Stopped using them when I realized I had stopped seeing posts from my actual friends and family.

It’s mostly endless reels and ads now and I have to scroll for way too long before I see a post from someone I’m connected to/friends with. Bored of it all.

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Just noticed this - fixing now!

I feel the same sometimes. I don’t see how this doesn’t lead to massive job losses. The thing we spent our lives/careers learning is now worth basically nothing in comparison.

AI is only going to get better and do more with less humans in the loop over time.

That said, I do also relate to the "coding was never the hard part"-type arguments, and much of my day is spent on the stuff in between writing code.. but still.

I see how it won't lead to massive job loss every day, idk. Now every idiot has a massive slop code cannon they can point at any working system and bombard it and we all have to sift through and find the nuggets and gems in the rough

Do we think that was necessary? What would have happened if OP had just asked it to rewrite and test/validate each piece as it went until everything is verified and complete?

My gut feeling is this is doing way too much, and it would've figured it out.

But we know, Bun was 535496 lines for $165000.

The whole point of this experiment was to try and make the rewrite as cheap as possible.

Oh no, bun had quite a bit of machinery: https://bun.com/blog/bun-in-rust#loops-that-write-review-cod...

True, the main problem is how to split the work. They decided to go file by file.

To be fair, I haven't try exactly "rewrite in Rust" prompt, but I cannot imagine for this to work.

converting code to more abstract and denser representations and then manipulating them makes sense to me. Finding better representations is like half of mathematics.

Is code being converted to / represented in maths that much more helpful for an LLM that deals in language primarily, by definition? I have no idea, interesting though!

Having the LLM run the proprietary app through ghidra (which I think even has an MCP now), would likely give it some useful clues too

First thought; this could be turned into a really cool password generator

Had a moment of nostalgia and started building an IRC client for macOS. It’s totally free/open source. And has been fun to customize / add the features I like to see while avoiding the ones I don’t.

https://github.com/richstokes/Netsplit

Idea: Support providing it the URL to your own / arbitrary git repo, so you can see it type out whatever code you like :-)

Beat you to it! :) Hit the "Load from GitHub" button and type in your repo~

Small caveat: the only current limitation is that it has to be public.

EDIT: Oh I see what you're getting at. Like being able to point to any *.git repository such as from a gitea server, etc.? That's a good idea thanks for the suggestion!

If the AI could understand the save file format for Minecraft, it could manipulate that

There are methods to do custom generation in of itself, so should be possible for AI to write a mod in the same vein as current world generation mods.

Device-bound would be a nightmare. I don’t want to have to think about different credential for phone vs. laptop, etc.

Easy: it's the token on your physical keyring, right next to your house key and car key.

I have 7 house keys and 2 car keys. Getting a new house key is a breeze and cheap, and even if I lose them all, a lock smith can make me whole again. Getting a new car key is a bit more expensive, but also largely not a hassle.

Having spare Yubikeys is more of a hassle than both of those (and more expensive!), and the worst case scenario of losing them all is much more catastrophic. If I have no house key, I still get into my house. If I have no car key, I still get into my car (after a fair bit of hassle). If I have no Yubikey, I have permanently lost access to the accounts it was tied to.

If physical hardware tokens were as cheap as house keys and not much more difficult to set up and copy, then it would be kind of reasonable. As it is, it's unworkable. Even password managers manage to make this work. You can throw your database on every storage device you have and write the master password down on paper, and the chances of you not being able to have access to it are pretty darn close to zero.

No one is forcing you. You can continue to use passwordmanager.

We are talking about the rest the people that want convenience.

In a way that is the reason passkeys synced with Google or Apple just work. No need of hardware keys.

It's not a nightmare, in fact different sessions of the same user could be used to grant different capability levels across sessions depending on the trust level.