The old calculator I just found in the desk, a canon HS-1000TG, does do the operations as you enter them.

Entering 3+3x2= returns 12

Today I leaned on whatever android calculator app I have, if you type 3+3x2 it does return 9. I didn’t think it was that sophisticated, and thought it just evaluated left to right like an old time calculator. Or at least, I think that’s how my old calculator worked.

I’m still very happy with Linux. Microsoft can fuck off.

I don’t think “the market” is good at directing companies to make good products. Maybe we shouldn’t rely on it so much.

Yeah. I’ve seen some players’ ideas. Players are, on average, idiots.

I’m reminded of when players want to add critical miss effects to DND. “I added critical misses to my DND game! On a natural one really bad things happen! Like you drop your sword!” -> “But fighters make way more attacks, right?” -> “yeah” -> “so they’re going to critically miss a lot more” -> “…yeah” -> “so a fighter making four attacks a round has a 18% chance of dropping their sword every round” -> “…what?”

I have money. I usually just tip 20% of the total. Usually I’ll round up. Like I was just at a bar and the total for 2 drinks and some food was $33. I tipped $7.

If it’s a place I go to regularly I’ll tip more. My regular bar sometimes throws in free stuff, and let me reserve some tables recently, so I usually tip generously there.

Mayor Greg Bozzo said other big industrial projects have been approved in the same manner over the years, but didn’t cause any uproar.

“It didn’t bother them that a food-distribution center came to Gilroy without their engagement, but now it bothers them that a data center is coming to Gilroy without them having the possibility of engagement,” Bozzo said.

Nomitive determinism: he is a real fucking bozo. All these fucks need to be gone.

Again, we’re circling the question “why learn anything?” I seen to have as an assumption that it’s worth it for its own sake more often than you do.

Yes. I’ve been saying for years that electric cars and self driving cars are solving the wrong problem. The problem is if I need a car to get groceries. The problem is I’m not safe on the street because of all the cars.

People who have never lived someplace that doesn’t need a car are very eager to tell you how it won’t work, though.

Happily using Linux at home. Played some elden ring today, and the original fallout last week. Did some writing in libre office. It’s fine. And free. I never have to tinker with it.

Why then would I have done this manually in a week when the AI did it better in an hour and $5?

Some reasons may include

• once you have the skills, it won’t take a week
• once you have the skills, you learn them. They’re yours, not rented
• you are better able to make changes to it
• you can be much more confident it doesn’t have any horrible issues like exposing keys in plain text
• less odds of other issues, like redundant or strange code

Some of this comes down to “why bother learning anything?”

I don’t know what your dashboard does. I made a simple display at an old job that showed some stats about new user signups. It took like an hour or two, and I’d never used the particular front end library before.

Edit: lines of code is a poor metric* but even so 20k seems like a lot

*For example, the difference between

function add(a, b) { 
  return a + b;
}

and

const add = (a,b) => a + b

How much web development experience do you personally have? Like, from before AI tooling?

Once your website is more complicated than a static marketing site, I don’t think AI is going to do it better. Some of the problems, like slopsquatting might be around for a long time. Possibly forever.

And the code itself is incapable of causing issues, it’s just markdown/css.

…what?

However even for high-quality code, if you look at benchmarks the top models produce higher quality code than the majority of devs.

Doing the wrong thing faster is not an improvement.

At least AI has the decency to include comments.

From what I’ve seen of AI comments, it’s not really helpful. It’s illusionionary confidence.

As for losing understanding of our code, I agree but I suppose it’s the price to pay for productivity.

That’s very expensive technical debt, or a massive de-skilling of labor.

Do you own a business? If you don’t, why would you dig your own grave here?

Conservatives don’t care about truth or consistency. It’s just in-group loyalty and out-group hostility.

If you accuse them of being hypocrites, it won’t land because to them they aren’t. They have maintained in-group loyalty the whole time.

I’ve had cases where I’ve moved the needle. Got someone to move from “I hate communism!!” to “I see where you’re coming from. Capitalism has problems, I admit”.

For some people, you need to let them feel heard and avoid being too antagonistic.

Some people are just trolls, though.

If your AI use is counter productive, then it’s probably either because the scenario doesn’t benefit from AI or because you’re using it wrong.

It’s harder to review code than to write it. Humans are kind of of lazy, and when we see code that looks generally correct we skim. We lose focus.

So if someone uses AI to generate a lot of code, it’s hard to review. If we just trust it, we lose knowledge of how our system works. If we spend the time reviewing it, that’s harder than just doing it ourselves. This is true at any scale, but the more you use it the worse it gets.

Maybe you consider using AI for code generation “using it wrong”. If so, please tell it to management at my job who are frothing at the mouth over the idea.

If you disagree that humans don’t notice problems, did you see the mistake I added in this post? Maybe you did! But most people wouldn’t.

Even if that wasn’t a problem, de-skilling is definitely a problem long term. If the AI did produce flawless code, after a few months of using it you’d start losing the ability to code yourself. Counter productive. Unless you’re management, and don’t care about your laborers.

Vaguely insulting to factory workers, first.

Second, much of the AI use is counter productive. Some of it is metrics chasing.

I really appreciate written words over video.

That post made me angry at how stupid the built environment is in most places.

Many people are terrified of being uncomfortable and confrontation

What an incredibly idiotic thing to do! Both of them thought it was okay to trust the lie machine with their lives! Darwin award candidates.

They don’t say things because they believe them to be true. They say things for the effect they want it to have. They lie. Or maybe just bullshit, because they don’t care about truth at all.