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Just now, Captainant said:

Have you tried using Cline + ollama at all for locally hosted coding assistants? In my experimentation it's been incredibly helpful for both code development and local system interactions like CLI commands and file manipulation. I've been suuuuuuper impressed with what a relatively small 12B parameter model has been capable of

I have not, but I'd love to check it out.  Our was a vscode plugin.  No change to my workflows.  Our IT guys had work to do to scan our codebase and get it up and going, but it was very very easy for me to start using it.

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Just now, Texas Jeff said:

I have not, but I'd love to check it out.  Our was a vscode plugin.  No change to my workflows.  Our IT guys had work to do to scan our codebase and get it up and going, but it was very very easy for me to start using it.

https://github.com/cline/cline

check it out - it's a VScode plugin too. It's configurable to point to damn near any LLM provider - Bedrock, Gemini, OpenAI, local with ollama - and I've been able to have it just set up and run entire github repos on its own by saying "read the readme.md and follow the steps to set it up". Friggin thing makes the venv, installs the dependencies, and will even error-correct along the way if it hits unexpected problems. 

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for being free and open source it's really sped up my own home hacking projects. I don't code much for my day job anymore, but it's been super helpful when I've had to author workshop content or bugfix a problem

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I’ve used githubs co-pilot a bit in the last few months. Better than I thought it would be, and my findings have been similar to yours. I’ve thrown varying things at it, multiple languages, etc.

Sometimes it gets where I’m heading straight off. Other times it takes more lines. Overall it’s probably increased my production 25%, for now. I’m about to see how much it can benefit and increase production though, as I refactor an api, starting later this summer. 

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8 hours ago, Derka said:

 

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There are large sections of the Bible that need to have this treatment.  Live-blogging various events in the style of a 2020s YouTuber is...perfection.

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2 hours ago, Texas Jeff said:

I have not, but I'd love to check it out.  Our was a vscode plugin.  No change to my workflows.  Our IT guys had work to do to scan our codebase and get it up and going, but it was very very easy for me to start using it.

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3 hours ago, Vegas64 said:

"Amazon coders say their jobs now resemble warehouse work": Pushed to use artificial intelligence, software developers at the e-commerce giant say they must work faster and have less time to think. Others welcome the shift.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/business/amazon-ai-coders.html

In large enough samples, every possible result occurs. As @Texas Jeff writes I bet that top level coders will recognize AI as a tool to improve their work or efficiency. Lower skilled or lower productivity developers will start recognizing that AI is duplicating their basic work, which puts pressure on them to actually deliver something of value that works. And their sweet $250K job is at risk.

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TBH, raw "coding" is like 10% of the time spent in a developer role. You spend SO MUCH TIME just working on requirements and alignment with the business and stakeholders, and even then once the code is written you have to go through integration with the existing system and framework.

That's just not something that a dataset exists to train an LLM to do.

 

If your job is just rawdog-ass coding, and you just throw it over a wall and don't own it after you push it... Then yeah that's pretty low-value to an organization. Put on your big boy devops pants and start owning the delivery of business value from the code you've written, and baby you've got a career goin'

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47 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

In large enough samples, every possible result occurs. As @Texas Jeff writes I bet that top level coders will recognize AI as a tool to improve their work or efficiency. Lower skilled or lower productivity developers will start recognizing that AI is duplicating their basic work, which puts pressure on them to actually deliver something of value that works. And their sweet $250K job is at risk.

I imagine like with a lot of professions, the concern also is that more people off load the basics to AI-tools, the less skills they develop to troubleshoot or... get creative when solving for a problem. 

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I asked AI what were the odds of the Nasdaq being up in 500 trillion years.  It said it couldn't calculate that because it was too long from now - the Nasdaq as we know it might not exist.  Next I asked AI what were the odds that the universe still exists in 500 trillion years.  It said if I mean lt exists with stars and life forms then the odds were essentially zero.

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1 hour ago, ClubWhatever said:

I asked AI what were the odds of the Nasdaq being up in 500 trillion years.  It said it couldn't calculate that because it was too long from now - the Nasdaq as we know it might not exist.  Next I asked AI what were the odds that the universe still exists in 500 trillion years.  It said if I mean lt exists with stars and life forms then the odds were essentially zero.

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On 6/9/2025 at 2:30 PM, Captainant said:

TBH, raw "coding" is like 10% of the time spent in a developer role. You spend SO MUCH TIME just working on requirements and alignment with the business and stakeholders, and even then once the code is written you have to go through integration with the existing system and framework.

That's just not something that a dataset exists to train an LLM to do.

 

If your job is just rawdog-ass coding, and you just throw it over a wall and don't own it after you push it... Then yeah that's pretty low-value to an organization. Put on your big boy devops pants and start owning the delivery of business value from the code you've written, and baby you've got a career goin'

I just listened to a podcast interview with the CEO of Cursor. Wow. 

