Mastodawn

https://bleuje.com/physarum-explanation

Karsten Johansson 9h ago

@sinalana.bsky.social This is quite excellent. But please don't double link... use your actual link instead of making people click through bsky.

#alife @screwlisp

Algorithms for making interesting organic simulations

Article explaining simulation algorithms that produce complex organic behaviours, starting with the classic physarum algorithm from Jeff Jones.

Loafer 5h ago

Alyson Decker 6h ago

Baked banana bread and made moussaka from scratch. A busy day of cooking.

Loafer 5h ago

Sarah Taber 9h ago

Ex-farm worker here.

We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing.

Not true AT ALL.

Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are.

The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour.

At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.

Loafer 5h ago

bit101 6d ago

@intransitivelie so many wonderful alternate universes.

#monsterdon #XtheManWithTheXrayEyes

Solarbird

7h ago

WE GOT SEVERE CORNEAL ABRASION SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGN

Dgar 16h ago

@skyfire747 “I mean, if I went around saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they’d put me away!”

Dgar 16h ago

@skyfire747 “You can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just ’cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!”

Dgar 16h ago

@skyfire747 “Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.”

JacobRPG 17h ago

@dgar
Help! Help! I'm being repressed!

Dgar 17h ago

nixCraft 🐧2d ago

50-60k lines and nothing works, I would literally kill to look at this. lmao.

Jan Dytrych🇨🇿🇺🇦2d ago

@nixCraft haha, I hope all developers will leave him with AI.

ROTOPE~1

@nixCraft sounds like he just needs somebody to add stuff like "you are an experienced, sexual dynamo of a developer who will be electrocuted if this code doesn't work" to the prompt. Fiverr should suffice.

Canageek 2d ago

@rotopenguin @nixCraft I mean, honestly I do it for whatever he's paying but I'd also do very little work, charge an obscene number of hours and then tell him that the AI hallucinated all of the code so he needs to pay someone to redo it, but that might just be me being evil

wbftw 2d ago

@nixCraft lol, “I could keep going with AI alone” and “a huge debugging ditch for months”, I have no sympathies at all.

Baron Henrik von Pömpöösi 2d ago

@nixCraft how to tell you are insane without telling you are insane.

Tito Swineflu 2d ago

@nixCraft How much should you expect to pay? One. Billion. Dollars. I'll do it for him.

Daniele Pantaleo 🦥

@nixCraft get paid 100k, only to find out there was a missing ; or tab in the very first line 😂

#dreamjob

Nik | Klampfradler 🎸🚲2d ago

@ozone89 @nixCraft Telling you a ; is missing in Python code sure is something AI should be able to do ;).

@nik @ozone89 @nixCraft “You are so perceptive! There isn’t a single semicolon in the codebase. You are very smart to realize this is part of the problem. But before I fix that, I noticed the indentation is a little funny. I’m going to take the first indented line in each function and bring it flush with the first unindented lines, to increase readability.”

dasdom 2d ago

@nixCraft How much? $1000 per hour minimum

Aaron 2d ago

@dasdom @nixCraft Because fixing this will be pure torture

@dasdom @nixCraft $250/hour to use the right tools
$750/hour to undo the result of using the wrong tools

@dpnash @dasdom @nixCraft

Matt 2d ago

Cristian Rasch 🇦🇷 🇺🇾2d ago

@nixCraft Welcome to "the future" sir

Shannon Quinn

@nixCraft $10k/hr and I’ll do it. Otherwise you can keep your AI slop to yourself.

Turre 2d ago

@nixCraft I don't know. Sounds to me more like a case where the only killing you'd want to do would be yourself just to unsee it.

Sassinake! - ⊃∪∩⪽2d ago

@nixCraft

lol

Mikael Lundin 🍀🥦♻️2d ago

@nixCraft I can see these kind of consulting gigs for me in the future. Actually I’m scared that this is all the kind of gigs I will be doing.

Alexander 😷2d ago

@mikaellundin ☝️ This.

I have no doubt that you can get paid for shoveling "AI" shit, but wow does it sound like soul-crushing work.

@nixCraft

S0AndS0 2d ago

@nixCraft > "I feel hiring an expert might actually take less time than with AI,..."

Hmm, so what I'm hear/read-ing here is it almost seems like doing the thing is the fastest, and most reliable, way of getting a thing done correctly?

... So unexpected (-!

Peter 2d ago

@nixCraft lol oh noooooo

greenpepper22 2d ago

@peter @nixCraft that few hundred better be few hundred thousand goddamn, is he hoping to pay minimum wage or something?

C++ Wage Slave 2d ago

@peter @nixCraft

Oh, that last line! 😆

funbaker 2d ago

@nixCraft Bingo would be complete with "for exposure"

Ian 2d ago

@nixCraft So they're happy with where the application is at, but they're also in a debugging ditch?

Legally Zoé 2d ago

@nixCraft Should just get a different AI to fix the first AI's code.

