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by imiric 1y ago
Code generation tools of today are pretty good at writing the boring boilerplate. I think the author is aware of this. But what happens when they get really good at generating the not-so-boring bits? They're much better at this than th
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by imiric 1y ago
> Why is GitHub popular? its not because people are "dumb" as others think. > Its because GitHub "Just Works". Git also "just works". GitHub simply offers a higher level of abstraction, a graphical UI, an
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by imiric 1y ago
I've used Git over SSH for several years for personal projects. It just works with no additional overhead or maintenance. Tip: create a `git` user on the server and set its shell to `git-shell`. E.g.: sudo useradd -m -g git -d &#x2
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by imiric 1y ago
That's a good point. I think this article is a promotional piece for the author's personal brand, thinly veiled as advice for others. It's "look at what I know, and here's why you should pay me". These people l
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by imiric 1y ago
You're painting a very rosy picture of what this role entails. > The upside to a more collaborative role like this is you don’t have the stress of having to know everything. It's the opposite, actually. The person in these role
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by imiric 1y ago
> Want to get your PR approved? Influence without authority. That's not really the case. First of all, software development is—or should be—a collaborative effort. The PRs I create are no more "mine" than the ones I review
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by imiric 1y ago
> Sometimes people build something and publish it because they are OK if someone else makes something else out of it, extends it or whatever... But they don't want to be bothered about it anymore. I understand that. My argument is t
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by imiric 1y ago
I just tried the same prompt with Claude Sonnet 4.5. (Using a generic "programming" system prompt. It's a bit long, so I won't paste it here, but I can share it if you're interested.) It generated this: ------------
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by imiric 1y ago
See, this is what I don't understand about this type of developer. When you publish an OSS project, it is an implicit invitation for collaboration, and for being part of a community around shared interests where everyone benefits. That
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by imiric 1y ago
> Nothing is not your job. Yeah, screw that. These roles with fancy titles may come with astronomical compensation for an engineer—and rightfully so—but they're essentially buying your soul. You're not an executive, and are sti
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by imiric 1y ago
I find your lack of emojis disturbing.
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by imiric 1y ago
Oh, I think there's still a long way to go before we reach the bottom.
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by imiric 1y ago
When there's a gold rush, and a tool exists that makes manufacturing of pickaxes and shovels faster, easier, and cheaper than ever before, we shouldn't be surprised when stores selling shitty pickaxe and shovel variations pop up l
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by imiric 1y ago
Well, that just goes to show that these tools are wildly unpredictable. I've had bad experiences generating Go, whereas I've read many experiences of the opposite. > I chalked it up to the LLMs not having a large enough corpus
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by imiric 1y ago
Those are browser automation tasks. Most of them can be done with Playwright/Puppeteer/Selenium. I don't see why a browser should have to support AppleScript specifically. The Chrome DevTools Protocol and WebDriver BiDi are t
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by imiric 1y ago
This was a few months ago, but mainly Claude Sonnet 3.5 IIRC. You can't escape hallucinations, of course, but they can be mitigated somewhat. Don't ask it to generate a bunch of code at once. Feed it a snippet of code, and tell it
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by imiric 1y ago
I mean, we can be cynical about it, or we can acknowledge the fact that running a sustainable business around OSS is entrepreneurship on hard mode. Yes, many companies start with good intentions which then change at some point, but there ha
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by imiric 1y ago
Speaking of skill, learning a new language is always daunting, but I found that LLMs do a pretty good job of generating Typst code. I relied on that a lot for generating snippets of code, and learning about the language, which would've
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by imiric 1y ago
This is a great example of the open core model done right. Have a fully-featured F/LOSS product, and build value-add commercial products and services on top of it. I've also only used the CLI tool, and didn't miss any feature
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by imiric 1y ago
I'm super happy that Typst continues to chip away at LaTeX's dominance. Kudos to the team and contributors! <3 This looks like a great release. Lossless embedding of PDFs seems like it would be useful in many scenarios. I'
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by imiric 1y ago
I would say that Canonical is more at fault in this case. I'm frankly appalled that an essential feature such as system updates didn't have an automated test that would catch this issue immediately after uutils was integrated. Nev
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by imiric 1y ago
> Humans do the same thing. We get stuck on ideas we've already had. Humans usually provide the same answer when asked the same question. LLMs almost never do, even for the exact same prompt. Stop anthropomorphizing these tools.
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by imiric 1y ago
It's remarkable how you keep ignoring my point. I set a deliberately contrived example to illustrate why someone might be understandably upset when a service or product they've been enjoying degrades in quality, regardless of whet
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by imiric 1y ago
Nothing I said was irrelevant. If you're unable to draw a line between the points I made and "blockbuster movies produced by a guy in his basement for <$1000", that's on you.
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by imiric 1y ago
"Never" is quite short-sighted. Most people would use these tools for personal use, if nothing else. Seeing a celebrity, themselves, their friends, etc., act out any scenario they can think of is quite an appealing proposition. An
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by imiric 1y ago
It depends on what you mean by "blockbuster movie", as even those can have awful visual effects. But a short film released a few months ago made entirely with video generation tools was surprisingly decent[1]. It still requires a
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by imiric 1y ago
If they're actually hosting it and providing a service, that wouldn't be a bad thing. Ovi's Apache license allows commercial use. They would only be infringing on the license by not publishing it and the original copyright, a
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by imiric 1y ago
I've heard this often, but I'm going on ~25 years of using Linux, and I would be lost without my dotfiles. They represent years of carefully crafting my environment to suit my preferences, and without them it would be like working
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by imiric 1y ago
Meh. I haven't read any of the books the article talks about, but IMO dismissing their entire premise is more unhelpful than any pseudoscientific claim they make. AFAICT, this is a pop psychology book that tries to make some interestin
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by imiric 1y ago
And that's fine too. Someone else may or may not continue their work for the benefit of the community. They can be honest about it, and most people will be understanding and thankful for their work. But that is not what happened in the

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