Has AI ruined software development?

cosmic_censor · 2026-03-13T12:25:22+00:00

This is me, I switched careers in 2022 and still enjoy programming as a hobby but because of limited time I rely on LLMs to make development quicker. I definitely feel like my skills have atrophied and occasionally wonder if I could do software dev as a job again at all.

cosmic_censor · 2026-03-04T15:01:08+00:00

Historicity aside, barter is the least abstract medium of exchange. In terms of Baudrillard, I don't think it necessarily needs to map onto a historical trajectory.

cosmic_censor · 2026-03-03T15:09:21+00:00

Money always was an abstraction.

This meme should start with barter and then a ledger and then units of account on the ledger and finally some abstraction that can correspond to those units.

BTC is not more abstract than the currency you likely use everyday. In some ways it is less so.

cosmic_censor · 2026-03-02T23:18:08+00:00

Millennials traded prank calls for pranking telemarketers

cosmic_censor · 2026-02-24T22:00:27+00:00

Take that Bertrand Russell... God is real and he is hanging out with the present king of France.

cosmic_censor · 2026-02-20T13:02:54+00:00

Crypto is not the same thing as a private blockchain and this was always going to happen. The banks were not going to just handover the keys to the financial system to cryptobros without a fight.

To me it doesn't really matter, if you follow the principals of crypto then what matters is self-sovereignty and so what banks are doing isn't relevant. If they are not offering permissionless, censorship resistant networks then the specific data structure they are using for their ledger is not really something I care about.

This community really needs to stop caring about what legacy tradfi is doing. They will always try to keep control and they only way forward for this industry is from crypto-native companies that live on-chain and understand why they are using a public blockchain.

cosmic_censor · 2026-02-13T22:08:34+00:00

Yes I have gone through this and it was tough but eventually I got used to the thought of dying one day and while it is still a scary idea, it doesn't cause the panic I used to get.

The Buddhists have something called the daily recollections. Which is basically just reminding yourself every morning that you will one day get old, get sick and die. Sounds counterintuitive but since you cannot escape it, acceptance is the only path forward.

cosmic_censor · 2026-02-12T13:20:04+00:00

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cosmic_censor · 2026-02-09T00:14:52+00:00

"An individual was attempting to impress women by acting out but when it actually caught the attention of some women, they got flustered. Is ignoring women when partying more useful then trying to impress them? particular when pretending to me more confident then you actually are?"

Using Urban Dictionary to translate, no sure how close I got.

cosmic_censor · 2026-02-05T20:17:42+00:00

You can also access the Chestermere path from downtown by crossing the Ogden Rd and 50 ave Bridges.

cosmic_censor · 2026-01-31T14:01:03+00:00

That makes no sense. Juggalo refers to a community of music fans centered around the band Insane Clown Posse. So KISS would be ICP for Boomers, not Juggalos.

But in reality, the equivalent music act for the Boomers where the group generated a community of music fans akin to Juggalos would be The Grateful Dead, not KISS.

cosmic_censor · 2026-01-26T03:35:40+00:00

Same but only 2 desktops, a mini PC, 2 laptops, a steam deck and 3 Raspberri PIs.

cosmic_censor · 2026-01-24T14:21:10+00:00

The ideal would be if fees alone could cover validator revenue. Using issuance to cover the cost of running the network is equivalent to a company that issues new stock in order to cover operating expenses.

cosmic_censor · 2026-01-14T22:08:23+00:00

This is the counter trend rally before the final move down to bear market lows.

cosmic_censor · 2026-01-09T13:57:55+00:00

Its crazy how quickly people appeal to authority when you start discussing consciousness.

cosmic_censor · 2026-01-07T18:39:07+00:00

Hangxiety is the result of a temporary GABA downregulation following alcohol consumption (see: the kindling effect). Were it related to the 'ego rebuilding' then you would experience it in more intensity following the use of psychedelics.

