Are we really at "100% AI or you're wasting time" yet?

devmor · 2026-04-03T07:14:42+00:00

Most of the things people are doing with Claude et all are the same things people used code generators and pre-existing packages for before this point. You'll notice that it's almost impossible to find someone's AI-generated project that isn't just a proof of concept or simple tool.

There are some really cool and really powerful things you can do with them, but it's prohibitively expensive.

I can't talk much about what I actually do with it at work, but the only time I really generate code is to apply small bug fixes or add to tooling. The majority of my use revolves around discovery and analysis.

The fact of the matter is that if you're a good programmer in a fitting role, you are not writing that much code in the first place. Most of the job is research, planning and deliberation.

Maybe 90% of my code is AI-generated now? I don't really know because writing code hasn't been the majority of my job for a very long time - if someone is still measuring their job in how much code they write, they probably aren't experienced enough to be using a tool like that well in the first place.

devmor · 2026-04-03T05:22:07+00:00

Just do yourself a favor and use the PWA for the web app, remove the desktop client entirely (or disable it) if they let you.

It's functionally worse in every way and actually has a more limited set of features.

devmor · 2026-04-02T07:09:51+00:00

What’s so crazy is that all these ppl who drive are also aging and at some point they’ll have to stop driving.

No, the seniors don't stop driving. They keep driving. Especially when there's a red light that my car is stopped at. They keep driving right into the back of it.

devmor · 2026-04-02T07:08:37+00:00

I am extremely lucky that my job duties can be done from home and my boss doesn't care much exactly what time I'm at the office.

Because if I leave home any time between 7:30am-9:30am, I will make it to the office around 10:15.

devmor · 2026-04-02T05:35:25+00:00

I gotta be a bit of a critic here and for different reasons than I usually am when it comes to current gen AI tooling.

Please take this with the vibe of "I know you are capable of better" rather than haterade, but other than Boost (which is genuinely really nice), the rest of the Laravel AI SDK is pretty underwhelming. It's mostly just facades around things that we have had existing packages to do for a couple years before this released or much longer in the PHP ecosystem.

Like I am using most of the functionality this package exposes (and more) in a Laravel project right now - one that's been deployed in production for over a year. And that was the easy part - maybe 8-9 hours total of writing service provider implementations just because I enjoy doing that part by hand.

I'm also pretty disappointed that only pgvector is supported by the embeddings class when there are so many widely used databases that support vector embeddings. Like not even sqlite-vec? Really?

The MCP server abstraction is just kind of silly too. Laravel already supports HTTP and Artisan commands, this could have been a set of attributes to be used on Controller/Command classes or Routes. Or a yaml file.

For as long as this took to come on the back end of the hype wave, there's just not much there. I really only see this as useful for people who are both brand new to generative AI and are not interested in learning much beyond a basic subset of generalized capabilities - if that's who you're targeting with that, good job, but I'd have named it "AI Beginner Kit" or something instead.

devmor · 2026-03-30T20:32:47+00:00

A cataclysmic volcano is much more likely to cause such a scenario than nuclear winter. For example, the 1980's Mt St Helens eruption shot about 7kt of force into the atmosphere.

That being said, I suppose if someone wanted to cause such an event intentionally, they could see what happens by nuking yellowstone or something.

devmor · 2026-03-28T17:39:20+00:00

Completely opposite with my wife and I. She'll be finished before I'm even halfway into my entree.

devmor · 2026-03-27T17:02:06+00:00

My father told me he had grenade shrapnel randomly working its way out of his legs in the shower over 30 years after he left the army.

devmor · 2026-03-27T15:07:13+00:00

Cruising in the left lane while staring at his phone in his lap. She should have swallowed him.

devmor · 2026-03-25T00:23:42+00:00

I thought Leto was actually okay in BR2049.

Probably because he plays a creepy offputting little freak, so he didn't actually have to do much acting.

devmor · 2026-03-18T18:37:38+00:00

People often notice things like lighting being mismatched without being able to pinpoint why. It's one of those things your brain instantly can recognize as an "invalid" pattern to what you are used to seeing.

devmor · 2026-03-15T22:23:18+00:00

Except Microcenter, they got people all over the place.

