rbongers

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by rbongers 1mo ago
Two very useful directives to give AI when it comes to documentation: 1) Document what's there, not the diff. Documentation of how code was removed or changed to fix a bug or add a feature is not useful and difficult to maintain; docum
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by rbongers 3mo ago
They believe in the danger of out of control super-intelligence. The generous interpretation is that they believe they can contain it.
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by rbongers 4mo ago
The worst part about this to me is if someone routes a response through AI, I have no idea what they, personally, are trying to tell me that they may have included specifically in their prompt, what is hallucination, and what is something i
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by rbongers 5mo ago
It's not an acceptable tradeoff to allow AI code in without reviewing the code currently, if not when it comes to code structure (which will introduce long term maintenance issues if it creates endless spaghetti code regardless of if A
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by rbongers 8mo ago
Finally, a tool optimized for creating Git commit hash collisions
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by rbongers 10mo ago
I view current LLMs as new kinds of search engines. Ones where you have to re-verify their responses, but on the other hand can answer long and vague queries. I really don't see the harm in using them this way that can't also be s
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by rbongers 10mo ago
I only reached the 100s back in the day. What amazed me was that it seemed like every problem had a paper solution, when it would take any computer algorithm thousands or millions of computations to solve the same problem.
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by rbongers 11mo ago
Keywords should definitely be highlighted. It's part of the structure of the code. Being highlighted makes it very quick to distinguish between keywords and variables and helps readability by making them easier to skim over and jump to
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by rbongers 1y ago
All of this guy's software and music seems so cool, and there's so little information on it. Can you share anything else?
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by rbongers 1y ago
Sounds lovely, I'd love to hear what it's like when the number of living cells on screen controls the length of the note so it's not just a constant rhythm, even though it is hypnotizing.
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by rbongers 1y ago
>The discipline required to use AI tools responsibly is surprisingly difficult to maintain I don't find that this requires discipline. AI code simply requires code review the same as anything else. I don't feel the need to let
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by rbongers 1y ago
Prime numbers are a pattern; take the natural numbers - starting after 2, exclude every number that isn't 2, starting after 3, exclude every number that isn't 3, etc. It repeats like this predictably. Even though it changes, the w
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by rbongers 1y ago
I've often thought that this (and every problem where a manual process is required that is tough to automatically enforce) an AI code reviewer could be very useful. It's the type of thing you might add to a long checklist of thing
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by rbongers 1y ago
Thank you, that was the example I needed to hear to see why this could be an issue. I will still say though, I have not actually had this happen to me yet with all the years of using hooks. Generally when I'm fetching when X prop chang
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by rbongers 1y ago
I don't have a problem with needing to memoize props passed to child components for their memoization to work. If your parent component doesn't need the optimization, you don't use it. If it does need it, your intention for u
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by rbongers 1y ago
In my opinion, unless if you need its ability to figure out when something should rebuild or potentially if you already use it, Make is not the right tool for the job. You should capture your pipeline jobs in scripts or similar, but Make ju
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by rbongers 2y ago
I have had a lot of opportunity to estimate a lot of projects, but one thing I still can't figure out is estimate education. If a client wants to know "why is this going to take so long?" I can list the unknowns and third-par
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by rbongers 2y ago
I don't think it's quite the same. We live in an inbetween time - AI is not quite there yet. AI struggles with knowledge from after its training date (so it can't help very well for anything relating to new versions of librar
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by rbongers 2y ago
When I went for a sleep study, I was wired awake for half the night, up in bed reading waiting for the study to be over. According to the study though, I was in sleep stage 2 the entire time I was sat up in bed reading.
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by rbongers 3y ago
I am surprised semiconductor engineers called it impossible. A cutting edge chip, sure, but a few thousand transistors?
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by rbongers 3y ago
Unfortunate, thank you
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by rbongers 3y ago
Will it have support for "VARIABLE=${VARIABLE:-default}"?
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by rbongers 3y ago
I had the privilege of interacting with Bram a few times through Github and he was always fast, thoughtful, and pragmatic. I know others who would say the same thing. His software will always be one of my favorites of all time.
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by rbongers 3y ago
What I tell people who get into software because they need a job is always that the industry also needs people with quality assurance and management skills. Not because I want to offload people who are just looking for a quick buck onto tho
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by rbongers 4y ago
I would just expect MIT, of all places, to go quite low. I suppose everything has to come to an end, and MIT can't have the most intensive course forever. I just can't help but feel it's representative of what's happenin
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by rbongers 4y ago
I think the other reply to my post is on to something when they say there are many paths to mastery. I have just laid out one path. I don't know what the ideal general learning path is, but I know what worked for me. There is certainly
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by rbongers 4y ago
I think it's very hard to use an abstraction effectively if you don't know why it exists and you think it's magic. I have seen programmers who don't understand, for instance, how key/value stores are implemented, co
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by rbongers 4y ago
That's an interesting idea, I'll give it a read. The big problem I see right off the bat is lack of available talent and hiring pressure, but I reserve my judgement.
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by rbongers 4y ago
You bring up good points. In my opinion it's difficult to put together any kind of significant curriculum, and it's inevitable that it's not going to work for everyone and some people are going to struggle with it. However, t
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by rbongers 4y ago
The problem is not the learning path doesn't exist, the problem is finding it and knowing if you should follow it. When you get started, you don't know what you don't know. That's why I say I got lucky... I somehow found

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