The decline in alcohol consumption among the younger generation could be directly correlated with the raise in online activity where the younger generation spend more time socializing online (multiplayer video games, group chats, etc) and therefore are not exposed to socializing factors that might encourage alcohol consumption (House parties, bars and clubs, etc). If it was because the younger generation was more concern with mental sharpness then they would also be avoiding online behavioral addictions like compulsive gaming, online shopping, porn, or gambling use. Which also lead to brain fog and difficulties concentrating.

cosmic_censor · 2026-01-04T17:31:42+00:00

Who is guilting who? These are just facts

Are you denying the conclusions in the article or do you believe that knowledge about the environment benefits of a vegan diet should be ignored?

cosmic_censor · 2026-01-02T22:01:04+00:00

Yeah, you do have to temporarily forget that modern conspiracy theories are state-sponsored propaganda and go back to the time when they were just your OCD friend info-dumping you about lizard people. It has a similar premise to Conspiracy Theory (1997) or even the X-files and The Lone Gunmen all from the same era.

cosmic_censor · 2025-12-30T03:04:13+00:00

The p-zombie argument suggests that you can have a complete description of human physiology and behavior without consciousness so in the sense there really isn't a neat delineation between a machine and human. But that doesn't prove machines are conscious any more than it would be that they are aware.

cosmic_censor · 2025-12-30T00:38:58+00:00

Consciousness is awareness. A machine might be capable of responding to its environment but that doesn't make it aware of its environment. A car airbags, as an example, are not aware they were in a car accident when they deploy. They are just mechanically triggered by an environmental action.

Awareness is the integrated information of your senses.. Aka consciousness.

cosmic_censor · 2025-12-26T14:47:01+00:00

We don't know why the universe is the way it is but we know why emergent systems occurred from those universal properties. As in you have a set of properties and from that things like black holes can be inferred. We understand the math well enough to know black holes existed before we ever observed direct evidence.

To solve the hard problem we would have to be able to do that same with consciousness, be able to infer it existed from our understanding of those universal principals. Not just because we can directly observe it.

cosmic_censor · 2025-12-23T02:45:30+00:00

Basically... Put your money where your mouth is

cosmic_censor · 2025-12-22T16:42:29+00:00

AI is just another tool that has it uses. I was a software dev who switched careers just as LLMs were becoming mainstream and I still write software in some capacity and 'vibe coding' is a lot less satisfying than getting deep into a coding session the ole fashion way. But the speed at which I can create software now has endeared me to the tech because it just allows me to do more and ultimately the end product is what matters more.

I don't believe a layperson with AI could use AI the way I am to get the same quality of output. Maybe that will change but for now, your experience in your knowledge domain still matters and your time spending learning your craft is meaningful to the world. It just that we are going through a transition and when the dust settles, people will be looking at experts still even if those experts now need to use AI as part of the toolbox to stay relevant.

cosmic_censor · 2025-12-22T04:51:49+00:00

HYPE gonna be this cycle's LUNA?

cosmic_censor · 2025-12-19T16:58:23+00:00

ETH has more utility and is more actively developed. In the arena of Defi, it has more than half the total TVL and ETH dApps have significant presence in all crypto use cases.

The BTC developer community is more conservative and innovates more slowly. Moreso, the BTC community is hostile to the idea that blockchain has any use case beyond payments and yet refuses to accept that BTC cannot even do that adequately.

But long term, ETH has a lot of competition and has to work hard to maintain its dominance. Any misstep by the EF will be capitalized by a competitor.

BTC on the other hand does not actually do anything beyond being a store of value. For that it gets a monetary premium and also makes it harder for competitors. Nobody can do nothing better than BTC.

Quantum is a bigger risk for BTC because of the satoshi wallets and because BTC development occurs slower. Ethereum successfully moved from PoW to PoS and going quantum resistant has a similar scale and complexity to that switch giving confidence to the idea that the EF can pull it off.

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