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I get this, most people don’t care about intangible things that don’t have a clear and immediate impact. Like digital privacy or climate change.
If someone is invading their physical privacy it feels more urgent and real. And tbf, most people live their entire lives without noticing consequences of lack of digital privacy.
I don’t get this.
Someone posts an article, someone else enjoys it and tells them not to get discouraged by the crowd that doesn’t like the content and gets downvoted?
Afaik luddite is not an insult but maybe I’m wrong. Anyhow I feel a vocal section of the anti llm crew are just looking to discourage anyone who’s not aligning 100% with their battle.
I’m a software engineer and picked up the ukulele because on of my kid was gifted one. When I feel tired or burnt I sit down and play a few songs and it actually gives me energy. I did play a bit of guitar in school so that helped me get going I guess.
I now have three ukuleles and a mini bass.
Yeah I hope I am cautious enough. I use strict db models that were man written and have type checking and sanitation. That along with unit tests that cover everything I’ve been able to think of that can go right or wrong combined with the classic “obscurity===security” motto.
Of course there are always vectors one hasn’t thought of, but that goes for man made projects as well. If I decide to bring it live and scale up I’ll probably order a pen test.
I’ve been writing a slightly larger project with frontend, bff and backend and I need to take it in small batches so that I can catch when it misunderstands or outright does a piss job of implementing something. I’ve been focusing a lot on getting all the unit tests I need in place which makes me feel a bunch better.
The bigger and more complex the projects get, the harder it is for the LLM to keep stuff in context which means I’ll have to improve my chunking out smaller scoped implementations or start writing code myself I think.
All in all I feel pretty safe with my project and pleased with the agents work but I need to increase testing further before bringing anything live.
Probably a bunch more
I had a holy grail vhs which i watched more or less every day after school. I used to be able to recite it from start to finish.
Also had both terminator movies on a double vhs so I’ve seen my fair share of them as well.
You are completely correct, and to be honest I’ve tested commercial product features in prod as well on teams that have the capacity to handle it and make a living on it, unlike this maintainer.
I’m also experimenting heavily with vibe coding and I think it has many uses for a seasoned programmer while getting a lot of flak.
Of course there are issues and problems with it, but for me it had been helping out a lot.
For sure, the song of the hero who fixed the production bug is oft sang at meetings but the loser who prevented the bug to begin with gets no credit.
Classic “test in production” strategy, very solid!
To be fair they would have needed to spend time testing the manual implementation as well.
The problem I see mainly is that even if this rolls out perfectly, the erratic and changing nature if llms still make it pointless as a proof of concept. Next time Claude might fuck up in a fringe way that’s not covered by unit tests and is missed by manual tests.
On the other hand I guess I’ve been guilty myself on numerous occasions to implement fringe bugs into production code, but at least I learn from it.
This one should go all the way to the top.
Me neither I just read a magazine about king crimson and I probably only remembered the parts I found amusing. Could be they had more cohesion than my post claims.
But the thematics of the first album is not as planned as some would like to think and fripp was very vocal that female groupies was one of his biggest drives.
I wrote down Pet Sounds as a majorly influential album and Brian Wilson has said that that cohesion and individual song strength of Rubber Soul was the inspiration that drove him to make it.
So i guess your pick inspired my pick!
This one of funny because when reading about it I hit the feeling that they had no idea or plan to what they were doing. They just wanted to sell albums and get laid.
Then they drop this completely weird af, beautiful and haunting album which everyone of course tries to deconstruct and find the real meaning behind etc.
Just fripp and pals goofing about in the halls of the crimson king.
Forgot to mention:
All of sly and the family stones albums. Larry invented slap bass, they renewed funk, Greg laid the groundwork for what all hip hop artists draw from, sly used a drill machine that was more or less a toy to create really nasty and murky beats by lioping, overlaying and tooting with speeds ented and theyinnovated sludgy lo-fi sound. All in a few years.
Creating, torturing, slaughtering animals and stealing their young so that we can harvest their previous milk - all done in the most gruesome industrial ways just to be able to eat and wear parts of their bodies when there are completely functioning alternatives.
And it’s just normal to partake in it