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by zero_shift 7mo ago
Not all AI pull requests, are by bad actors. But nearly all pull requests by bad actors, are with AI.
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by zero_shift 7mo ago
I don't disagree that technology is less fun in an AI era. The question is, what other careers are out there for someone who wants to make things? About a decade ago, I went through a career crisis where I couldn't decide what job
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by zero_shift 7mo ago
I wonder what Zig would be like as an ILR. Easy cross compilation, plus, you can compile with runtime checks to help debug your compiler output. Might be fun for a sideproject
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by zero_shift 7mo ago
One hundred ? Did I read that right?
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by zero_shift 7mo ago
Ha! Nice. I never worked with CodeStar / CodeCommit. Was it pretty bad?
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by zero_shift 7mo ago
How much has the volume increased, from what you know?
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by zero_shift 7mo ago
So I work for a devtools vendor (Snyk) and 6 months ago I signed into Azure DevOps for the first time in my life I couldn't believe it. I actually thought the product was broken. Just from a visual perspective it looked like a student
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by zero_shift 7mo ago
As an aside, God, Azure DevOps, what a total pile of crap that product is My "favourite" restriction that an Azure DevOps PR description is limited to a pathetic 4000 characters.
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by zero_shift 8mo ago
But again, how much of that time is spent writing code? I've done rewrites, replatforms, a bunch of times. The actual programming is not the tricky part, but instead (1) picking apart the legacy system, understanding what to build, (2)
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by zero_shift 8mo ago
I honestly think this would qualify as "ruinous empathy" It's fine and even good to assume good faith, extend your understanding, and listen to the reasons someone has done harm - in a context where the problem was already re
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by zero_shift 8mo ago
something something Goodhart's Law
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by zero_shift 8mo ago
To which my reply would be, we can engage in the analysis after we have taken down the paper . It's still up! Maybe the answer to building a resilient system lies in why it is still up.
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by zero_shift 8mo ago
> Labeling people as villains is almost always an unhelpful oversimplification of reality This is effectively denying the existence of bad actors. We can introspect into the exact motives behind bad behaviour once the paper is retracted.
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by zero_shift 8mo ago
Yes. It's one reason I've lost interest in OSS completely.
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by zero_shift 8mo ago
I'm doing a project with tree sitter right now Any tips for keeping the grammar sizes under control? I'm distributing a CLI tool that needs to support several languages, and I can see the grammars gradually bloating the binary siz
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by zero_shift 8mo ago
I get a lot of unsolicited PRs on my projects that I don't actually want Turning off PRs would be a good option for several of my repos
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by zero_shift 8mo ago
> You realize that LLM answers highly depend on how you frame your question? Of course I do. I'm not a moron. In these cases, I already know the most likely answer to my question. The LLM just helps me reduce my self doubt
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by zero_shift 8mo ago
I actually kind of do the opposite to most developers. Instead of having it write the code, I try to use it like a pair reviewer, critiquing as I go. I ask it questions like "is it safe to pass null here", "can this function
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by zero_shift 8mo ago
I think a lot of programming - the more business focused, application minded stuff - is a kind of analytical philosophy. You spend a lot of time as a dev working on "domain logic" which requires you to be very exacting in your ter
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by zero_shift 8mo ago
I don't think that's like DevOps, though. A closer analogy would be a business that only hired EngDocs, doctors who had to be accredited engineers as well as vascular surgeons. I don't think anyone thinks siloes are themselve
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by zero_shift 8mo ago
I don't have a very thorough understanding of the international money markets. If Europe "dumps the dollar" - what does that mean in practice? This article suggests that Europe could also call in US debt. Presumably the US co
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by zero_shift 8mo ago
Because the idea you can have all aspects of maintaining a complex piece of technology, maintained by a single cross-skilled team of interchangeable cogs, is utopian and unworkable past any reasonable level of scale DevOps, shift left, full
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by zero_shift 8mo ago
I wasn't sure for a while, but this must be satirical - mustn't it?
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by zero_shift 8mo ago
Thanks Ashwin - very helpful!
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by zero_shift 8mo ago
I'm not aiming this at GP specifically, but there seems to be a culture around gen AI that the burden of proof is on sceptics, not the people claiming we're about to invent God
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by zero_shift 8mo ago
The thing is, the internet was supposed to democratise, but it's ended up centralising (and therefore distorting) discourse A good example is publishing: until relatively recently, books were how most knowledge was distributed, and pub
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by zero_shift 8mo ago
Are you thinking more, of LLM based "AI" or "director" logic? Like an LLM tailoring the challenges and randomness the player experiences?
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by zero_shift 8mo ago
Nothing as impressive as others here... but I have a few little things --- Todo or else --- The main thing is a new Go CLI called "todo or else". It scans your project for TODO comments and checks that they have deadlines This all
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by zero_shift 8mo ago
> The parts of it that aren't high level product management and systems architecture are quickly becoming irrelevant Embedded in this, is the assumption that many SWEs can actually do those roles better than existing specialists. If
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by zero_shift 9mo ago
What's wrong with Brew?

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