Desarrollo software. Creador de @TheDojoMX. I’m running out of time.
CDMX, México
Joined August 2010
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hectorip retweeted
AI makes infinite software possible: if you want something to be different, you simply ask. Would you like your grocery list to be sorted by aisle? Ask. For programmers, that’s a massive reduction in friction. For non-programmers, it’s a revelation.
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It’s kinda crazy to me that we melt sand down, clean it to 99.99999% purity, literal wizards have to draw it slowly into an ingot, we cut it, inscribe a hundred billion little on/off switches on it, and when you run electric current through it you can do basic arithmetic, which when you do enough of it can do any math on the planet, and which describes reality well enough that we can teach it the ontological meaning of words and their distance from each other on a high-dimensional space, and if you ask, it can tell you what word comes next and that apparently is powerful enough that if you do it a hundred billion times it’s the smartest thing to ever exist
oh yeah and we use this primarily for email
hectorip retweeted
Programmers, engineers, and mathematicians who hate AI loved solving puzzles not problems.
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I'm old enough to remember when 'C++ slop' was the battle cry of 'real' coders.
Then it was 'Unity slop' and 'Unreal slop' from those who thought hand-rolled engines were superior in every way.
Now it's AI slop.
People draw a line on the abstraction hierarchy below which they are happy to automate the tedium. The line just moved... that's all.
Skilled people will still make superior software. We have been inundated with low quality slop since the birth of digital distribution decades ago. It's nothing new.
hectorip retweeted
Llevamos décadas construyendo software con código mediocre, bugs ancestrales, hacks sobre hacks, tests a medias, TODOs olvidados, parches temporales que se volvieron permanentes y código que nadie se atreve a tocar.
Y ahora resulta que nos preocupa confiar en código que no entendemos porque lo escribió una IA.
Como si lleváramos décadas entendiendo perfectamente el código que escribimos nosotros.
hectorip retweeted
Amazing how quickly we went from "oh no LLMs are going to flood the Internet with insecure code" to "oh no LLMs have discovered the internet was already flooded with insecure code"
hectorip retweeted
We’re about to learn that most code written over the last 20 years was complete slop and most software developers were never that good
hectorip retweeted
The funny thing is everyone was saying AI slop code will cause a cyber crisis but it’s actually all the old human slop causing it and the AI is just cleaning it up
hectorip retweeted
The situation where a certificate's private key only has 8 bits of randomness instead of 384 is unacceptable.
We should urge all certificate authorities to immediately publish their private keys so that the community can make sure they are random enough.
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Quick reminder that the free limit reset from last month expires tomorrow at 9am PT! 🙏 If you haven't used yours yet, it's still waiting for you in Settings > Usage (or clau.de/reset)
hectorip retweeted
Unfinished coding side projects are now way easier to complete than unfinished blog posts.
I’m perfectly OK with AI writing my code, even the docs.
But I flinch at the idea of AI writing my blog posts, which feels like an egregious violation of a fundamental ethnical contract.
