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by scuff3d 7mo ago
Literally the most useful LLMs have been to me is dealing with the pile of corporate bullshit we have to put up with day to day. For example, we have to plan 8 to 12 sprints in advance. Full acceptance criteria, story points, and slotted in
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by scuff3d 7mo ago
It absolutely does not create green threads. Green threads can be preempted and switched by the runtime. Go does this for example. Python's asyncio is tasked based, the event loop cannot switch out a task until it reaches a yield point
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by scuff3d 7mo ago
I'm similar, but I do find some natural places where LLMs can be helpful. Just today I was working on something that involves a decent amount of configuration. It's in Python unfortunately and I hate passing around dictionaries fo
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by scuff3d 7mo ago
In a business (or any large project setting) where there are real users and real risk involved, code can't move into a code base any faster then it can be reviewed by a human. Period. I apply the exact same standards to PRs for AI assi
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by scuff3d 7mo ago
As of 3.14 running without the GIL is optional, but the default still has the GIL in place. 3.13 had it as experimental, but not officially supported. 3.12 and back are all GIL all day. Python's asyncio library is single threaded, so I
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by scuff3d 7mo ago
“The problem with most programming languages is that they implement concurrency as libraries on top of sequential languages. Erlang is a concurrent language at the core; everything else is just a poor imitation implemented in libraries.” -J
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by scuff3d 7mo ago
iPad + the pencil got me all through my engineering degree without having to drag around notebooks or textbooks. To this day it's the only Apple product I've ever owned, and it was worth every penny. I'm sure there are other
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by scuff3d 7mo ago
"Expected errors should not throw, raise, or panic. Instead, they should return an error result." Part of the problem is devs often can't tell the difference between an error and a negative result. For example, I worked in a
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by scuff3d 7mo ago
"Identified and implemented a streamlined solution that delivered the required functionality in approximately 50 lines of code, prioritizing clarity, maintainability, and operational efficiency. Proactively evaluated alternative approa
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by scuff3d 7mo ago
Jesus Christ...
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by scuff3d 7mo ago
Instead of fighting with an AI you could just... do it yourself
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by scuff3d 7mo ago
I actually think it defeats the Go teams stated purpose. It may technically be "more explicit" but it causes too problems. First someone is far more likely to just use the old value, _ trick bedside the current usage is just so an
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by scuff3d 7mo ago
Definitely not. Apparently copyright and licences only matter until a mega corporation stands to loose billions thanks to their blatant theft. Then nobody cares. But you're suppose to feel bad for pirating the latest season of Stranger
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by scuff3d 7mo ago
Given how the models were trained for coding, every single code base that uses any code generated by an LLM should be required to be open sourced, or at least source available. I'm not saying there is currently a legal president to enf
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by scuff3d 7mo ago
I wonder if this is why there's been a huge uptick in the visibility of Go related content. I've seen more posts about Go in the last few days then I had in the last year.
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by scuff3d 7mo ago
"Here's the uncomfortable truth: a try keyword in Go without fixing the error type is just syntax sugar. You'd get slightly less typing but none of the real benefits - no exhaustiveness checking, no compiler-inferred error se
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by scuff3d 7mo ago
I'll have to give it another try the next time I play around with Zig. I decided to let all the big changes with IO and what not play out before diving back in lol. I've been slow on the agent pickup. The ethical issues really bot
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by scuff3d 7mo ago
Jesus Christ this whole god damn industry has lots it's fucking mind.
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by scuff3d 7mo ago
That's super interesting to hear. I see people say all the time "oh I would never use it in a big project because it's changing so fast", but then see awesome projects like Ghostty and Tiger Beatle written in it, so clea
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by scuff3d 7mo ago
What's it been like managing a fairly large project with Zig? I know you've spoken highly of the language in the past, but recently it seems like Zig has been through some substantial changes that would be relevant to a terminal e
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by scuff3d 7mo ago
I mean... It takes 10 minutes of testing to know this is bullshit. At least in the near term. I've sat with an agent and played the part of a vibe coder. Not looking at the code, frankly providing more guidance and feedback then a vibe
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by scuff3d 7mo ago
Is the source code available?
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by scuff3d 7mo ago
What the fuck are people working on where it's possible for the LLM to just add entire features. Refactors and class/method level code can be impressive, anything highly structured with good guard rails. As soon as things start to
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by scuff3d 7mo ago
That's why there's been such a massive effort to position LLMs as critical to national security. If they can make themselves big enough and critical enough (even in just perception) to the government they won't let them fail.
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by scuff3d 8mo ago
What are you using currently?
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by scuff3d 8mo ago
What goofy framing. I'm saying, in an admittedly flippant way, that anyone seriously talking about AGI or treating stuff like this as anything more then a publicity stunt doesn't need to be taken seriously. Anymore so then someone
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by scuff3d 8mo ago
At this point I just assume comments like that are bots. Helps me maintain my sanity.
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by scuff3d 8mo ago
An article written by an expert is nothing like this. You might be able to get something similar out of an LLM but it's gonna take a lot more effort then was out into this.
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by scuff3d 8mo ago
The "This is the key insight -" or "x is where it gets practical -", are dead give aways too. If I wanted an LLMs explanation of how it works, I can ask an LLM. When I see articles like this I'm expecting an actual
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by scuff3d 8mo ago
Given my own experiences with LLMs, I'm convinced about half the comments on any given thread are just bots told to hype <insert_product_here>

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