It's nicely symmetrical, because conversely I prefer my LLM-generated code to have no dependencies.

I agree with you about the bits I know anything about, and the rest sounds likely.It just makes a significant difference when the context is a Show HN and the critical comment is at the top. If it is comment (say) #13 in a varied conversation, that comes across differently. This is more the fault of upvotes, as I mentioned, but it's hard to address those directly.

That is complete nonsense, indicative of your lack of knowledge, and utterly typical of crypto hype: mendacious or ignorant or both.The State Machine Replication problem in distributed computing has been studied since the 1960s or so, and indeed can be solved using Byzantine Broadcast. That has been solved for various settings:* Permissioned (+ PKI), synchronous: SMR possible for any f (Dolev Strong 1983)* Permissioned (no PKI), synchronous: SMR impossible if f≥n/3 (PSL 1980, FLM 1985)* Permissi

> The idea has always been met with negativity, IMO because people want to feel that they have a part of themselves that is beyond nature and has a "special" place in the universe.This is actually a big part of why being pro-AI is met with negativity today.As someone who's using and building with AI and also experiences the "anti" movement, you've chosen a pretty condescending minority of the reasons why they dislike AI and painted it as the default."They never liked AI because they don't like

It's not a cheap shot at all. OP is asking why the government is using tax payer money to finance air shows instead of healthcare, regardless of free markets and business regulations. In fact, there could be less air shows (and thus less aircraft losses) and lower taxes.

I think they absolutely are more connected than you think. So many problems in our current society are because everything is treated as being in its own vacuum.As an American, I’m tired of comments like yours. I’m not sure you understand what a cheap shot is. America isn’t on the ground while others are standing over them, kicking them. If anything, America is acting as if its limbs are all completely different organisms. The arm shooting the leg is certainly the leg’s problem, not the arm’s. /s

That's about the same amount as any other beginner hobby. Welcome to being an adult and stuff costing money.

This will always happen as long as people are led by their egos. Also they probably aren't autodidacts and don't understand learning for fun.

This is a phenomenal example of exactly what I am advocating.Notice you didn't ask the AI to 'just design a stereo pedal for me.' You interrogated it, reasoned about netlists, and forced the concepts into your brain through intense friction. That is pure deep work.

At some point this existential doubt about your own work and others seems pretty weird.Go ahead and figure out ways to interrogate on your work with technical means, that's a critical part of the process with an LLM or not.

Yeah and frankly the innovation would occur irrespective of llm’s.Would it be harder? Sure. And perhaps the difficulty adds an additional cost of passion being a necessary condition to embark on the innovation. Passion leads to really good stuff.My personal fear is we get landfill sites of junk software produced. To some extent it should be costly to convert an idea to a concept - the cost being thinking carefully so what you put out there is somewhat legible.

Also one of those with a mile-long ideas list that I can finally now burn through. I gotta say, it feels good!

Here's your reminder that this is of course a bunch of alarmist nonsense, because as an issuer of currency the United States is incapable of becoming "insolvent."The authors are from an libertarian extremist think tank that pushes for a balanced budget amendment. If these people got their way, we would immediately solve the problem of people arguing about this on the internet since none of us would be able to afford to own a computer.

There are far more divides than just that one.For instance, the ones that look at it from an economics perspective, security perspective, long term maintainability perspective and so on. For each of these there are pros and cons.

Here's what I made:* https://www.stavros.io/posts/i-made-a-voice-note-taker/ - A voice note recorder.* https://github.com/skorokithakis/stavrobot - My secure AI personal assistant that's made my life admin massively easier.* https://github.com/skorokithakis/macropad - A macropad.* https://github.com/skorokithakis/sleight-of-hand - A clock that ticks seconds irregularly but is accurate for minutes.* https://pine.town - A whimsical little massively multiplayer drawing town.* https://encyclopedai.s

To lay it out, Im pretty firmly pro-AI.Putting it succinctly, these kind of conversations feel weird because it's like asking whether carpenters are faster using power tools or hand tools. If you've used power tools it's obvious they make work a lot faster. Maybe there were some studies around the time power tools were introduced looking at the productivity of carpenters, if those studies had results saying the productivity gains weren't obvious in the data that means you have a problem with you

I’m currently working across like 5 projects (was 4 last week but you know how it is). I now do more in days than others might in a week.Yesterday a colleague didn’t quite manage to implement a loading container with a Vue directive instead of DOM hacks, it was easier for me to just throw AI at the problem and produced a working and tested solution and developer docs than to have a similarly long meeting and have them iterate for hours.Then I got back to training a CNN to recognize crops from sp

> plagiarizedUnless you can point to specific works that something allegedly plagiarizes, the “plagiarism” allegation is meaningless.

My latest game BossBattle[1] (html5, have a play) uses AI for graphics, some strobe effects, a C64 loading screen shader.I have decided to lean in to it and I will document all the places I use AI in the game on my blog[2]. Not everything works, notably 3D assets[3] and sound effects.There is a lot of human content… i paid for a lot out of my own pocket and have limited budget. It started in 2021 before chatgpt. LLMs cannot do everything and that’s not the purpose.Generative AI makes me as an so

Thank you! That helped me understand. Hobbies that you regularly do, and an LLM is continuously helpful for, benefiting from memory.Personally, I would still be wary of the black box aspect -not knowing what it does remember and what it doesn't - so I would probably still use projects to make it more deterministic. But that's probably being overcautious and unnecessary in most common cases.

PCB Tracer has a growing set of happy users. I think you will discover why, once you give it a try. The software has hundreds of convenient features and its active development continues. I've been building PCB Tracer mainly for fun and learning. It's certainly been a fun project! Hope you give it a try soon, find it useful and enjoy using it. -Phil

I admire Anthropic for sticking to their principles, even if it affects the bottom line. That’s the kind of company you want to work for.

I see the chat, but it looks like you’re not actually considering using TTL anywhere, and ChatGPT isn’t giving any explanations about TTL?> I would definitely like to understand HCT vs HC (CMOS vs TTL) much better than I do, which currently isn't at all.I think what ChatGPT should have explained at the beginning is that both HCT and HC are CMOS logic families, it’s just that HCT is designed to interface with TTL (receive TTL signal levels as inputs). The outputs are the same (CMOS outputs are ra

And the entirety of OSS is hand waved away as an externality, but clearly there's something very powerful about all the sharing of models and knowledge going on that doesn't seem to be captured by traditional economic models (that I'm aware of).

It is funny how "hardware design" is commonly used in the chip industry to describe what semiconductor design/verification engineers do. And then there's PCB designers using those same chips in their _hardware designs_.Also there's computer architects being like "So, are we hardware design? Interface design? Software? Something else?"...Meanwhile, all the mechanical engineers are looking from the outside saying "The slightest scratch and your 'hard'ware is dead. Not so 'hard' really, eh?" ;) ;)E

I mean, I've expanded what I use my programming skills for dramatically in the last year. I've suddenly got several personal macOS apps I'm building and maintaining for myself, for my small business, or for fun. That never happened before (I've generally been full stack on the web). I've built far more useful and complex firmware and finally begun designing and building custom circuits. I rarely had the time for that before.I'm able to take on way more interesting and challenging projects in my