That old autocomplete is great. It’s specifically the AI autocomplete that’s less useful.

Wow, well it’s absolutely terrible at A. B is worth a shot, but it’s 50/50 to bullshit you in my experience.

Eh, I’ve enjoyed writing a SQL query and having AI translate it to Linq. I’ve had at least one work directly, very clear on what it’s doing, just with Linq’s odd syntax. The other query was more complicated and wasn’t something that translated well to Linq. I may have had to split that into two Linq queries.

Then again, I wouldn’t count translating psuedocode (or SQL) as really vibe coding. To me “vibe coding” means you’re not really looking at the code it produces.

Yeah, I just wrote a blog post comment about how I enjoy using Copilot. But that’s when I explicitly ask it a question or give it a task. The auto complete is wrong more often than it’s right.

Probably doesn’t help that if it was tedious, boilerplate code I would have already explicitly asked it.

Pretty good and well balanced article.

As a professional software dev, AI is absolutely useful. But forcing people to use it is weird. And I never want to have to deal with a PM using AI to generate a PR and then having to review it. That’s absolutely not how you use AI, and more often or not that will be more work than just doing the whole thing yourself.

It’s critical to understand everything the AI is doing as it does it. Because, as the article said, if you don’t, you’re going to get subtle bugs that will be even more difficult to find later. And some of those bugs can be devastating. Add a number of those together and you have an unmaintainable mess.

don’t remember the syntax of the language they’re using due to their overreliance on Cursor.

I think this is pretty fine. Knowing what the situation calls for, knowing exactly how to accomplish it, and having the AI fill in the syntax for your psuedocode typically works pretty great. Something like “In the header add jQuery from the most common CDN. (Verify that CDN or this is a great vector for AI-induced malware/compromise.) Use an ajax call to this api [insert api url] and populate the div with id ‘mydata’.” That’s a pretty simple thing that it’ll likely handle pretty well and is easy to review.

The ways they’re forcing people to use it is kind of insane. But they’re doing that because they’re using AI as a justification for firing people. It doesn’t really work like that. Used properly will it speed up development? For most developers (anyone who used Stack Overflow), yeah. But that doesn’t mean a developer who’s juggling and maintaining 3 products can now suddenly handle 5. It doesn’t speed up context switching, really. And it’s not like it’s replacing the overhead of story boards, standups, change review boards, debugging, handling tickets, or other overhead. You might just spend 7 weeks developing a project instead of 8. And it can remove a bit of tedium (or add if you’re stupid about how you force AI).

It’s a useful tool. It shouldn’t be replacing a large number of developers. Of course they’ll fire the devs anyway, because like any other R&D the dividends are usually paid in the future. So in most cases, firing developers takes some time before you pay the toll, whether it’s opportunity cost, creating an unmaintainable mess, or losing the ability to maintain the things you already have. I expect that’s why the internet’s been falling apart lately. Fire a bunch of people and things they used to handle start to fall apart (or the people who have always handled those things get stretched too thin).

If you do multiple, give it time between each.

Which is just as risky as instantly updating unless you’re really closely keeping an eye on which updates are security related.

Thank you!

Your real concern should be that Spez gets to censor what you’re reading in a real way.

Not only does he get to remove stuff that counters his narrative, he also can allow certain types of narratives to flood the site.

Editorial control is huge, and giving that to Spez seems insane to me. That, along with Facebook, 4chan, and every other social media is certainly how we got a shitty president who was basically nobody relevant until 2015.

add up a bit for their storage requirements

I bet I, myself, with my current hardware could store ALL of the cloud save files with redundancy.

Save files are usually some type of text. All of the text on Wikipedia comes out to about 24 GB.

I’ve been told over and over again that Valve needs that 30% and they can’t possibly do all that they do with a lower margin. Clearly hosting some files, hosting a forum, processing payments, etc is about ONE THIRD of all the talent and effort that goes into creating a game.

That’s not what the phrase “dark pattern” means.

Therefore my racist joke is funny. You don’t get to decide because you didn’t laugh at it.

https://nebula.tv/

We should extend it more. Maybe an extra two months on each end.

Yeah, more games need to be like Amazon’s New World, where they kneecap their own game in an effort to appeal to the masses like you and the shareholders.

Tennis would also have wider appeal if you didn’t have to run back and forth so much. They should look into that.

The PvP is the majority of the challenge of the game. If you remove that, for the PvE players it becomes Cookie Clicker and they’re done in a week. And it also reduces the participation in the PvP side and damages that part of the game as well.

The cat & mouse mechanic is integral to the game’s success. If that doesn’t work, this isn’t a game.

I was unsure and checked the rules there.

• You can post about power trippin’ in any social media, not just lemmy. Feel free to post about reddit or a forum etc.

You should make a Roku community on Lemmy if there isn’t one already and post the fix there. Yeah, maybe nobody will see it, but maybe they will. Especially if they saw the content on Reddit and can’t find it anymore, they might look here. And that’s the only way we’re gonna get that shit off of Reddit.

PopOS with Cosmic did handle my odd 4 monitor configuration better than Ubuntu did.