Joshua Blair retweeté
Never underestimate how much time and effort you can waste by trying to automate a process you do not understand manually.
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Joshua Blair
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Cybersecurity nerd, trophy husband, proud dad. Biased Astros, Texans, Rockets, Texas A&M fan.
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@esrtweet It also sounds like you’re okay with that potential and I think you’ll quite enjoy the Arch ecosystem. Have fun!
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@esrtweet I used Arch for many years (and it’s a fantastic OS, genuinely) but I hit a point where some packages weren’t available at the time (I don’t remember which; not important). I switched over to Debian Sid and haven’t looked back. It’s been very pleasant.
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Question for the X hivemind:
I'm seriously considering switching my main machine from Pop!_OS (a reskinned Ubuntu) to Arch, probably CachyOS.
The reason is I'm attracted to the rolling-release concept. Getting really tired of waiting 6 months for my development tools to upgrade after they ship.
I understand the downside: Arch doesn't protect me from upstream breakage. The plan to deal with that is to install snapper so I can revert to an earlier, working version of my system if things go badly awry.
If you think there are any reasons this is a really bad plan, tell me now.
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@HaeSicks One of my favorite series of all time. Welcome to the party - you won’t be disappointed!
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Joshua Blair retweeté
saying no is one of your most valuable skills and its only 100x more valuable in the day of ai
Jonathan Ross@JonathanRoss321
For 50 years, software engineering ran on code rationing. Writing code was expensive, so we rationed it carefully through roadmaps, RFCs, prioritization meetings, and scope reviews. This created a role: the No Engineer. No, that won't scale. No, we don't have bandwidth. No, that's out of scope. No, we need a design doc first. The No Engineer was valuable for 50 years. Every "no" saved real money. Their judgment was the rationing system. LLMs will be the end of code rationing. Code is cheap now. And while the No Engineer is explaining why something can't be done, the Yes Engineer has already shipped three versions of it. If you're a Yes Engineer, the next decade is yours.
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Having been part of the industry for 50 years, I can confidently report that none of this is true.
Sure, writing code has a non-zero cost; this is true of any artifact.
But you know what costs even more, Jonathan?
Writing bad code; writing unnecessary code; writing more code than you really need simply because you think you might need it someday or you are too lazy or sloppy to clean up after yourself.
Anything that costs nothing is often worth nothing as well, and results in significant unintended consequences.
Jonathan Ross@JonathanRoss321
For 50 years, software engineering ran on code rationing. Writing code was expensive, so we rationed it carefully through roadmaps, RFCs, prioritization meetings, and scope reviews. This created a role: the No Engineer. No, that won't scale. No, we don't have bandwidth. No, that's out of scope. No, we need a design doc first. The No Engineer was valuable for 50 years. Every "no" saved real money. Their judgment was the rationing system. LLMs will be the end of code rationing. Code is cheap now. And while the No Engineer is explaining why something can't be done, the Yes Engineer has already shipped three versions of it. If you're a Yes Engineer, the next decade is yours.
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Joshua Blair retweeté
An obvious point: without government and official secrecy so much of what we are dealing with doesn't happen. We as citizens are more endangered by our own government's secrecy than any danger than might arise were those secrets exposed. Sunlight really IS the best disinfectant.
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Would you be interested if JetBrains releases a totally local AI agent, working 100% on your laptop, using our code insight engine and deeply integrated into the IDE?
Yes, it will be probably 1 month behind the very recent frontier models, but no token blood bath anymore
WDYT?
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Warning: GenAI-induced cognitive surrender may kill innovation.
Consider the following, from CEO @wadhwa’s newsletter:
“I have been speaking with recent graduates in India, many of them highly recommended, and on paper they look exceptional. The emails are polished, the resumes are perfect, the proposals are structured and articulate. To filter for real thinking, I even created a job description that required candidates to answer a series of questions before I would interview them, and I explicitly told them not to use AI.
Of course, almost everything I am getting back is AI slop.
The moment you get into a real conversation, it becomes obvious. They cannot explain what they wrote, cannot walk through their reasoning, and fall back on vague generalities when pushed. After seeing this repeatedly, I have come to a difficult conclusion: AI has already done real damage. It has taken people from a weak education system and given them a powerful crutch, and instead of using it to improve their thinking, many are using it to avoid thinking altogether.
And before my American friends think they are any better, they should know it is no different here.”
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@megbasham I just think about the kids who had their food aid cut, and the aids patients who had their access to medicine cut. And then it’s pretty easy not to love him.
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"Totally agree, that's why we built ..." - how every reply starts before pitching the worst slop coded bullshit imaginable.
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I think some people are misunderstanding me here.
I am 100% confident that LLMs alone will get you a hot steaming pile of absolute shit and it has played out again and again.
What irks me is that a bunch of normies were sold that this is PhD level intel and that they have 0 worries and this is the future old man, get with it.
They go off, sell a product to REAL customers and then absolutely get wrecked.
There will be a whole bunch of people that will continue to get wrecked because an entire class of people cheer them on and more so CEOs of the worlds largest companies tell them they are correct.
I can imagine that we will see quite a few lawsuits in the coming months / years due to this.
ThePrimeagen@ThePrimeagen
There are a lot of people dunking on this guy and the arguments at the end of the day come down to "You are holding it wrong." But to be fair there has been nothing but a constant stream of "Stop holding it, Software Engineering is over shortly." I am not shocked that this has happened and I am 100% confident that this is not going to be the last one. The problem is the vogue nature of insane hype claims, most specifically from Dario himself being most guilty. People are lulled into a faux safety due to the belief that these LLMs are literal gods in their pocket. Infinite knowledge and speed for a simple monetary exchange. Cannot wait for ThePhilospher to explain how a loving God could delete a production database.
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Joshua Blair retweeté
There are a lot of people dunking on this guy and the arguments at the end of the day come down to "You are holding it wrong."
But to be fair there has been nothing but a constant stream of "Stop holding it, Software Engineering is over shortly." I am not shocked that this has happened and I am 100% confident that this is not going to be the last one.
The problem is the vogue nature of insane hype claims, most specifically from Dario himself being most guilty. People are lulled into a faux safety due to the belief that these LLMs are literal gods in their pocket. Infinite knowledge and speed for a simple monetary exchange.
Cannot wait for ThePhilospher to explain how a loving God could delete a production database.
JER@lifeof_jer
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Joshua Blair retweeté
It is a broken Christianity that says “God protected him!” when a president survives and “thoughts and prayers” when school kids die.
A god who only protects the powerful and not the vulnerable is an idol.
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@jhuffman42 @lifeof_jer @Plenum0z Tell me you didn’t read the article without saying you didn’t read the article.
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@lifeof_jer @Plenum0z Why were you running an autonomous agent outside of a sandbox on a machine with production credentials? You own the consequences 100% and if you don’t accept that this will follow you for the rest of your career.
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Joshua Blair retweeté
I just can’t imagine wanting an entire secure ballroom for one man and not wanting gun reform for every child in America.
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you used to spend a day messing with your neovim config, feel self conscious, then get back to work
now people are spending weeks on some hyper customized coding agent workflow that definitely is worse than vanilla but they can talk about it like they're ahead of the game
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