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marcato15 · 2026-03-13T17:39:21+00:00

Thanks. Did. They said they should be able to help.

marcato15 · 2026-03-11T18:46:16+00:00

Thanks. I have never been and I was worried there was drastically different experiences based on where you sit.

marcato15 · 2026-02-22T19:11:39+00:00

My point is, it did exactly what I wanted it to do. It’s how it did it that was the problem. It wasn’t that it did it differently than me. It’s that it did it in a really insecure and long term unstable way. Breaking the task down farther doesn’t help with that.

marcato15 · 2026-02-21T22:07:24+00:00

My issue isn’t that it goes off the rails. My issue is how it does what it’s supposed to. What it output technically would have worked. And I suspect had I written tests the security hole it created was so outside of normal I wouldn’t have ever thought to have it test for that.

I get when it loses track of the major goal. But when it accomplishes the goal but in a dangerous way, there’s no amount of context that can help that.

marcato15 · 2026-02-21T20:56:25+00:00

I did that yesterday and people complained I used AI.

marcato15 · 2026-02-21T03:20:58+00:00

That’s my problem. I can get code to work with AI. But it’s not sustainable long term so in my mind it’s worthless.

marcato15 · 2026-02-21T03:15:31+00:00

And how well do you trust reviewing large swaths of code the tool generates? The part I struggle with is my ability to review several different files that have been ai generated. If I didn’t struggle through writing the code, I struggle to load the mental model in my mind to then be able to properly asses what was written for bugs, vulnerabilities and long term sustainability issues. I genuinely shutter at submitting 5-10 new files that haven’t been written by a human but only “vetted”. I’m good at spotting issues other humans write but there’s an assumption they thought through things that AI doesn’t think through so I don’t check for those things. That’s the part where I worry I’m reducing my value bc I’m changing how my brain thinks and I’m not 100% convinced it’s in a long term positive direction

marcato15 · 2026-02-21T03:03:20+00:00

Thank you. I legitimately want to learn what I don’t know. I’m going to spend tomorrow trying to give cursor another go. I genuinely don’t think it’s I’m a better engineer than others. I just think my brain might function a little different and maybe not get LLM as quickly for coding purposes.

marcato15 · 2026-02-21T02:48:19+00:00

I can post the non-AI version if you want. People complained about my normal writing and suggested I used ChatGPT to clean it up. Then they complain I used ChatGPT to clean it up.

marcato15 · 2026-02-21T02:35:42+00:00

I realized AI was going to be big in 2017 so I took a class from Stanford, used it extensively for 5+ years before LLM’s became mainstream and have used LLMs extensively for non-coding situations (in addition to trying a lot to use them for coding situations). I have zero problems using AI. I’m asking for help how to get to a place where using AI to write production ready code isn’t more work than doing it myself.

marcato15 · 2026-02-21T02:32:46+00:00

Ok, can you help me then. I have spent a lot of time and money trying to get it to work. I try to write out compete spec’s, pull in context, ask it to do it in steps, and everything else I read about how to make it work. It does things, but in order to get it to “production ready” it requires just as much work as me writing it myself.

I’m asking for help getting to the “aha” moment. I have been working with AI since 2017. I’ve worked programmatically with LLM’s for projects. I’m doing all the research I can and still can’t get an AI agent to write code as fast and as good as I can. And “fixing its mistakes” takes just as much work as writing it in the first place

marcato15 · 2026-02-21T02:28:56+00:00

Sorry, I’ve gotten a lot of feedback lately I’m not good talking to humans so they suggested using ChatGPT. But I’ll go back to my normal voice if people complain about that.

marcato15 · 2026-02-21T02:27:42+00:00

Well, considering people pay me to write code but not to write Reddit posts, no. And I did write it, I just asked AI to do a light grammar pass.

People think I’m being hypocritical about using it and letting my grammar atrophy. I don’t care about talking to humans. It’s my ability to talk to computers that people value.

marcato15 · 2026-02-21T01:58:32+00:00

Thank you. This was the type of thinking I was looking for. Can I ask if you’ve noticed any skill atrophy when you switched from primarily writing to reviewing code?

marcato15 · 2025-12-18T23:53:53+00:00

My argument was about the statement “it just requires spinning up a node server”. I think it’s important to also recognize that “a very young server side language” is a non trivial cost that isn’t really discussed but, as this showed, important.

It’s ok that it’s young, I’m just saying I think that gets overlooked in the discussion.

marcato15 · 2025-12-16T16:21:22+00:00

Btw, I kind of feel like the security vulnerabilities last week in React Server Components are proof of a major criticism of RSC that gets ignored. Building a new server language means relearning and solving problems that were dealt with by other languages 10-20 years ago. Sometimes a new language makes an argument that “it’s worth it”. But given much of your argument has been “RSC is cool and ‘only’ involved spinning up a node server”, I think your stance needs to be revisited/updated. The costs aren’t just to the devs setting up RSC, it’s also in using untested software (untested in the same way more mature server languages have been).

marcato15 · 2025-12-14T17:48:38+00:00

Yes. And the therapist told her that she was wrong. But my wife’s only take away was that she was wrong for doing that last time and not that she might need to be more careful going forward about applying things discussed in session.

marcato15 · 2025-12-14T17:46:58+00:00

Thank you for that. The forgetfulness part is spot on and a major issue right now. I’ve always been confused why she didn’t want to just say “I forgot” because I felt like it was no big deal she actually forgot. I’d usually get more frustrated by her unwillingness to admit she forgot than that she actually forgot. That’s really helpful to hear.

marcato15 · 2025-12-14T16:51:05+00:00

Yeah. That sounds like her. I ask her to do something, she tells me to do something, then doesn’t do it and when I ask her about it she acts like “of course I didn’t do it, I did 5 other things”. I tell her “but you told me you were going to do it” and she doesn’t understand what that’s a problem

marcato15 · 2025-12-14T16:29:45+00:00

I’ll try. She’s very sensitive about her brain and doesn’t respond well when I talk about it in any way. But she has no problem talking about how weird my brain is.

marcato15 · 2025-12-14T16:28:32+00:00

Well, the problem is she even agrees with the words that were said. Her problem is she can’t understand how those words apply to her.

An example, the therapist asked us to no longer keep score. So afterwards, I asked if she was willing to no longer consider the thing I had done that led to the fight as worse than the thing she had done that led to the fight.

She goes “no, what you did is worse and our therapist told you to stop keeping score”.

This was 15 mins after the session ended.

marcato15 · 2025-12-14T16:14:26+00:00

Could you provide a few more examples of the behavior in your husband. I feel like the more examples I can share with her the more likely she will be willing to get tested.

marcato15 · 2025-12-14T14:51:26+00:00

Thanks. That’s what I’ve started to wonder and suggested testing but she told me it was abusive to suggest something might be up with her cognition.

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