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And yet I have felt a general code quality decrease and overall enshittification of software products since 2023 when people were already using copilot. Or I am just biased to use …

Such claims cannot be trusted as long as these news drive the heat score and hype of the companies, because these will always be inherently subjective, even unconsciously to what t…

We go to lengths to complicate and make expensive the things that are not. A dumb phone costs 30/50 eur max. It does not have internet connectivity and it does not have maps. Use a…

my bad, I re-read your comment now and it's clear that this was precisely your point.

Not to shit on the hype, but these are reasonably documented methods that surely are part of the training data

I am still unsure if the complexity is an inherent trait of any big organization or a byproduct of using kubernetes

Let me paraphrase the summary of Eloquent Ruby by Russ Olsen: It’s easy to write correct Ruby code, but to gain the fluency needed to write great Ruby code, you must go beyond synt…

Doesn't it come from folks that are forced to work with dynamically-typed languages but can't be arsed to understand them?

I believe that all the speed gains are running on loaned time, and that time will need to be spent sooner or later.

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I bet

In Neal Stephenson's fall or dodge in hell there's a timeline where the internet is so flooded by fake AI generated news that characters have their own agent both filtering info an…

Isn't this akin to including all the (missing) keywords from the prompt? YMMV but to me we have found the less optimized way of using LLMs

Regardless of my own view on these ethics, the quality of SQLite is for me a testament to the usefulness of truthfully adhering to a (sub)set of noble precepts.

A laptop with footnotes. Thanks, I would like a computer

The same reason I would not use a proprietary text editor applies to harnesses. It's enough of a constraint to use a proprietary service, for me the line is at the tooling. Sunk co…

Prompting AI feels a bit like that feeling I had when I was copypasting random javascript and java applets for my first website. The website had MIDI, a scrolling status bar on the…

You can also inline python inside shell scripts, does that make them equal sets? :) life() { python3

python does EOL releases after 5 years. I guess versions are readily available for downloading and running with uv, but at that point you are on your own. bash is glue and for me, …

I guess we have wildly different expectatives of what a language is responsible for and what not.