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Cake day: July 20th, 2023

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  • verify with every output it produces.

    I agree that you can get quality output using these tools, but if you actually take the time to validate and fix everything they’ve output then you spend more time than if you’d just written it, rob yourself of experience, and melt glaciers for no reason in the process.

    prompt to restrict it from auto committing, auto pushing, and auto editing without explicit verification

    Anything in the prompt is a suggestion, not a restriction. You are correct you should restrict those actions, but it must be done outside of the chatbot layer. This is part of the problem with this stuff. People using it don’t understand what it is or how it works at all and are being ridiculously irresponsible.

    repetitive sections

    Repetitive sections that are logic can be factored down and should be for maintainability. Those that can’t be can be written with tons of methods. A list of words can be expanded into whatever repetitive boilerplate with sed, awk, a python script etc and you’ll know nothing was hallucinated because it was deterministic in the first place.

    user tests.

    Tests are just as important as the rest of the code and should be given the same amount of attention instead of being treated as fine as long as you check the box.


  • There is still a substantial amount of working age people in that scenario. They just need to be allocated to jobs that matter instead of made up bullshit like for instance the vast majority of medical insurance employees. We have enough labor available that we could live in a straight up utopia but instead much of it is oriented to perpetuating economic serfdom.

    Think about it… We used to have a large proportion of people running households instead of working for money, but now we both have more automaton than ever and a higher percentage of people in the labor market, and we don’t even work fewer hours.



















  • Arch Linux for desktop. Whatever for servers, usually ubuntu, though I’ve been tempted to use arch then too when dealing with out of date software.

    1. Software is always up to date
      • instead of old with security backports which have always kind of skeeved me out
      • so upstream issue systems are relevant
      • so I get new features without having to wait
    2. When I have to turn a wrench the wiki and forums are amazing
    3. I feel like I control my system