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AI finding issues in code and reporting them so that an AI can review and triage them for another AI to fix.
I mean, isn't that the dream? I don't know if that's sarcasm or not. I know it doesn't work , but that's the future we've been promised, right?
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"You can't seriously tell me that the unhappy leg of the code path has no test coverage." Sometimes I forget how ignorant HN can be of real world software development and the bar of corporate code quality, and then bangers like this remind me of it.
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Don’t forget jitter!
I always add some jitter but never actually had a problem where it would have been relevant. Recently I added it to a project where others also see it (not just a hobby thingy but something at work) and I was wondering if it would look silly, like premature optimisation. I looked on Wikipedia for how established the practice is and it barely gets a sentence... with no reference. Do you know of a documented instance w…
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But is it 100x more expensive?
Probably? If you do 100 pushes instead, there is roughly zero additional data. At best you'd be comparing cache costs, which probably are lper for one large push, but there's a ton of calculation and CI that runs per commit regardless of other data being cached.
Everyone suggesting that they simply charge users for commits to drive off AI-heavy users forgets that Github is owned by Microsoft, who has a big incentive to keep having developers use AI. I suspect that Microsoft would even prefer to have Github operate at a loss, if that loss were because all its users were using their models and paying for OpenAI subscriptions to generate the code.
15 years from now, they'll say it was obvious.
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That sounds unusual for a free platform (not a limited trial but an actual free tier). Isn't it usually the case that only some small percentage can be convinced to pay?
They're arguing that most usage of resources would be by companies, who are presumably paying.
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I always add some jitter but never actually had a problem where it would have been relevant. Recently I added it to a project where others also see it (not just a hobby thingy but something at work) and I was wondering if it would look silly, like premature optimisation. I looked on Wikipedia for how established the practice is and it barely gets a sentence... with no reference. Do you know of a documented instance w…
You have thousands of users connected to a chat via websockets to a small cheap server that can just handle the load. Server has a hiccup, all clients disconnect, server comes back, all clients reconnect at once. Server can’t handle the load.
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Serious question: do you think your 6 year old is learning coding from prompting an AI? I have had excellent results from using AI, but it’s only because I understand what it is I’m asking it to look at, and know when it’s wrong. This is proven on a nearly daily basis at my job, where, with identical agents and prompts, I see designs being pushed with objectively incorrect facts, sub-optimal code in PRs, and a genera…
Coding is dead.