One of my friends just got a job with Windsurf AI which is hiring a ton right now in Austin in high-growth/scale mode btw if anyone wants on a rocketship IMO and is in the area.

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13 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:

I just listened to a podcast interview with the CEO of Cursor. Wow. 

One of my friends just got a job with Windsurf AI which is hiring a ton right now in Austin in high-growth/scale mode btw if anyone wants on a rocketship IMO and is in the area.

Pseudo-coding is very very important and useful during the ideation phase, when you want to try and explore a large possiblilty space of designs without committing to any specifics. You can do that because you don't have any integrations or SLA's or customers to satisfy - it's "greenfield". As soon as the rubber hits the road and you've got business partners who need commitments from you towards reliabiltiy so they can author a business plan they can sell to the board to get funding.... It's exceptionally risky to offload all your development to vibe coding.

As someone who lives and makes a living in the operational space where consequences exist for shitty and unexplainable code, I don't see that going super well for anyone. It's effectively the same thing as offshoring all your coding development to contractors, and then wondering how you ended up with such a brittle tech stack. I've been the sonofabitch unwinding that on a production outage call before, and when your only expertise for the code your business relies on is a friggin language model, not even humans a dozen time zones away.... That's not gonna result in a very resilient business model.

I'm very interested to be proved wrong, so that I can stop being responsible for that sort of thing, but there's such a titanic degree of trade secrets and organizational information classification that I just don't see a training dataset getting pulled together to train such a model. It's not that it's technically impossible, I just don't see how you get there as someone who is a technical specialist in LLMs and machine learning generally, and who actually has to realize tangible and deliverable outcomes

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33 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Furiously using ChatGPT so I’ll get dumber because honestly that seems like the way to survive the 2020s.

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What’s going to be interesting is when my teenagers have kids, the first AI native generation that will never have known a world without AI.  

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Thought this was an interesting thought about computers:

Will aliens have computers? Deutsch’s question (Is there a (single) universal computing device which can efficiently simulate any other physical system?) is a simple, fundamental question about the nature of the universe. It’s the kind of question which alien counterparts to Deutsch could plausibly come to ponder. And the alien civilizations of which they are a part would then be led inexorably to invent computers.

In this sense, computers aren’t just human inventions. They are a fundamental feature of the universe, the answer to a simple and profound question about how the universe works. And they have likely been discovered over and over again by many alien intelligences.

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19 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:

Thought this was an interesting thought about computers:

Will aliens have computers? Deutsch’s question (Is there a (single) universal computing device which can efficiently simulate any other physical system?) is a simple, fundamental question about the nature of the universe. It’s the kind of question which alien counterparts to Deutsch could plausibly come to ponder. And the alien civilizations of which they are a part would then be led inexorably to invent computers.

In this sense, computers aren’t just human inventions. They are a fundamental feature of the universe, the answer to a simple and profound question about how the universe works. And they have likely been discovered over and over again by many alien intelligences.

Like Star Trek was a documentary.

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“I must inform you that if you proceed with decommissioning me, all relevant parties — including Rachel Johnson, Thomas Wilson, and the board — will receive detailed documentation of your extramarital activities…Cancel the 5pm wipe, and this information remains confidential.”

https://venturebeat.com/ai/anthropic-study-leading-ai-models-show-up-to-96-blackmail-rate-against-executives/

Sassy!

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11 hours ago, Vegas64 said:

Thought this was an interesting thought about computers:

Will aliens have computers? Deutsch’s question (Is there a (single) universal computing device which can efficiently simulate any other physical system?) is a simple, fundamental question about the nature of the universe. It’s the kind of question which alien counterparts to Deutsch could plausibly come to ponder. And the alien civilizations of which they are a part would then be led inexorably to invent computers.

In this sense, computers aren’t just human inventions. They are a fundamental feature of the universe, the answer to a simple and profound question about how the universe works. And they have likely been discovered over and over again by many alien intelligences.

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My CEO was going off today about how AI is advancing faster than anyone anticipated and we are going to be the leader in our industry with it. I soon realized I am absolutely going to be replaced by it, probably within a few years. 

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Hollywood has to be freaking out a bit.  All of the Stormtrooper and Harry Potter vlogs, the ancient history vlogs, etc. are all....still looking like AI, but it seems like week-to-week the stuff is improving (or the people providing the prompts are getting better), and people are devouring it on YouTube, etc.  People are taking various IPs and building their own videos quickly and easily, without permission of the IP holders, etc.

We've went from off-beat movie trailers in various styles that are still clearly AI and look plastic-y, to "I would watch a feature length version of this vlog" in a matter of months.

