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by Pet_Ant | 2025-06-02 19:43:27+00:00
> Scale matters.

On what grounds? Very rarely does the law see things that way [1]. Where is the tipping point. What if it did Mondrian _and_ Rothko? Still good? Okay, now add Damien Hirst. Also add Jackson Pollock. Then Roy Lichtenstein. What is your grounds for delineation? If it's just a feeling, then the problem isn't the law, it's you. Monet could just be a Photoshop filter, Pointillism is. Warhol?

[1] Newton v. Diamond is an example I can think of https://www.quimbee.com/cases/newton-v-diamond
by kentonv | 2025-06-02 19:43:32+00:00
There are good arguments to just conform. But it is in fact true nevertheless that many companies and teams continue to choose bespoke workflows over standardized ones. So I guess there must be something driving that.

I don't actually think this is going to take the form of LLMs implementing custom patches to off-the-shelf software. I think instead it's going to look like LLMs writing code that uses APIs offered by off-the-shelf software to script specific workflows.
by freedomben | 2025-06-02 19:43:42+00:00
I agree, it was a low effort question, but it is obviously interesting to a number of people on this site. Op is also not wrong that it can be very difficult to find good information on robotics currently. If you are in academia and are plugged into the right departments, there is plenty of good info, but it is complex enough that getting into it as a hobby is difficult.
by bsder | 2025-06-02 19:43:43+00:00
> Claude's output was thoroughly reviewed by Cloudflare engineers with careful attention paid to security and compliance with standards.

So, for those of us who are not OAuth experts, don't have a team of security engineers on call, and are likely to fall into all the security and compliance traps, how does this help?

I don't need AI to write my shitty code. I need AI to review and correct my shitty code.
by sleepybrett | 2025-06-02 19:43:50+00:00
Every once and a while you see an auteur get coaxed out of their genre. Lynch did Dune in '84 right off the back of The Elephant Man. And while he hated the entire experience I know that I'm not the only person that enjoyed the particularly lynchian facets of the story that he brought into the light. His film is much more concerned with exploring the more psychedelic aspects. The divination that comes with being the Kwisatz Haderach, the grotesqueness of the Harkonen house, the psychedelic experience of the spice.. which are all present in the source material. Whereas the Villeneuve take is much more concerned with other aspects colonialism primarily, and those things that Lynch leaned into he certainly acknowledged but spent more time in other places. I love both and I love when we get to see multiple adaptations of the same source material, even if some aren't so great, just because we do get to see these different aspects of the original work.
by mjr00 | 2025-06-02 19:44:05+00:00
You're absolutely right. You need to verify the script works, and you need to be able to read the code to see what it's actually doing and if it passes the smell test (as a sibling commenter said, the same way you would for a code snippet off StackOverflow). But ultimately for these bits which are largely rote "take data from API, transform into data format X" tasks, LLMs do a great job getting at least 95% of the way there, in my experience. In a lot of ways they're the perfect job for LLMs: most of the work is just typing (as in, pressing buttons on a keyboard) and passing the right arguments to an API, so why not outsource that to an LLM and verify the output?

The challenge comes when dealing with larger systems. Like an LLM might suggest Library A for accomplishing a task, but if your codebase already has Library B for that already, or maybe Library A but a version from 2020 with a different API, you need to make judgment calls about the right approach to take, and the LLM can't help you there. Same with code style, architecture, how future-proof-but-possibly-YAGNI you want your design to be, etc.

I don't think "vibe coding" or making large changes across big code bases really works (or will ever really work), but I do think LLMs are useful for isolated tasks and it's a mistake to totally dismiss them.
by joseph | 2025-06-02 19:44:25+00:00
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by pwg | 2025-06-02 19:44:36+00:00
> Ie oversized mosquitoes (where swamps were not completely drained hundred years ago).

The native mosquitoes of the DC area can grow to a body length of about 1 inch or a bit longer (~3cm). They were the ones that were nocturnal (or at least dusk active). This variety is likely what revolutionary soldiers would have been writing about.

They have largely been out competed by the invasive "black fly" version (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aedes_albopictus) that is active all day (and so, is much more a nuisance, even if they are only about 3/8 inch (~1cm) body length).
by net01 | 2025-06-02 19:44:49+00:00
A few things TLDR

> LB is now 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status (very cool)

> new WPT runner (from 5h per run to under 1h)

> 10% speed-up on Speedometer 2.1

> better BIG int calculation

> improved JS

> Demo time
by nate | 2025-06-02 19:44:59+00:00
Been out for a few years but Seth Godin's "The Practice" is a good, easy read in this spirit. tl;dr I think of that book is just get used to showing up and doing stuff. Outcomes are fickle. But developing a love of good process can be enjoyment enough and mentally more stable. And can sometimes lead to some good outcomes.
by wwjob | 2025-06-02 19:45:15+00:00
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by JohnFen | 2025-06-02 19:45:21+00:00
> there was a time when an after-work happy hour—loosely organized among a gaggle of officemates, all searching for a hit of debauchery to burn off the resentments of an annoying shift—was one of the sacred rites of employment.

Is this a regional thing, maybe? In my 40+ years in the industry, I don't think I've ever been aware of this sort of thing at any place I've worked.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-06-02 19:45:28+00:00
It's not the geographic location as much as the unimpeded wetlands. Undeveloped and frontier areas are much as you describe your experience in Scandinavia.

The difference in modern times is even more stark because any half civilized government overseeing a region that isn't arid engages in fairly aggressive mosquito control on at least a yearly basis.
by joeld42 | 2025-06-02 19:46:07+00:00
It coexists with Revit right now, and is a good place to do feasibility and early design and get instant metrics and feedback. We think it's a lot more collaborative and design friendly.

