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hperrin

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  • Don't let AI write for you

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  • I do agree about most of this, but at the end he mentions they will increase the efficiency of delivering software. That might be true, but only at the cost of the quality of that software. Eventually, you’ll need to pay off that technical debt.

  • Copilot is now injecting ads into GitHub pull requests. It's a disaster.

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  • I’m in the process of switching to my own Forgejo instance. It’s been pretty easy so far.

  • Many EXT4 Fixes Lined Up For Linux 7.0-rc6

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  • Wow, ok. Now I feel old. Yeah, I remember updating my system from ext3 to ext4 (an incredibly easy process). I can’t believe that was 20 years ago.

  • Many EXT4 Fixes Lined Up For Linux 7.0-rc6

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  • Who the fuck downvoted this? And why?

  • What is your "hunch"?

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  • Yeah, that’s basically what I said. When you can see how smart they are, they’re unimpressive. ;)

  • What is your "hunch"?

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  • It does write code that usually works, but it makes absolutely rookie mistakes that are, like, worse than junior engineer level. If that impresses you, then so be it, but in my 28 years of writing code, I’ve never been less impressed by something with as much hype as AI agents have.

    Btw, there’s not really an objective way to measure software engineering skill. Even the best tests don’t take into account all aspects of engineering skill. That’s why I would be only one of like ten engineers interviewing the same candidate at Google. The “objective” tests are called phone screens, and they’re just the first round of interviews. If you can’t pass those, it usually means you’re not qualified to be an engineer, but just because you can pass them doesn’t mean you are qualified.

  • What is your "hunch"?

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  • I’m not just repeating it. That is my first hand judgment of their abilities.

    I am a professional software developer, and I have been told by way too many people that these models are amazing at writing code, and yet every time I’ve seen the code they write, it has been unimpressive at best and absolute dog shit at worst. I was writing better code as a college sophomore.

    It makes sense though. They’re trained on everyone’s code, and the vast majority of code available for them to steal is, well, absolute dog shit.

    The developers who look at their code and don’t see any problems are developers who themselves write dog shit code.

  • Huge Study of Chats Between Delusional Users and AI Finds Alarming Patterns

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  • It’s literally just sales speak. They also say coin all the time, and that doesn’t mean I can’t call something a coin without being associated with crypto bros.

  • What is your "hunch"?

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  • I’m sorry they’re forcing it on you. That’s unfortunate. You might send them this reasoning section:

    https://sciactive.com/human-contribution-policy/#Reasoning

    in an attempt to change their minds.

    There are additional links in the More Info section at the bottom that provide supporting evidence.

  • We Rewrote JSONata with AI in a Day, Saved $500K/Year

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  • Well, it is. You can use it however you want. Just completely ignore whatever license they try to slap on it, because they cannot enforce that license at all. If they try to sue you, any copyright lawyer would laugh at them.

  • What is your "hunch"?

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  • That if you’re amazed by how good/smart LLMs are, it’s because you’re well below average. LLMs are still incredibly stupid and bad at things.

  • Fish Shell 4.6 Brings Better Emoji Handling, Bash Compatibility

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  • I love fish. :) I use it on all but my production systems. And whenever I have to do anything on my production systems, I really miss it.

  • Huge Study of Chats Between Delusional Users and AI Finds Alarming Patterns

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  • Rubber duck debugging - Programmers often discover solutions while explaining a problem to someone else, even to people with no programming knowledge.

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  • You can run a 30B model on a used 3090.

  • Rubber duck debugging - Programmers often discover solutions while explaining a problem to someone else, even to people with no programming knowledge.

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  • Amen.

  • Rubber duck debugging - Programmers often discover solutions while explaining a problem to someone else, even to people with no programming knowledge.

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  • My wife is my rubber duck. She doesn’t mind when I explain the most jargon-heavy stuff to her.

  • We Rewrote JSONata with AI in a Day, Saved $500K/Year

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  • Copyright (c)

    <year>

    <copyright holders>

    […]

    The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

    […]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License

  • We Rewrote JSONata with AI in a Day, Saved $500K/Year

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  • no attribution

    That’s literally the one thing MIT requires.

  • We Rewrote JSONata with AI in a Day, Saved $500K/Year

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