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[–] 10 points 8 hours ago* (4 children)

Its also possible to run these things locally… its slower than a cloud LLM service, but its still very usefully fast, and isn’t funding some corpo datacenter.

But it wasn't done locally, which begs the question: can local models reverse engineer on any kind of reasonable time scale?

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  • [–] 1 point 6 hours ago (2 children)

    I don’t know, by my little ollama GPT OSS is pretty great at merging mods together for games and updating old mods to work with new game versions. under my guidance it’s been pretty effective, I also have been a Software Engineer since 2019.

    But again this is under the category of not super difficult and basically tedious stuff I don’t feel like doing anymore (been modding games since Oblivion 2006) and I just want to say this is far more convienent.

    Sure there are many bugs still, but I’d say the most useful feature isn’t making something new or reverse engineering it to be implemented different or something else. It’s just altering it enough to better fit my needs, but at the drop of text like during gaming. Usually via merging mods into mod packs and working through the bugs myself.

    But I have never let it touch anything real or used for work.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 child)

    Tedious stuff

    This annoys me a lot with complaints about "vibe coding". Like, I know how to do it, I just don't feel like spending 5 hours building and debugging a script I am probably going to run once to convert a bunch of data. I just want the task done so I can move on and do actually enjoyable things.

    I get all the arguments against AI "art" and "writing" and "music" etc, actual creative areas. But coding is just tedious boring nonsense 99% of the time. It's not the same. Get the computer, to translate human words to computer words, and be done.

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  • But coding is just tedious boring nonsense 99% of the time.

    To anyone reading this far down, do not let people like this build the narrative that there is no joy in your hobby or profession. These are thieves trying to rob you of your enthusiasm for life.

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