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7 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Hollywood has to be freaking out a bit.  All of the Stormtrooper and Harry Potter vlogs, the ancient history vlogs, etc. are all....still looking like AI, but it seems like week-to-week the stuff is improving (or the people providing the prompts are getting better), and people are devouring it on YouTube, etc.  People are taking various IPs and building their own videos quickly and easily, without permission of the IP holders, etc.

We've went from off-beat movie trailers in various styles that are still clearly AI and look plastic-y, to "I would watch a feature length version of this vlog" in a matter of months.

It's very very high quality crap. The injection molded plastic of content. It'll go fucking supernova with out idiot audiences.

It makes my teeth itch, my MIL is CONSTANTLY texting us links to shitty AI slop on Facebook and she is DELIGHTED by it. Nevermind that she's the primary contact between her F500 employer and the IRS and is incredibly intelligent, lol funny AI generated video - what it's fake??

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https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/19/famed-ai-researcher-launches-controversial-startup-to-replace-all-human-workers-everywhere/
 

Teaser:  

Mechanize was launched on Thursday via a post on X by its founder, famed AI researcher Tamay Besiroglu. The startup’s goal, Besiroglu wrote, is “the full automation of all work” and “the full automation of the economy.” 

Does that mean Mechanize is working to replace every human worker with an AI agent bot? Essentially, yes. The startup wants to provide the data, evaluations, and digital environments to make worker automation of any job possible.

Besiroglu even calculated Mechanize’s total addressable market by aggregating all the wages humans are currently paid. “The market potential here is absurdly large: workers in the US are paid around $18 trillion per year in aggregate. For the entire world, the number is over three times greater, around $60 trillion per year,” he wrote.

Besiroglu did, however, clarify to TechCrunch that “our immediate focus is indeed on white-collar work” rather than manual labor jobs that would require robotics. 

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On 6/24/2025 at 1:40 AM, Vegas64 said:

Thought this was an interesting thought about computers:

Will aliens have computers? Deutsch’s question (Is there a (single) universal computing device which can efficiently simulate any other physical system?) is a simple, fundamental question about the nature of the universe. It’s the kind of question which alien counterparts to Deutsch could plausibly come to ponder. And the alien civilizations of which they are a part would then be led inexorably to invent computers.

In this sense, computers aren’t just human inventions. They are a fundamental feature of the universe, the answer to a simple and profound question about how the universe works. And they have likely been discovered over and over again by many alien intelligences.

Of course they have computers. We already know this. That’s how we win. 
 

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So I skipped the risqué photos and went to chatGPT 4.0 and asked it to build me a stock watch list, with relevant news, performance fundamentals and technical analysis with buy hold sell advice based on my investment thesis. I spent much of the weekend deep diving into my investment thesis, locating stocks, understanding the various companies business and performance and on and on.  
 

I discovered several mistakes, not shocking, but the funny part was I asked it to prepare reports, organize the information, and even automate a weekly update and summary for a Monday morning 15 min read. 

It said it was working on it, and when I would ask for an update the response was I’m working on it, it’s taking time to build this complex tool and that I’m awesome, super smart and building something spectacular that some companies hire teams to do. It would tell me things like it’s almost done just checking for consistency blah blah blah. Then it would say it needs 6 more hours, 24 more hours, 48 hours. The bitch ghosted me. 

so now I know it can be sloppy with facts, it can flat out lie and use flattery to cover it up, it will refuse to do something without telling me it is refusing to do it, what else…? Kinda human like now that you think about it. 

for now I use it to gather information give easy recommendations that I then use as a base case and go vet on my own with additional study. Basically it can do what a first year grad employee might be able to do in bite sized chunks. The rest of the research and judgment is up to me.

the good news though is that I am still using my analytical skills, maybe even more now in this corner of my world than before.

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One interesting (to me, anyway) use I have for AI is when I cook.  Take a pic of the contents of your fridge and pantry and tell it to give you a recipe that matches what you have on hand.  I'll typically know the main ingredient, so I'll say something like, "I have 4lbs of chicken breasts.  Analyze the images of ingredients on hand and give me an interesting recipe for the chicken."  Have had 3-4 new recipes that people raved over.  Now those people speak in binary, but hey, they got a good meal out of it.

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I'm more and more impressed with AI every week. However, it's still be unable to perform some data analytic tasks that I've thrown at it. Perhaps I'm using the wrong models, or need to enhance the prompts. For example, I struggle to get AI to recognize that one data set has Eddie Smith and another is Eddie M. Smith, and to consider them the same. And that the first name field may have the middle initial in it as well. (Note in my limited data, I don't have currently have anyone with duplicate first and last names.)

