I mean, optionally they could set up a tiny dev shop with that amount and submit the PRs they want to submit. And at worst, they could maintain their own fork.

It’d be a public service in more ways than one.

5 million a year would go a long way towards making their open source solutions meet their needs.

anti-China and anti-Russia

Uh huh. Yeah okay.

We’ve had enough projection for a lifetime this decade.

Remember r/reddit ?

Reddit removed every comment he had ever made, including wonderful and well cited rebuttals of the right-wing bigotry of the day.

Probably more of the motivation than the listed offense.

As part of the community team for LW, I’ve worked towards this goal as long as I’ve been here. I do not have the authority to make it policy.

But considering, A. There aren’t that many big communities, and B. Users seem to hate any kind of moderation anyway, it doesn’t seem like a big stress point at the moment.

The users have demanded that US news should be allowed in World News because anything that happens in the US affects the world. And, uh, I’ve tested this and it seems to be consensus. I hate it, but any mods that tried to enforce something sane have left, and the users have gotten their way.

I guess everyone just browses all anyway, for now. So they don’t want things removed that have comments regardless of where it’s posted.

If you can read it, they can read it. They have root on the company device.

We have .ml propaganda blaming our only hope of resistance for everything the Nazis do.

It’s not much different from the projection tactic the GOP use. Just in this case it’s “you didn’t stop it”.

As part of the LW Community Team, I’ve tried to combat this in a couple ways.

One is that when we need moderators for a community I don’t just put up a post that says “who wants to mod?” Instead I try to draft specific individuals one at a time who are relevant to that community.

You wouldn’t believe how many people just tell me no. They have time to post to Lemmy a dozen times a day, but they just don’t have time to mod c/threepostsaweek

The other is that I try not to just keep recruiting mods we already have. It’s very easy to turn to the people already doing the modding and ask them to pick up just one more, but we’ve seen what that has done to Reddit, and I’d rather not repeat it.

But all this takes time and effort, and it doesn’t seem to have much effect yet. I probably just need to keep at it.

It might be some sort of vetting to know all your users are real people.

I’ve considered setting up a Lemmy/Piefed for my neighborhood, but I’ve been told I’m unlikely to get the neighborhood off of our very active Facebook.

Will this LLM detection be something my LLM prompt can include?

Nvidia is the stock.

Good luck with the timing. The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

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).

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

Thank you!

Yeah, it absolutely can. Yes, every person has base dignity and worth, but I absolutely have more respect for people who make a living saving lives, for instance. I respect doctors, nurses, firemen, scientists, architects, construction workers, mailmen.

If you do absolutely nothing and provide nothing back to society, then yes, I have more respect for those other people who do serve their fellow man, generally.