How Programmers Spend Their Time | Probably Dance

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bart9h@reddit

anyone with any programming experience will know that writing code is never a bottleneck

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Known-Volume1509@reddit

Dancing is good. I usually got a techno playlist ready for my breaks.

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GamerHaste@reddit

I’m also terrified of letting a LLM try to upgrade my installed CUDA version. Not because I’m worried it’ll take over my computer as a first step towards taking over the world, but because I’m worried it’ll mess things up so badly that I can’t recover.

LOL, I actually had this exact problem when i first got my 5090 back in december last year and setup linux to try and do some experimentation with LLMs. I was trying to upgrade my CUDA version to work with whatever vLLM version was out at the time, and holy shit, using claude to try and get commands to upgrade it fucked my shit up so bad i just reinstalled ubuntu and setup everything again. i mean, it got to that point because I 1. am not very familar with cuda and 2. wasn't really paying super great attention to what commands I was running. I will not make that mistake again. I was sitting there trying to fix it for like 5 hours and just said fuck it!

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DeProgrammer99@reddit

I tried using CUDA in WSL2, which comes with this special libcuda.so that basically acts as a passthrough to the Windows version, except it never worked from the start with a fresh WSL2 install in my case. I always run into problems nobody in the history of the internet has had (or at least publicly posted about), haha...

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GamerHaste@reddit

i know right. at a certain point after verbally abusing claude for 4 hours i started to just debug the old fashion way and i could find 0 fixes online and noone else seemed to have gotten the error logs I had been producing! But I guess it makes sense because at the time I think blackwell architecture was not well tested with vLLM. probably why the dumbass AI was strugging so much, it hadn't sucked up enough data to be useable yet.

Not suprised with the WSL2 errors, I didn't even try with WSL despite windows being my primary OS (since I do primarily gaming with my setup!)... figured that would be an endless cesspool of disgusting errors given microsofts track record hahaha. immediately went to dualbooting ubuntu.

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psyyduck@reddit

So while I appreciate that LLMs can be a big help when writing code, I wish they would help with all the programming tasks where I’m barely producing any code.

Microsoft and Google have consistently reported that roughly 70% of all serious security vulnerabilities in their products (Windows, Chrome, Android) are memory safety bugs, with Use-After-Free being one of the most common and dangerous.

My guess is in a year LLMs will be able to autonomously harden repos (eg rewrite flashattn in Rust), which will help.

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