You sound like me. I've found some good uses for them generating ansible files for example (the output is regularly wrong, even with the latest and greatest model, but easy enough to correct). But otherwise, there always seems to be a cutoff in the complexity of a project where the ROI of just having to have built everything myself, and thus being completely immersed in the codebase, seems like it would have been much greater then prompting something to frankensteinian life.
But most of all, I love the act of programming and cannot imagine myself giving that over to an LLM. "Managing" an LLM is to me a soul crushing - maybe anti-intellectual, but definitely boring - task. And if that is what we as professionals will be required to do in the future, I'll just change profession.
Well, they say that, but in my experience at least, that is just conjured up as a more palatable explanation after the fact. While I do think that a certain, even significant, amount of automation is good, there is also a large mass of unemployed that can undoubtedly be trained to fill these "human interaction" kind of roles (support). This workforce is still not hard to find at all. We just don't want to do that - there is not a single western country left that has low unemployment as its key prerogative.
Yes, it's only a profit thing. If you cut out the humans you can make more money. If not for your boss then for the company that gets the contract to make the automation.
This is the challenge of 21st century, innit? To motivate those who are OK with universal minimal income, which is apparently already there scattered in all forms of scam, surplus and wasted goods.
I think (based on observations from my admittedly flawed in many different ways workplace) the difference with Stackoverflow assisted development is scale. ChatGPT seems to have massively boosted the productivity of mediocre developers.
Obviously not saying that LLMs aren't empowering competent developers and spawning useful projects. But their ubiquity seems to have coincided with an avalanche of terrible code, at least at the fairly disorganized organization I work at.
I think that is just what happens if you live in tick-dense areas and do a lot if outdoor activities. I take every precaution, and remove approximatively the same number of ticks per season. Some places are just like that. Once, I rested with my right hand against the ground, just a couple of seconds, and upon lifting it up I noticed around 30 ticks crawling on it.
Strange. I'm on a low end android and it was impressively smooth and loaded instantaneusly. Just came off LinkedIn for a contrast, where every touch of a button gives me time to refill my cup with coffee.
Reaper has a plethora of built-in effects and you can script your own in JS or Python or EEL2. You'd have to use third-party synthesizers though.
That said, the GUIs of said effects are basic, but I personally still find them useful.
There is no difference between the evaluation, non-commercial and commercial tiers.
I'd say, give it a try, the days when Reaper was a niche DAW are way in the past. Especially if you like the idea of being able to customize every corner of your DAW, Reaper is the no-brainer choice.
Nitpick: the JSFX audio effects you're referring to are scripted in EEL2. Reaper itself can be scripted with Python, Lua and EEL2 (see http://reaper.fm/sdk/reascript/reascript.php). It also has a C plugin API.
> I really don't get how they arrived to that conclusion.
It's a cliché in UK. They correctly diagnose the Italian obsession with high standards of appearance, but they liberally use "bella figura" to describe it in contexts we would not consider as such.
For example: when dressing to go buy a bit of milk, we wouldn't describe it as an activity that requires "bella figura", we just don't want to look like homeless people and our "not looking homeless" is at a certain standard; but they would say that, by dressing appropriately, we are paying attention to "bella figura". That's because people here can go VERY low on standards of appearance in circumstances like that, while we just won't.
which makes the whole thing extra weird because even if she might not be aware of a direct translation being available she should know how it's used in italy.
it's perfectly fine for a finely dressed gentleman to spill a drink on his wife's boss on a party, which is a perfect occasion for a "proprio una bella figura hai fatto" > "yeah, such a good impression you made" and it's so common of an usage I can't fathom how it got related to fashion in the article part she penned.
We had some employees working from a coworking space last year, and we would receive invoices from The coworking biz addressed to "MR Company Name". They would frequently omit our VAT number as well. Of course, we could not pay those invoices, and whenever we got in contact with their support The response would be so delayed that we already had received multiple warnings and threats from their automatic invoicing system. They did eventually get their shit together and voided all The junk invoices they had sent us, but it took three months or so... And this was a huge player in coworking, not a small indie bussiness.
But most of all, I love the act of programming and cannot imagine myself giving that over to an LLM. "Managing" an LLM is to me a soul crushing - maybe anti-intellectual, but definitely boring - task. And if that is what we as professionals will be required to do in the future, I'll just change profession.