mehagar

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by mehagar 8d ago
What are you switching to?
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by mehagar 2mo ago
On iOS this popover breaks scrolling, which is required to show the Chrome URL bar, meaning I have to literally close the Chrome app and reopen it to even navigate to another page. I've taken this as a sign to stop using Reddit entirel
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by mehagar 4mo ago
Same. Messy code makes it harder for us to understand and thus maintain the code (which is why people often refer to code as a liability), but is that the case for AI tools as well? If not, it seems like clean code may not matter as much an
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by mehagar 4mo ago
I just hope my employer comes to the same conclusion before I get laid off.
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by mehagar 4mo ago
Yeah, this is the one. Android in a desktop form-factor.
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by mehagar 5mo ago
I've been using AI tools to brainstorm approaches and sometimes generate code, but actually doing the typing myself. That way I'm less likely to forget the mechanics and programming language over time.
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by mehagar 6mo ago
Did you read the article? The author means software in general, not just user-facing apps.
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by mehagar 6mo ago
The way I see it is - AI still makes mistakes, and I have to know how things work at some point anyway. So I'd rather spend my time actually understanding fundamentals (in my case, CSS at the moment), than trying to keep up with the f
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by mehagar 6mo ago
You make it seem like AI coding has already "totally changed" our jobs. This is exactly the FOMO the article talks about ("until its too late"). It hasn't. I'm still using the same workflows without AI tools, a
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by mehagar 6mo ago
The Nintendo Wii was like this too.
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by mehagar 7mo ago
I agree. This is one area I'm hoping that AI tools can help with. Given a complex codebase that no one understands, the ability to have an agent review the code change is at least better than nothing at all.
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by mehagar 7mo ago
I would normally agree, but I think the "code is a liability" quote assumes that humans are reading and modifying the code. If AI tools are also reading and modifying their own code, is that still true?
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by mehagar 7mo ago
There was nothing stopping everyone from using continuous delivery today, yet many companies still rely on long cycles, manual testing and handovers. The problem isn't the tooling, it's the people.
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by mehagar 7mo ago
I don't understand this part either. At some point we're writing software for people to use, and there has to be someone who comes up with the requirements based on what people want. AI doesn't change this fact.
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by mehagar 7mo ago
Is there an equivalent for the JS ecosystem? If not, having Dependabot update dependencies automatically after a cooldown still seems like a better alernative, since you are likely to never update dependencies at all if it's not automa
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by mehagar 7mo ago
I use Gemini for personal stuff such as travel planning and research on how to fix something, which product to buy, etc. My company has as Pro subscription so I use that instead of ChatGPT.
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by mehagar 7mo ago
It's refreshing to hear people say "We're not really sure" in public, especially from experts. I agree that AI tools are likely to amplify the importance of quick cycles and continuous delivery.
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by mehagar 7mo ago
If tech companies want to show they have a high percentage of LoC being generated by AI, it's likely they are going to encourage developers to use AI to further increase these numbers, at which point is does become a measure of product
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by mehagar 7mo ago
So the question is, are these AI tools primarily creating inherent complexity, or is it a significant amount of accidental complexity? And if AI tools are writing all of the code, does it even matter anymore?
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by mehagar 8mo ago
The book Software Engineering at Google makes a distinction between software engineering and programming. The main difference is that software engineering occurs over a longer time span than programming. In this sense, AI tools can make p
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by mehagar 8mo ago
So they can potentially work offline and deliver push notifications.
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by mehagar 8mo ago
For Apple, sure. But Google has been leading efforts to make the PWA experience good. In origin trial right now is the ability for websites to install PWAs: https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers/blob&#x
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by mehagar 8mo ago
How is it overly verbose? I find it very intuitive, with the exception of useEffect.
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by mehagar 9mo ago
The way I approach these situations is by reminding myself that the speaker is implicitly making a request - a request for empathy or understanding. While it's tempting to try to solve their problems, what they really want is for their
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by mehagar 10mo ago
If a tool makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot, then it's not a good tool. See C++.
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by mehagar 10mo ago
We tested this against WebRTC data channels (which also uses UDP) and found that the congestion control algorithm used for WebTransport limits its use for videoconferencing. We'll probably look into it again if browsers start allowing
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by mehagar 1y ago
For Zoom Team Chat you can set up notifications to only notify for replies to your messages, direct messages, and explicit mentions. I agree that it would be useful to additionally batch notifications for specific channels though.
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by mehagar 1y ago
We're using conventional commits on my team, and it's extremely annoying. I've never had a reason to go deeper into the history of a repo outside of the PR merge commit history. I think it makes more sense to have conventions
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Awakening Bell(awakeningbell.org)
89 points by mehagar 1y ago|19 comments
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by mehagar 1y ago
This article explicitly mentions your first point.

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