Or well just have Linux installed in the first place. Preferably NixOS because you can just roll back to a previous configuration if something goes wrong.

In what fantasy world are you living, that you don’t believe that??

I’m living in the world of software engineering and this is a fucking reality now… I don’t like it. I really don’t like it. I really would like to agree with you, but it’s not the case, since they have introduced reinforcement learning a while ago, the models got quite a bit better, this has nothing to do with AI psychosis or anything.

They are not superior for everything (fortunately, otherwise I would have to fear about my job), and I say that as a quite experienced software engineer, but for rather dull tasks they are certainly quite a little bit faster than manually programming per hand, although it’s certainly more fun to program by hand even dull tasks…

No, I’m arguing that the models got better. I unfortunately have to work with them…

Problem is you need a live USB stick…

As much as I’d like that to be true, this is unfortunately not the case…

I only have it in the VM but even there I tried all kinds of things like hacks in the registry and all kinds of services disabled only to discover sometime later that it tried to update.

I just set it read only so that it just can’t do that now, anymore. It’s such a virus…

This is a stupid take nonetheless because of escalating climate change especially.

You probably just need to find the right exercise. Sounds crazy, but playing drums for example also counts as exercise, and at least to me is highly addictive.

The “runners high” can also be kinda addictive (or more generally of your favourite sport)

Apart of that, Psychedelics may also be worth a try, they seem very promising in research currently. But don’t mix them with SSRIs…

Yeah I also had to go through multiple burnouts or depressions (I’m not sure where to put these, difficult to draw a line). Kinda sad how this is not screened straight away, given the commoness of that condition.

It’s a little bit more than that, I would say at this point.

As I said somewhere else I’m not really into LLMs, so I try to stay neutral…

I’m currently using Astra a little bit more, and it’s really interesting to see how these models work these days. You increasingly feel the (self-)reinforcement learning on these models. They developed an interesting code style (not very human…). Also the way it explores the code (and other stuff) like writing scripts on the fly to either explore or monitor, and even writing scripts to build the sourcefiles. And well, it definitely currently reshapes software development…

And society-fuck.

As much as I have a love-hate relationship with these because of all the negative effects (And there are countless ones), it’s quite impressive what current Frontier models can do at this time, with very little input.

Right, but the browser hasn’t opened any web pages yet and you have not started your IDE (for example, Rust Analyzer takes a massive amount of RAM) and so on.

I think 8GB is probably a little bit more realistic, workable with, but likely still a lot of pain…

I generally support the sentiment. Though here I am with 64GB and it’s still often swapping. (I’m already running optimized Linux)

As a programmer I can already give some hints. The code generated by current LLMs is really looking weird, Certainly nothing that humans would do…

you’re weirdly optimistic…

I wouldn’t be surprised, considering Trump’s administration.

I can tell you’re not working in IT…

It’s astonishing how quickly it changed the field there…

And indeed it’s quite a productivity tool since roughly half a year ago, not that it is fun, to use it all the time…

i know one university having their compsci students now doing their projects using AI.

How to promote brain atrophy…

But I guess it’s difficult for Universities to adjust, indeed…

And yes, I agree, I write less and less manual code, but it’s not fun. Endless context switching is really not promoting flow states, that I had when I programmed for ours… Which I consider what made it fun in the first place.

yeah, maybe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkcgQQSgznU

Travelling to the (far) past would give you certainty though.