Viewing profile — TheSoftwareGuy

In order to successfully sue for emotional damages, you have to prove quantifiable damages. Usually that means if you ended up having to get therapy to deal with it, you can sue fo…

If you read the whole thing, the answer is plainly no: > It's worth pausing on what this means. LLMs identify roles from an insecure feature (style). This is like identifying a str…

Its not a bad comparison because pistachios are a cash crop, not a staple crop. That is to say, pistachios aren't grown to keep people fed, they are grown for economic profit

Sounds like he pays for AI himself. He said he bills by the feature/bug. So he keeps all the productivity gains from using AI

Is mail fraud really taken seriously? after I bought my house I got dozens of letters every few days that appeared (or tried to appear) from my lender warning of "FINAL NOTICE call…

The trailing return type pattern was added to the standard, IIRC, to make it easier for templated functions to have return types that depend on the types of the arguments, such as …

I'm interested, as I've never been in an org with QA specialists. What does that look like?

Honestly I think micro mobility is an undervalued topic. It has the potential to really change the viability of transit in a ton of major cities, where transit infrastructure has p…

IIRC those are basically hash tables, which are first-class citizens in many languages already

Yeah, this is one of my favorite things about LLMs right now: they haven't gone through any enshittification. Its like how google search used to be so much better

That's awful. I hope you were able to recover damages from the builders

Huh. I'm pleasantly surprised about this. Maybe there will be a long-lasting positive outcome from all this AI stuff after all

For those interested, this blog post also has a part 2 and 3: https://hackeryarn.com/post/rust-macros-2/ https://hackeryarn.com/post/rust-macros-3/

Not necessarily. If $x is enough to get you 10x more Software engineering effort, people may be willing to increase their spending on software engineering, rather than decrease it

>Hard-code some logic to identify cranes and always assume there's a cable dangling from the end. Probably this one. Even if the drone sees the crane, there's no guarantee the cabl…

You're right, people absolutely do rely on internal behavior intentionally and sometimes even unintentionally. And we tried our hardest not to break any of those customers either. …

>It's not like there's some secret sauce here in most of these implementation details. If there was, I'd understand not telling us. This is probably less an Apple-style culture of …

Sounds like your organization isn’t learning from these periods of high bill. What lead to the bill creeping up, and what mechanisms could be put in place to prevent them in the fi…

I'd be wary of draining the battery while the car is off. You don't want to prevent the car from starting

Your lack of empathy is obvious when you say the benefit of these services is that "people are lazy". Many many people simply don't have extra time, and taking one thing off of the…

If you really wanted to look like Amazon codex you would write Java :)

Is this meant to be used in production systems, or is it just a learning exercise?

Plotting is one task I find such huge benefits to AI coding assistants. I can ask "make a plot with such and such data, one line per " etc. Since its so east to validate the code (…

Technology: Noun 1. The application of science, especially to industrial or commercial objectives.

On the other hand, I can imagine that banning that banning one form of advertising drives those would-be advertisers to other mediums, such as the ones that drive addictive apps an…