except instead of
lsit runsrm -rf /-y-frfr
Why did you prompt for that?
To test the --no-preserve-root safeguard. It’s like playing Russian roulette
Didn’t steam actually do that for a bit on some systems when you tried to uninstall?
Guy at work did a whole mini project with just LLMs and prompting. I asked him some questions about how it works and some implementation details, and he had no idea. Great. I’m going to have to maintain this thing, probably.
Just use a LLM to maintain it. Duh.
A guy vibe coded something and said to incorporate it into my work.
Now it was a feature that people had asked for so I had to try it out.
It failed 75% of the things out was supposed to do and for the other what usually was a near instant interactive task took 5 minutes. I kicked it back saying he needed to fix the problems and improve performance. The end of the next day he answered that the infrastructure must be broken because the AI couldn’t get results and the performance problem was just the nature of the things the software had to interact with. I say “he”, but pretty sure his comment was LLM generated, long and useless.
But it was the impetus to get that function done now, as his “substantiative” work meant we could technically provide a customer request, lower priority as it may have been. So I spent a morning implementing the same thing it did but the old fashioned way, 100% worked and the unavoidably slow thing took less than a second.
If you ask AI to create the shell of a class for you with 3 variables (two ints and one Vector as you defined elsewhere in your project), that’s different than saying “make me Facebook 2” and expecting everything to go well.
Ethics of current LLMs in a still-capitalist-materially society aside, the problem with AI is that management wants the robots to do all the work so their jobs become easier and their stocks go up. But that shit just doesn’t DO that. LLMs don’t think. They are statistical autocomplete. Programming is not trivial, no matter how much it may seem that way because we have trivialized as much of it as possible to make it useful.
“They are statistical autocomplete.” nice
Thought it was going to be ctrl+r
I didn’t know that one for years.
(Searches command history.)
Yeah, pair that with fzf!
But doesn’t pressing the up arrow 10 times (and reading each command) waste both time and effort compared to just pressing 2 buttons?
Yes, which is a perfect comparison
…pressing the ‘up’ arrow ten times in a shell might let you avoid typing ‘ls’
I feel seen. But in my defense, that directory was like, 6 levels deep
Let me introduce you to my savior: ctrl + r
And a better bash with fuzzy find: fish or zsh.
fzf is where it’s at
Yeah, that what you can type
^R lsinstead oflsto save time!Pretty sure I use
ls <dir>more than lsAlso, use
mcand you’ll never need ls
Ctrl r my friend
Yes, and you can make a door by driving a car through a wall. The outcome may be less than optimal though.
That’s a doorway, not a door
