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This was a great read, thanks. Definitely provides evidence for my fears about vibe coded projects built by people who lack expertise to guide AI well. And if these are the issues …

Hi! Very excited to share my project spawn, a db migration/build system. For now, it supports PostgreSQL via psql to create and apply migrations, as well as write golden file tests…

Some database tests can't be done within transactions. With postgres, I create a copy of the database via WITH TEMPLATE, and each test runs in its own copy of the database. Then it…

That makes sense. The rest of us left ST a long while ago, and the rest remain because they're happy with it and have been for a long time.

I heard they are targeting Andromeda with the next round of tariffs.

I hate Imgur. Even with the app installed I find it doesn’t work well. I don’t understand why people use it — does it just work for them in a way it doesn’t for me, or are they mor…

What sort of code are you writing? I find a lot of my stuff requires careful design, refactoring an existing system to work in a new way. If the code I was writing was, say, small …

I'm one of those people who thinks simultaneously that (a) current AI cannot replace developers, it just isn't good enough (and I don't think it's good for it to write much code), …

Presumably more questions can cover a wider variety of skills/techniques/topics. If the student doesn't know in advance which 10 will be selected, they either have to pray they're …

I would love someone to do some research on attitudes towards how self-driving AI is, compared to factors like: - Type of dev work (infra, frontend, backend, etc) - Programming lan…

The main problem I have with auto-suggestions is that they distract my flow of thinking. Suddenly, I go from thinking about my code carefully, to reviewing someone else's code. To …

Is AI genuinely that good for you all? I can't leave it to its own devices, I have to review everything because (from experience) I don't trust it. I think it's an amazing technolo…

I am also a fellow human.

Without having RTFA, I'd guess/predict that it will be possible to learn to only do this intentionally, much like we can think about raising our arm without actually raising it.

My own view is an idealist style one, where I think God impresses experiences upon us, and the experiences we have are determined by physical states. On this view, it's impossible …

There's a difference between reviewing code by developers you trust, and reviewing code by developers you don't trust or AI you don't trust. Although tbh, even in the worse case I …

This kind of thing is my main use, boilerplate stuff And for scripts that I don't care about -- e.g., if I need a quick bash script to do a once off task. For harder problems, my e…

Some people really do act like that, in my limited experience. Trump's opinion changes and lo and behold their beliefs have updated to the same view as Trump's.

I actually do think of him as a candidate for wealthiest person to have ever lived.

That's definitely a reasonable way to think about it. Another though is in terms of social status and ability to direct human labor, in which case most people are not more wealthy.…

> we still have potholes to fix, t-shirts to fold and illnesses to cure Only one of these things interests me. The hype of AI is threatening to kill something I actually enjoy doin…

The title.

Interesting, I had a similar approach while studying philosophy. I much prefer to think and write than read, so I'd often think through a philosophical problem first, and then read…

We had an experience not as bad as that, but cancelling on us a week or two before we were due to fly (and had booked everything else). They wanted US to cancel, but I saw no advan…

I've experimented (i.e., not used in anger) with doing something similar to this, except by placing the authorisation logic in the database via things like row level security and s…