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ad_fontes

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    Comment #49415030

    Because it's complex and I'm stuffing 30-50 PRs a day through it. 7 GHA workflows across four self-hosted runners. I'm on my third iteration, after constantly log jamming previous …

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    Comment #49414968

    Not satire. But I can understand why my comment seemed contradictory. I've been designing software for a long time, but I'm nowhere near as good as most career SDEs I know (my care…

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    Comment #49413255

    My wife was a diehard YNAB user before we met but it went by the wayside once we merged finances. She wanted to get back to better managing our money and started using Google Sheet…

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    Comment #49412625

    I feel like I'm living in a parallel universe when I read these types of posts. My agents have never created code that is straight-up garbage and I have never flushed a week's wort…

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    Comment #49411086

    I like Tailscale, but it's difficult to argue with a straight face that it's not seriously suffered from product creep. This is the inherent problem with tech start-ups. Once they …

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    Comment #49411028

    How do you define "AI generated slop"? There's also an implicit judgment in your question. Is well-designed, well-tested AI-generated code worse than poorly written, but hand-typed…

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    Comment #49374778

    It's an intellectually lazy "No true Scotsman." I personally clicked away from the page as soon as I read that line because the author lost my trust in that moment.

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    Comment #49349019

    Well, shit. I guess it's back to Slashdot then.

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    Comment #49348979

    [flagged]

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    Comment #49331199

    https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ They're struggling to maintain a single nine these days.

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    Comment #49324930

    That doesn't really sound like an indictment of unit tests. I don't really understand why someone would meticulously write a bunch of unit tests and then wait to prove them on a pr…

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    Comment #49290410

    I've been experimenting with using NuExtract this week on locally OCRing bank statements that don't have a predefined document structure. It's way better than Tesseract or a generi…