I am in it for not too long, I wanted a Framework notebook but they didn’t sell in my country so I couldn’t purchase it through my business so I went with macbook and iphone next to because, why not.

I generally don’t care much about things like in the op news tbh, as if I have a subscription for something I use it directly from the website

And stuff like the seemless integration when switching from my phone to my MacBook with my airpods is fucking great.

but I am not a normal techie, I am waaay overindexed on user experience over a lot of things, for example I pay for spotify because the Ux is great for me, I refuse to pay for streaming devices because my own plex/jellyfin server is a much better UX.

I am also refusing to buy cars without physical buttons.

Oh yeah for sure, I have seen tests that are pretty useless, for me the way I do it is I write the first one or two tests then instruct copilot to follow the patterns and then it does well, ofc I have to double check it, but reading is easier than having to write it.

Granted lots of mediocre engineers also use the “freeze the results” method for meaningless test coverage,

I’d be interested what you mean by this? Isn’t all unit tests just freezing the result? A method is an algorithm for certain inputs you expect certain outputs, you unit tests these inputs and matching outputs, and add coverage for edge cases because it’s cheap to do with unit tests and these “freeze the results” or rather lock them in so you know that piece of code always works as expected or it’s “frozen/locked in”

You are presupposing that your opinion about LLMs is absolutely correct and then of course you arrive at your predetermined conclusion.

What about the free LLmodels available out of china and other places that democratizes the LLMs?

Therefore, to strive for a balanced approach towards AI puts you on the wrong side of the battle for humanity, and therefore human history.

Thanks for not being dramatic, lol.

LLMs will generate the tests based on how the code works and not how it is supposed to work.

You can tell it to generate based on how it’s supposed to work you know

I will try to have a balanced take here:

The positives:

• there are some uses for this “AI”
• like an IDE it can help speed up the process of development especially for menial tasks that are important such as unit test coverage.
• it can be useful to reword things to match the corpo slang that will make you puke if you need to use it.
• it is useful as a sort of better google, like for things that are documented but reading the documentation makes your head hurt so you can ask it to dumb it down to get the core concept and go from there

The negatives

• the positives don’t justify the environmental externalities of all these AI companies
• the positives don’t justify the pc hardware/silicone price hikes
• shoehorning this into everything is capital R retarded.
• AI is a fucking bubble keeping the Us economy inflated instead of letting it crash like it should have a while ago
• other than a paid product like copilot there is simply very little commercially viable use-case for all this public cloud infrastructure other than targeting with you more ads, that you can’t block because it’s in the text output of it.

Overall I wish the AI bubble burst already

I like to mention how he stole the best known melody from a Hungarian artist for one of his songs, that song was IIRC the first Hungarian song to make it out from behind the iron curtain to the west thanks to Scorpions

End of new slaves

https://youtu.be/99oWTzZheDs

Vs original

https://youtu.be/CGt-rTDkMcM