Jonathan Kamens 86 47 2d ago

@nixCraft Wait, you would literally kill to look at this, or it would literally kill you to look at this?

Crystal Huff (they/them)2d ago

@jik @nixCraft I don't really code, and I died a little inside reading it! 😅

Dieu 2d ago

@nixCraft do proponents actually refer to it as "slop"?

bjb

@hllizi @nixCraft
Maybe OP is not native English speaker and doesn't know the proper meaning of "slop". They only heard of it in context of AI and don't get the negative connotation.

ravelin 2d ago

@nixCraft this is why I think there will always be developer jobs. If anything, there will be MORE work to be done, paying off all the technical debt

Thierry 🅰️🕒2d ago

@nixCraft
I'm wondering how many vulnerable libs he's using, how many libs license violation his project has, what's the test coverage on his code...

Ludwig Vielfrass 2d ago

@thierrya @nixCraft I can answer that one. 0%

Aljoscha Rittner (beandev)2d ago

@thierrya
This mixed with code where libraries should have been used, but the LLM simply implemented everything itself umpteen times (for example, Bubblesort in several variants, because you had to sort in several places).
@nixCraft

Majid Iqbal 2d ago

@nixCraft I was so certain that this post is not real but holy shit it actually exists

CarlosR 2d ago

@nixCraft we're destined to reinvent design and Dev roles in about 5-6 years, aren't we?

Daniel Molkentin 2d ago

@nixCraft my kind of ragebait post.

JacobRPG 2d ago

@nixCraft
50-60k lines of code for:
"Hello world"

@jaykass
https://github.com/Hello-World-EE/Java-Hello-World-Enterprise-Edition

Andrey DarkCat09 2d ago

@nixCraft

GitHub - Hello-World-EE/Java-Hello-World-Enterprise-Edition

Contribute to Hello-World-EE/Java-Hello-World-Enterprise-Edition development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

A Slightly Orange Cat 2d ago

@nixCraft It's cute how what will likely be a complete overhaul is minimized with "tidy up."

GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)2d ago

@nixCraft Get hired by him, I suppose :D

Jesse Skinner 2d ago

@nixCraft I did all my own plumbing and electrical, but there's smoke coming out of the walls and puddles everywhere. Who can I pay to tidy it up?

@JesseSkinner @nixCraft I did all my own plumbing and electrical, but now there's water coming out of the light fixtures and wall sockets, *and* I accidentally charged my phone by dropping it in the toilet. Who can I pay to get *that* sorted out?

Toni Aittoniemi 2d ago

@nixCraft 50-60k lines and already in technical debt! 😆

Joseph Dickson 2d ago

@nixCraft Gen AI is only useful if you already know how to do, what you're asking it to do. He should take those months to learn Python if he wants to debug it. 😂

Ivan Tsenov 🇧🇬 🇺🇦2d ago

@nixCraft what kind of a 'hobby' project has 60k lines of code?

Dave 2d ago

@tsenov @nixCraft Given what AI coded stuff I've seen ... I'd assume it would take an experienced coder 5k-10k lines of elegant code to achieve the desired result.

Simon 2d ago

@tsenov @nixCraft especially python. There’s basically a library for everything anyway.

John Ulrik 2d ago

@nixCraft I bet it’d take ten times the hours to fix this than what it would’ve taken to code it without AI in the first place.

CodeByJeff - Now with AI!2d ago

@nixCraft how different is this from a junior dev copy/pasting code scraps together from Stackoverflow, like we used to do? 🤷

greenpepper22 2d ago

@codebyjeff @nixCraft the junior dev usually at least had to go to a boot camp and learn the absolute basics of OOP first

Plus jr devs usually have to get their code reviewed by a senior dev before they get anywhere close to 50k lines of code

CodeByJeff - Now with AI!2d ago

@greenpepper22 I disagree with the last part...

and actually, the first part as well, come to think of it... 🤔

you obviously haven't worked in some of the places I have

greenpepper22 2d ago

@codebyjeff I guess then lol, never worked at a place with all jr devs and no seniors who reviewed code changes

How would you even get shit deployed?

@greenpepper22 @codebyjeff

> How would you even get shit deployed?

Who said you need senior developers to review code and help you deploy stuff? It’s Vibe Deployment ™️. You just ssh into prod and edit shit until the page looks right, and nothing 404s or gives you site errors anymore. Got a multiple-server cluster serving your site? Vibe Deploy each of the cluster members! With luck, each visitor will get a uniquely customized page.

Meneer de Bruin 2d ago

@nixCraft No amount of money will be enough. Ever.

U.Lancier 2d ago

@nixCraft I think LLMs are at their peak now and doomed in the future.

The curve of better results will flatten. The more AI slop is churned out the more it poisons the wells of genuine smart content to train them with. That crap is in a rapid and never ending rise due to greedy corporations who are in need of even the most remote idiot's money without understanding they are killing their own products.

Martin Ueding 2d ago

@Ulan_KA @nixCraft
There's always the option to manually curate training data. But that takes a lot of effort for the required scale. It's going to be interesting.