assuming you yourself had programmed pre-LLM i completely fail to relate to your lived experience. what a devastatingly sad way of viewing the world

setting aside the craft and mastery or satisfaction in goal accomplishment: to me the main thing is a sense of actualization, of the codebase or thing you were working on being better because you were there.

have you ever put up a shelf? did it feel good after?

Putting a shelf up is not fun. Designing, building the shelf from scratch with my own vision feels way better ;). It's a lot more of a hassle but you will always look at it and be like I did that, heck you might have even learn a whole bunch doing that as well. It's easy to go to the store, buy something and assemble it (automation).

I think this perspective comes from assuming that the LLM is doing the thinking for you. And that is not the right approach IMO. The code is still mine - I chose how to write it, reviewed changes, suggested improvements, picked the architecture, directed refactoring and benchmarking efforts, tooling, scope of tests, and so on. It feels quite similar to being a project lead.

you're inventing the alternator from first principles

> The max effort + ultracode version is even more stunning, but interestingly it never got mouse input working without errors. If you want to test it out, you need to stick to keyboard controls - see the Use chapter in the project’s README file.

god is this a perfect encapsulation of the jagged nature of LLMs. incredible and kind of broken. for now at least

Makes sense though! It's really tough to test touch control programmatically, and that's all LLMs have. Same reason ChatGPT can't play Super Mario Bros.

sure seems like we were the first humans to listen to it

they’re not called Pervert Glasses for nothing

> Realistically a couple of prompts coupled with a factory of agents can replace this entire codebase in a matter of hours

you are the reason for this policy change

my pre-nightmare prices homelab setup was this: a synology 8-bay and a mac mini. 10GbE for as much as was practical at the time.

it’s not perfect, i need to run more on the synology than is ideal for containerized reliability reasons, but it’s acceptable for personal stuff

putting women in quotes gives the game up. i don’t know what reasonable dialog you’re looking to have

>putting women in quotes gives the game up.

What does that mean in this context?

the answer is almost definitely "get on the leaderboard"

Right? If spending the most is lauded, why wouldn't I use the most expensive model, automate things that don't need automating, build things I don't need to build etc just to jack the spend up?

It's the modern equivalent of the Dilbert classic about Goodhart's Law:

https://devhumor.com/media/dilbert-s-team-writes-a-minivan