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Still the six month wait time when everything should be good? /s

I’ve been burned by this enough that I no longer say that I’ve learned something if my only interaction with it is explanation from books. You can get snippets of knowledge and a f…

Moving up and down the layer of abstraction is an orthogonal skill. The skill I’m talking is taking some axiomatic concepts (can be opcodes or functions from a high level DSL) and …

If you’re struggling at formal thinking, coding will be hard for you. I’m not talking about designing software with higher concepts, like thread, network IPC, web application routi…

Those computing ideas (like distributed systems, concurrency and task scheduling) can even be found in even a single program/system. They are often entangled with even broader conc…

I think most do. You often sees that OSS often provide a disclaimer that they’re not liable for damages. You can’t easily do that when you provide a paid service. B2B often have SL…

It’s pretty simple. Both the intake and the output of the LLMs are data and they shouldn’t drive an actuator system (their output shouldn’t be instruction). We already have the sam…

> where that behavior was never even intended. Strongly doubt that. Did they even share the prompt?

AI is sold as a power tool. Even if everyone is using it, you should see at least some absolute improvement in boost, even though they are still relatively the same. No such boost …

My issue with Silverblue is that the unix exosystem was meant to be deeply collaborative ecosystem for programs. Meaning each program doing one thing and communicating with each ot…

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All of those requirements seem weird. I selfhost a few software and the user count is one. My extent at sysadmin is to write a systemd service, configure the proxy (if it’s on a vp…

This pretty much, Emacs, Sublime, Vim, Jetbrain’s IDE,… have snippet tooling solutions that are very configurable. And most unix editors support piping so you can easily write a pr…

And clamoring that instant pot is capable of doing the job of 10 chefs, while conveniently forgetting that chefs using the instant pot is way more useful. And then congratulating e…

> the stuff where years ago you would have spent hours reading documentation or browsing StackOverflow until you figured it out, if you weren't familiar with the topic Why is it al…

3 doesn’t matter that much (unless it’s part of 2: new language or new libraries), and that’s why I don’t use LLM for it. Because LLM forces you to pay attention, yes you can have …

> Code review is (for many) the least fun part of programming. I'm lurking around the OpenBSD mailing list and it seems that code review is where collaboration starts. You send a p…

I don’t really care if someone use AI, I care if the result is slop. And it very much seems like it’s very rare for those who use AI to care about the result and avoid producing sl…

> Saying "lines of code are a bad measurement" is too easy! It's about time someone presented an opposing argument. Maybe because there is none. One of the main quality of good cod…

> Honestly, it's similar to being an engineer on a larger team. You don't review every line of code written by every one of your coworkers. We don’t because everyone is accountable…

Not an expert, but when I was learning 3d modeling, there was a good chapter on subsurface scattering which affect the human skin rendering. It’s what give it liveness instead of l…

I mostly do reading in front of the computer (not code, docs), but that's before I'm used to the project. Usually I spend more time on the couch than in front of the computer. Beca…

The pelicans are still not ok to this day. People are skeptical of the announcement because the room include several PHDs in math and physics. The prompts are not published so we c…

> The current frontier is very capable on higher level design tasks as well. If your problem is spiritual or social or economic, then let's skip this "not productive enough" alibi …

> What are the exact "currently established methodologies" you're talking about that cannot be replaced by LLMs + a harness today, just as some examples? You're probably right that…