Feyd

@Feyd@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Any “experienced” developer that says these AI tools have drastically increased their productivity is full of shit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or, I could just write it myself, instead of ending up like these guys sketch.dev/…/our-first-outage-from-llm-written-co…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t like ORMs, but I’d rather use a battle tested ORM than some vibe coded data layer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen a lot of stupid shit over my career but this AI zealotry just takes the cake.

  Everyone is so convinced these tools will make software get made faster, but I’m not even convinced that it gives even a modest benefit. For me personally they definitely don’t, and it seems to lead junior devs horribly astray as often as it helps speed them up.

  It feels like I’m not even looking at the same reality as everyone else at this point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s relatively little debate among developers that the tools are or ought to be useful,

  Yes there is. No one wants to listen to us. I’ve had 3 levels of people above me ask me how I’ve incorporated AI into my workflow. I don’t get any pushback because my effectiveness is well known, yet the top down edict that everyone else use these shitty tools continues unabated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games just won its antitrust lawsuit against Google again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think steam is perfect, but they have shown over the years they will go above and beyond to make a good experience for the consumer, including tagging all kinds of negative things on games such as specific DRMs and drastically advancing the ability to run windows games on Linux

  No publicly traded company will ever develop that kind of track record even if you give it a chance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zuckerberg says people without AI glasses will be at a disadvantage in the future⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And why should anyone care what he says?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games just won its antitrust lawsuit against Google again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s cool and all, but the plan is to buy their way in by running at a massive loss then enshittify. Rather, even if that is not the current plan (it probably is), it will inevitably become the plan because it is a publicly traded company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monster Hunter Wilds Endgame Expansion Moved Up as Game Suffers From 'Soft' Sales⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Even outside of the performance problems, it’s become clear the pattern is to release the base game which is ok, then eventually release an expansion that makes it feel like a complete experience. A lot of people that started with world or rise are just going to hold off for the expansion

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I tried Servo, the undercover web browser engine made with Rust⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if I ignored everything about the entire ecosystem, just the fact I can use ublock origin in firefox mobile is reason enough to choose it over chrome

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I tried Servo, the undercover web browser engine made with Rust⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of internet denizens go out of their way to highlight every misstep firefox has like it is fatal and downplay all of it’s positives, even to the point of suggesting the usage of chromium derivitives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When will we have reached enough productivity?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t matter how much more efficient we get. We already have the bandwidth to do everything we need to do but if gets vacuumed up into whatever rich people want it to. That will continue no matter how efficient we get unless society completely changes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When will we have reached enough productivity?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re wrong though. Things aren’t being prioritized in order of urgency. If they were, everyone in the planet would be focused on climate change. Instead, we have some places actively fighting it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When will we have reached enough productivity?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is completely incorrect. We’re ignoring preventative medical care and other urgent stuff to make rich people rich because we have a stupid economic system where rich people decide what is important

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are password managers secure to use?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t trust SaaS ones not because I don’t think they’re not doing all due diligence, but because a SaaS password manager is the juiciest of juicy targets and eventually someone will succeed in cracking one.

  I personally use KeepassXC, which is a local password manager. Most of the benefits of a SaaS one with some extra work handling sync and backup yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code – without telling users⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One user, who asked not to be identified, said it has been impossible to advance his project since the usage limits came into effect. “It just stopped the ability to make progress,” the user told TechCrunch. “I tried Gemini and Kimi, but there’s really nothing else that’s competitive with the capability set of Claude Code right now.”

  Lolz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did websites like TinEye recognize cropped photos of the same image (and other likened pictures), without the low-entry easyness of LLM/AI Models these days?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What you’re looking for is the history of “computer vision”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech to protect images against AI scrapers can be beaten, researchers show⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah there’s the difference. I’m not convinced there is a robust poison but I’d love to be wrong

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech to protect images against AI scrapers can be beaten, researchers show⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re completely talking past me. Everyone knew it was a flimsy baracade and that if the LLM companies hadn’t circumvented it they would soon. That doesn’t stop people from continuing to innovate. Publishing the results mean there is a public solution anyone can use.

  Do I think it’s the worst thing that could happen? Not really, but your security through obscurity argument makes no sense in this context and it would probably be better if it wasn’t done and published so every bad actor can use it with minimal effort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech to protect images against AI scrapers can be beaten, researchers show⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This will be a never ending arms race. There isn’t going to be a permanent obstacle, so all this did was help the bad guys move to the next stage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech to protect images against AI scrapers can be beaten, researchers show⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course it can be beaten. All that happened is these university employees did big tech’s work for them and they’re try to spin it like they’re on artist’s side anyway

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t even a conversation. You just say random tangentially related bullshit every post. What a waste of time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry I thought you were the other person re painting prayer as more respectable. Still no idea what the point of your whataboutism bullshit was though. You also seem to think I believe in witchcraft, which I don’t. I just don’t give a shit about witchcraft because they aren’t hurting anyone, and the least dangerous Christian is still lending momentum to the Christian nationalists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re making a completely pointless argument. Neither obviously false belief deserves respect and science isn’t required to understand that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure. I think anything that encourages people to believe things that they want to instead of because they’re true opens the way for them to apply that blind faith in other things that matter more, like politics. I do think organized religion is a bit worse because it also teaches subservience to undeserved authority.

  Anyway, in the end, I’m waaay more worried about the one that is organized and has power than the people that aren’t bothering anybody and my opinions will reflect that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Then don’t try to paint one as somehow more respectable? Or better yet just don’t respond to a comment if you don’t want to follow a side conversation? What a weird reply

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The mechanism in both cases is that the practitioner does ritual and stuff happens because magic. Who gives a fuck what the magic is???

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At least witches aren’t angling for a theocracy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why there are a lot of people migrating from Windows to Linux these days?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Like cool you feel that way about windows I guess but you’re spreading misinformation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why there are a lot of people migrating from Windows to Linux these days?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The fact they keep trying harder and harder to make me switch off a local account is reason enough.