Yes it blows my mind everyone can’t see all the historically perfectly fine software starting to crumble to dust

I’m sure there were pockets but it legitimately seemed like that dragon had been slain until recently. Trying to assign more meaning to scrum points has been in vogue for a while though.

output is up (more code, more commits, bigger diffs)

We’ve known measuring output by lines of code is counterproductive for a long time.

At what point have I expressed support for the use of LLMs?

You haven’t explicitly but trying to downplay environmental impact sure is suspicious. 1/1000th may not be a “main cause”, but that’s a huge proportion, and it is growing. Is it OK to be concerned when it hits 1/500th? 1/100th? It was zero not too long ago.

do not poison conversations on the actual causes behind our climate problem.

You know damn well that’s not what is happening here. This was a conversation on an article about AI so of course that is the topic.

But it’s a sizable and growing factor so trying to make out like it’s not a good reason to not support using big LLMs is nonsensical. Falling back away from the context of the conversation to assert that you’re technically correct is ridiculous.

“They’re just using it wrong”. If no one can use it right maybe it’s not that great a tool.

You think 1/1000th of emissions and growing for something that isn’t nearly as useful as boosters pretend is no big deal?

Another aspect is that “some of the more tedious tasks” already had tons of ways to be sped up but the brain-dead LLM pushers had never actually tried to optimize their workflows before and thought LLMs would make them be as good as their much more competent peers without actually learning anything.

So they came to the conclusion that the actually competent people they refused to listen to said after touching it once.

Python obviously isn’t useless, but it is both slow, and if you’re making serious software, the worst developer experience I’ve ever had to deal with. It makes the easy things easy and the hard things hard, so to speak

Pretty sure COBOL jobs getting unusually high pay is a myth. I don’t really care what I work on so I’ve looked and they just don’t seem to pay any higher than anything else

Sony gonna Sony

Sure, but it’s only 6 years old, much newer than every one in this post, to my knowledge only has applications rather than libraries, and sources packages from the windows store or the community repository which is just manifests rather than the actual code or binaries.

In other words you’re technically correct, but it’s rather irrelevant

They probably should have made it actually work on PC if they wanted it to sell. Now that I’ve skipped it because it was poorly optimized and they kept not fixing it, it is officially in the “maybe buy on sale after whatever expansion they do” bucket. Iirc it also has denuvo which is a hard pass for single player games. I might would forgive it on something online like monster hunter but it’s still another negative point on the “will I buy it” chart

CPAN for perl was the first one and it was very successful so got copied.

separate from the distribution or OS package manager.

Because it is way easier to manage them this way rather than have every distro package repo also support them. Additionally, windows and Mac are also targets and they don’t have built in package managers.

C and C++ are the only exceptions

It is not as popular but https://conan.io/ exists. Personally, I miss working in c++ because the lack of a built in package manager made people manage dependencies more thoughtfully. It was not without tradeoffs but I preferred that world to adding a dependency being one command away.

Using it for the sometimes spot on cakewalk segments is a fairly productive win.

One thing that absolutely blows my mind is how many people will say how much time it saves then with repetitive or boilerplate code. It is obvious these people have never actually tried to optimize their workflow even a little bit before. Regex replace, snippets, and keyboard macros have existed in text editors forever and are actually deterministic.

Yes. Acting like an LLM over a programming language is anything close to a higher level over lower level programming language makes you completely full of shit.

Comparing it to an (almost) entirely complete abstraction where you (almost) never have any benefit to looking under the covers like c over assembler is completely dishonest.

Now it’s spent refining the analysis so that the LLM stops producing slop

The thing is that actually doing this isn’t faster than writing the code, robs the practitioner of learning, and more often than not doesn’t actually happen, so you have a harder to maintain codebase with more bugs and less knowledgeable developers to maintain it.

Edit: and as a fun bonus accelerates glacier melting!

I’m my experience people give tech demos, everyone is impressed, my coworkers say it makes them multiples faster, then I have more work making sure the wheels don’t fall off.