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by dofm 4mo ago
FWIW I never suggested that they were indicative of problems with the code. Unimpressive, crass code can run, after all. I clearly said elsewhere that I think they are predictive of problems with the person who writes it, and I fear I can g
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by dofm 4mo ago
Crassness, in the context I meant it, is not "literally meaningless" at all. I will accept "of fully subjective value". But not "literally meaningless".
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by dofm 4mo ago
> I think you may just misunderstand the point of having / writing a personal blog. I used to blog, as it goes, and I have supported and enabled many more, so no, not really.
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by dofm 4mo ago
Singing two different battle songs set to the tune of Code Monkey.
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by dofm 4mo ago
I am more fully invested in finding out ways AI can support me (documentation, code analysis, bughunting), though my experience with Claude as a bughunter is that it can miss the absolutely obvious if it is not in the shape it is expectin
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by dofm 4mo ago
To what extent does that ameliorate the problem? Are you not, by developing this way, making yourself more interchangeable, less indispensable, than ever before?
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by dofm 4mo ago
It does feel like a good analogy. e.g. the bill is definitely coming true for a lot of "non-traditional construction" materials and methods in immediately post-war properties in the UK. There are many unmortgageable properties usi
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by dofm 4mo ago
Are you perhaps missing the true message of that aphorism? Or are you saying the industry is (because it is)
849.
by dofm 4mo ago
Picard should have been a bergamot grower, not a winemaker.
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by dofm 4mo ago
This is the thing that makes me saddest. Second to the fact that none of the management tier promoting and weaponising this insanity will meaningfully suffer consequences. Right now I am lucky that I have the time to recover and learn.
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by dofm 4mo ago
Oh god, I just realised this really is the logical parallel to all those TV crime dramas set in the early 1900s.
852.
by dofm 4mo ago
I … I… don't want to play this, thanks ;-)
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by dofm 4mo ago
I'm not talking about impressing people. We used to be concerned about code quality. Are we not anymore? Crassness was a signal. Still is, to me — in a human I find that people who write crass code are going to cause me trouble.
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by dofm 4mo ago
The open weights models I am interested in, and testing, learning, experimenting with etc.; I am confused and cynical, not insane. I am not convinced it isn't vulnerable to the same problems but the whole tenor of the community around
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by dofm 4mo ago
I'm not the Blog Police, I'm a very naughty boy. I have opinions people apparently don't like, for no subscriber money.
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by dofm 4mo ago
I am a freelancer recovering from severe burnout so the answer is a sort of irrelevant no. I'm trying to rebuild my life so I am in an experimenting and learning phase rather than a massive coding phase, and most of my code work is mai
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by dofm 4mo ago
Blog posts like this just blow me away. > I believed this so strongly that my company built an entire product around this concept. I used to tell folks that "session transcripts were the new oil," that they were more valuable t
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by dofm 4mo ago
I think this is very domain-specific. FreeCAD genuinely changed my life: it made it possible for me to do things I was sure I would not be able to do, think in ways I never though I'd grasp, visualise and design physical things I thoug
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by dofm 4mo ago
That's "fundamental attribution error" as much as it is any form of psychosis, though I do agree it is at work. Also at work: the Dunning-Kruger hypothesis, Gell-Mann Amnesia and motivated reasoning.
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by dofm 4mo ago
Paradoxically, what social media is quite good at is forum discovery. Facebook overall is a pox on humanity. Private Facebook groups, however, can be genuinely useful. I spend a lot of time in one topic-specific Facebook group (and as littl
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by dofm 4mo ago
I mean, conversationally, of course we work a little more like that (I tend to think in whole sentence blocks before I say them but I suppose they assemble themselves largely word-by-word, or word-by-word with a bit of editing). But right n
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by dofm 4mo ago
They effectively do have a generative AI plan on top of regular Creative Cloud. Generative credits auto-top-up I think? But it must be an epic pain for them to maintain when they are really a software company, and AI tools really should b
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by dofm 4mo ago
And Adobe! I've always figured their heart can't really be in the business of running a cloud platform that has to decide what people can and can't edit. Blackmagic Design too. They are all desperate for Windows to run well o
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by dofm 4mo ago
When have people using AI to develop ever had to hide in any closet? It's the most public "new hotness" ever.
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by dofm 4mo ago
The original Shuffle really was excellent. Amazing audio quality for the time, about as much UI as you needed for a day or two's music, good battery life, and a configurable amount of file storage space if you needed it. And it even m
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by dofm 4mo ago
I agree, but since you will have to change it, I'm just saying it's not a contract if it changes from one side. So, e.g.: - make it more quasi-contractually binding on yourself, in some principled, innovative way: establish a me
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by dofm 4mo ago
A “social contract” that one party changes at will and then just announces the changes is not a contract (or social) in any meaningful sense. It’s just terms and conditions with a different name. If you want people to see it as a different
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by dofm 4mo ago
This is something that is being done by the core maintainer(s?) now; it’s linked off the main site.
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by dofm 4mo ago
Palantir is profoundly untrusted in Europe in part because of Alex Karp. He is viewed as a dangerous neo-nationalist (not incorrectly). Never really sure why Anduril doesn't catch the same grief; they are maybe even creepier. Perhaps P
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by dofm 4mo ago
Those people haven't been elected at all, yet. And at what level are they? Aren't there over half a million elected officials, one way or another, in the USA? There are nearly twenty thousand at state level or above.

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