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It might not be the perfect analogy, but it does show some important parallels and differences. Compilers reason to some extent - for example type inference is definitely some dedu…

I have been feeling that something - a few things - has to change about Agile rituals given a team is using Claude extensively. I haven't yet found any thoughtful writing on the to…

Reminds me of seeing this presented at a conference years ago https://github.com/braposo/graphql-css It was a joke but I really like the way it pointed out how we copy and reapply …

I would assess the directionality and rate of the trend. If it's getting better fast and we don't see a limit to that trend then it will eventually pass whatever threshold we set f…

It's not so valuable to assess the current state - what the impact of using AI is today. From personal experience it feels like overall impact on productivity was not positive a co…

Spending is paid for out of tax and all those people will have paid tax. Paying less tax than someone else doesn't make a free rider. Deliberately opting out of an obligation while…

I guess it's more clear that it should be a to statically readable value? eg you shouldn't do things like use arguments to build the str

This is spot on. I'd love it if it was possible to get the integration with the QGIS ecosystem. It could open source integrations or even a commercial offering that just joins thin…

Any tips on smoothing the transition between the two that mean work isn't duplicated?

That's an insightful nuance. I've seen you just create divisions in organisations because while it is a really fully featured desktop application, it implies a way of working that …

As other comments have said, I'd prefer other solutions to get by all the tests to run faster. It would be interesting to see if it could be used to prioritise tests - get the test…

Oh god, this has just made me reflect that we're in the golden age of generative AI - not in technology terms, in user experience terms. We're in the period where the major product…

I wonder whether we'll be able to look back on this period in 10 years time and save definitively whether the wide spectrum of responses to LLMs was perception or real feature of o…

+1 you're paying for the governance as much as you're paying for the code.

At the start of your comment I thought the 'issues like this' were going to be the 4 year discussions about what is and isn't core.

I think a lot of this is addressed by having a definition of done and more generally being explicit about quality expectations. You don't need to worry whether to polish the readme…

It's true that anything that can go wrong will go wrong but I wouldn't use that as a maxim to direct designs - risk is one trade-off and it's significance varies.

I really like it. I particularly like that you've resisted the temptation to include SQL itself or the jq queries in the DSL. The validation piece makes it feel a bit a bit like th…

I think it depends on the API - we do this with AWS Secret Managers. I haven't seen it fail but if did it would only effect new instances coming into service so I think we'd have t…

Yeah, I'd agree with that. Validation rules are like an extension to the type system. Invariants are useful at the edges of a system but also in the core. If, for example, I can be…

I mainly see this wtf pages as a hook to talk about the internals of a language/interpretor/etc. As you say, there's no point reading them as a criticism of the language because th…

The --no-verify example is interesting because I can imagine the same hint being useful for junior engineers. In general it's hard to give the the right level of advice in cli docs…

100% - for me the fact that hasn't been picked up throughout the research undermines the credibility of the rest of the paper.

> Comments per PR [...] served as a measure to gauge the depth of collaboration exhibited during the development and review process. That sounds like a particularly poor measure - …