[–] 15 points 1 month ago

I think this is great! Because I have written so much code by hand, I'll always have an edge over the pure vibe coders. As time goes on, I'll be worth more and more! Muwahahaha!

Seriously, though: There's a great big difference between someone who uses the AI to architect their code and someone who uses AI to just speed things up a bit.

If you let AI make code architecture decisions it'll almost always get it wrong. It'll make mind-bafflingly bad decisions about security (especially separation of privilege and permissions management), programming patterns, and almost always fails the Unix style of separation of concerns (e.g. write a tool/module that does one thing but does it well).

When you let the AI model handle too much you end up with so much technical debt you end up having to start over from scratch. Actually, you end up having to do that anyway but if you know what you're doing that's not a big deal because "starting over from scratch" means remaking a tiny module or even a single function instead of the whole application.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Doesn’t seem to be working too well for them

    Yes, because they didn't focus on gaming or useful capabilities but instead tried to develop a PG-rated (as in, for kids) platform for work. Meta's management literally thought everyone would want to strap on a VR headset and wear it all day for work.

    Meanwhile, loads of fantastic games had people buying headsets just to play the game they want.

    Basically, Meta invested all their time and money in all the wrong things. All the stuff nobody actually wants to do with their VR headset. I mean, come on: They wanted to do away with the controllers! That's how anti-gaming their focus was.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    The difference here is that your typical janitorial staff will look like janitorial staff. This guy is just a generic manager (a uniform change when cleaning would be a good idea though).

    The other issue is that most businesses don't have locker rooms; they're just bathrooms.

    A bathroom has stalls where you can't see them whereas a locker room will often have naked or nearly naked people just walking about.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    I assume he doesn't actually have access to the business cameras because he's just an employee of a much larger organization.

    Example: I work for a large organization and I do not have access to any cameras anywhere. I wouldn't even know how to request it!

    Also, the recordings need to last a lot longer than 48h. A month makes more sense.

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  • [+] -14 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    I'd imagine that in that job—if you're not a perfectly fit young dude or a woman—there's a lot of accusations of "being a creep."

    Imagine you're the guy working that job and someone complains that there's a mess in the women's locker room. What do you do?

    You ask a woman if there's anyone else in there, maybe shout that you're coming in to clean it up, etc. Then you walk into the women's locker room and someone—anyone—sees a man walking into the women's locker room. BAM! Instant creep status.

    Are Meta's glasses the answer? Fuck no! But I understand the "I need protection from accusations" argument.

    What's the alternative? Cameras in the locker room? Hidden cameras?

    The guy probably thought that the glasses were big, ugly, and obvious (because they are) so no one could complain that they didn't know they could be recorded in that guy's presence.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Qwen3:14B works fine on my 4060 Ti 16GB.

    It's not good at debugging and what I would consider, "figuring complicated things out" but it's perfectly capable of working on/creating several functions at a time or generating a medium-length Python module. Which is how I prefer to write code (with AI) anyway (little bit at a time; don't let it be your architect!).

    My buddy has a 5090 and runs Qwen3:27B. With that much VRAM it can handle a LOT more context and it's apparently all he needs now. He stopped paying Anthropic shortly after that model came out.

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