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Comment Re:A question for AI crazy management. (Score 1) 121

This matches how I use it. I’ll add a few other points:

4. Writing the first core version of a service or UI. I’ll typically use close to 100% of those generated lines, and then continue building with LLM assistance where it makes sense. It makes a big difference to development velocity.
5. Finding bugs. If some bug isn’t obvious to me, provide the code to an LLM and describe the problem. Its success rate is high.
6. Working with tech I’m not particularly familiar with (an extension of your #3, i.e. learning)
7. Writing documentation.
8. Reverse engineering existing code, i.e. describe some code to me so I don’t have to dig through it in detail.
9. Writing unit tests.

Comment Re:Cannot wait... (Score 1) 159

This is why code generating LLMs need to make heavy use of external tools.

Are you saying that ChatGPT, Claude, Deepseek etc. “make heavy use of external tools” to write code? Because they all write pretty good code, up to a certain size of program. Certainly far better than the average human, who can’t code at all; or the average software developer, who isn’t really very good.

Comment Re:Responsible, but not for the Specifics (Score 1) 91

No. A government agency that contracts out work to a private company has a duty of oversight. They must make at least a minimal effort to ensure the contract is being executed in a lawful manner. They can't just hand out the work and turn a blind eye to any abuses of the law and only act when they are made painfully aware of violations of the law.

Comment Re:As an avid SF reader... (Score 0) 22

The Hugo is no longer a representative of the best of sci fi and fantasy. They are now excluding many others because their personal political views are different, completely ignoring the quality of the work. They are giving awards to authors for espousing the "right" politics for works that are far below the standards the award should represent. For example, Scalzi's "Red Shirts" got best novel. It's not a bad story, but it's not a great story, and Best Novel must be a great story.

When the conservative authors asked people to consider books on a list, representing conservative authors, they were accused of attempting to manipulate the vote. Not they didn't. They asked people to read the books and stories on the list and consider them. Manipulating the vote was when some higher ups in the organization publicly stated that straight white men should not be given awards, they should all go to women of color. At the height of this fiasco, they skipped giving out some awards entirely because the obvious winners didn't fit their political views.

Perhaps they've come to their senses since then, but I wouldn't know as I no longer pay attention to the award and a book with the "Hugo Winner" label on it is not the selling point it once was.

Comment Re:False Equivelance (Score 2) 340

Israel handed over Gaza to the Palestinians in exchange for a promise of peace. Then the Palestinians used the land to launch even more attacks against Israeli civilians. They were remarkably restrained in response to those attacks. But now the gloves are off. And people like you will keep coming up with excuse after excuse as to justify Israeli women and children are being raped and murdered.

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