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Je comprends pas, c’est un clone de minecraft avec une génération de monde tellement précise que chunkbase marche ?

ain’t that a spicy squirrel…

I think you misread my comment. I’m depressed that people are harassing open source devs, not that open source devs use LLMs.

I don’t give a shit whether a maintainer like Tridge uses AI, because i trust them to review the AI’s code like they’ve reviewed human contributions since forever.

Oh man I’m like super agreeing with you. Also I’m in a place that actually has universal healthcare, so it’s not like it’s unworkable

I most certainly won’t lol

No disagreement here but I’m not sure that’s on the menu right now

Sorry for bringing terminally online slang to the table haha

In my head yeah it’s the pill that teaches you a bleak and depressing truth but shows you no way out of it. I may be misusing the term.

This whole debacle is making me extremely black pilled about open software in general. Just like cheap computing has died in recent years, I suspect non corporate free software is about to meet the same end to the acclaim of people who think they’re doing a good thing for the world.

But where will the maintainers for these alternatives come from, when barely anybody has stepped up in the 30 years of rsync’s existence? Your comment implies that tridge didn’t call for help before, which is far from the truth.

This is thankless maintenance on critical software, not some *-arr toy project for hobbyist self-hosters.

People have gaps of knowledge, sometimes unwarranted confidence, other times lack of care, or just miss things. It’s not like we’re comparing the perfect human vs faulty AI.

I went through the trouble of looking at one of the problematic changes in the latest rsync release, and what happened is that it surfaced a bug introduced in 2007 which was previously silently ignored. That’s definitely a mistake any human contributor could have made.

It’s hard to state how profoundly ahistoric people are right now. One of the reasons fascists use shock and awe on a daily basis is to lure people (both their followers and their enemies) into thinking they are living through unprecedented political times which call for unprecedented action.

This gives their foot soldiers a cover for committing unspeakable crimes (“sure it’s extreme but you see we’re facing unprecedented danger”), and gives their opponents a cover for not doing anything (“sure we could rebel if we weren’t facing unprecedented danger”).

If people had any historic culture and could recognize those millenia-old patterns things would be more difficult for the ruling class.

Aha thanks for sharing that’s a cool anecdote. But i think my point still stands, as there are thresholds effects in LLM “intelligence” which don’t directly map to the RAM comparison.

Opus 4.6 is comparable to a mid-level developer. It requires some guidance and will sometimes get things wrong, but is also suitable to work in most business environments: most projects are not that complicated or high stakes in the first place.

In the future you’ll probably have Opus 7.5 or some shit, which will be at a mega-senior level but also considerably more expensive. And given the price difference, companies will suddenly discover that they don’t really need expert level coding at a high price tag, and that a reliable workhorse at a fraction of the cost is largely enough for their needs.

Not sure what you’re referring to?

I think the issue is also that you need some serious hardware to get good inference speed when your devs are working, but then most of the time this hardware will be under utilized.

That being said you can get good performance from indie inference farms, at a fraction of the cost of the big US labs. I think it’s a great compromise and in a few months the open models will be near parity with opus 4.6 which is really all you need for most tasks.

It’s a basic convention in most news-related communities. In general it tends to favor more grounded and factual conversation on the actual topic of the article, rather than on the OP’s take. This includes debating the choice of words in the headline and the bias it introduces.

What’s wrong with “Why Are Some Republican Lawmakers Hellbent on Preserving Child Marriage?” ? Is it too favorable ? Too unfavorable ? Idk man it seems to just state the point of the article, i don’t think the editorialized title is much better in any objective sense.

You are free of course to create /c/editorialized_news or whatever, which doesn’t enforce this “stupid” rule, and we’ll see how it fares in terms of the quality of discussion.

Their comments prove that even humans can produce slop and it’s every bit as shit as the ai kind…

This makes me think of the shrike in Hyperion! Great work op thanks for sharing

On the contrary I’ve used it a bit for benign ouchies and it is very conventional and will always always refer you to an actual doctor.

But it might be another sycophancy aspect, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it went off the rail when you prime it with stuff like “give me a natural holistic ancestral remedy for XYZ”

It’s interesting that this comment is getting downvotes. Lately i’ve been seeing a lot of people trying to pass off bad mental health as valid political discourse, as if being healthy was only possible in a perfectly fair world which has never existed and probably never will.

Say what you will about the state of the world, but anxiety is not normal. Having depressive thoughts all the time is not normal. Living in profound nostalgia of everything from your childhood is not normal. Don’t normalize bad mental health, it’s not the world’s fault, cause it’s not a fault but it sure is your responsibility to fix.

Then when you’re stable and healthy, that’s when the real fighting back starts. Look at the assholes turning the world into shit, they have amazing agency and executive control. How are you going to beat that when you’re too anxious to pick up a phone and too depressed to leave your own bed ?

Honestly “prompt engineering” is already mostly dead, and in most cases claude already handles its long term memory (claude.md, skills etc…) autonomously. You just have to nudge it here and there to document such and such details you know are important but it’s marginal.