Mastodawn

Thought of this today

https://sh.itjust.works/post/57878468

Thought of this today - sh.itjust.works

OK, it would still be immensely stupid, a waste of resources and land, and probably not even work properly at all - but for a moment, imagine if devs/companies used ai to optimize their games/software/websites. That seems like something it should be used for, if we were in a Star Trek universe. Anyway back to reality, here’s your ad for SlopCoke!

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Tahl_eN 1d ago

Optimization is the kind of thankless annoying task that it would be great to put a robot on. But it’s also usually as much an art as a science, so an LLM would struggle to do it right, or at all. You could use an LLM to comb through a bunch of data and give suggestions of common bottlenecks or performance spikes, if you had a good way to generate and collect that data at scale.

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very_well_lost

thankless annoying task

I’m probably just a masochist, but I’ve always been the kind of dev who loves working on optimization problems. In that sense, I suppose the AI bubble has been a real boon for me, since now there’s far more messy, inefficient code out there than even before…