Th4tGuyII

If coding is easy…

Think of it like DJ’ing.

The rock bottom level of being a DJ is putting a playlist together and playing it. Anyone could do that, you’ve already probably done it on your phone. Maybe even grouped songs by genre or year if you’re feeling fancy.

But a good DJ does more than that. They arrange the songs to give a particular vibe, they play around with the transitions to keep people in the music, they may even remix songs or their entire playlist on the fly. They’re artists in their own right, making more than the sum of what went in.

… And that’s the same as a programmer. Anyone can bumble their way through to writing code - but is that code anywhere close to optimal, properly annotated, maintainable?

GenAI throwing out thousands of lines of shitty code that has to be bug-fixed multiple times over by a developer is a waste of time, energy, computer parts, and money.

The Steam Machine itself is just a very fancy prebuilt PC - so while it is your preference, there’s no reason a similar spec prebuilt wouldn’t work too

1/5th of the entire survey is unknown. That’s an awful lot of grey area to be making such a claim. We have no idea how many of those are using windows.

I’d be more inclined to trust the Steam hardware survey over this.

Wow, today I learned. That’s a rather interesting story.

A bit of a sad ending, but a perfect example of why we can’t have nice things - someone will always find a way to abuse it.

Again, fair enough - treating it akin to a draft making machine isn’t a terrible idea…

But I would argue that reviewing an existing draft, while a perfectly valid skill to have, is not the same skill as actually writing that draft.

I can say from plenty of experience making and reviewing documentation, that making the first draft is always a much more demanding task than reviewing and making corrections.

And while there’s nothing wrong with making life a bit easier, maintenance of skills is just as important as making them in the first place. If you want to maintain skills for the latter, you need to let yourself write some drafts too.

I mean I have a microchasm example of this myself. I used to be good at remembering phone numbers prior to being able to store them all on a smartphone. Now, even if you put a gun to my head, I can really only remember my own. And that is because I outsourced that part of my memory to my phone, just as most people have - without any attempt to reinforce it.

Fair enough, but if you’re a manager isn’t that kind of the whole job? Communicating with people. If you’re not doing that, what are you getting paid to do?

I can’t imagine out-sourcing the skill-set you’re being paid for to an AI tool is a great way to build up that skill. Sounds like humanity’s typical great short-term idea with horrible long-term consequences.

Would be lovely if my Government would even consider that.
I hate using Win11, but it seems we’re so entrenched with Microslop that they’re even giving “officially endorsed” courses on how to use Co-Pilot.

I understand that AI and Neural Networks have their uses, but why are people so willing to give up their ability to think and write for themselves??

My first instinct is to say “No shit Sherlock”, of course people who get paid more for their projects can afford to contribute more time to them…

but I do understand that having empirical documented evidence of something, even of it should be common sense, is really important, cause common sense isn’t as common as people think it is (especially when a lot of people in power seem to quite intentionally lack it)

To be fair to the developers, they do elaborate a little further in the comments:

Hey everyone, We appreciate the sudden enthusiasm for our game. When we launched it in 2015 into early access and 2016 into full, we were at the vanguard of asymmetrical games. It was exciting, but it was also our first step down the Dunning Kruger curve. QL has bugs that we cannot fix, shaky net code and overall sloppy design. We left the game up for this long so that players who had friends that wanted to play, could still get a copy. However it has been 9 years with minimal to no activity. So we felt it was right to remove it now.

I don’t know enough about this game or it’s community to comment much, but the devs don’t seem to be bad guys - seems like a story of naive developers making a mistake, but doing their best for their community with what they had. For a niche online game with no DLCs, 9 years is hardly a bad run.

To be fair you could call this “search optimisation” and the people on Linkedin would eat this up

Just having read the README, even if it’s a little faffy, the idea of being able to converse with someone and have it be translated back in near real-time is awesome!

This is the kind of application I was looking forward to seeing come out of open source AI - I think it’d still be a little too clunky to save you in an emergency, but probably less clunky for most people than learning a new language or having a human translator on retainer haha