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by dirkc 3mo ago
Cloudflare seems to be an example of a company massively upping their output in the last year or so. And a lot of it seems AI driven. I'm definitely keeping an eye on them to see if it works out for them. And if I will need to start ro
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by dirkc 3mo ago
How would one go about reviewing a piece of code like this? One of the things I'd typically do is peek at the commit history. Seeing what people worked on and how they did it tends to say a lot about a project. But with LLMs generating
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by dirkc 3mo ago
Wow, I'm surprised that doing an online course through coursera is still that expensive - £17,000 or $22,000 USD over 3 years! Interestingly it does seem comparable with what it would cost through The Open University - https:/&#x
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by dirkc 3mo ago
For me the worst scenario is when a kitchen sink of non-existent functionality the customer never asked for was sold. And in all likelihood it will never be used. But some project manager is hellbent on getting it through the pipeline and c
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by dirkc 3mo ago
Thanks, this articulates something that I've been struggling to put a finger on. You can't review agent generated code the same way you would review a PR, someone needs to fine comb it to make sure everything is fine. And doing th
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by dirkc 3mo ago
I grew up with a TV like that. I'm pretty sure the one we had probably caused at least a hand full of slipped disks
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by dirkc 3mo ago
Don't compromise your professional integrity by lying about how you work. Rather find a job where you don't need to lie about your use of AI if you can.
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by dirkc 3mo ago
Please define "if it runs, it runs"?
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by dirkc 3mo ago
Thanks for pointing out the footnote, I did not get that far. And like you say, I agree it's interesting. The footnote however does re-enforce my concern - in what other ways do we alter our behavior when it feels like we're inter
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Less (About) Tech(thebacklog.net)
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by dirkc 3mo ago
> So with my friend Claude I set about building After this line all the references becomes *we*. I can't help but be a little disturbed by that > To begin with we downloaded ... For instance we excluded ... We also selected ...
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by dirkc 4mo ago
I'd say some of those extra abstractions and frameworks are actually making many jobs harder. Would love to elaborate, but need to get back to work migrating a jekyll site to astro
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by dirkc 4mo ago
These two bits stand out to me: > The security researchers are not special, the insight and confidentiality are vs > The bottleneck now is not finding potential issues but assessing which ones are real. Unless there’s already a trust
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by dirkc 4mo ago
Guess I should have stated the questions as "what makes Astro worth while to try out?" :)
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by dirkc 4mo ago
My go-to for spinning up a site has been Jekyll + Bootstrap with the occasional bit of React for well over 10 years now. While it still does the job, I'm a little curious to explore more modern options, if for nothing else to understan
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by dirkc 4mo ago
> This is somehow deemed acceptable by everyone involved By some, not all. It's been crazy from the start and it is still crazy to pipe a script to bash!
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by dirkc 4mo ago
This serves as a good reminder that relying on AI models is borrowing your tech from someone else. They can take it away or raise the prices arbitrarily. If you rely on this as a core part of your business/profession, you will be at th
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by dirkc 4mo ago
I started to look at LLMs not as writing code, but rather as predicting what code it would expect someone to write given the context. For some people that matches their expectation or they don't really have an expectation. While for ot
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by dirkc 4mo ago
There is something to be said for the split mechanical keyboard in the demonstration video and the sound the switches make when 'moving the mouse'.
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by dirkc 4mo ago
I get the blue squiggly underline with suggestions on how I can improve what I write. I bet if I open up two drafts it will happily suggest contradictory improvements on it's own suggestions. I'm starting to develop a squiggly lin
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by dirkc 4mo ago
I also got the Alya message. In addition to all the creepiness, the email had a link to stripe to pay them $500? I wonder if the email is hiding a prompt injection somewhere to trick a bot into paying?
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by dirkc 4mo ago
Location: South Africa Remote: yes please :) Willing to relocate: not at the moment Technologies: Linux, Web, DevOps, Résumé/CV: Not a CV, but https://www.thebacklog.net/projects/ Email: dirk@code27.co.za I’ve bee
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by dirkc 5mo ago
That was my first instinct, but thinking about it just a little it doesn't seem crazy, esp for GitHub. How many folders do you have on your computer with some bits of code? It's probably not a terrible practice to add those folder
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by dirkc 5mo ago
I recently had to do google takeout on an old google apps account. The account didn't have 2 factor auth and while enabling it I got stuck in a loop scanning the QR and getting a code via text message. I can't remember how I event
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by dirkc 5mo ago
Two things I'd add 1. software doesn't only have tech maintenance - there is also user support and it increases as software grows. 2. I'm not convinced maintenance costs scale linearly. And even if it scales linearly, you wil
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by dirkc 5mo ago
I should have known when the first package was left-justify, but I read until karen before I realized it must be fiction
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by dirkc 5mo ago
Play with that cookie consent bar at the bottom if you feel like you need to get your blood pumping!
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by dirkc 5mo ago
I was contemplating building a "Scan this QR to verify you're human" for April fools, but then got busy with other things. Wild to see this being built as part of Google reCAPTCHA. I guess we should at least be thankful that
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by dirkc 5mo ago
A few months back I was building a product and wanted to add domains. My first choice would have been to use Cloudflare as the registrar, but they didn't support buying domains via the API. I wonder if this means I can now also buy a d
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by dirkc 6mo ago
This rest of the article contrasts the with "I don’t think they’re acting in bad faith" This bit stands out to me: > You can’t take five years of community contributions, close the gate, and claim you’re grateful. I don’t think

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