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Well, unlike a human, I cannot expect any these LLMs to take any ownership of the work they do. I cannot expect any given model and version (sonnet 4.6) to learn, improve and adapt…

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I remember watching his Google talk[0] several years ago while learning vim. RIP and thank you for your contributions. [0] https://youtu.be/eX9m3g5J-XA

Agreed. Recently I was discussing the same point with a non-technical friend who was explaining that his CTO had decided to move from Digital Ocean to AWS, after DO experienced som…

If you have a couple of hours to spare, I recommend listening to the episode of the Songhai Empire by the Fall of Civilizations podcast. They go into the fascinating historical bac…

Actually it's pretty weird. This is a sports blog and content engine. And the author is someone who started this publication. I'm not sure what the motivation/context is at all her…

I've generally had a little bit more success with mocking when I'm hiding that dependency behind my own interface. So for example in Java, instead of trying to mock the AWS provide…

Unfortunately, I must agree with you that there are definitely some very troubling implications to how WebAssembly might be used to build more effective walled gardens on the web. …

As a fellow web developer, I want to offer a different viewpoint. Firstly, the pros that you listed for the web are equally valid today as they were 7 years ago. But additionally, …

So I work with a company where we provide online nutrition consultation to employees from other organisations as part of a larger corporate medical program. Our system has a schedu…

An interesting observation in the article is the data structures DSL that the author goes into quite a bit of detail, which is essentially what most Clojure/Lisp developers also ta…

Agreed. One of the common things I use is git add --patch . This allows me to commit changes in a file under different commits, by staging only the parts of the file that I conside…