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> some people are just not very into building step by step like "okay first let's check the JSON shape the endpoint returns", "okay now let's make a simple form", etc That's accura…

I'm choosing to interpret this as very dry sarcasm.

The comparison to banks is actually pretty interesting. Unlike app developers, banks are by default directly liable for fraud that happens on their system. In many cases, even when…

Fortunately, it's not a linear scale. All sorts of technical and political options exist which don't fall cleanly into the anarchy or baby-proofing spectrum. Random incomplete exam…

Dude, write your own blog posts. LLM writing obscures whatever points you were trying to make. It’s obtuse, repetitive, verbose, ugly prose. This is not compassionate, educational,…

I don’t think writers have automatic oracle status or anything, but they tend to issue commentary that has a better track record of being borne out than what is communicated by bus…

Or sales/FDE deployment

ERPs are often used as a lot more than a system of record: they’re directly engaged with as the LOB software point-of-contact by many expert employees, and function as a sort of en…

> they aren't lying, they might be deceptive I think that’s well within the bounds of what most people would consider to be a “lie”. The legal system has more specific definitions,…

> like 99% sure Claude would've mentioned where the majority of the project came from. I doubt that. I’ve seen it produce thousands of lines of code or text with like a 2% string d…

It is sometimes true that a large group of people hold a preference due to being misinformed, though. I don’t think a kneejerk assertion that GP is assuming their opinion is true a…

Good point. Why don’t more people do that? Compression?

I’ve worked with folks from The Citadel who had parts of their studies they were not allowed to talk about. When doing a hiring reference check that was confirmed by school staff. …

> And then, slowly, people will learn I hope you're right, but I'm not sure they will. The less locked-down WinXP and early Android era was ... really really bad in terms of nontec…

No, even if Google search of old still existed, LLM Q&A would still be trouncing it. This is because people don’t like to click/follow links, they don’t like to read, and they don’…

Update: I read DHH’s blog. I now have an opinion on DHH: not good.

I used the terms from the grandparent post with tongue firmly in cheek. I didn’t intend to be sexist or ageist and agree with your criticism.

There are two big problems with this (not that Apple’s caprice is the only alternative): 1. The vast majority of people are Grandma, and they do not have a Johnny available to admi…

FileUtils#sh doesn't exist: ruby --disable-gems -e 'require "FileUtils"; FileUtils::sh("ls")' -e:1:in ` ': undefined method `sh' for FileUtils:Module (NoMethodError)

Huh? The Python example does not use Bash or the shell in any way.

That's all fair. I don't think we should abolish sh or anything; it's one of the only truly ubiquitous tools. And folks should know it, the same way they should know nano or ed or …

Fair, and thanks for explaining. Other than my original proposal of a simple webhook stream and a complicated offline backfill, all the good ways to do that with current tools prob…

> You're welcome to implement inotify for procfs right now. I more meant that if filesystem drivers had always been external to the kernel, then it would have been harder for so ma…

> > We have vastly better tools now in those niches. > But do we? I'll beg to differ. We do. I mentioned Fish and PowerShell for interactive scripting. Those definitely handle your…

> And what would you recommend for a system automation script 20 years ago, when I was 13 and discovered Linux for the first time? Like I said: > Maybe it had to be that way becaus…