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AI Mistakes – bash scripts – pipefail and grep(medium.com)
2 points by boxesnlines 8d ago|1 comments
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by boxesnlines 8d ago
I wrote this a while back but found the same thing reviewing a PR today - AI still doesn't understand what pipefail does and makes this mistake over and over again.
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by boxesnlines 11d ago
I absolutely agree that those things should take priority, but I think those things can only go so far and there's a threshold of complexity beyond which there will always be some benefit to comments. You can absolutely reduce the need
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by boxesnlines 11d ago
Hello, I am that person. I have been programming for a long time, but I'm not trying to make any claims that my experience means I know any better. The claim is simply that modern coding practices often produce code that is difficult t
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by boxesnlines 11d ago
(I am the author) The point of that statement was to run counter to the standards of "always us X type of comments" that some teams adopt. My suggestion is that there isn't a "correct" type of comment that you shoul
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When code is a maze, smart developers make maps (2025)(medium.com)
39 points by boxesnlines 12d ago|48 comments
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by boxesnlines 16d ago
I've actually been working on a visualizer for AI models. You prompt the model and it shows the tokens that were chosen, the weightings at each choice and the top X other tokens that could have been chosen at each node. You can then
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Agon, Alea, Mimicry and Ilinx
1 points by boxesnlines 16d ago|0 comments