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I believe the article exaggerates to make a point. Yes, good engineering can also be assisted with LLM-based agents, but there is a delta. Good engineering requires that you still …

My thought as well, but the question is: does it matter for what the survey is trying to achieve? Some people will interpret it one way, some a subtly different way, but is there a…

In particular, the bulk of the substantial text of the order has a pretty clear culture war bend with all the talk about how truthful AI is. This is in large part a fight over the …

That's the whole point. They aren't law, and they were (probably) never meant to be so far-reaching, and yet the clear purpose of this Executive Order is to tell the states what la…

That's a fair and good interjection. The truth is probably that at society scale, both approaches are traditional. The open sharing approach is traditional for research and academi…

It is quite interesting to ponder these usage statistics, isn't it? According to their charts they're at a throughput of something like 7T tok/week total now. At 1$/Mtok, that's 7M…

I agree on the first point. I clicked through to the previous blog entry which I also found to be really good.

If you'll look at the Guidelines for HN linked at the bottom of the page, you'll note that whether a submission is productive is not a criterion. You could perhaps make an argument…

Others have given some answer to who was made poorer by Ballmer holding Microsoft shares, but I'd argue that this is the wrong question. Instead of looking at a specific individual…

I just find it hard to take the 3x claims at face value because actual code generation is only a small part of my job, and so Amdahl's law currently limits any productivity increas…

Good on you for having the meta-cognition to recognize it. I've graded many exams in my university days (and set some myself), and it's exceedingly obvious that that's what many st…

I'm skeptical too, but at least accessibility and usability do show up in those four documents they link to. I didn't see internationalization and localization, but I don't see any…

Fair point, yeah. The general concept should still apply, you could maybe wrap it in some macros, but it is going to be more awkward mostly because of the lack of operator overload…

> don't have infinite different copies of the int64_t type You can make some, though! Basically, the idea is to define a class template NoAlias that contains a single value of type…

I sincerely hope both of you are just trying to make a joke. I don't think a web forum like this one is the right place for it, though.

Indeed. I wrote a tool for myself to help with that in my reviews: https://github.com/nhaehnle/vctools/tree/main/diff-modulo-ba... It admittedly doesn't have a lot of polish, but I…

A tool called "diff modulo base": https://git.sr.ht/~nhaehnle/diff-modulo-base Given two version (old and new) of a Git change (i.e., individual commit or patch series from a pull …

> Every PR/commit merged to master should be a clean logical unit. The issue is one of review scaling. I wrote a blog post about this a while ago[0], but the gist of it is that tho…

My understanding is that they're not necessarily asking for the commits to be squashed, they're asking for them to be submitted together as a patch series. Patch series are an impo…

One related aspect that the article doesn't go into too much is that there is a tension in the size of the unit of code review: there are reasons for reviewing big chunks at once, …

Put uncommitted changes into a WIP commit (or multiple WIP commits), then fetch & rebase. Putting stuff in commits ASAP locally is good practice anyway, since it guarantees you wil…

We have all been part of a massive real world experiment that shows a pretty obvious correlation between the introduction of vaccines and the reduction (and even elimination) of as…