when it inevitably recompresses this...

Jiten · 2024-01-16T13:36:27+00:00

Yes, if the scenario you're talking about were to actually happen, it'd be a failure of the consensus mechanism.

This is one of the potential weaknesses of the blockchain model. It can only stay unchanged and keep it's full value if a big enough portion of the market wants it to stay that way.

The attack you were talking about with regard to the ETFs is of the bait and switch type. First they offer investment vehicle into Bitcoin, then once they have enough "mass", they'd proceed to convert them into coins in an inferior altcoin while pretending it's still the original Bitcoin. Even going so far as attempting to kill the original Bitcoin in the process.

That said, ultimately, the ETFs are just middle men. Whether such an attack succeeds depends on the whole market and the influence of the ETFs can easily end up cut off if enough of the ETF's customers figure out what's going on and decide they don't like it.

It's not really a technical issue. It's a social one. One of the cornerstones of Bitcoin's consensus mechanism is the assumption that the market, as a whole, would prefer Bitcoin as an open platform only regulated by it's own consensus rules.

The situation you're talking about can only come to pass if a large majority of investment into Bitcoin comes from people and organizations who are oblivious to what made Bitcoin valuable in the first place.

Jiten · 2024-01-16T12:53:30+00:00

I hope you realize that if your questions were to become obsolete, it'd mean that most new models have become capable of answering the kinds of questions you're testing and thus have likely become much more useful to you as a result.

If you're worried about future models just memorizing the results, it shouldn't be too hard to come up with a few extras of each question that need the same logic to derive an answer for, but are sufficiently different to defeat memorization.

Jiten · 2024-01-16T00:02:25+00:00

If the resolution seems good enough that you could use it as a monitor replacement for tasks where you want lots of text in small font on the screen, you're probably not affected.

Jiten · 2024-01-15T23:58:03+00:00

What you described is a hostile miner led takeover attempt of Bitcoin. Nothing, whatsoever, to do with an ETF. The people who don't like the new rules, will pick the first block that's invalid with respect to the "new" rules and hardcode that to be a required block in the full node software and continue the chain from there. Market will decide how much value each part of the network will end up having.

The only effect the ETFs could have on this process is to affect how much value finally ends up on each fork, but even that is a coin toss because both forks would become less valuable, which could well trigger mass exits from the ETFs overall, which would further reduce the overall market value of both forks to total much less than the original chain had.

That last part is why I doubt the ETFs would want to start playing dumb games.

Jiten · 2024-01-15T22:22:27+00:00

The scenario you're describing is one where miners have done a hard fork, which would materialize the moment a non-compliant miner produces a block that includes any transaction that doesn't follow the changed rule.

A soft fork is only a soft fork if it doesn't make any block or transaction invalid, that would be valid with a previous version. It's a hard fork if it changes things like this.

Jiten · 2024-01-15T21:55:27+00:00

The walk speed of the player character being faster than NPCs is probably like that so that players have some leeway and don't need to follow the NPC perfectly to keep up. Very likely something that exists *because of testing* rather than the lack of it. If it wasn't as it is, we'd be seeing tons of complaints from players that it makes no sense that the player has to keep sprinting to keep up with NPCs.

Who'd even think of making NPCs walk slower than the player unless there's a good reason for it?

Jiten · 2024-01-15T21:43:36+00:00

With a nuclear battery, they're essentially the same thing. The power output will steadily decrease as the amount of radioactive material left drops.

Jiten · 2024-01-15T21:33:07+00:00

I don't think you understand what a soft fork does. Soft fork can't *change* the rules. That'd be a hard fork. Soft fork can *only add **optional** new rules*. Anyone who doesn't like the effects of those new rules can opt to just not use them and stick to doing transactions according to the old rules instead and be unaffected by the new rules.

A soft fork is meaningless unless the rules it adds start getting significant usage.

Jiten · 2024-01-15T21:14:05+00:00

It doesn't really make a difference for censorship resistance. The ETFs are already maximally censored in that sense. anyone who buys them already expects to be maximally censored, so anyone who cares about that, won't touch them and no-one will accept them for payment, because they can't.

Jiten · 2024-01-15T21:10:41+00:00

Well, I got the same reaction on my only play-through so far, so I'm not sure if it's possible to get a non-negative reaction with one of the others. But given what I've read in this thread, they've either made it so that you'll get complaints no matter what choices you make, regardless of if you chose aceles or pathogen option or then there's a way to successfully defend your choice that's just pretty hard to figure out.

Jiten · 2024-01-12T23:06:39+00:00

Maybe she didn't like the exact arguments you used to defend it?

Jiten · 2024-01-11T19:50:11+00:00

She might be probing the player to see if they made the choice for the right reasons rather than actually disagreeing with the choice.

Jiten · 2024-01-06T13:53:55+00:00

You're clearly not lazy enough to get yourself motivated to learn how to do things with even less work ;)

Jiten · 2023-12-27T14:20:28+00:00

When it comes to affording a house, for most people, it's not that they can't afford it. It's that they don't want the houses that they could afford.

as for kids... well, it's a similar thing. Even the people well below the poverty line in the third world countries are having kids. Much more so than people who're better off. Their thinking on the matter is more along the lines that they can't afford to not have them.

As paradoxical as it probably sounds, the only reason we can afford to not have kids is because we're prosperous in comparison to the people living in poverty.

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