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From reading the article, it sounds like an enforced standardisation? Like, asking for account age bracket and then having a standard API to ask for it would be easy, right? Just w…

How much of this is genuine, and how much is the one-upmanship of needing to say Claude is just as powerful as gpt? I fully expect both. Also, given that AI content is still the re…

A few related thoughts from my spiritual tradition... resist evil, but flee temptation. Build willpower through disciplines, such as fasting, meditation, stillness. Think about the…

I end up using https://derlien.com/ "Disk Inventory X" regularly to find stuff to clean up.

Hi fellow code wranglers! Here's a series of short videos I've been making over advent to help some junior Django & JS developers I know have some tools and awareness of refactorin…

Massive plus one for Language Transfer. It's well presented, interesting, and kept me engaged. The whole concept is finding connections to language you already know, and gets you t…

I've recently been enjoying Book Overflow https://www.youtube.com/@BookOverflowPod - they're reading and discussing really interesting (programming / software engineering) books, g…

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The AI tool report shown to the dean with "85% match" Will be used as "proof". If you want more proof, then you can take the essay, give it to chatGPT and say, "Please give me a re…

Well, right. If I'm using an LLM to create code, I'm going to use all my skill and experience to review and shape the code to standards I'm ok with. But for people with extremely l…

I just played with townie AI for an hour or so... Very cool! Very fun. There's still some glitches, occasionally the entire app code would get replaced by the function the LLM was …

I guess also for context, a lot of the code I write is closer to the "house" or even "potatoes". A one-off script to extract data for a report - potato. A brochure website for a co…

This is interesting. But still pretty early, right? (As in, no real docs, not ready for publication...)? It looks like a start of a packages.lock.json kind of tool for dependency r…

Also rich patrons supporting artists was how many of the greatest artworks of many civilisations were commissioned for thousands of years... Is writing software closer to growing p…

Ask it to write a sitcom comedy screenplay about a software team asked to do exactly this same situation, but where it goes disastrously wrong. Give enough info to the prompt to ma…

This looks beautiful. I'm a long time vim/neovim user, and have a couple of curious colleagues who I'll be linking to this soon. I really like the tone of the writing, the visual s…

I'm really excited for this. Yes, pyright is fast enough, 99% of the time. But the install story, requiring npm etc, is a bit of a pain. A rust based version with similar install e…

If I was their security team, I would be fine with them publishing articles about our security set up - as long as it wasn't 100% accurate. Possibly mention a specific virtualizati…

My day job is Django - and the ipdb based `shell_plus` from the `django_extensions` package is invaluable.[1] I have a shell open almost all the time, and use it constantly for tes…

My parents are both very computer literate (my mum was a programmer, my dad also wrote code & managed database teams...) and they were really good friends with the head teacher at …

I suspect there are a lot of other factors to take into consideration here: - population growth over that time - percent of people able to afford cars and fuel over that time - % o…

Maybe part of the problem is that IBS(-like) symptoms, and many "fuzzy" / hard-to-diagnose ones (fatigue, etc) are also caused or exacerbated by anxiety and frustration and emotion…

https://wagtail.org/blog/wagtail-in-space/ It's not all NASA sites - but used by NASA for some sites.

The wagtail CMS would be a good example of more complex systems built on top of Django. https://wagtail.org/ One of the many more complex sites we've used it to build is https://ww…