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This ignores that non-developers have gone from 0x to 0.5x.

Yes. Because that is where the intent is/was. In the future, as more changes are made, having the history of the intent is helpful context. And in that back and forth there are als…

they are saying the prompt is the source, the code is the artifact. I think it is a valid comparison. when reviewing a PR, I do want to see the prompt(s) that generated the change.…

it’s the wifi hotspot name.

though Okta is the first provider working on the enterprise mcp stuff.

agents are pretty good at cleaning up a codebase, finding dead code, fixing bad abstractions, etc. You just have to spend some focusing the agents on that goal.

my cellphone has been named “sneakernet” for years. it’s a throwback to a time when it was faster to walk a zip disk across campus than it was to send it.

Fun fact. My wife and I met on something similar in 2006 or so. "My Blog Log" was a sidebar widget that showed other people who we reading that blog. She was in marketing, I was in…

i have been thinking about this from a different direction: how do we make these shared within a company in a way that increases the productivity floor of the team/department/compa…

I think the fourth would be "lie to those who want you to tell the truth". His father's saying may have been: "There are three honest ways to make a living". The fourth option is w…

Nashville is paused too. I don’t know why.

I assume he is calculating the loss as depreciation - what they would have spent on cloud bills if they hadn’t been doing this locally.

But copilot code review agent is pretty good at catching when code and comments diverge (even in unrelated documentation files).

I didn't even know there was a "three em dash". Bravo.

i also first thought of point of sale servers

I used something like this tool to create 10 different fonts of my handwriting. Then I wrote scripts to randomize which font was used for each character, ensuring that no word had …

For some of us, the world has already changed drastically. I am shipping more code, better code, less buggy code WAY faster than ever before. Big systemic changes for the better to…

the LLM writes that too

I have a small-ish vertical SaaS that is used heavily by ~700 retail stores. I have enabled our customer success team to fix bugs using GitHub copilot. I approve the PRs, but they …

I have been using AI to remove tech debt faster than ever before.

People are confidently incorrect all the time. It is very likely that people will make up plausible sounding answers on StackOverflow. You and I have both taken time out of our day…

There are references to using connectors to connect to databases, but I can't find any documentation on how to actually do that.

Part of schools "affording" the best teachers is not money, but the amount of discipline problems they need to deal with. Which correlates to the financial status of the families a…

Google wasn’t always profitable.

Which is exactly how I was taught to do it while working in kitchens 25 years ago. The other thing is that this seems to ignore that the onion is round in the other direction too. …