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Vibe coding is a hobby. Let me explain

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9 points·by dham·vor 6 Monaten·12 comments

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dham
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
My biggest problem with Zed right now is the font rendering doesn't look that good on MacOS. To me Sublime Text always had the best font rendering on Mac. Electron slowly over the years has gotten better and decent now. Zed just doesn't do the font justice. It's too thin or something.
dham
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
Here we go again. Autopilot != FSD. Autopilot is not "autonomous" driving. It's lane keep with adaptive cruise control. The same system that Honda, Toyota, etc have. Yes the naming is wrong, the marketing is bad, but I don't see it as much worse as Toyota safety sense. If you use it to be "safe" you're going swerve off the highway into a ditch. I used super cruise from GM in my friends suv. As soon as lane markers go away on a bridge, I almost hit the railing.

I'll get downvoted but just giving you the facts. I'm glad the Autopilot name has been retired. Such a bad name, but maybe a good name because autopilot in planes can't see and avoid obstacles either.
dham
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
I had bleeding, light red, most likely from hemorrhoids (it was), but had a few other factors that the doctor took it seriously. The insurance didn't cover much as far as I know (or any?). Owed like $1800.
dham
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
Yea good point. My doctor said he would see a non sedated like once every 2 weeks or so. Would be better to go to one that does it more frequently.
dham
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
haha, didn't catch that
dham
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
Yea most of the time it was discomfort but the turns were pretty high up there in pain. But that was only 3 times.
dham
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
North Carolina. And I wasn't actually aware that some doctors wouldn't do until after I had it done (reading about it online). I just called before my appointment to say I didn't need sedation. They said ok and wrote it down. They weren't really pushy during the appointment other than asking me why I didn't want sedation.

I thought it was going to be awkward but wasn't at all. We just chatted. It was him and an assistant. I was able to watch the TV of my colon while he was doing it.
dham
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
They need to lower the screening to 40. I just had mine at 40, turned out fine luckily. Did it without sedation which my doctor said was rare in US, but common outside of US. I found surprising, wasn't that big of a deal. Pain was probably at a 7/10 during the turns (like 3 times) but ok the rest of the time. A little uncomfortable. Some new sensations, some familiar (feeling like you are crapping your pants).

I walked in and walked out no issue and went on about my day. Prep was fine but would be hard if I didn't work at home.
dham
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
Oh sorry: *text predictor that feeds text back into text predictor
dham
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
Ok that's different then. LLM, by definition, can't be AGI. But AGI can be AGI with another technology.
dham
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
AGI? My guy, it's a text predictor slot machine. Very useful tool but will never be AGI.
dham
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
Because people think it's "intelligent" because it's manipulating words and you get people like Andrew Yang and Elon Musk getting one-shotted by it.

Yes, it can solve a lot of things, but an LLM isn't going to put everyone out of work, the thing after the LLM will.
dham
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
At worst, this would only be temporary. Yes, it will cause hardship, but once it trickles down to regular companies, that an LLM is a word predictor, workers will be back. Seems Andrew Yang has never used an LLM to the lengths we do as software developers.

The thing we have to worry about is what's after the LLM.
dham
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
Yes, but it's much worse than that because it makes multiple workspaces essentially unusable. Try them on Windows or any Linux desktop. When a window is also an application it makes handling them much more seemless. Not to mention the animation on Macos (slide or fade) takes multiple seconds, then when it completes it takes 500ms to actually focus. That's if it actually focuses to the right window when switching, which is currently a bug. Been there for years.
dham
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
Mac has always had horrible window management. Made worse because applications and windows are a separate concept. Used to seem clever but in the world of multiple workspaces it's a terrible decision. Now it's even worse trying to manage multiple llms and projects.
dham
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
It's not temporary though. The Covid vaccine push has caused an entire generation to now doubt simple life-saving vaccines. They erased a century of goodwill.
dham
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
To be fair, a lot of doctors were sounding the alarm in 2021 that forcing the Covid shot was going to cause blow back. They said word for word, that we might see the rise of measles and other similar diseases. It's actually very well documented on zdoggmd youtube channel (podcast) during this time. But there were tons of doctors saying the same thing.
dham
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
Then why is the site slower than it was in 2012 on a 2009 Macbook?
dham
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
It's not so much the writing of the code (which I did like), it's the aesthetic of the code. It's solving a problem with the right code and the right amount of code (for now). That's still the case, even with AI writing most of the code. You have to steer it constantly because it has very bad instincts, because most people in the profession aren't good at it, so it has bad training data. Mainly because the "learn to code" movement and people getting into this profession just for the money and not the love. Those people are probably screwed.
dham
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
My car has driven me back and forth with no issues for 6 months now. But yes it's been a long time coming.