All that domestic violence that happens on coffee house first dates.

Are we not allowed to talk about an interesting intersection of advertising and politics?

You know this is a discussion board, right? If you didn’t want to discuss, why are you posting?

I didn’t appreciate that my someone had apparently spent a year smoking in my car while I was inside the pizza shop.

putting in the design effort to improve the tools in the ecosystem

They have. The problem is that they generally cause as many problems as they solve. Adding another layer in software is often as harmful as it is helpful.

LLMs are nice in this regard, because they don’t really add another layer, but they do take care of the excessive boilerplate that’s easily understandable.

But… That’s where you’d put this crap. Notepad had one job, and it did it well.

It’ll sometimes do dumb and/or redundant or too complicated shit. Pile up a couple of those and your codebase can get unmaintainable fast.

I find if you give it small chunks and keep an eye on it, it’s great.

I think one of my recent prompts was “Create a procedure that creates an example configuration file with placeholder values. If a config file doesn’t exist on start, give a warning and create the example config.”

It also works great as a replacement for an ORM.

I understand how to turn the results of a select statement into an update statement, but the AI does it a hell of a lot faster.

I find if you give it small enough chunks, it’s easy enough to review. And even if you do have to correct, it’s generally easier to correct than it would be to write it all by hand.

Also applies when the dev could know what they’re doing, but just doesn’t care to.

Tell that to France.

The left is notoriously unarmed

Heh. The left talks about their guns less. They don’t have guns on their Christmas cards with their kids as part of their identity.

But there are plenty of leftists with guns.

Especially this one.

I’m not intending to leave my country to the Nazis.

Well, not voluntarily. There’s a difference.

Yeah, LibreOffice saves in docx. Which is fine as long as you don’t care what it looks like when they open it.

A diy VPN is exactly the disaster scenario of vibe coding.

Hey, let’s play a game. Any time someone says something good, you guys shit all over it.

Wait, did you all start without me?

Habanero is easier than the original post.

Reddit was profitable off of just minimal advertising and Reddit Gold. I’m concerned about video hosting, but I think mastodon and Lemmy can scale just fine.

We have apps for that, and they’re typically a pita. They certainly take longer than just talking through your order.

It’ll go the other way, eventually. Keep the experienced people who are willing to use AI and can handle the more complicated things AI can’t.

But for now they’re just firing people and hoping things still work later. Since research and development both have delayed results, they can celebrate their win immediately and not pay the consequences til later.