That “just changing a word” is easy and quick. A codebase is an iceberg. Management only really typically understands the surface, but there is a disproportionate amount of ice under the water.
I had to change all instances of a label from a word to an abbreviation. Because we don’t have i18n set up in the app, it ended up affecting 55 different files. I did my best to consolidate into everything calling a common function, but it’s far from perfect. 55 files changed because management said “oh this word here should be shorter”.
He was! But he overused the harpsichord, in my very humble and unfounded opinion, and it hurts my ears to listen to a lot of his creation. I get why he did (the piano was still a very new creation, and the harpsichord could be more easily heard in concert halls), but it sure does pierce the eardrum these days.
I’m less worried and disturbed by the current thing people are calling AI than I am of the fact that every company seems to be jumping on the bandwagon and have zero idea how it can and should be applied to their business.
Companies are going to waste money on it, drive up costs, and make the consumer pay for it, causing even more unnecessary inflation.
As for your points on job security — your trepidation is valid, but premature, by numerous decades, in my opinion. The moment companies start relying on these LLMs to do their programming for them is the moment they will inevitably end up with countless bugs and no one smart enough to fix them, including the so-called AI. LLMs seem interesting and useful on the surface, and a person can show many examples of this, but at the end of the day, it’s regurgitating fed content based on rules and measures with knob-tuning — I do not yet see objective strong evidence that it can effectively replace a senior developer.
Is it a single VM? Or are you running 2 or more VMs and utilizing a load balancer? If not, do you not yet see a need to do so?
I will say the uptime these past couple months has been amazing. I know with the influx last summer and the updates to Lemmy, things were a bit rocky at times, but I appreciate the work you all have done to stabilize the site.
Thank you all for working to make a stable, safe, and inclusive space!
That's the beauty of science, I don't have to experience something to believe it to be factual, and if I experience something that I don't understand, I can work to find out without having to immediately believe something is objectively factual or not. I'm okay with not knowing until I find out. That's the problem with religionists, they require answers but substitute superstition and "faith" in place of actual provable fact. The point of science is the endless pursuit of objective discovery and fact.
All this to say, I do not buy into the premise that I must make a belief in something just because I experience it.
I live my life by facts and evidence and I am not reliant solely on my own experiential evidence.
If I come across something that seems to contradict what I believe to be a fact, I research it (to the best of my ability) to see if it’s just me who is wrong.
Of course, I am human, and fallable, and my emotions certainly can get in the way. But I try to be aware of them so I can put them into perspective.
Beyond that, I would need specific examples to address, as I’ve never had any experience that I can recall which contradicted anything already explained by science.
Of course! I have numerous various systems at my disposal: Savage Worlds, Fate, Fudge, Mork Borg, etc.
But that doesn’t mean I can’t have a soft spot for D&D. I played it back in the early 90s when it was still AD&D 2nd edition. I remember having a love/hate relationship with THAC0. So I’d like to see D&D get owned by a company that understands what they have is something to be nurtured, not exploited. So if Hasbro sells it, my hope is it will go to a company that will do that. I’m sure I’ll be disappointed, but I’m still going to leave room for that hope.
I get it. But I’ve seen how Tencent does things. And I don’t like what I see. It’s not about what’s worse, it’s about going to a company that will do right by the IP. Hasbro sucks, I agree, but moving the IP to another company that sucks is not what I’d like to see for D&D.
Sadly I’ve found a few of those on Lemmy already. What I’d prefer is the internet of the 1990s when it took effort to figure out and the masses were too lazy or dumb to do so.
Oh I used some interesting IDE-based searching. QA closed the ticket so apparently I got them all! Haha.