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vehemenz
·지난달·discuss
No offense, but serious developers don’t think this way at all.
vehemenz
·지난달·discuss
This comment has me a bit confused.

Consumers were complaining about the standard 8GB with the early 2020 refresh of MacBook Pros, many OSes ago. Sure, it might be workable for many tasks (as evidenced by the recent sales of the MacBook Neo), but users with a mere 8GB shouldn't have expectations of LLM performance. Even 16GB feels like a stretch.
vehemenz
·2개월 전·discuss
A few counterpoints:

Treating markup and styles separately is great, in principle, but you'll always need additional markup for certain things. We knew this going back to the early 2000s.

There is nothing about Tailwind itself that forces you to use divs and spans instead of the appropriate HTML tag.

Documents and interfaces are different. Tailwind makes a lot more sense for interfaces. You can use Tailwind for the interface and scoped HTML selectors for other content.

Tailwind is around 4x faster and has practically no overhead compared to writing a complex CSS codebase. Whatever you think of it, this is always a benefit in its corner.
vehemenz
·2개월 전·discuss
There are Harvard professors who believe in the supernatural, I'm sure.
vehemenz
·2개월 전·discuss
Such people already know it's not aliens, though.
vehemenz
·2개월 전·discuss
These are informal fallacies, so logic’s not at issue here. Though you whiffed on your accusation.
vehemenz
·2개월 전·discuss
That's quite the straw man you've constructed, which I suppose is appropriate for a Burning Man thread.
vehemenz
·2개월 전·discuss
I'm not the arbiter on all things Godwin's Law, but either way the analogy doesn't work.
vehemenz
·2개월 전·discuss
Ok, why Brave though? There's Safari, Chromium, LibreWolf, Ladybird, and plenty of others.
vehemenz
·2개월 전·discuss
The problem of calling what most of us do "engineering" predates LLMs by a good 15-20 years.
vehemenz
·2개월 전·discuss
I would only add one caveat to this:

Code that is organized well and operates coherently in the first place, by an LLM or not, will be easier to iterate on, by an LLM or not.
vehemenz
·2개월 전·discuss
There's some of that, but more often it's developers whose arguments are a year behind the frontier models or, just as common, they're dramatically overstating their abilities.

It's an inherent tension that every discipline has to wrestle with. The most experienced developers are in the best position to evaluate where LLMs are, but those who are the loudest about their own abilities generally aren't in this camp. Humility tends to come with experience, and arrogance tends to come with inexperience.
vehemenz
·2개월 전·discuss
It's an astute observation but overstated. There are just as many programmers who view their activity as too sacred to consider using an LLM, even for relatively easy, predictable, or disposable work.
vehemenz
·2개월 전·discuss
Uno reverse. What kind of limited project experience would lead anyone to think that there isn't an enormous continuum between code difficulty and organizational problems in the space of software development?
vehemenz
·2개월 전·discuss
If you're willing to reduce metaphysical questions to definitions (which I'm basically on board with), then the stakes aren't that high in the first place, so we should carry on using "consciousness" in its everyday sense because there's no precious reason to avoid it.
vehemenz
·2개월 전·discuss
If your criterion holds for spyware merely developed in a state, then that commits you not working in the US or UK as well. Something to think about.

Putting that aside, my moral positions about Israel are rooted in the righteousness of the Jews' cause and their historical struggle. My personal self-righteousness is inadequate in comparison.
vehemenz
·2개월 전·discuss
I wouldn’t lump in Israel in, but good for you.
vehemenz
·2개월 전·discuss
Don't forget MathML and all the other features they gave up on
vehemenz
·2개월 전·discuss
Right, but the LLM can help you practice the skill too. Without the LLM, you're in a self-guided, autodidactical mode. Obviously, that can have its own advantages, but most people—but especially novices—aren't in a position to assess their skill level or their progress. The average person isn't going to magically get better at thinking or writing without formal training, or at least some direction.
vehemenz
·2개월 전·discuss
This is overstated. Not all LLM code is produced the same way. Code produced through substantial human creative input still falls under copyright, at least the way things are now. Besides, nothing legally prevents placing code under a license. Enforceability is the question, not permission.

It's a bit like saying speed limits don't apply on private property, therefore you can't have any traffic rules on your private racetrack.