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New comment by gitaarik in "I think I have LLM burnout"

gitaarik — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 08:16:47 +0000

Yes you're right. It's that most programmers are so identified with the code, that now with AI they feel their whole identity is stolen, while indeed, being a developer is more than just coding, people!

New comment by gitaarik in "Grok 4.5"

gitaarik — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 08:14:34 +0000

None of what you say is characteristic of "the right" either. But the things I'm pointing out prove the points I'm making. Please try to understand. There's corruption everywhere, don't be deceived by the idea that it's not in "your camp".

New comment by gitaarik in "I think I have LLM burnout"

gitaarik — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:22:33 +0000

Ok, so you're basically saying that the AI-generated code does it's job, but when you actually review it you think the way it does it's job is not as it should, and if you get into that flow, your agentic productivity goes down?

New comment by gitaarik in "Grok 4.5"

gitaarik — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:06:29 +0000

That's the corruption part I guess

New comment by gitaarik in "I think I have LLM burnout"

gitaarik — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 08:43:42 +0000

And so you experience that AI generated code, even on lower levels, is not good enough for you to be more productive?

New comment by gitaarik in "I think I have LLM burnout"

gitaarik — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:55:10 +0000

Well I think the reasoning of coding agents on lower levels is good enough for me that I don't have to constantly be involved with it, only occasionally have to dive in and help out.

New comment by gitaarik in "Grok 4.5"

gitaarik — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:36:24 +0000

- OpenAI being hypocritical to be "open" but backstabbing society

- Sam Bankman Fried who used "effective altruism" to raise billions

- Companies hypocritically implementing DEI and other woke hypes, doing all the marketing but internally don't actually change

Just some examples

New comment by gitaarik in "Grok 4.5"

gitaarik — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:21:56 +0000

People on the right would tell you that the left are using ethicality to hijack politics and push through corrupt agendas.

There's probably a lot of truly ethical left people, but there are obviously also very corrupt people that exploit these things. The right would argue that they at least try to do things in a moral way. You have to draw a line somewhere, you have to have limits, but also personal rights.

I think it's good that we have both sides, because only one will get things out of balance and make it very easy for corruption to sneak in.

New comment by gitaarik in "Grok 4.5"

gitaarik — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:11:08 +0000

The right would tell you the left's ethicality is often fake and corrupt, and the right at least tries to be moral. There's something to that, but I think there's corruption on both sides, and they try to solve things in different ways, which both have their up and down sides. The right can seem harsh compared to the softness of the left, but the left can seem weak compared to the right's decisiveness.

New comment by gitaarik in "Grok 4.5"

gitaarik — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 05:35:49 +0000

People on the right say the same about the left

New comment by gitaarik in "I think I have LLM burnout"

gitaarik — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:57:59 +0000

But ultimately you got into this craft to solve a problem. That is how the craft developed. And when you build a very complex elaborate system, it can still have interesting technical challenges, even for a developer with AI. You should shift your technical insight to a higher abstraction level, where the AI cannot help anymore.

New comment by gitaarik in "GitLost: We Tricked GitHub's AI Agent into Leaking Private Repos"

gitaarik — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 06:56:10 +0000

It must be something to do with Microsoft being the owner now of GitHub

New comment by gitaarik in "Does code cleanliness affect coding agents? A controlled minimal-pair study"

gitaarik — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 10:00:13 +0000

I just say "refactor the codebase" and that also works pretty good!

I have my code styling rules in my CLAUDE.md already anyway

New comment by gitaarik in "Does code cleanliness affect coding agents? A controlled minimal-pair study"

gitaarik — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 09:55:29 +0000

Why not just fix the code before you make a new feature? Or is that what you mean? Only you automatically fix the code on every prompt?

New comment by gitaarik in "Europe's new climate in seven charts"

gitaarik — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 07:16:41 +0000

What's "normal" really? You could argue the climate has never actually been normal, or it always has been and always will

New comment by gitaarik in "Europe's new climate in seven charts"

gitaarik — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 07:14:54 +0000

Indeed, climate change won't end; it never has and it never will, the climate always changes.

New comment by gitaarik in "Organic Maps"

gitaarik — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 04:52:42 +0000

Send it in an attachment over Telegram or something and open that on your watch?

New comment by gitaarik in "Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable"

gitaarik — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 01:04:40 +0000

Also I find it interesting to learn the jargon. It basically compacts information in fewer words, although more complex words. But when you are familiar with the jargon, you can unpack the sentences in your mind. And like that, you need less text to read and write prompts. So less reading, writing, and tokens!

New comment by gitaarik in "Giant trees have no trouble pumping water to top branches"

gitaarik — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 23:46:58 +0000

Maybe it's not more trouble pumping, eh, sucking water up. But that the top branches are the last ones to get water in periods of draught, and have therefore more resilience?

New comment by gitaarik in "Giant trees have no trouble pumping water to top branches: new research"

gitaarik — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 23:30:40 +0000

“Trees contain lots of thin, hollow vessels and they suck water upwards by creating low pressure at the top,”

So sucking / pulling?