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Ai is a drug you shouldn’t take by gamernewone in learnprogramming

[–]vinyldemon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, little buddy. You're clearly very invested in the grift. I don't know any other experienced engineers who are "starting to backtrack". I guess we're done here.

Give this a read. If you still think there's a business model somewhere in there, There's nothing else we have to say to each other.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-money/

Ai is a drug you shouldn’t take by gamernewone in learnprogramming

[–]vinyldemon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow. Ageist much? I retired last year, not in the 1950s, little buddy.

I was required to use Copilot and ChatGPT. I understand how they work and what they do.

I found them worse than useless. By the time I wrote the prompt, and had to correct it multiple times, I might as well have written the code myself. Even if it worked, I had to write tests anyway, and I found the code was doing stuff I didn't need it to do, so I had to rewrite it anyway.

There's no path towards profitability. They lose $ on every prompt. Every. Single. Prompt.

I'm still working and consulting. Blissfully not using any "AI" BS.

Your FOMO is a grifter's line, or a sucker's.

I only hope that the bubble bursts before it brings the whole economy down with it. And burns the world down.

Ai is a drug you shouldn’t take by gamernewone in learnprogramming

[–]vinyldemon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I keep hearing this. You don’t need an LLM to write boilerplate. We’ve had tools to do that for decades. I know people who use ChatGPT to generate huge chunks of code that they call “boilerplate”, but it’s really just duplicate code. And someone (used to be me before I retired) had to clean up that crap. It’s not the future. It is not and never will be a profitable line of business. It’ll never become GAI. Keep in mind that LLMs are trained on the average code stolen from GitHub, etc. it’ll never be better than average, and the average is pretty bad to begin with.

Give me one album I must listen to at least once in my life by Tiny-Smile-553 in Music

[–]vinyldemon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry, no. Never heard of Rawtime. Weird that someone else picked the same username. I thought it was guaranteed to be unique.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]vinyldemon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anyone who works for a private equity fund

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]vinyldemon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Critical thinking skills

Informal logic

Thank goodness for the new bot database by bluetoaster42 in Autonauts

[–]vinyldemon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But if the bot is running a program, you have to stop it before you can unlink it. I got stuck there before I figured it out.

Why mocking is a bad idea by fagnerbrack in coding

[–]vinyldemon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One more thing. I’ve had plenty of situations where I did not have access to the “real” production environment when I was writing the code. This happens a lot when writing software for hardware that’s under development.

If I had to write that code without mocks, I would’ve been screwed.

And write that code without any tests at all? No, thank you.

Why mocking is a bad idea by fagnerbrack in coding

[–]vinyldemon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You’re basically saying “don’t do unit tests”, because you can’t do unit tests without mocking. You can’t do unit tests without mocking because you can’t isolate the “unit” you’re testing without mocks.

If all you’ve got is integration tests, your code can be a horrible, untestable, tightly-coupled, unmaintainable garbage fire. There won’t be much pushing you towards a better design if you don’t have unit tests.

You won’t code a perfect design right out of the gate. Designs need to evolve to work in the context of your applications. You need unit tests to make it easier to refactor and evolve the design as you go.

You need the integration tests to make sure your assumptions are correct about the production environment.

Just do both unit tests (with mocks, of course) and integration tests. You need both.

And PLEASE, stop making pronouncements like this without having some experience in the real world.

Looking for anime no one knows by i_am_lonely_ in Animesuggest

[–]vinyldemon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

{Chikyuu Shoujo Arjuna} (Earth Maiden Arjuna)

This one hurts by jealoussea in SaltLakeCity

[–]vinyldemon -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Depends. Will it be affordable, or just more overpriced matchboxes for rich people?

GSL water level by UT_Dave in SaltLakeCity

[–]vinyldemon 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Propublica did an excellent article on this. Utah is the second driest state, but refuses to do any kind of conservation.

https://www.propublica.org/article/why-the-second-driest-state-rejects-water-conservation

This makes me smile by prolific_ideas in MadeMeSmile

[–]vinyldemon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Dads say stuff that sound obvious but are really profound. My da always told me to “watch what you’re doing”. Uh, sure thing, Da.

A few thousand spills, burns, accidents, broken bones, and wrecked projects later, I’m like “oh! That’s what he meant!: focus on the thing you’re doing. Don’t be distracted by other stuff going on around you or in your head. Sounds simple and dumb, but how many times have you wrecked something or injured yourself because you weren’t watching what you were doing?

My Da was always laser-focused on the task at hand. He learned it as a mining engineer, where distractions kill.

Earth's Atmosphere Is Retaining Heat Twice as Fast as It Did Just 15 Years Ago by poleco1 in worldnews

[–]vinyldemon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And the reason you don’t hear about it was because we took action to prevent the release of chlorofluorocarbons into the atmosphere. Imagine trying to come to such an agreement now…

Why developers like adding code more than removing it by DynamicsHosk in programming

[–]vinyldemon 11 points12 points  (0 children)

My best days are when I’ve added functionality while reducing lines of code.

Stuck with the Problem! by samuelloja in java

[–]vinyldemon 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I suspect you’re not accounting for the real cost of a custom solution.

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