lol no. this is what a mediocre dev thinks.

Telling on themselves what?

That is one hell of a headline

Those are already standardized though…

As awful as this project might be against “the real world” use, I feel weirdly proud of what I’m achieving. Is there a name for this feeling, of pride for something you know is subpar?

that's called being human my dude. people love building things, no matter how shit they are. The first step to accomplishing something big is accomplishing something small (or shit!). A great example of this is the Queen of Shitty Robots

Holy shit, this site is selling your data to every scummy company on the planet

PolyCam is free. You can also use photogrammetry and free software to model it yourself. It’s not complicated but takes a beefy computer.

Because the words inside an acronym have no bearing on how the acronym is pronounced. And in this case, it’s not just as acronym. It’s a product name, where the creators get to choose to name it whatever the fuck they want. “Choosy developers choose gif”. So there’s plenty of reasons it should be using a soft g and zero reasons it should be using a hard g.

There are so many services for formatting sources…why use an LLM for this?

I’ve almost completely stopped using them, unless I’m stuck at a dead end. In the end all they have done is slow me down and make me unable to think properly anymore. They usually write way too much code, especially with tab complete stuff, resulting in me needing to delete code after hitting tab (what’s the point even, intellisense has always been really good and now it’s somehow worse). They’re usually wrong unless prompted multiple times. People say you can use them to generate boilerplate, but just use a language with less or no boilerplate like Kotlin. There’s usually very subtle bugs they introduce or they’re solving a problem that is simply documented on stack overflow, while I wouldn’t be using an LLM if I could just kagi it, so they solve the wrong thing.

One thing it’s decent for, if you don’t care about code quality, is converting code to a language you do not know. You’re not going to end up with good idiomatic code at the end, but it will probably function.

None of this is to say that the LLMs aren’t amazing, but if you start to depend on them you very very quickly realize that your ability to solve more complex problems will atrophy. And then when you get to a difficult problem you now waste much more time trying to solve a problem that might have been simpler for past you.

The title is written weirdly, I’ll reword it longer.

Uzbekistan has several hundred miles of high speed rail, the US has less than a hundred. Even with the new projects being built in the US that will more than quintuple the amount of high speed rail, the US will still have less than Uzbekistan. The US lines are very different speeds, 125, 150, (200), (220), while the Uzbekistan lines are the same speeds 160, (160). The lines in parentheses aren’t built yet.

None of that applies if you’re a paying customer like me, and I see all the same bs. So no, it’s really just bad design, it’s not trying to do any of the stuff you mentioned.