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   mhoye (temporarily spooky) (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Sep-2025 10:14:52 JST mhoye (temporarily spooky)

   Don't think my basil plant is gonna make it. Is there any resuscitating these things, or are they one and done if you aren't a ... professional basil ... wrangler? Whatever the word for that is.

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     Derek Martin (lo_fye@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Sep-2025 10:14:51 JST Derek Martin

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     @mhoye It might not, but other senior people who use it to augment their work might.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Sep-2025 10:14:51 JST Rich Felker

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     @lo_fye @mhoye It doesn't "augment" their work but make it more shit.

     The threat from "AI" or those who use it is not that they take skilled jobs.

     It's that they lower the expectation of output so low that they only thing you can buy is shit. Race to the bottom.

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     mhoye (temporarily spooky) (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Sep-2025 10:14:52 JST mhoye (temporarily spooky)

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     "Wrangling the basil" sounds like a euphemism for something you'd catch a health code fine for doing in behind a new york pizza joint.

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     mhoye (temporarily spooky) (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Sep-2025 10:14:52 JST mhoye (temporarily spooky)

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     I have never once worried that AI is going compete with me.

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     Derek Martin (lo_fye@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Sep-2025 11:59:04 JST Derek Martin

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     • Rich Felker

     @dalias @mhoye Arguable. For routine drudgery, it can type faster than I can. Even that can make a difference. It can also point out potential design, architecture, or security flaws, but you get to decide if they’re valid or not. I can’t stress enough how helpful AI can be for a solo developer. It can help you with small things, like why is my debugger failing? Stuff peripheral to writing the code itself. AI doesn’t inherently make stuff suck; people & companies who use it thoughtlessly do.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Sep-2025 11:59:04 JST Rich Felker

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     • Derek Martin

     @lo_fye @mhoye 🙄

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Sep-2025 12:13:44 JST Rich Felker

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     • Derek Martin

     @mhoye @lo_fye Statistical recognition is pretty 💩 for identifying vulnerabilities/flawed code. Real static analysis tooling or even friggin grep is so much better. Reproducivle, fewer false positives, comprehensible logic for how the finding was reached.

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     mhoye (temporarily spooky) (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Sep-2025 12:13:45 JST mhoye (temporarily spooky)

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     @dalias @lo_fye so… for whatever my opinion is worth this is a place I think statistical recognition could really shine, not as a tool on its own but as a dowsing rod for deterministic needs.

     As in, if a stochastic analysis or a corpus suggests some set of almost-patterns, great, make them rigorous and deterministic patterns. Use the tool to drive almost towards certainty, not just generate more almost.