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vermaterc

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  • Alternative title: "Reddit plans to make sh**load of dollars from data we've all left there for free".

  • 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey

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  • What's interesting is that people learning to code are more likely to say "I'm not using AI and I don't plan to" then professionals.

    Sounds counter intuitive to me because I expected professionals to be more conservative in that matter. They already have some habits developed, as opposed to new learners that in theory should benefit from AI because it makes doing simple things easier and can quite well explain basic concepts.

  • “On Tuesday afternoon, ChatGPT encouraged me to cut my wrists.”

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  • It's like you bought a car and deliberately hit the wall to make a headline "cars make you disabled". Or bought a hammer, hit your thumb and blame hammers for this.

    Guys, it's a TOOL. Every tool is both useful and harmful. It's up to you how you use it.

  • Surprising no one, new research says AI Overviews cause massive drop in search clicks

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  • I'm reading comments on arstechnica and seeing people mad at... what exactly?

    The reason I go to web search is to answer my questions. Now it's given to me at once, without need to go anywhere. Is it sometimes hallucinating? Of course it is, but have you really 100% trusted information on the Internet before anyways? I haven't.

    You say that ads driven websites are going to stop receiving money. But have you really liked ads driven websites? The same ones whose main incentive is to keep you on the website as long as possible or, in fact, wasting as much your time as possible to sell it to ad companies? The ones that were really worth visiting already changed their business model.

  • Study finds AI tools made open source software developers 19 percent slower

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  • I was talking mostly about side projects. I don't have much time for them right now. Thanks to LLMs, I can spend those few hours a week on doing instead of reading what is the best way to do X in ever changing world of web front-end frameworks. I just sit down, ask: "how is it usually done?", tweak it a bit and finish.

    Example: I have published an app on flathub a while ago. Doing it from scratch is damn complicated. "Screw it" is what I would say in pre LLMs era after a few hours ;)

  • Study finds AI tools made open source software developers 19 percent slower

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  • True and not true at the same time. Using agents indeed often don't work, mostly when I'm trying to do the wrong thing. Because then, AI agent does not say "the way you do it is overly complicated, it does not make any sense", but instead it says: "excellent idea, here are X steps I need to do to make it happen". It wasted my time many times, but it also guided me quickly though some problems that would take hours to research. Some of my projects wouldn't have been finished without AI.

  • This Overly Long Variable Name Could Have Been a Comment | Jonathan's Blog

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  • Everything comes down to proper function naming. If it wasn't clear what function should return, then it was not named properly.

  • This Overly Long Variable Name Could Have Been a Comment | Jonathan's Blog

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  • That hits me like something a teacher tells you in a coding class that turns out to be nonsense when you get to the real world.

    In a company I work in, we have "no comments policy" for at least ~10 years now and we are not planning to change that. It's not just theory, we work like this in practice and purpose of each part of code is perfectly understandable just from variable names, file names, namespaces, function names.

  • This Overly Long Variable Name Could Have Been a Comment | Jonathan's Blog

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  • The biggest problem with comments is that they can become outdated. If you change code but forget to change comment you introduce very dangerous situation where they become not only not useful, but also misleading.

    If you rely on variable names, you've got a single source of truth, one thing to change at a time. Information updates itself.

  • Millions of websites to get 'game-changing' AI bot blocker

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  • To that end the company is developing a "Pay Per Crawl" system, which would give content creators the option to request payment from AI companies for utilising their original content.

    So Cloudflare is not as much "saving the Internet", as just becoming a middleman between LLM training companies and content creators. Which I believe has a potential of being a true goldmine in the future.

  • Bluesky is more open than you think.

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  • +1, I came here just to paste a link to it

  • The first Lemmy-as-a-blog instance

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  • Using Lemmy as a blog is an interesting idea, because it allows to distribute your posts to other users timelines easily, but does it do well in terms of cost of self hosting? How much more computational work does enabling federation require?

  • Threads is adding fediverse content to your social feeds

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  • Honestly, I thought Meta talking about Fediverse integration was just marketing bullshit. Are they really doing it? 🤔

  • Wikimedia Foundation's plans to introduce AI-generated article summaries to Wikipedia

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  • I'm ok with auto generated content, but only if it is clearly separated from human generated content, can be disabled at any time and writing main articles with AI is forbidden

  • Wikimedia Foundation's plans to introduce AI-generated article summaries to Wikipedia

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  • Wikipedia is not made to teach people how to read, it is meant to share knowledge. For me, they could even make Wikipedia version with hieroglyphics if that would make understanding content easier

  • Microsoft Gives European Union Users More Control: Uninstall Edge, Store, and Say Goodbye to Bing Prompts

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  • I love being in EU

  • A brief history of JavaScript

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  • I mean: it is a writing error, because you can't compare "class based" to OOP, since they are just different things, but this is what is suspect was the case ;)

  • A brief history of JavaScript

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  • Object oriented languages can be either class based or prototype based. Java is class based, JS was back then prototype based

  • A brief history of JavaScript

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  • This clearly shows how chaotic development of javascript really was.

    It has always been like:

    1. Design a language for small browser scripts
    2. People suddenly start using it somewhere else
    3. It turns out it does not fit to where people try to use it
    4. Hundreds of frameworks appear to fix this, milion standards appear, people fight for years to work out a single go-to solution
    5. Return to point 2