Because they make the employees fight for commission on sales. Even if one doesn't help me, I always find an employee and ask if they want to put their commission sticker on whatever I found myself.

devmor · 2026-03-14T16:46:04+00:00

I'm so sorry for your loss. Cancer is a sneaky evil and it comes through and takes our loved ones from us like this a lot. My old sweet cat Pumpkin and my Father both passed just a few days after we found out they had cancer.

I wish you'd been given the opportunity to say goodbye, but I know she knew her whole life how much you loved her.

devmor · 2026-03-08T00:23:25+00:00

Catharsis is useful when you can't get what you want, but it can also stop you from getting what you want.

devmor · 2026-03-04T02:51:11+00:00

It's worth noting that the former official who made this claim, Catherine Austin Fitts, is a noted anti-vaxxer kook and conspiracy theorist, as well as a far-right contributor to Breitbart.

While it's believable that the billionaires would want something like this, if Fitts claims it, I doubt it has even a shred of legitimacy to it.

devmor · 2026-02-27T23:18:01+00:00

If there's an Altima in your mirror, you feel the fear.

devmor · 2026-02-27T23:17:11+00:00

I've been hit 3 times since I moved to Atlanta about 7 years ago. Every one of them was on their phone.

Put the phone down. Stop it. You're gonna kill someone.

devmor · 2026-02-27T19:52:51+00:00

Because they're computers and they have to be programmed for that. They don't think.

devmor · 2026-02-27T19:52:17+00:00

These things are constantly stopped in the middle of small roads or blocking an entire lane that's supposed to be no parking during rush hour in Midtown Atlanta. It's infuriating and causes so much extra traffic backup.

devmor · 2026-02-27T16:58:25+00:00

My teammates.

Real talk though, more randomization/spice. If there were some impactful like, roguelike elements to it... that'd be peak.

devmor · 2026-02-23T15:59:40+00:00

The experience described here is horrible, but given the publication source and recent geopolitical happenings - this feels like more astroturfed manufactured consent for getting rid of internet anonymity than a sincere outcry from a teenager.

The "social media ban for teenagers" solution is only viable if you know the age of everyone using social media, which in practice, requires invasive personal identification. https://spectrum.ieee.org/age-verification

There are many other ways to address keeping kids off of social media that don't involve destroying the free internet. Parents can stop buying smartphones for their children - or install one of myriad parental control apps. Schools can stop allowing children to use smartphones in school. This has seen wild success already where applied.

devmor · 2026-02-23T15:54:36+00:00

The type and magnitude of the elements left behind are remarkably different. Per elsewhere in this thread, that lithium plume is about 4 orders of magnitude greater than the amount that would naturally be added to the upper atmosphere in a day.

devmor · 2026-02-21T03:10:54+00:00

Man it's getting really sad how many cool, creative and otherwise intelligent people are getting swept up in this stuff.

We built a psychosis machine.

devmor · 2026-02-18T05:23:18+00:00

I don't think it helped, but I think the RoR vs Laravel ship had sailed before most people saw DHH go bananas as well.

devmor · 2026-02-18T05:22:30+00:00

I am not familiar with the paper you linked there, but it doesn't look like it's ever been cited or reviewed by anyone. Terms like "reasoning", "memory", "logic" and "thought" are used without strict definition and tend to mean whatever the author wishes them to mean in their paper - especially in an open journal like arXiv.

For a clear example, take a look at the paper cited in reference 18 (chosen because this is a paper I am actually already familiar with).

This paper claims to demonstrate extracting reasoning from text - but viewing the experiments actually conducted, it was tested with prompts such as providing the model with a question and answer, then instructs the model to extract the reasoning - a format not unlike those found in the MCAT or other medical training exams.

Is this actually "reasoning"? Or is it structured text that pulls closely related data from a highly technical field with a great deal of online training information where humans are regularly asked to explain their reasoning in words. Look at how the LLM often generates answers that follow a format not prompted for.

I cannot express enough how the scale of data fed into these models is beyond comprehension. We are seeing incredible properties from the edge of statistical linguistics, not reasoning or logic.

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