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Nobody said “AI” was free. That was a rhetorical figure to lead into the rest of my argument which, apparently, you couldn’t argue against.

The way you’re steering the conversation off track with every post is frankly like talking to a chatbot.

Nope. We all know the phrase “if it’s free, you’re the product”. In one of his non-offensive moments, RMS said that social media users are really “the used”.

Under the current paradigm, the “AI” user is the real tool.

Yeah, I also put more faith in those 200 work hours than in the original, generated code which the guy completely rewrote before submission.

consulting an LLM like a book

Saw a news item the other day, reporting that a significant number of university students now use “AI” bots instead of course literature. One student replied, “Nah, I opened a book like once. Anyway, the literature can be just as flawed as AI because there’s new research being made all the time”…

There is a significant overestimation of the factuality of “AI” responses at play there. And a lack of understanding of the entire chain of fact checking, verification, and review that goes into making a book, particularly for education.

I know that is slightly OT, but I think the comparison is fair.

Big caveat there that “AI” still makes stuff up out of the blue, despite being ostensibly trained on “all of human knowledge”. And this guy seems to have used its generated code accordingly to better apply his PHP skills to C++.

You can probably tell I disagree strongly with “AI” being called “just a tool” 😛

I understand the scepticism, it’s easy to be wary of assisted coding as a gut reaction these days. However, the programmer replied to his own merge request:

I put roughly 200 hours into this (largely due to not being familiar with the codebase and technologies involved beforehand)

…and I find it hard to believe a vibe coder would bother prompting his magic eightball for that long? Maybe that’s my personal prejudice against that particular set of (often wannabe) programmers showing.

There’s also an “AI” disclosure in the original merge request that says:

• None of the submitted code is AI generated. I wrote all of it myself (largely by copying existing code).

• I used OpenAI Codex in the following ways:

  • I used it to generate a quick prototype to give me an idea of where to start. The prototype was MUCH more limited and I rewrote it from scratch (i.e. none of the code submitted here is from there).
  • I used it to help me with debugging/understanding some of the stuff new to me (e.g. how does a value get to QML, wayland protocols, understanding crashes, …).
  • I used it to review the code before submitting it (in addition to manually reviewing it myself). It caught a few minor issues.
  • I used it to write a “touchpad simulator” patch that I used for testing touchpad gestures (not submitted).

YMMV on what side of vibe coding that usage falls.

Just don’t. If you can’t be arsed making a slideshow yourself, don’t expect others to bother watching it.

“LOL”, I guess?

While true, doesn’t have anything to do with my comment?

I use markdown for pretty much everything, and I agree with the overall notion of this rundown, but —

Seeing weird characters when you copy-paste from AI? That’s because ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, and others use Markdown to format their responses.

Yeah, maybe that’s not the gotcha the author thought it would be.

Markdown — so stupid simple even stochastic parrots can figure it out is a slogan that will age like milk.

NoProvider2Push is a good call! Haven’t paid attention to that, thanks!

Yeah, as I said earlier it wasn’t completely clear to me if this was only a question about push notifications or just all-round play services replacement. That is why I also mentioned SunUp which uses UnifiedPush.

I’m not sure what you’re asking. There is microG that spoofs Play services to apps. That’s been around for several years.

You can also find open source push notification apps on f-droid. Some of those might require a self hosted server, while for example Sunup uses Mozilla’s server.

Whether those work on your device probably depends on your ability to root it 🤷

Have you tried the Wayback machine?

Companies like OpenAI built “Super AI”

Let me stop you right there. No they didn’t, and at this rate they never will. What we have is shit “AI”, and if your solution to that builds on more shit “AI”, you’ll end up with a Jurassic Park sized midden.

Everything past that first false premise is best read as satire.

Right, it was the local filesharing part (like at a W/LAN party) that I wanted to recommend pirate box for, so I overlooked the other functions 🙂

Either way, bookmarked your GH repo for future reference, excellent project!

Oh hey, this is just what I was looking for recently! I wanted to recommend PirateBox to another thread on here, but realised it was eol’ed six years back. This is pretty much similar usage, right?

That’s fine, mbin didn’t exactly provide the url I’d expect. Callinghttps://kbin.earth/m/vinyl@lemmy.world the “original post URL” rather than https://lemmy.world/post/28778258 looks a bit off to me.

Just plucked the URL from my own latest post to test: https://kbin.earth/m/vinyl@lemmy.world/t/1255550

According to mbin, that’s the original post URL, but does the site need a different format? Because trying another random post from my timeline I get a list of votes: https://programming.dev/post/29327147

Appreciate the effort, but

Failed to fetch votes

Even simpler, I love it! 👍