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I made a quick prototype to demonstrate what I think A.I code assistance should be.. https://github.com/hibernatus-hacker/ai-hedgehog This is a simple code assistant that doesn't g…

This is a simple code assistant that doesn't get in your way and makes sure you are coding (not losing your ability to program). You configure a replicate API token from replicate.…

Maybe this "backup" solution.. developed into commodity hardware as an affordable open source solution that keeps the model and code locally and private at all times is the actual …

I think your mistaking programmer productivity with A.I that generates all the code for you allowing you to switch off your brain completely. prompt engineering code is not the sam…

I tried cursor for a day or two and then asked for a refund... here's why: * It has terrible support for Elixir (my fav language) because the models are only really trained on pyth…

AWS have a ridiculously unreasonable account verification process. Having sent everything they ask for I just keep getting the same big list of criteria without any more feedback o…

> Forzani said the government needed to acknowledge that there are a small number of "very dominant suppliers" in the cloud market. That's called a monopoly. Would it be so hard fo…

I'm surprised see Microsoft buying a competitor to only then shut them down at a later date. It's not like them at all to act like a Monopoly.

Disclaimer this is a rant, and I'm bitter about not becoming am A.I researcher or data scientist for job security reasons.

> Also please don't perpetuate the statistical parrot interpretation of LLMs, that's not how they really work. I'm pretty sure that's exactly how they work. Depending on the qualit…

Hosting a website with an RSS feed is federated. It doesn't solve the problem of finding interesting RSS feeds unless maybe RSS aggregator feeds exist (which they probably do).

The fediverse is a marketing buzzword designed to sell fake p2p social media platforms. Bluesky -> not actually properly disintermediated or federated. mastadon -> equally misleadi…

react... over my dead body.

typescript... just no.

Project owners don't really know what they are asking for half the time.. when they move the goal posts after the thing has been built and tested and ready for release * sigh I'm n…

Spending three months arguing over tech stack, frameworks, whether or not to lint but never really worrying about test driven development because that is too difficult for the juni…

Vendor lock-in.. Oh yeah AWS have an authentication system.. let's just use that and we can always switch to a different one! eeerm yeah right.

Agile teams... which is a euphemism for let's just start building and figure out the nitty gritty details later. At least we all sat round a whiteboard doing waterfall and discusse…

Choice blindness.