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by rednafi 9mo ago
I dearly hope so. Not that I am saying software development shouldn't be a social activity, but does it have to be this performative & toxic?
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by rednafi 9mo ago
This resonates with me too. I’ve written some Rust and a lot of Go. I find Rust syntax distastefully ugly, and the sluggish compilation speed doesn’t bring me any joy. On top of that, Go has pretty much replaced my Python usage for scriptin
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by rednafi 9mo ago
Do you ever get tired of playing this “visibility,” “impact,” “promo politics” game and think, “I came into this industry because I like computers, not… whatever this is”?
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by rednafi 9mo ago
Yeah, Python is nice to work with in many contexts for sure. I mostly meant that I don’t personally use it as much anymore, since Go can do everything I need, and faster. Plus the JS/Python dependency ecosystem is tiring. Yeah, I know
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by rednafi 9mo ago
I agree with this. Making languages geared toward human ergonomics probably won’t be a thing going forward. Go is positioned really well here, and Steve Yegge wrote a piece on why. The language is fast, less bloated than Python/TS, and
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by rednafi 9mo ago
It’s easy to forget that any artifact - painting, music, text, or software - that appeals to a large number of people is, by definition, an average on the spectrum of quality. Popular music tends to be generic. Popular content is mostly bra
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by rednafi 9mo ago
There is turso cloud. https://docs.turso.tech/turso-cloud
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by rednafi 9mo ago
Turso is sqlite with a server client arch. I use them for stashing my llm usage logs all the time. Pretty neat. Plus I'm rooting for them to rewrite sqlite in Rust.
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by rednafi 9mo ago
The SaaS business model took things too far anyway. Everything is a subscription and it gets tiring quickly. I am glad that LLMs can replace crappy SaaS with crappy code now. I replaced a whole bunch of these with one shot prompts for shits
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by rednafi 9mo ago
Creating crap vuln reports or PRs on popular OSS projects has been an issue long before LLMs. Remember Hacktoberfest? Students would often abuse it since there’s no adult in the room to teach them how to behave. I guess this is one hard way
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by rednafi 9mo ago
If they advertised these LLMs as just another tool in your repertoire, like Bash, imagine how that would go.
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by rednafi 9mo ago
Oh, didn't they remove the dislike count after people absolutely annihilated one of their yearly rewind with dislikes?
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by rednafi 9mo ago
Yet there’s GitHub-flavored Markdown, GitLab-flavored Markdown, and so on. Since people just write Markdown without caring about the parsers (nor should they), they break too often when you try to move them around. It’s even worse with YAML
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by rednafi 9mo ago
Yeah, I wasn’t alluding to Devin reviewing and merging the changelog. This was more of a general statement, since a lot of code review tools seem to get this part wrong. A lot of energy is being spent on making reviews faster, when reviews
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by rednafi 9mo ago
Ah, YAML and Markdown, two beautiful accidents of tech. It still boggles my mind that we collectively couldn’t come up with a post hoc spec and fix all the warts with a strict parser for either of them. Sure, it would break quite a bit of e
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by rednafi 9mo ago
I’m all in for building more intuitive UIs to make the review process less cumbersome. But with the current capabilities of LLMs, under no circumstances should we allow AI to be the final judge of whether something should be merged into tru
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by rednafi 9mo ago
At this point, this is mostly for PR stunts as the company prepares for its IPO. It’s like saying, “Guys, look, we used these docs to make our models behave well. Now if they don’t, it’s not our fault.”
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by rednafi 9mo ago
Damn. This doc reeks of AI-generated text. Even the summary feels like it was produced by AI. Oh well. I asked Gemini to summarize the summary. As Thanos said, "I used the stones to destroy the stones."
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by rednafi 9mo ago
I find it kinda amazing how these vaporware equivalent nullprose keep on hitting the front page.
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by rednafi 9mo ago
Dead internet theory [1] 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory
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by rednafi 9mo ago
*Note:* This is mostly relevant for solo developers, where accountability is much lower than in a team environment. Code review is the only thing that has kept this house of cards from falling over. So undermining its importance makes me qu
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by rednafi 9mo ago
Typically, it's not reiterating in the SAME manner. Refactoring happens in the presense of new information. In the case of an agent, that's usually not true.
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by rednafi 9mo ago
Every abstraction simplifies a bunch of real-world phenomena. The real world is messy, our understanding keeps shifting, and we’re unreliable narrators in the sense that we’re often not even aware of the gaps in our own understanding, let a
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by rednafi 9mo ago
Oh I come across German words bigger than that every now and then.
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by rednafi 9mo ago
The problem is that if both your interface and implementation are variables where AI can make arbitrary changes with full agency and little verification, maintenance becomes tricky as your understanding of the system as a whole dwindles. It
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by rednafi 9mo ago
Everyone claims they are x% more productive with LLMs, but once a greenfield project turns into a brownfield one, the second law of thermodynamics kicks in and these disposable components start becoming a liability. On top of that, Hyrum’s
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by rednafi 9mo ago
Another tired error-handling take. It ain't pretty but it works.
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by rednafi 9mo ago
Another one I have heard is "Jeff Dean's stare can fix bitrot"
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by rednafi 9mo ago
Tireless promo works. 3 of the top 5 authors on this list tirelessly promotes themselves everywhere - not just in HN.
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by rednafi 9mo ago
For some weird reason I thought this was about Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.

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