Post B5LoK2OAuQZedKeS80 by jonny@neuromatch.social
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(DIR) Post #B5LoK1cJmMIEEuGEXA by jonny@neuromatch.social
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the real skill with no curriculum is not "how to use consumer AI slot machines to get high on stolen valor" but actually "how to defend your code against the roving horde of opportunistic PR agents"
(DIR) Post #B5LoK1qUvddSwstYdU by chris_evelyn@fedi.chris-evelyn.de
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@jonny That‘s PHP … what project is this from?
(DIR) Post #B5LoK20QKjZjRfXU6i by jonny@neuromatch.social
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@chris_evelyn oh just a little semweb mediawiki extension, what else. please disregard the AI mess of the readme and like.. the whole thing, it is actually a really good and elegant idea that is useful in real life for real people, I have been fighting to make it make sense because I think it's good. It's basically a self-defining schema for semantic mediawiki that's aimed at "what if linked data was usable by normal people"https://github.com/labki-org/SemanticSchemas/
(DIR) Post #B5LoK2EbU0uy9eAoD2 by chris_evelyn@fedi.chris-evelyn.de
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@jonny Ah, you are in the project together with LLM users and try to keep everything reasonable? That makes sense
(DIR) Post #B5LoK2OAuQZedKeS80 by jonny@neuromatch.social
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i need to write a paper about how the LLM turned what should have been a 1ksloc package written in a few weeks of having fun thinking about an interesting problem into a 6 month slog trimming a 10ksloc explosion of slop back down to 1ksloc package in one of the more mind numbing grinds i've ever done.
(DIR) Post #B5LoK2OAuQZedKeS81 by jonny@neuromatch.social
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@chris_evelyn it takes up most of my working time but i am hoping to get it to a state that it is defensible. the pattern of basically subtractive synthesis where you start with a nightmare and slowly chisel it into something useful is the opposite of efficient but hey i play the cards i am dealt
(DIR) Post #B5LoK3AO1B8f2rCxH6 by jonny@neuromatch.social
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you can just smoke weed or ride a motorcycle or fall in love or whatever to get high you don't need to cast a mental prism whose presence distorts all meaning to get off
(DIR) Post #B5LoK3vBDCZLNz6KDA by jonny@neuromatch.social
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wow its amazing how entire features just crumble into dust as you start peeling away unused code and code that is only used in tests. sure is productivity to just constantly construct an infinite staircase to nowhere that you have to either keep building or else look up and around and realize that what you are doing is actually nothing
(DIR) Post #B5LoK4TZ9M4h6dBmoC by jonny@neuromatch.social
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@chris_evelyn this is my learning project for "how do i collaborate with people who only use LLMs for code without self-ejecting myself into the sun." i'm learning a lot. (in case my collaborator sees this, this defense is not an attack but just like the only method of influencing action that seems to be possible judging by how the people who make the shit do it. new age linting)
(DIR) Post #B5LoK4fGRrQrguf82i by jonny@neuromatch.social
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dog what even
(DIR) Post #B5LoK5UfMkY6GKiBA8 by jonny@neuromatch.social
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how do i even communicate respectfully that "whatever we are doing where we need a private method to convert either nothing or a string into that string or an empty string is something that we should not have been doing." Like i am getting to a point where i don't know how to write the PR description of "i removed like half of everything because ????"
(DIR) Post #B5LoK6GWUopWel6Oky by jonny@neuromatch.social
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private method s for nullish string coalescing is somehow load bearing and the most used method in this class!?!?!?!
(DIR) Post #B5LoK6ztm77svUKdU0 by jonny@neuromatch.social
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oh it actually does nothing because of the preponderance of fallbacks in all the things it wraps and can be removed without replacement. that's awesome.
(DIR) Post #B5LoK7kgy8YZGcE0Q4 by jonny@neuromatch.social
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cleaning up LLM code gets you in the beautiful mind space tinkering with the cosmos with the godlike power of reading
(DIR) Post #B5LoK8WY6Cpzf2cE0u by jonny@neuromatch.social
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i am going to get in on the ground floor of the post-AI hype bubble and start a monetized substack about how the one weird trick you need to 10x is to actually read anything
(DIR) Post #B5LoKjTehvVYGmXw8m by iain@kolektiva.social
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@jonny urgh, is there a distinction between “must never” and “may never”?
(DIR) Post #B5LoKjvf1nuRfdeInA by jonny@neuromatch.social
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@iain it's natural language baby we're in "you know what i mean" territory where they are equivalent because neither will work as expected anyway!
(DIR) Post #B5LoidlHbsBdUcBwMy by fogti@chaos.social
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@jonny *insert "infinite stairs are unacceptable!" meme here*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWBf2ZKY2xc