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> There's a quote I forgot that says: "There is a Quality to Quantity". > I agree with that, it may not be reliable, full featured, well designed, ergonomic, etc. But quantity enab…

> I can guarantee that you cannot produce such PRs in the same quantity/quality than a modern LLM. Who said I would not use a combination of LLMs, scripts, and any other automation…

> They're here, because even "bad" code has uses. We can have quantity over quality. We can generate throw-away programs (where the lack of maintainability doesn't matter). We can …

> Yes on a very personal level you look at LLM-generated code and think to yourself "wow this is garbage" but what about the people, as pointed out many times in this thread, that …

> Coding was expensive in the sense that once you decided what to do, it took a few engineers months / years to do moderately complex projects. That's not true anymore. This confla…

> And finally: Why bother making new software at all when AI can just do the thing you wanted done, directly? In many ways, the "save costs by LLM-ing everything" mindset is the sa…

Indeed they would, as the decision chain I posited is a form of "argumentum ad absurdum"[0]. 0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum

> That was because coding was expensive and we needed to be sure we didn't code the wrong thing. Coding has never been expensive as it is nothing more than a reification of a solut…

>> How are you going to prompt the LLM or validate its output if you don't understand the requirements? > Your PM can write the ticket, and your QA can test the output. If your PM …

>> We already know developers don’t actually spend most of their time writing code, with studies at Microsoft and elsewhere showing it’s closer to 14 percent. > Anyone else finding…

> Anthropic doesn't allow using subscriptions outside Claude Code. Perhaps this[0] Pi documentation could help. 0 - https://pi.dev/docs/latest/models#anthropic-messages-compati...

> I love that people hate indentation based so I show them a poorly indented C style languages codebase to see how they feel about indentation. And I love that people love indentat…

What a blast-from-the-past! I still have stacks of DDJ, C/C++ Users Journal, SysAdmin, and The Perl Journal issues in my library. They are right beside some O'Reilly books from the…

>> Curious what you mean by proactive? Could you share a bit more? > Happily, current AI is interacted with in a reactive loop. I open the Claude app, CLI, whatever, say my prompt,…

> The whole "90% of my time as a coder is spent typing, so I should optimise my ability to type fast" is so, well, wrong. 90% of our time should be spent thinking, and most of that…

Or just find an appetizing dish in the book, jot down the ingredients, and visit a local market. This strategy also enables alternate use-case discovery by interacting with subject…

This is a great idea I fully commend. An additional option for meals under $10 is cooking them oneself too. I know this might appear to be obvious, but is still a viable option IMH…

>> For reference, I've seen Visa marketing materials that suggest their network can do ~70k TPS. > Roughly a hundred servers on 100 GbE ports each could handle one small UDP packet…

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> Ever found yourself writing this? for f in *.txt; do wc -l "$f" done No, because `wc` accepts multiple files. And the example given is incorrect for any file having a `.txt` suff…

To support your recommendation and redress the strawman the article postulates, the post's author could have replaced: find . -name '*.log' | xargs rm With: find . -name '*.log' -p…

> Fred Brooks and the mythical man month observed that communication between people expands faster than linear, and that adding more people to a project makes it later. In my exper…

>> If a human’s performance for 40 plus hours a week can be reduced to a performance score ... >> Where has all the empathy gone? And common sense? :( > Contrary to popular belief,…

>> Cardiac events from Apple Watches is not “AI” though > It would have been, 20 years ago. No, it would have been called what it is both then and now; an asynchronous message emit…

> The “overlap” is that all machine learning is AI ... "All machine learning" is not AI, as k-means clustering and linear regression, amongst others, are very much ML without quali…