One day we'd love to take them on directly, I think there's a lot of architects out there looking for something better.

As far as collaboration features, we've built it from the ground up with collaboration in mind, so you can work with other users directly in the same scene and see their actions and updates. We've got collaborative presentation boards with views and metrics that can update live, and of course workflow features like commenting. And since it's browser based, there's not the friction of installing a desktop app, which can be significant at some orgs.

We'd love to know what you think though, give it a try and let us know what collaboration features you'd use!
by kentonv | 2025-06-02 19:47:37+00:00
> I think we'll actually see (maybe) individual employees solving some of these problems on their own without involving IT/the dev team.

I agree, but in my book, those employees are now developers. And so by that definition, there will be a lot more developers.

Will we see more or fewer people whose primary job is software development? That's harder to answer. I do think we'll see a lot more consultant-type roles, with experienced software developers helping other people write their own personal automations.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-06-02 19:47:46+00:00
The code that the best frontier models produce is definitely good if you prompt it with what you believe "good" means, with the caveat that code quality depends heavily on the language -- Python, Typescript/Javascript, Java and C are quite good, Rust, C++ and Go tend to be decent to weak depending on the specific model, and other languages are poor.
by spencerflem | 2025-06-02 19:47:49+00:00
I did read the article. It was not very good about separating the two cases (for example by saying the total # of IoT devices to sound dramatic while also only listing examples of industrial ones to sound more worrying).

I love and care pretty deeply about security, I run Graphene OS & am trying to switch to Genode / Sculpt sometime this year. I care. But I'm coming to realize that for the 'personal computing' use-case it doesn't matter much for people who aren't nerds.

In any case, the sort of "hardware root of trust" reccomended is an insidious way of going about it.
by dotancohen | 2025-06-02 19:47:57+00:00
Terrific, thank you.

If you don't mind another question, how do you adapt the LLM to your codebase? Keep the whole thing in context? Fine tune on your own code? Fine tune on lots of code in whatever language you're using (e.g. Python, Rust)? Just rely on the original model training?

Thank you very much!
by jacobwg | 2025-06-02 19:48:48+00:00
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by AgastyaKro | 2025-06-02 19:49:06+00:00
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by cpursley | 2025-06-02 19:49:08+00:00
That’s one perspective, but it’s wrong and typical gatekeeping (do you have a software degree by any chance?). People had the same attitude towards open source tooling and low code frameworks - god forbid someone not certified and ordained build a solution in something other than Java...

AI code tools are allowing people to build things they couldn't before due to lack of skillset, time or budget. I’ve seen all sorts of problems solved by semi technical and even non-technical people. My brother for example built a thing with Microsoft copilot that helped automate more in his manufacturing facility (used to be paper).

But yeah, keep yelling at that cloud - the rest of us will keep shipping cool things that we couldn’t before, and faster.
by mastercheif | 2025-06-02 19:49:28+00:00
You don’t need to pre-wash dishes before they go in the sink, beyond a basic scrapping of the plate into the garbage.

Pre-washing dishes degrades the performance of the dishwasher. This is due to the use of enzymes in modern detergent formulations.

I’ve sent dozens of people the Technology Connections video on this topic to rave reviews: https://youtu.be/jHP942Livy0
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-06-02 19:49:39+00:00
It's not comfort with uncertainty, it's discomfort with the predictable effects of uncertainty.

I don't want to have to waste time tidying up after an unreliable software tool which is being sold as saving me time. I don't want to be misled by hallucinated fantasies that have no relationship to reality. (See also - lawyers getting laughed out of courtrooms because of this.)

I don't want to have to cancel a travel booking because an AI agent booked me a holiday in Angkor Wat when I wanted a train ticket to Crystal Palace in South London.

Hypotheticals? Not even slightly. Ask anyone who's lost their KDP author account on Amazon or been locked out of Meta because of AI moderation errors.

This is common sense, not some kind of personality flaw.

I'm happy using LLMs for coding and research, but it's also clear the technology is in perpetual beta - at best - and is being wildly oversold.

Normal software operating with this level of reliability would be called "very buggy."

But apparently LLMs get a pass because one day they might not be as buggy as they are today.

Which - if you think about it - is ridiculous, even by the usual standards of the software industry.
by Vermin2000 | 2025-06-02 19:50:10+00:00
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by Shared404 | 2025-06-02 19:50:21+00:00
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by 9dev | 2025-06-02 19:50:24+00:00
Funny thing. I have built something similar recently, that is a 2.1-compliant authorisation server in TypeScript[0]. I did it by hand, with some LLM help on the documentation. I think it took me about two weeks full time, give or take, and there’s still work to do, especially on the testing side of things, so I would agree with your estimate.

I’m going to take a very close look at your code base :)

[0] https://github.com/colibri-hq/colibri/blob/next/packages/oau...
by coliveira | 2025-06-02 19:51:20+00:00
The problem is exactly how the public will learn "not to ask 2+2". When you have a well trained professional using an LLM it's all great. They know how to separate hallucination from actually good results as you do. The problem lies with the general public and new workers who will, no questions about it, use the AI generated results as some sort of truth.
by hattmall | 2025-06-02 19:51:20+00:00
Yeah, I mean that is definitely the intent of the question and it's absolutely one of the factors that's driving money into AI.

Assisting competent engineers certainly has value, but it's not an easy calculation to assess that value compared to the actual non-subsidized cost of AI's current state.

On the other hand having a farm of idiots, or even no idiots at all, just computers, churning out high quality applications is a completely different value proposition.
by rupestrecampos | 2025-06-02 19:51:21+00:00
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