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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Anecdotal: traveling to the smoky mountains and rented some bicycles. Owner said rentals are down 30% compared to this time last year.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Don't bother with this guy, @[email protected] has done some mental gymnastics to justify starving the Palestinian population. So it really isn't surprising they would want to vote for the most ghoulish option.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

When requirements are "Whatever" then by all means use the "Whatever" machine: https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/

And then look for a better gig because such an environment is going to be toxic to your skill set. The more exacting the shop, the better they pay.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Literally the opposite experience when I helped material scientists with their R&D. Breaking in production would mean people who get paid 2x more than me are suddenly unable to do their job. But then again, our requirements made sense because we would literally look at a manual process to automate with the engineers. What you describe sounds like hell to me. There are greener pastures.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

The stock market makes no sense to me.

That's because "The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

Maybe it is because I started out in QA, but I have to strongly disagree. You should assume the code doesn't work until proven otherwise, AI or not. Then when it doesn't work I find it is easier to debug you own code than someone else's and that includes AI.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Why would you ever yell at an employee unless you're bad at managing people? And you think you can manage an LLM better because it doesn't complain when you're obviously wrong?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

A junior developer actually learns from doing the job, an LLM only learns when they update the training corpus and develop an updated model.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (8 children)

It’s usually vastly easier to verify an answer than posit one, if you have the patience to do so.

I usually write 3x the code to test the code itself. Verification is often harder than implementation.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

DOGE has entered the chat

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

When LLMs get it right it's because they're summarizing a stack overflow or GitHub snippet it was trained on. But you loose all the benefits of other humans commenting on the context, pitfalls and other alternatives.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Pepper Ridge Farms remembers when you could just do a web search and get it answered in the first couple results. Then the SEO wars happened....

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