invalidusernamelol [he/him]

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Cake day: July 30th, 2020

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  • I’m still under the impression that it’s totally useless. I’ve written much better and actually more code since I stopped using LLMs (I had co-pilot for a bit).

    I really do think that people have been fooling themselves with AI slop. It’s really easy to feel like you’re doing a lot when it’s just constantly spitting stuff out on the screen.

    I’m recently going back and re-writing a package that I used AI to help write like a year and a half ago. This is the one that made me abandon AI, since it just continued to fuck up patterns in ways that were incredibly difficult to fix. Then the package suddenly got a decent amount of users and I was locked in.

    I came up with the high level concept and used AI to help scaffold and boilerplate out models and stuff from a spec, which should have been a sign that I was doing something wrong.

    Now I’m rewriting the whole thing from scratch, and one of the big things I’ve noticed is that the types of things I’d use AI for before, I’m now writing build scripts for. Which makes maintaining the library like 10x easier. It also forces me to distil the library backend down into the simplest possible form to keep the buildscripts simple.

    I’m also forced to be way stricter with my typing solution (Python) since I can’t just offload “make this right” to the AI and actually need to use strict static checks to keep the layers properly synced. AI Python tends to be awful when it comes to type hinting if it even does it.










  • I updated with a clarification if you’re actually interested. If you do actually want abolition of sex work, the only way is to support the rights of sex workers and offer them the same protection as all laborers.

    If that industry is bad, you don’t make it better by arresting everyone, you make it better by fixing the broken power dynamics that exist. Otherwise you’re just creating illegal workers who are going to be exploited even worse, same situation as immigrant workers.


  • Lol, why is this still being litigated? Even Hunter Biden managed to figure that one out.

    The anti-sexwork arguments are just anti-abortion arguments in a Groucho Marx mask. As long as sex work exists, it needs the same protections as any other job. And as long as women need abortions, it needs the same protections as any other medical operation.

    Any other position is placing the labor and medical heath of a subset of workers in a special category.

    If you want “abolition” of either, the only valid stance is to support the improvement of material conditions under the hope that those improved conditions will cause drops in participation.