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  • So do I. You can structure and use the tools responsibly.

    Two things I really like using LLMs for right now:

    1). Search complex codebases for summaries of “how does this work”. Especially if you are working outside of a project you normally work in, but your code still utilizes it and you want to understand some behavior (or at least know where to look).

    2.) PR reviews. I’ve been building a custom skill for awhile now that does a great second pass on PRs. I do my initial review, then sic the LLM on it. It often turns up small things I overlooked that are worth addressing.

    Currently, I use LLMs in more of a read-only manner, but I have had success in giving them well-structured easier tickets, if your project has good guidelines and you use the planning mode. You need to have an understanding of where you are working to even utilize these.

    I know it’s an unpopular take, because the hive mind wants LLMs to fail SO bad here, but I think there is a usecase for these long-term for B2B software dev.

    That said, I generally disagree with the shoving LLMs into things. There are a lot of wasteful examples where companies replace a perfectly good deterministic thing with a token generator and then it gets worse.











  • Not like these ones. I’m almost tired of having this discussion y’all are blinded by hatred.

    First full flow staged combustion engine, dramatically lower launch prices than competitors (cheaper for the government and has enabled more interesting things to go to space), dramatically more access (SpaceX flies multiple times a week!), booster recovery & rocket reuse.

    And again I know everyone really is blinded by their seething rage but starship is going to change the whole landscape again.

    You can hate the man as much as you want, I’m not saying I don’t. But you discredit yourself by not knowing what SpaceX is actually doing.

    I mean, we still wouldn’t have US access to space without SpaceX (Boeing fiasco…).








  • It’s not an intentional snub, I just answered this question in a different reply.

    I don’t know with enough certainty to list out all the issues, but the biggest one that sticks out to me is information control.

    The government restricts citizens access to the Internet (among other things). I have talked to people from Russia, people from China, etc online. But I have never talked to someone from North Korea and that is a pretty big red flag for me.

    I pretty strongly believe that anybody who tries to control the flow of information amongst supposedly free people is not a “good guy”. Yes, this includes the United States, UK, China, etc. Many do so to some extent and I am against all of them for that.

    But, none so draconian seeming as the DPRK.