Feyd
@Feyd@programming.dev
- Comment on The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now) 1 day 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 4 days 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 4 days 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 4 days 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 5 days 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 5 days 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 5 days ago:
And why should anyone care what he says?
- Comment on Epic Games just won its antitrust lawsuit against Google again 5 days 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 5 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 2 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 2 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? 4 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? 4 weeks ago:
The fact they keep trying harder and harder to make me switch off a local account is reason enough.