Everything is free now, so why not a floating orb in my IDE

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WD-42•about 1 hour ago

Everything is free, except HTTP requests apparently.

ryuuseijin•about 3 hours ago

I noticed during my own automatic programming [1] that although code is free (or more free, at least compared to before coding agents) understanding is not. Instead of investing time to understand and master someone else's software tools, I now still need to understand and master what I build for myself, which can be a lot of fun if you build up your understanding from scratch while building out the tools.

[1] https://antirez.com/news/159

hhh•about 1 hour ago

I have to spend hours understanding how other humans have asked the computer to do something, and they are also bad at asking it to do so, so I could have gotten a better result if they just came to me with their desire...

_carbyau_•32 minutes ago

Yup. So often with AI output, I want to know the prompt the human wrote instead.

dreamcompiler•about 2 hours ago

Not exactly everything is free. I'd prefer to live in a world where stuff like this was expensive and RAM was still cheap.

skyberrys•about 2 hours ago

Ouch going right to the point. RAM is definitely not free. The little floating orb does seem meditative though. While I was looking at it I felt free to think,. maybe it's message is that we should write programs that don't need as much RAM? I remember hearing that long ago developers had to fit their entire videogame into mere kilobytes.

globular-toast•30 minutes ago

Emacs "zone" mode is much cooler than this and has existed for decades.

jdw64•about 2 hours ago

Wow, it's amazing that an individual built an IDE

Everything is free now, so why not a floating orb in my IDE

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