Yes, I understand what you're saying perfectly. And I had similar thoughts while I was writing this. I do not want to talk too much about the process of writing it, or the content itself, because I feel it's not right for me (the author) to talk about it. But I'd like to make it clear that I wrote this myself, and that many of the questions and points people have raised here have also been in my mind, and it was my intention to elicit this type of thinking. Thank you and all others for the comments - I really appreciate it, even the very negative ones. This is the first time I published something online and I'm very happy that it resonated with people.
If that's the case, why do we have to suffer through an AI-generated article? Just give us the prompt.
This topic interests me but I stopped reading as soon as I noticed the slop. I'd much rather read a couple of human-written paragraphs with your personal experience.
> I like how Google AI Studio allows one to delete sections and they are then no longer part of the context. Not possible in Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini, I think there one can only delete the last response.
I have the same peeve. My assumption is the ability to freely edit context is seen as not intuitive for most users - LLM products want to keep the illusion of a classic chat UI where that kind of editing doesn't make sense. I do wish ChatGPT & co had a pro or advanced mode that was more similar to Google AI Studio.
I've been using Valkey simply because after I updated to the latest Fedora version, it dropped redis and pointed me to Valkey instead. I assume as more distros do this and more people update their systems, the Valkey user base will grow. But perhaps with the AGPL redis that will no longer be the case.
Yeah Pix lets you choose limits. There's decent granularity for those, you can pick max $ per day, per transfer, per period, and per device. There's a caveat that when you increase a limit it takes a day or two to come into effect (basically to avoid people being forced to increase their limits by criminals).
It was a few months ago, but when X was banned in my country I tried Bluesky for a while. It took a lot of effort (adding blocklists, muting words and blocking individual accounts) to cleanse the timeline of k-pop and furry content. I am not interested in either type of content and didn't follow any such accounts, but still, the "Discover" feed kept showing that stuff to me. It was the strangest onboarding experience I've ever had in social media.
Life in that planet evolved to essentially hibernate during their long winter. Presumably the processes that resulted in the very earliest life forms happened countless times until some surfaced that had that feature.
> All of the code is OOP-based, and they mount DOM nodes the old-school way (which is what React was supposed to solve..)
I don't know about VS Code, but I remember Atom was refactored to use manual DOM updates because the performance penalty of using React wasn't worth it.[1] By the way, isn't OOP by far the most popular paradigm for building desktop UIs? I imagine VS Code is a difficult codebase to work with that has a lot of intricate code (as is usually the case with large software projects), but that's a strange piece of criticism :-)
IMO a downside of SQLite that isn't discussed as often as it should be is the poor support for some table operations like ALTER COLUMN. Need to change a column to null / not null? Drop a foreign key constraint? Tough luck, in some cases the only way to implement a change is recreating the table.
Another problem, I think, is that there is something inherently unsatisfying about activities like programming where the result of your labor is usually abstract and not a thing you can physically touch and admire in the real world.
Fixing things in my home, painting walls, assembling furniture often gives me more satisfaction and the feeling of a finished job than deploying an update for a web app. This wasn't an issue for me for most of my career, but it's something I feel intensely in the long term (10+ yrs) and as I get older.
I think it's the reason why every now and then you see programmers switching careers to farming or carpentry.
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