space_comrade [he/him]

It got my GPU completely wrong tho, it showed it was many generations older than it really is.

Probably, although they probably can’t force you to reveal it’s your dick that unlocks the phone.

Was it just EXIF information or was it something embedded in the pixels? If it’s just EXIF that’s something you can scrub from the file easily.

They actually did contribute back into the project, also even if they didn’t it’s still a win because proprietary software should not be used by any part of the government.

Also I don’t think most people understand just how ineffective true vibe coding is. I tried it a few times and could barely get something slightly more complex than a demo todo app working, and even if it was working it was barely prototype level quality of user experience, there is zero chance somebody is deploying vibe coded features into a large, serious production system and not suffering major and immediate consequences because shit just didn’t work at all.

The best you’re going to get out of it is it shortens the amount of time wasted on tiny adjustment to the UI or something.

I’ve had pretty much the opposite experience. My friend has a macbook that he drops all the time and still works.

Also it’s not like other brands are immune to denting, it’s just kind of the nature of the material.

Kinda agree on the keyboard but I got used to it and also most brands have that type of keyboards nowadays anyway.

ThinkPads are far superior than MacBooks for longevity

Not sure that’s true. I have a pretty top-of-the-line ThinkPad (3 years old) and it started falling apart after like a year of regular use. Maybe years ago that was true but nowadays I feel like everybody except maybe Apple has crap build quality.

I’m here for it, it’s already a complete shitshow, might as well go all the way.

Oh that’s definitely going to lead to some hilarious situations but I don’t think we’re gonna see a complete breakdown of the whole IT sector. There’s no way companies/institutions that do really mission critical work (kernels, firmware, automotive/aerospace software, certain kinds of banking/finance software etc.) will let AI write that code any time soon. The rest of the stuff isn’t really that important and isn’t that big of a deal it if breaks for a few hours/days because the AI spazzed out.

Ah ok I guess I misread that. My point is that by itself it’s not gonna help you write either better or shittier code than you already do.

I don’t think it’s gonna go that way. In my experience the bigger the chunk of code you make it generate the more wrong it’s gonna be, not just because it’s a larger chunk of code, it’s gonna be exponentially more wrong.

It’s only good for generating small chunks of code at a time.

It actually doesn’t have to be. For example the way I use Github Copilot is I give it a code snippet to generate and if it’s wrong I just write a bit more code and the it usually gets it right after 2-3 iterations and it still saves me time.

The trick is you should be able to quickly determine if the code is what you want which means you need to have a bit of experience under your belt, so AI is pretty useless if not actively harmful for junior devs.

Overall it’s a good tool if you can get your company to shell out $20 a month for it, not sure if I’d pay it out of my own pocket tho.