@molly0xfff Search your plan carefully. Just discovered mine is no longer participating in any of my current medical facilities. Time to find a new one. It’s not easy to find the information either.

Before LLM coding agents, it was quite possible for companies in high-income countries to apply the same basic approach to programming: a high-wage software engineer or product manager could hand off issues to an outsourcing company that would randomly assign them to one of many software engineers in a low-wage country.

Nonetheless, even companies that wanted to reduce wages mostly decided they wanted long-term employees working on writing code, instead of a random person with no context working on each issue. So they opened offices in low-wage countries and hired employees there. And there were still plenty of software engineers in high-wage countries.

Why? Because a software project isn't just the source code, it also involves a huge amount of human knowledge and understanding, both explicit and implicit. Some of it is very hard to articulate, and in practice most people don't even try.

A lack of such understanding might be fine for simple projects, where the exposed UI matches the internals enough that product management is sufficient. But beyond a certain level of complexity you need someone to understand the why and how of software in ways that the source code by itself cannot express. Thus, software engineers who were employees.

But now we have LLMs, which can be used for vibecoding without reading the code... with the exact same problems as 100% outsourcing.

And so you get projects like ParticleDB. To quote @aphyr 's assessment:

"ParticleDB was a fractal of correctness errors. LLM tooling repeatedly claimed that bugs had been fixed when, in fact, they had not. ParticleDB also seemed more difficult to understand than typical databases. ... [software engineers working on ParticleDB] seemed unable to explain the causes or resolutions of nearly every issue we found in ParticleDB." (https://jepsen.io/analyses/particledb-1.1.4)

Or, as he put it in a less formal summary: "When does 4 = 5? Why would strings become 8-bit integers? And how could an SQL table have rows with different columns? We don't know, but it's fun to imagine!" (https://mastodon.jepsen.io/@jepsen/117535799639100730)

(This post inspired by a idea from Hunter Madison: if you can replace the word "LLM" with "consultant" and an article still makes sense, it's not an article about programming.)

@ramsey Is that due to the VCR doing the reset themselves, the lack of VCRs, the unwillingness to record any shows (Whether due to on-demand streaming or low quality is a separte question here) or the lack of having to set the clock back (hello Canada 😉)?

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ok spy cards online dev today

I've been neglecting the projects that require me to use Windows :(

sorry AS:RD people

anyway here's the text style list I just whipped up

should I make the text style list match the actual style defined within

because that means I can't use Tree to handle click and drag for me

but tildes refusal to open sign up made me realize tildes basically serves as deimos’s playground

I think that is not the reason. No mod logs, Chad as the sole admin and mod, and bans without reason.

If you delete Chad, make Tildes moderation open, and add actual moderation not banning because poor Chad got his feelings hurt you got a great app.

open sign up

It is pretty easy to get in, I think adopting Lobsters’ user tree might be a better option though.

They really have potential when reddit exodus began and i really don’t mind tildes dont have image upload featured, but tildes refusal to open sign up made me realize tildes basically serves as deimos’s playground

Such a shame they guy that making rif app wasting his time developed app for that turd

It would help if you starting writing down what exactly you expect to be federated, which problems you think could be face (moderation?), and how you think it could be resolved.

I don't know fanfiction.lol so it's not possible for me to have a good opinion on what should be federated and what that would even look like.

@godot Free Godot 4 UI sound starter: 20 UI sounds plus a drop-in script and a playable demo. Commercial use OK (CC BY 4.0). Audio is procedural DSP synthesis; scripts and text are AI-assisted. https://bigshadex.itch.io/pulselite-ui-sfx-free What UI sound is always missing from packs?

@anon_opin I disagree. When stopped in a subway tunnel I find it nice to be informed ASAP that it's a routine minor stop which will just take a moment to remedy, and not some emergency which means we'll be there for longer and should probably start texting people that we'll be late.

#SilentSunday 🤫

#photography #landscape #autumnvibes

Good morning, friends 💞 💞 🐕 🐕 ☕ ☕

There was mud, and #Gracie found it.

#Niko #dogs #dogsOfMastodon #fediDogs

@alisynthesis I would not have enjoyed that this week. 38 in a 30, because they put the camera next to a 40 sign and I accelerated into – rather than after – it...

@rickscully Nice! That part really is a lot easier than it used to be.

women in Vietnam, about indochinese wars 20th century, the human condition under geopolitical choices

#namphongdialogues @kdpham.bsky.social
https://overcast.fm/+AA3gVRO5B6g

Here is what I originally wrote

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller 11.01.46

Our jack o' lantern this year.

@sako@mastodon.gamedev.place mesmerizing