Mastodawn

1h ago

@twinkle lol I never talked to clients at most of my steady jobs ever… was several layers between me and them even

1h ago

@twinkle I think I’d be a bad programmer if I didn’t consider all possible solutions I know of to a problem, or acknowledge I may not know how to approach something so it’s good to see if someone else solved this shit back in the 50s rather than half ass it myself (though half assimg it is fine for a demo or w/e)

1h ago

@twinkle I mean I might look in the literature or search for a solution. But an LLM won’t have the context I have for everything.

My take on LLMs is they have their uses but they make way too many errors to be trusted without verification. An example: the idea that you can replace customer service with LLMs is hilarious yet also shows contempt for the customer.

As for concerns of replacing engineers: I got bad news, or is it good news idk. Vibe coding doesn’t work for anything bigger than a toy or demo. It ends up being a mess that usually needs to be rewritten anyway.

There are harmless uses of course. Sure someone might ask Claude for a sorting algorithm. Big fucking deal as long as a human has checked it. Sorting is a solved problem but with solutions aggregated in tons of code and papers scattered all over.

“But what if the AI makes buggy code???” Ohhh you really didn’t use Linux like 10 years ago, did you? Humans make shitty code constantly. It gets fed into LLMs. Why do you think they produce so much slop? It didn’t just invent slop, it just automated its production. lol

All I’m gonna say about the AI debate is if your instant instinct is to assume someone supports turning the world into slop because they have *gasp* a nuanced take or don’t wanna debate AI shit all the time… and your reaction to that is to be an asshole… you should be replaced by an LLM. Not at your job, just as a person, not because I love LLMs but at least the LLM probably won’t issue verbal abuse. I used to joke that asshole users would be replaced with a small shell script. Now we can do better.

@sterophonick you know we have the ugliest least charismatic slimeballs in office, I can’t believe our government is run by like the worst people from 4chan