https://youtu.be/JNfTuFbH_sE

Lan ports have been standard, thankfully, since the Switch OLED.

The first sentence of my comment?

Make a point or go away. Ad-hominem is nonsense is boring.

Not all projects needs VC money to get off the ground. I’m not going to hire somebody for a pet project because CMake’s syntax is foreign to me, or a pain in the ass to write. Or I’m not interested in spending 2 hours clicking through their documentation.

Or if you ever used DirectX the insane “code by committee” way it works. Documentation is ass and at best you need code samples. Hell, I had to ask CoPilot to tell me how something in DXCompiler worked and it told me it worked because the 5000 line cpp file had it somewhere in there. It was right, and to this day, I have no idea how it came up with the correct answer.

There is no money in most FOSS. Maybe you’ll find somebody who’s interested in your project, but it’s extremely rare somebody latches on. At best, you both have your own unique, personal projects and they overlap. But sitting and waiting for somebody come along and having your project grind to halt is just not a thing if an AI can help write the stuff you’re not familiar with.

I know “AI bad” and I agree with the sentiment most of the time. But I’m personally okay with the contract of, I feed GitHub my FOSS code and GitHub will host my repo, run my actions, and host my content. I get the AI assistance to write more code. Repeat.

There’s a lot of false equivalence in this thread which seems to be a staple of this instance. I’m sure most people here have never used AI coding and I’m just getting ad-hominem “counterpoints”.

Nothing I said even close to saying AI is a full replacement for training junior devs.

The reality is, when you actually use an AI as a coding assistant there are strong similarities when training somebody who is new to coding. They’ll choose popular over best practices. When I get an AI assisted code segment, it feels similar to copypasted code from a stackoverflow. This is aside from the hallucinations.

But LLM operate on patterns, for better or for worse. If you want to generate something serious, that’s a bad idea. There’s a strong misconception that AI will build usable code for you. It probably won’t. It’s only good at snippets. But it does recognize patterns. Some of those patterns are tedious to write, and I’d argue feel even more tedious the more experienced you are in coding.

My most recent usage of AI was making some script that uses WinGet to setup a dev environment. Like I have a vague recollection of how to make a .cmd script with if branches, but not enough at the top of my head. So you can say “Generate a section here that checks if WinSDK is installed.” And it will. Looks fine, move on. The %errorlevel% code is all injected. Then say “add on a WinGet install if it’s not installed.” Then it does that. Then I have to repeat all that again for ninja, clang, and others. None of this is mission critical, but it’s a chore to write. It’ll even sprinkle some pretty CLI output text.

There is a strong misconception that AI are “smart” and programmers should be worried. That’s completely overselling what AI can do and probably intentionally by executives. They are at best assistant to coders. I can take a piece of JS code and ask AI to construct an SQL table creation query based on the code (or vice versa). It’s not difficult. Just tedious.

When working in teams, it’s not uncommon for me to create the first 5%-10% of a project and instruct others on the team to take that as input and scale the rest of the project (eg: design views, build test, build tables, etc).

There are clear parallels here. You need to recognize the limitations, but there is a lot of functionality they can provide as long as you understand what it can’t do. Read the comments of people who have actually sat down and used it and you’ll see we’ve the same conclusion.

You can’t turn an AI into a senior dev by mentoring it, however the fuck you’d imagine that process?

Never said any of this.

You can tell AI commands like “this is fine, but X is flawed. Use this page to read how the spec works.” And it’ll respond with the corrections. Or you can say “this would leak memory here”. And it’ll note it and make corrections. After about 4 to 5 checks you’ll actually have usable code.

it’s not your job to nitpick and bikeshed everything they do

Wow. Talk about projection. I never said any of that, but thanks for letting everyone know how you treat other people.

The point is AI can generate a good amount of code, but you can’t trust it. It always needs to be reviewed. It makes a lot of mistakes.

I treat AI as a new intern that doesn’t know how to code well. You need to code review everything, but it’s good for fast generation. Just don’t trust more than a couple of lines at a time.

(X) Doubt.

All that matters is loyalty. They may vote in a certain manner for the majority of cases, but what matters are the critical cases of interest to their overlords.

Sure, but what does ChatGPT say?

Only reason I haven’t modded HDR for this game is because it’s DX9 and a pain to mod. (I already did GTAV - Enhanced and GTA Trilogy Remastered since it’s UE). If they make a new port for PC it’ll be able to complete the set.

Came here for this. Pickles are like a researcher’s??? Progeny? A researcher’s what? I must know.

Also something about Harry Potter in the first lines.

Edit. It’s grumpy! But I don’t know what!

If I pick 1, then the host has to pick 2 or 3.

Host reveals #3.

If the car was in 2, he HAS to pick 3. If it was in 1, he can pick either 2 or 3.

The chance that I picked 1 and it was in 1 is lower than the chance that it was in 2 and he was forced to reveal 3.

Always removed in two, there are. No more. No less.