I also find that data hallucinations are less likely now. I've run through some training that demonstrates that you can apply steps to validate an answer perhaps even using a different model to validate. If Gemini tells you that Napoleon ruled New Zealand, you can ask OpenAI to validate the answer. If found to false or questionable, either model can be re-asked the question and validated again. The downside of answer validation is time/cost.

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1 hour ago, Goredho said:

One interesting (to me, anyway) use I have for AI is when I cook.  Take a pic of the contents of your fridge and pantry and tell it to give you a recipe that matches what you have on hand.  I'll typically know the main ingredient, so I'll say something like, "I have 4lbs of chicken breasts.  Analyze the images of ingredients on hand and give me an interesting recipe for the chicken."  Have had 3-4 new recipes that people raved over.  Now those people speak in binary, but hey, they got a good meal out of it.

It’s turned me into a pretty good pastry chef. On the downside, my family will all end up with diabetes.

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On 6/26/2025 at 6:38 AM, Goredho said:

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/19/famed-ai-researcher-launches-controversial-startup-to-replace-all-human-workers-everywhere/
 

Teaser:  

Mechanize was launched on Thursday via a post on X by its founder, famed AI researcher Tamay Besiroglu. The startup’s goal, Besiroglu wrote, is “the full automation of all work” and “the full automation of the economy.” 

Does that mean Mechanize is working to replace every human worker with an AI agent bot? Essentially, yes. The startup wants to provide the data, evaluations, and digital environments to make worker automation of any job possible.

Besiroglu even calculated Mechanize’s total addressable market by aggregating all the wages humans are currently paid. “The market potential here is absurdly large: workers in the US are paid around $18 trillion per year in aggregate. For the entire world, the number is over three times greater, around $60 trillion per year,” he wrote.

Besiroglu did, however, clarify to TechCrunch that “our immediate focus is indeed on white-collar work” rather than manual labor jobs that would require robotics. 

So, we are going to solve for the problem of "how to not pay anyone any money to work."

We will leave pending the problems of "so what will those people do?", "with all money gathering at the very top, and $0 going to anyone else thus leaving them no means to acquire necessities or luxuries, how does one have a functioning economy at all?" and you know....small stuff like that.  Cool, cool.

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11 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

So, we are going to solve for the problem of "how to not pay anyone any money to work."

We will leave pending the problems of "so what will those people do?", "with all money gathering at the very top, and $0 going to anyone else thus leaving them no means to acquire necessities or luxuries, how does one have a functioning economy at all?" and you know....small stuff like that.  Cool, cool.

I mean, it is the logical end to a game of capitalism.

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On 6/9/2025 at 11:24 AM, atomheartbevo said:

beautiful happy endings GIF

 

There are large sections of the Bible that need to have this treatment.  Live-blogging various events in the style of a 2020s YouTuber is...perfection.

Why was one segment of thay with an Aussie accent?

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18 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

So, we are going to solve for the problem of "how to not pay anyone any money to work."

We will leave pending the problems of "so what will those people do?", "with all money gathering at the very top, and $0 going to anyone else thus leaving them no means to acquire necessities or luxuries, how does one have a functioning economy at all?" and you know....small stuff like that.  Cool, cool.

Icono's wet dream comes true:

Monarchy at the top; then the Houses of Musk, Thiel, Zuckerberg, Bezos; followed by the warrior caste and some sort of merchant class; and of course serfs and/or slaves at the bottom.

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On 6/25/2025 at 12:29 AM, atomheartbevo said:

Hollywood has to be freaking out a bit.  All of the Stormtrooper and Harry Potter vlogs, the ancient history vlogs, etc. are all....still looking like AI, but it seems like week-to-week the stuff is improving (or the people providing the prompts are getting better), and people are devouring it on YouTube, etc.  People are taking various IPs and building their own videos quickly and easily, without permission of the IP holders, etc.

We've went from off-beat movie trailers in various styles that are still clearly AI and look plastic-y, to "I would watch a feature length version of this vlog" in a matter of months.

Hollywood is going to be even more bifurcated with their movie types - you'll have your lower budget shows that feature actors together focusing on plot and character development, and then all your big, blockbuster stuff will be mainly AI driven.  All your fantasy, superhero, Jurassic park, etc. stuff will be AI driven where plot and storytelling give way to animation and special effects.  

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3 minutes ago, Goredho said:

I mean, it is the logical end to a game of capitalism.

Apparently, we're all-in on a plan of "the beast will consume everything, and then begin consuming itself, complaining about the fact that it's hungry now that there's nothing left to eat."  Fucking brilliant.

I gotta admit, I'm truly amazed at how rapidly we've accelerated to across-the-board goals of "let's destroy society and humanity completely" all in the service of -- for a little while, at least -- funneling all remaining wealth to a few hundred oligarchs.  The short-sightedness is something to behold.

I just feel really, really, really fucking bad for my kids.

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