• Feyd@programming.dev
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    7 months ago

    Man i remember eclipse doing code completion for for loops and other common snippets in like 2005. LLM riders don’t even seem to know what tools have been in use for decades and think using an LLM for these things is somehow revolutionary.

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      7 months ago

      the promptfondlers that make their way into our threads sometimes try to brag about how the LLM is the only way to do basic editor tasks, like wrapping symbols in brackets or diffing logs. it’s incredible every time

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          yep, I came up with promptfans (as a reference for describing all the weirdos who do free PR and hype work for this shit), and then @skillsissuer came up with promptfondlers for describing those that do this kind of bullshit

          (and promptfuckers has become to collective noun I think of for all of them)

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            I like promptfarmers for the LLM companies and developers. It reflects there attitude of passively hoping that letting their model grow in scale will bring in some future harvest of money.

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              hmm, I like that!

              and then I guess “promptfarmowner” would be saltman etc?

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                7 months ago

                Grain futures salesmen on farms full of plant life (99.5% of which is weeds). …I don’t have a snappy label yet.

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      Forever in my mind, the guy who said on another post he uses an LLM to convert strings to uppercase when that’s literally a builtin command in VSCode, give people cannons and they’re start shooting mosquitoes with them every fucking time