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On iOS this popover breaks scrolling, which is required to show the Chrome URL bar, meaning I have to literally close the Chrome app and reopen it to even navigate to another page.…

Same. Messy code makes it harder for us to understand and thus maintain the code (which is why people often refer to code as a liability), but is that the case for AI tools as well…

I just hope my employer comes to the same conclusion before I get laid off.

Yeah, this is the one. Android in a desktop form-factor.

I've been using AI tools to brainstorm approaches and sometimes generate code, but actually doing the typing myself. That way I'm less likely to forget the mechanics and programmin…

Did you read the article? The author means software in general, not just user-facing apps.

The way I see it is - AI still makes mistakes, and I have to know how things work at some point anyway. So I'd rather spend my time actually understanding fundamentals (in my case,…

You make it seem like AI coding has already "totally changed" our jobs. This is exactly the FOMO the article talks about ("until its too late"). It hasn't. I'm still using the same…

The Nintendo Wii was like this too.

I agree. This is one area I'm hoping that AI tools can help with. Given a complex codebase that no one understands, the ability to have an agent review the code change is at least …

I would normally agree, but I think the "code is a liability" quote assumes that humans are reading and modifying the code. If AI tools are also reading and modifying their own cod…

There was nothing stopping everyone from using continuous delivery today, yet many companies still rely on long cycles, manual testing and handovers. The problem isn't the tooling,…

I don't understand this part either. At some point we're writing software for people to use, and there has to be someone who comes up with the requirements based on what people wan…

Is there an equivalent for the JS ecosystem? If not, having Dependabot update dependencies automatically after a cooldown still seems like a better alernative, since you are likely…

I use Gemini for personal stuff such as travel planning and research on how to fix something, which product to buy, etc. My company has as Pro subscription so I use that instead of…

It's refreshing to hear people say "We're not really sure" in public, especially from experts. I agree that AI tools are likely to amplify the importance of quick cycles and contin…

If tech companies want to show they have a high percentage of LoC being generated by AI, it's likely they are going to encourage developers to use AI to further increase these numb…

So the question is, are these AI tools primarily creating inherent complexity, or is it a significant amount of accidental complexity? And if AI tools are writing all of the code, …

The book Software Engineering at Google makes a distinction between software engineering and programming. The main difference is that software engineering occurs over a longer time…

So they can potentially work offline and deliver push notifications.

For Apple, sure. But Google has been leading efforts to make the PWA experience good. In origin trial right now is the ability for websites to install PWAs: https://github.com/Micr…

How is it overly verbose? I find it very intuitive, with the exception of useEffect.

The way I approach these situations is by reminding myself that the speaker is implicitly making a request - a request for empathy or understanding. While it's tempting to try to s…

If a tool makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot, then it's not a good tool. See C++.

We tested this against WebRTC data channels (which also uses UDP) and found that the congestion control algorithm used for WebTransport limits its use for videoconferencing. We'll …