Comment by throwaway-0001

Comment by throwaway-0001 10 hours ago

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Personally I hate this “in the middle” as it’s so relative you can shape to fit your narrative.

For example: what’s in the middle for programming?

For me 0 is writing 0 and 1. For others 0 is making the nand ports.

And 100 is ai llm vibe.

So 50/middle would be what exactly? It all depends.

Same for anything really. Some people I know keep saying not 8 not 80 to mean the middle.

Like what’s in the middle for amount of coding per day? 12 h? 8h? 2h?

What’s middle for making money? 50k, 500k, 500m?

What’s the middle for taking cyanide ? 1g? 1kg?

What about water? What about food? What about anything?

As you can see, it’s all relative and whomever says it, is trying to push his narrative as “middle” aka correct, while who does more or less is “wrong”.

epolanski 2 hours ago

You can hate it all you want but the world ain't black or white but a scale of greys. You're over focusing on which exact shade of grey one's talking, but it's indeed relative.

> So 50/middle would be what exactly? It all depends.

Using LLMs to explore code bases, doing deep research, asking it to do code reviews or find bugs, but not pushing code that LLMs have authored might be one example in the middle.

hiduck 6 hours ago

I think both me, and person before me, were commenting more about the fact that taking reserved approach is just healthier and prevents "shitstorms" in discussions that are non existent in current internet landscape. Without offending you, but creating a straw man scenario about how much cyanide one can take and getting angry at it is exactly what I had in mind; I just code, I want to code, sometimes use llm or stack overflow or ask another person for advice about code. The approach in the middle is not taking to the extremes, and making use of any available tools to do our work/hobby and just live life and not be a target of hate (I received hateful messages and even one death threat over a comment where I said that I asked Claude to explain some concept in Zig). I could go and say that "in the middle" is more of a metaphor to just being reserved about stuff but I would be probably called out for "moving goal posts" and "backtracking on own comment". Sorry if something is written weirdly, English is not my first language, I'm open to talk more tho.

  • throwaway-0001 6 hours ago

    Maybe your “sometimes” is too much for me or others. How can you ensure it’s in the “middle”? Maybe I consider extreme. Maybe others consider not enough. Like driving every day: is it extreme driving, or moderate?

    You see how makes no sense this in the “middle” concept?

    • hiduck 6 hours ago

      Then how should I call my approach? I definitely wouldn't portray myself as either pro or anti-llm: moderate? Moderate in the colloquial speech would also be not much more than trying to stay in the as you pointed out "relative" point of view. Unless you want to say that everyone is a bit of an extremist.

      • throwaway-0001 6 hours ago

        Good question. I don’t know either. Just I know “middle” is not the right thing. It’s so easy to draw the narrative you wish - self fulfilling