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I gave it a weird and convoluted code snippet, and asked an LLM to step through the execution and trace the value of the variables at each step. It was completely correct and I rea…

`uv agent` and `bun agent` in 3....2.....1....

Very hit or miss. Stack: go, python Team size: 8 Experience, mixed. I'm using a code review agent which sometimes catches a critical big humans miss, so that is very useful. Using …

They made their home a concentration camp, no need for railroad cars this time...

I'm thinking of using it to replace an analytics pipeline at my job, which now uses expensive batch jobs. If the tech is solid, we would have instant and incremental updates, inste…

Does anyone have experience with RisingWave in production? It seems like an interesting product but I can't find any experience reports.

User name almost checks out

Classic Dutch: “We need this talent… but financially, it is impossible to support them,”

you get runtime errors with a long JVM stacktrace

Immutability removes so much accidental complexity, it makes whole classes of mistakes dissapear. I'd also take immutability over types. Clojure sort of guides you to simplicity, b…

For me it just speeds up learning the language, so I think i'd become fluent faster. I do thoroughly review of the the LLM answers, and hardly every directly copy paste answer, so …

about as much as I trust StackOverflow answers

Seems like a bunch of go programmers really wanted to use go, no matter how impractical.

Interesting! I did an internship where I tried to use transducers for fast information extraction. In theory, you can use FST's for fast approximate parsing. I didn't really work o…

This year I switched to a new job, using programming languages that I was less familiar with. Asking a LLM to translate between languages works really well most of the time. It's a…

Interesting deep dive on the internals of Caffeine, a widely used JVM caching library.

This just proves to me Meta can't build a product users actually want to use, they can only acquire other products, or lobby.

'Serverless' has it's uses, but not for everything - Serverless can get very expensive - DevEx is less than stellar, can't run a debugger - Vendor lock-in - You might be forced to …

My first job (around 2010) was to extract events from financial news and police reports. We built this huge system with tons of regexes, custom parsers, word lists, ontologies etc.…

The difference is in how easy it is to detect the cause of problems. Mistakes like wrong function names are mostly easy to find and fix. Mistakes when using core.async can be very …

I wouldn't recommend it but I'd figure the hackernews crowd likes deep dives on wierd diets.

GCP has the superior UI, api and design. I prefer it over the other clouds: Azure plain sucks and AWS has too much bloat and does IAM/accounts worse. In my experience GCP's core se…

this, I like Fastmail, but their app being online-only is a shame