putting in the design effort to improve the tools in the ecosystem

They have. The problem is that they generally cause as many problems as they solve. Adding another layer in software is often as harmful as it is helpful.

LLMs are nice in this regard, because they don’t really add another layer, but they do take care of the excessive boilerplate that’s easily understandable.

But… That’s where you’d put this crap. Notepad had one job, and it did it well.

That’s it? One mod has too many communities?

(To be clear, I don’t care if someone has 80 tiny warhammer communities. Only the major ones.)

Look at the mods of the major communities and see how much overlap there is.

It’ll sometimes do dumb and/or redundant or too complicated shit. Pile up a couple of those and your codebase can get unmaintainable fast.

I find if you give it small chunks and keep an eye on it, it’s great.

I think one of my recent prompts was “Create a procedure that creates an example configuration file with placeholder values. If a config file doesn’t exist on start, give a warning and create the example config.”

It also works great as a replacement for an ORM.

I understand how to turn the results of a select statement into an update statement, but the AI does it a hell of a lot faster.

I find if you give it small enough chunks, it’s easy enough to review. And even if you do have to correct, it’s generally easier to correct than it would be to write it all by hand.

Also applies when the dev could know what they’re doing, but just doesn’t care to.

https://lemmy.world/post/35790913 maybe. Sounds like a similar issue.

That’s a damn good point I hadn’t considered.

I was trying to run Windows for personal stuff and Ubuntu for work, but Ubuntu doesn’t like my monitors. X11 has issues with resolutions and detecting my new 2k monitor. Wayland doesn’t let me log in at all.

I haven’t bothered to troubleshoot. So now I’m just in Windows. Maybe I should try a different distro.

Reddit still has an absolute stranglehold on [email protected]

Maybe I should take this opportunity to move the community over to piefed.

I’m not sure the value added is worth the extra layer.

I guess my command line options just aren’t all that complicated.

A diy VPN is exactly the disaster scenario of vibe coding.

Go to their GitHub and look at issues and their comments first.

Reddit was profitable off of just minimal advertising and Reddit Gold. I’m concerned about video hosting, but I think mastodon and Lemmy can scale just fine.

And I haven’t even touched on the thousands upon thousands of bots I’ve seen posting, commenting, getting awarded and boosted, and even running entirely-bot populated subs while admins and powers that be throw up their hands saying “welp nothing we can do” at the same time making it easier for bots to sign up, spread propaganda, and hide their tracks. Why? Because bots are their bread and butter. They drive up engagement. They boost reddits active user count (big number = investors happy). There exists an incentive not to do anything about it.

Nearly all of this applies to Lemmy too, though not quite as bad.

Incoming speculation.

You know the incentives of the developers. I suspect it’s why certain features are lagging. I also suspect it’s why Lemmy was made in the first place, in case big tech showed a political preference they didn’t like.

A lot of these problems are lessened by being open source and people able to run their own servers, but not completely solved.

Rust is better than Python. But Piefed doesn’t have most of these very important issues.

Any anonymous social media is going to have a big chunk of the bot problem, but I trust Piefed to fight it more than Lemmy. And Reddit of course will lean into the bots.

Well, all the better mods left when they shut down the API. It’s a self-selected group of shitheads now.

We have apps for that, and they’re typically a pita. They certainly take longer than just talking through your order.

It’ll go the other way, eventually. Keep the experienced people who are willing to use AI and can handle the more complicated things AI can’t.

But for now they’re just firing people and hoping things still work later. Since research and development both have delayed results, they can celebrate their win immediately and not pay the consequences til later.

Where is Raft in these lists?

Man, wouldn’t it be nice if both of our counties didn’t have ridiculous propaganda and fascism so that we could just cooperate on shit like this without having to worry as much about maliciousness on a state level?