Comment Re:Speaking of Amazon and books... (Score 1) 57
Too bad so many have hurt feelings about doing the right thing. Typical Slashdot.
I've been programming now for over fifty years. I'll also say that I'm using vibe coding for personal projects. So far, I'm getting good results. Here are some tips:
1. Know what you're doing. Right now, I'm working on an interpreter for a DSL. But I already know the basic structure of interpreters. I can tell when the code the AI is turning out is good or bad. When it's bad, I tell it what's good and ask it to correct the bad code. This usually works.
2. Vibe code in small chunks. I didn't say code the interpreter and here's the syntax. I coded it piece by piece - language primitives, environment structure, control flow primitives, etc. Each step of the way I checked the output to make sure it was what I wanted.
3. Let it write tests. Again, AI's are pretty good at looking at a piece of well-written code and building tests for it. If you point out corner cases you want tested, it will crank those out pretty well.
4. Show it what you want. If you want a particular style in the code, let it know. It will follow that extremely well.
5. Use it for boilerplate. Let's say I have five primitive types in my language. I work with the AI to generate the first one. Then I say "Do the same thing for these other four primitives". AI works well off examples, so give it some.
AI works pretty well if you know what you're doing and how to use it. I think of it as a relatively diligent junior coder. And it works about that well.
I'd be more worried about zero day workweeks brought about by AI.
Why are you trying to get new programmers to write code? Isn't vibe coding supposed to be taking over that niche? I'm not sure if I'm serious or not, but it seems a valid question in this day and she.
Just relabel bookmarks as tabs and there you go.
Its already treating them as bookmarks though.. I just wish mozilla would fix smaller things like giving a site storage size limit that actually worked and didn't just ignore it and also wouldn't churn disk as much for no reason at all.
... where will you find experienced workers seven years from now? Seems like someone's making a really big bet on AI improving a whole lot soon. And when the next AI winter comes, a lot of people will be paying a lot more for the workforce they need.
Dreaming of getting 30% of photoshop sales prices instead of 20 bucks for the os messed up a lot of their strategy. Of course it was unrealistic from the start but led to win8 and winrt and everything after that.
Well, basically yes, thsts where its going.
He can't let anyone use it for gov stuff anyway or cia gets to read whats on there.
But look euro countries are thinking of moving governance out of MS now too due to trump crossing the line publicly of ordering ms around.
Was anyone buying ipods in the latter years when they were just idevices without the phone and they just started making the smaller version of ipad anyway then.
Yes inherently its just running on the customers computer anyway, so they don't actually have control.
Not sending other players locations when not necessary etc would be cooler.
And you can cheat by off-device means anyway, you can do an aimbot that doesn't run any code on the computer now.
Wow came out like a decade after my bank at the time had 2fa.
Sure at first it was over telnet and phone lines so it wasn't terribly secure at first..
To teach you don't need massive amounts of content, lessons don't need to be superfacially unique at all, they're scalable on their own.
The need to make new books for schools etc every year is based just on the need to sell them too, basics of languages do not change every year, a student doesn't benefit from unlimited amounts of basic class learning material.
MAC user's dynamic debugging list evaluator? Never heard of that.