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by minimaxir 381 days ago
Time is a finite resource, and there's an opportunity cost. If an easy PoC for a complex project can't be created using AI and it would take hours/days to create a PoC organically that may not even be useful, it's better project management to just do something else entirely if it's not part of a critical path.
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bastawhiz 381 days ago
I can't disagree with this take more vehemently. This isn't an "easy PoC". This is "copy and paste it from the docs"-level effort:

https://ffmpegwasm.netlify.app/docs/getting-started/usage/

If you can't be arsed to google the library and read the Usage page and run the _one command_ on the Installation page to come up with a working example (or: tweak the single line of the sample code in the live editor in the docs to do what you want it to do), how do you expect to do anything beyond "an easy PoC"? At what point does your inability/unwillingness to do single-digit-minutes of effort to explore an idea really just mean you aren't the right person for the job? Hell, even just pasting the code sample into the LLM and asking it to change it for you would get you to the right answer.

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minimaxir 381 days ago
I was commenting on the general assertion of the GP's comment, not this specific instance.
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bastawhiz 381 days ago
Another commenter showed how they were able to use Claude to do this in two messages: one to write the code, a second to paste the error that comes out so Claude can fix it. The exact word of the comment you replied to was "oneshot": if you're going to outsource 100% of the thinking involved in the task to a machine and can't even be bothered to copy over the error you're getting after the first response, my response remains the same.
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MrThoughtful 381 days ago
Can you link to that comment? I don't see a mention of "Claude" anywhere in this thread. Also nobody here showed they were able to "do this" yet.
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MrThoughtful 381 days ago
If there is a "copy and paste" way to get that to run in the browser, can you copy and paste it to a jsfiddle and post the link to the fiddle here?
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Matheus28 381 days ago
You’re basically asking people to do your homework for you at this point…
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MrThoughtful 381 days ago
He said it is a matter of copy+paste, not work.

I don't think so as I did not get it to run. And if he really can accomplish it with copy+paste, why wouldn't he demonstrate it?

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AndriyKunitsyn 381 days ago
Because he doesn't want to do that for you for free I guess :)

"Tap with a hammer: $1. Knowing where to tap: $9999."

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bastawhiz 381 days ago
As long as you make sure the npm package is available, you can! If you can't figure out how to do it, I'm sorry but I literally can't think of a way to make it less effort. The problem you described in another comment with the import statements is literally explained on the Installation page of the documentation.
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MrThoughtful 381 days ago
As I said in my original comment that started this thread, I don't use any server side tech. So there is no "npm package". I am only using a browser.
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bastawhiz 380 days ago
You don't need to be on the server to use NPM. NPM just downloads the code. I'm honestly not sure if you're just trolling at this point
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