I think I take issue with the idea that it’s the “chat” interface that makes people shut off their brain and stay in that groove. I feel that the answer is more the very nature of LLMs being one of our attempts to get AI to pass the turing test. Continuing the conversation is such a core part of what an LLM is beyond the UI. If it made you think, you wouldn’t believe it to be a human.
We use Ruby at work, for a team I’m only tangentially involved with, and I’m not a fan. I’d be curious to know what a company that uses it as their primary language looks like. It seems like there’s a lot of funky edge cases especially in templating that have bitten us.
Has it really been 10-15 years since Ruby peaked in popularity? I never really paid much attention but I feel like time is a fiction.
I’m not appealing to authority. I’m pointing out that they’re not a bot. As I said in my first post, I wouldn’t claim it’s entirely human generated, I have no idea one way or another. What I said to start with and now is that it’s worth addressing the Blogpost on its merits not on its use of emdashes.
It’s crazy to me that you think I’m even saying there smart/clever/whatever and could do no wrong. The only thing I’m appealing to is the evidence that they exist.
The author has been a CPPCon presenter, worked at Bloomberg, and has a GitHub history going back at least to 2022 where they were contributing to LLVM. This isn’t coming from their website but from the actual websites.
Based on their history and experience that’s public on their profiles from an era pre ChatGPT, I think you are overreacting and making a fool of yourself.
It’s pretty scary how we live in an era where semi competent writing gets assumed to be AI and you refuse to fact check yourself before shitting on them as being not real.
Honestly it’s a pretty well written and explained article. I hesitate to say that it’s entirely human generated, but I certainly would try and judge it for its content before just writing it off as slop.
Personally I think the author overstates the practicality of using counters for serialization, as the ordering of source code is also a very cosmetic thing and tweaking scenes ruins the save format. There’s no possibility for backward compatibility either in such cases.
It’s hard for me to imagine which direction it would end up going when right now the quality of AI output is so varied.
I think there’s also something to be said to just “doing things” that are in the public eye.
What I mean by that is that (part of) the reason I got the job I’m at right now is because I happened to do something at an org that my boss worked at years prior. It wasn’t a “connection” in the sense that we knew each other or ever crossed paths, but it still got me a foot in the door.
If you can make a meaningful contribution to a well known project or organization that will open doors via “connections” that you never knew existed.
So he didn’t literally say it word for word, but the vibes were there.