[–] 16 points 8 months ago (1 child)

I don't. Personally, I don't believe that AI assisted coding has a future, and I don't like the quality of what it produces. Either we achieve AGI or whatever the finance bros are hyping up this week, or we don't. If we do, then AI can write code without having a human in the loop, so "vibe coding" is dead. If we don't, then AI code stays where its at right now, which is garbage quality. After a few years vibe coding disasters, demand for human coding will increase, and my skills will be much more valuable than even before all this craziness. In that case, letting those skills atrophy today would be the wrong move.

And if I'm wrong? Well, if AI code generation makes it so anyone who doesn't know how to code can do it... then surely I'll be able to figure it out? My existing skills wouldn't hurt.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    What is this a solution to? You're going to pay high prices even if you don't buy from Amazon, due to Amazon's illegal price fixing. That's what the OP is about.

    Things are at a point where the only solution is in the courts.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago

    I don't see anything particularly unique about that WoW editor, as pretty much every terrain editor used to look like that. Nowadays, the focus is more on procedural generation for higher realism and fidelity, but I'm sure there are still plenty of tools and/or plugins for hand painting them.

    Some links:

    There are also a ton of different ways to do it in blender. You can set it up yourself, or find one of many plugins that can streamline the process.

    A convoluted, impractical, legally dubious, but maximally cool alternative is to hijack a commercial game's level editor. I know at least Far Cry 2 has a level editor with a terrain system. If you can reverse engineer the level format, you can write a script that'll convert them to whatever format you need... Just make sure you don't keep the meshes and textures from the game.

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  • [–] 28 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Time to coin a new term. The "bus factor" is the risk of a critical maintainer being hit by a bus. We need one now for the risk of them developing chatbot psychosis/brainrot.

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  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Peter Thiel is a creepy weirdo who injects himself with the blood of young people in an attempt to reverse aging.

    That means it's very important that you find and spread unflattering photos that highlight the fact that he's almost 60 years old.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    Sublime Merge is what I use, mostly for dealing with merge conflicts. For more complex operations I just do it in the terminal, even though I'm sure it supports way more features than I use it for.

    It's not FOSS, but it's also not Electron.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago

    I think the real problem is that nobody cares about security because there are very little consequences for data leaks. I guess what little safeguards existed in the past have been obliterated by the sheer velocity of AI code generation.

    What we need is laws to hold people criminally responsible for negligence in handling user data. It isn't unprecedented, since we already have HIPPA. A watered-down version of that for ANY business that collects personal data would fix a lot of problems.

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