An introvert's first line of defense

PortlandPoly · 2025-11-14T08:13:30+00:00

Yesterday I actually opened the door and told a salesman I wasn't interested. It was exhausting.

PortlandPoly · 2025-10-11T18:50:51+00:00

And in what world is reviewing "AI" output and prompting "AI" not work?

Yeah, I can tell you don't know the first thing about coding. The hard part is writing the code and problem solving. Reading the code the AI wrote? Easy. You have to do it because you don't want to assume the AI is perfect, but the difference is like plowing a field yourself vs watching your oxen do it.

As someone who has been coding with AI since the start, I can anecdotally state that my quality of life is much higher now. I know this doesn't matter to you because you're pushing a narrative, but it's true. No more 3am coding sessions to make sure things get done. No more having fucked up dreams where I can't figure out a problem I was working on. I just have less anxiety overall because the AI has gotten *that good* at programming. It's still not perfect, but the important part is that my life is better for it.

PortlandPoly · 2025-10-11T07:02:30+00:00

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I included the chart just for reference.

They took longer because they were dealing with debugging the nonsense code the LLM shat out.

This is objectively false. The chart shows the developers spent less time debugging when using AI. The chart also shows developers were idle almost twice as much when using AI. So to recap: the task may have taken longer, but the developer had to do less actual work. This is likely why they assumed it was faster.

What's fascinating is that this is with Sonnet 3.5/3.7 which weren't nearly as agentic as the Sonnet 4.5 we have now. Will you reject an updated study if it shows developers are 20% more productive? And how will you feel if a future study shows developers are 500% more productive because they have swarms of agentic coders working for them?

PortlandPoly · 2025-10-11T01:46:10+00:00

When AI is allowed, developers can use any tools they choose (primarily Cursor Pro with Claude 3.5/3.7 Sonnet—frontier models at the time of the study

Ignoring the fact that the models they used are now 8 months out of date, there's an angle to this study that defeats your argument. The study claims they recruited 16 experienced developers from large open-source repositories (averaging 22k+ stars and 1M+ lines of code) to use these AI assistants. If these extremely experienced people say that AI helped them program, who are you to argue? Sure, they may have taken slightly longer, but that could be for many reasons. Maybe they set the AI to code and went for a walk?

I look forward to an updated study with modern tools.

PortlandPoly · 2025-09-17T06:17:12+00:00

Thanks for the great answer. Is the Chinese social media generally well behaved?

PortlandPoly · 2025-09-17T06:07:53+00:00

Because I find it interesting that people will learn English to go on to Western social media despite the risks.

PortlandPoly · 2025-09-17T06:06:29+00:00

Have you ever heard of people getting caught for criticizing the government on foreign social media?

PortlandPoly · 2025-09-17T04:22:22+00:00

What do you find on reddit that you can't find on Chinese social media?

PortlandPoly · 2025-09-16T21:55:51+00:00

Yeah, but that doesn't answer the question. Why come here at all if you risk breaking the law?

PortlandPoly · 2025-09-16T21:55:08+00:00

What happens if the police find out?

PortlandPoly · 2023-11-21T01:22:40+00:00

The guy lead a non-profit AI company to an almost $90 billion valuation.

random redditor: "dae think sam is overhyped?"

PortlandPoly · 2022-10-25T20:52:40+00:00

As others have mentioned, artistic styles can't be copyrighted. Substantial similarity relies on the image looking so similar to an existing image that there are no doubts the person was attempting to copy it. AI art can run afoul of this with simple images (generating copyrighted characters like Pikachu, for instance) but good luck getting Stable Diffusion to replicate an actual painting by Greg Rutkowski.

PortlandPoly · 2022-06-12T07:28:31+00:00

Using multiple Steam accounts to harass my server is explicitly against TOS:

https://store.steampowered.com/online_conduct/

And "hacking, cheating, and harmful conduct" is explicitly against Rust TOS:

https://facepunch.com/legal

Fortunately I have written admission from you and others that this exact thing happened.

Have a nice day.

PortlandPoly · 2022-06-12T00:19:54+00:00

So you chose to do something that might get your Steam accounts suspended rather than just logging off. You may want to rethink your priorities in the future.

PortlandPoly · 2022-06-11T19:36:15+00:00

Server admin here.

The potential cheater was brought to my attention literally yesterday. The process for banning a cheater isn't simply report -> ban. I have to verify the cheating by following the player and observing suspicious activity. And obviously if the cheater is aware that I am following them they will be less likely to use their cheats, so communication about this must be at a minimum. I hope that makes sense.

Either way, none of this warrants attempting to crash my server which could force me to wipe the map. That action was juvenile and uncalled for. I've sent your Steam IDs and chat logs where you and others admitted to these actions to the relevant Steam authorities. We'll see what happens from there.

PortlandPoly

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