The crypto product in question is for a very young age group. https://pump.fun/board
This website is so cursed… on mobile it’s constantly layout shifting up and down by an entire screen height every ~0.3 seconds. I’m not sure how to feel.
I'm tired of fixing customers' AI generated code
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Re: I'm tired of fixing customers' AI generated code
#342Someone mentioned "hallucination-based API design" on twitter (I cannot find it now). It's designing API by LLM hallucination. If there is a common hallucination API call, just add that API. This will make the API more "friendly" and resemble common similar APIs. Considering that LLM can hallucinate in different ways unpredictably, not sure whether it will work in practice.
Internet explorer tried that 20 years ago. Allowing all kinds of errors in the html to just slip through and attempt to do something good out of it, forcing everyone else to be bug-for-bug compatible. Also commonly referred to as the robustness principle; “be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others“. An approach that is now considered an anti-pattern, for such future compatibility reaso…
Creating a new endpoint that accepts data as sent by the AI-generated code is very different from accepting AI-generated errors for existing endpoints. You're talking about the latter.
Re: I'm tired of fixing customers' AI generated code
#343Earlier quoted context omitted.
We hired a new guy at work. In one of his first tasks he had chosen to write some bash, and it was pure nonsense. I mean it contained things like: if [ -z "${Var}+x" ] Where I can see what the author was trying to do, but the code is just wrong. I dont mind people not knowing stuff, especially when it's essentially Bash trivia. But what broke my heart was when I pointed out the problem, linked to the documentation, b…
I agree that it's a waste of a learning opportunity, but from my experience it is still often rational. There were many times in my career when I had what I expected to be a one-off issue that I needed a quick solution for and I would look for a quick and simple fix with a tool I'm unfamiliar with. I'd say that 70% of the time the thing "just works" well enough after testing, 10% of the time it doesn't quite work but…
I like learning a little about a lot of things as I’m the entrepreneurial type, but I’m really good at very few things. I appreciate having workers who specialize in one or two things really deeply though.
Re: I'm tired of fixing customers' AI generated code
#344Earlier quoted context omitted.
We hired a new guy at work. In one of his first tasks he had chosen to write some bash, and it was pure nonsense. I mean it contained things like: if [ -z "${Var}+x" ] Where I can see what the author was trying to do, but the code is just wrong. I dont mind people not knowing stuff, especially when it's essentially Bash trivia. But what broke my heart was when I pointed out the problem, linked to the documentation, b…
I agree that it's a waste of a learning opportunity, but from my experience it is still often rational. There were many times in my career when I had what I expected to be a one-off issue that I needed a quick solution for and I would look for a quick and simple fix with a tool I'm unfamiliar with. I'd say that 70% of the time the thing "just works" well enough after testing, 10% of the time it doesn't quite work but…
You don't have to master it. But some things are just well worth learning at least the basics of: Your programming language of choice, your shell, your editor, your version control system.
An afternoon learning your way around bash or vim will save you countless of hours of work, just because you will know what the building blocks are, you will be able to ask the right questions directly instead of chasing down alleys.
It's not the same thing as learning yet another language. It's a separate type of tool. Developing software without knowing an editor or a shell is like refusing to learn what a file is or what an ip address is. Sure, you can probably get work done in roundabout ways, but it's certainly not rational.
Re: I'm tired of fixing customers' AI generated code
#345Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/13864829 It is not nonsense. You use that expression if you want to check if a variable exists or not (as opposed to being set to an empty string) which is an extremely common problem.
That what I meant by "I can see what they were trying to do". It's would have been correct if the "+x" was inside the braces, even in context. He did in fact want to check if the variable was unset and error out, and that's what hurts so much. There was a real and correct analysis that, hey, I want to make sure the variable is set here. Only to then drop it because you get told the syntax is wrong. The response I'm l…
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