Re: bad with large code – that’s been something I’ve been noticing as well. A project I’ve been working on for work has gotten larger now and it seems more often that it makes goofy mistakes. Like removing something somewhere but leaving something related somewhere else. My best guess is that it’s all context window stuff. As humans, we can learn a lot and keep it all in our heads. But an AI model, if it’s not something from its training set and it’s not in its context window, then it just straight up does not know it exists. I’m guessing because context windows have gotten bigger that ai coding has gotten more impressive. But we’ll see if they’re able to keep scaling that. I imagine at some point it’s gonna hit a soft wall (or at least a price wall lol).
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I’ll preface this by saying I’m not trying to sound like a tech bro. I’m really trying to give a level and measured response.
Over the past year, AI coding has gotten very good. It can catch weird mistakes that are not obvious. But it can also just totally miss obvious things and get caught up in shit that doesn’t matter. The best way to describe it is like an extremely eager and very smart junior developer. They get easily distracted. They get easily caught up in edge cases that don’t matter. That can easily miss extremely critical things.
The biggest thing is that it’s fast.
We’ll see how cheap it is long term when companies need to be profitable and run out of investors to convince.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What happened to the 2023 Reddit API protest?English
8·24 hours agoA lot of large subs that really tried to make a stand got taken over by the admins.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Sony Reminds PS Users They Don't Own Digital GamesEnglish
28·3 days agoThen stop calling the button purchase and call it rent.
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Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Take Two and Rockstar games are now requesting X and Google to hand over the personal information of the infamous GTA 6 leaker going by the name “Cyberleek” online.English
10·4 days agoYeah, those lawyers should be doing QA.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's something that Reddit has, that you wished Lemmy had tooEnglish
17·4 days agoA large enough userbase to support more niche topics. On Lemmy, like a lot of small communities, people tend to put the cart before the horse. They make places to share content for very niche topics but there aren’t enough to warrant it. Plus sometimes you have mods in certain relatively niche groups that will remove content from their community because it is off topic, but their volume of posts is nowhere near enough for the occasional, technically off topic post to really matter. I see it in Discord servers too. Some places have more channels than users on the server. People get obsessed with categorization.
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Honk at me again you long neck fuck, see what happens.English
8·4 days agoJokes aside, I think a big aspect of it is “I don’t want to hurt the goose.” Like if people were in a cage match with a goose, they’d obviously take it down, but you don’t wanna just hurt some animal for no reason.
Yes. Rancher desktop exists, btw. Just an fyi.
Edit: An open source alternative to Docker Desktop. It has most of the same features. Occasionally I’ve run into something that doesn’t work, but for the most part it’s just peachy.
How exactly is it using four orders of magnitude more space? Did you look what the files?
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Android@lemmy.world•LibreFind - Replace proprietary appsEnglish
1·4 days agoCan’t copyright a name, it’s trademarked though.
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Android@lemmy.world•LibreFind - Replace proprietary appsEnglish
1·5 days agoIt’s odd that it shows Brave as FOSS but not Firefox. Assuming it’s not merely that nobody listed Firefox as FOSS yet and it’s because Firefox’s page says the “source code” is licensed under MPL but not the binary itself… Brave literally has this on the app.

My understanding was that all rights reserved meant specifically not foss. Like it’s just the default copyright. But Brave lists itself as using MPL on another page. Which is ironic, because obviously Firefox uses MPL.
I feel like this is just because nobody submitted Firefox as FOSS yet.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How is love even possible under traditional gender roles if men aren't allowed to be vulnerable?English
21·6 days agoI think the reason a lot of men who are stuck in this mindset stay stuck in it is because the only time they actually do think they can be vulnerable is when expressing love to their partner. So it’s something they crave and don’t realize they can be vulnerable in other contexts. I think it’s part of what leads to red pill mentality.
It’s hard for men to understand how patriarchy also hurts them. It expects men to be stoic protectors. Emotional vulnerability is a sign of weakness under that worldview.
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Nintendo@lemmy.world•Nintendo takes down over 400 Switch emulator repositories in a single dayEnglish
5·6 days agoBROWSER BAD >:( GRRRR
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's your favorite song lyric?English
4·8 days agoOne that has stuck with me lately was “mistook sign for signified.”
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Technology@lemmy.world•Roblox argues 8-year-old waived rights in wrongful death lawsuitEnglish
9·8 days agoI don’t believe arbitration agreements should be legal at all, but with how conservative US courts are right now, I doubt we’ll see it overturned.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Viral De-Flock America campaign urging people to destroy AI cameras on Halloween night gains momentumEnglish
20·8 days agoI would be careful calling this “de-flock” because one of the more prominent groups against Flock is called Deflock and they already get lies from police calling them a terrorist organization despite never advocating for anything like tearing them down. If I really was putting on my tin foil hat, I’d say this was an intentional false flag operation called “de-flock” to further muddy the waters with regards to the Deflock organization. That’s a bit much, though.
Note that I’m not saying folks shouldn’t be participating, I’m only saying a different name for the activity would be prudent.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Best Buy 'repairs' customer's gaming laptop by simply removing half the RAM— claims unit in question only accepts 32 GB of RAM despite listing a 64GB configurationEnglish
7·8 days agoyou have recourse when stupid shit happens like them stealing your hardware
Just as an aside, you didn’t directly say it but may have inadvertently implied it, but the post says BestBuy sent back the extra 32 GB they removed with the laptop. They didn’t steal it.
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People Twitter@sh.itjust.works•Society keeps changing the definition of normal wordsEnglish
1·9 days agoThey aren’t mutually exclusive. They can be both.
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People Twitter@sh.itjust.works•Society keeps changing the definition of normal wordsEnglish
5·10 days agoThey aren’t mutually exclusive, goons can goon.












The worst is when Workday parses your resume wrong and you know you’re gonna have to make the same corrections on every site because God forbid they allow you to upload some different format that is easily machine readable.