stuaxo

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by stuaxo 5mo ago
Yes, this is the way I do stuff. Try and learn at every point.
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by stuaxo 5mo ago
Yep, it definitely can help with being an 0.1x developer, it's a long drawn out process but the output is actually good.
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by stuaxo 5mo ago
It has an LLM feel to me - the kind of verbosity that you get when a kid is padding out their homework to hit a word count.
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by stuaxo 5mo ago
Having money doesn't mean you will do anything, but not having it can stop you doing all sorts of things.
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by stuaxo 5mo ago
Superhans: "The secret ingredient is crime."
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by stuaxo 5mo ago
Nope. We have exported production to China in many things, we forget that we had dark satanic mills of our own.
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by stuaxo 5mo ago
Disagree: I've played with vibe coding, and the tests are worse quality than the code, which makes sense and that's how real world tests tend to trend.
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by stuaxo 5mo ago
Heh, that would include the tests where the content is just replaced with a single sleep.
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by stuaxo 5mo ago
Thankful for the mention of "AGI" in the first lines as I can bail out from reading the rest. Whatever AGI is, it "AGI" is not glueing a load of text prediction machines together.
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by stuaxo 5mo ago
I've found LLM written unit tests to be fairly low quality which makes sense as writing good tests takes understanding that writing good code. Also the quality of tests in general in projects is often so so and that's reflected in
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by stuaxo 5mo ago
You get LLMs like Gemini that will assure you they are right. There seems to be a big push for 0 reviewing, which is insane.
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by stuaxo 5mo ago
The people can meaningfully collaborate and produce something of high quality.
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by stuaxo 5mo ago
In short: We will have code full of unknown bugs, that is unfixable. The solution is to replace it with more of the same but with some new specification (fix some bug add some new feature). And this will be done by using astounding amounts
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by stuaxo 5mo ago
"Pantheon" bloody hell, why is it people writing these articles are so up themselves, it's so overbearing.
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by stuaxo 5mo ago
For a moment they put phones that had the ability to do text messages in them (but still looked very ordinary), which feels a little retro futuristic. Looked better than the weird ad screen monstrosities you get now with a token phone on th
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by stuaxo 5mo ago
I can't work out whether the grandfather post is more American Libertarian or a modern feudalal stan or something else.
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by stuaxo 5mo ago
The quality issue doesn't seem unique to Python. The versioning issue I've seen across libraries that version change in many languages. I don't tend to hit Python 2 issues using LLMs with it, but I do hit library things (e.g.
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by stuaxo 5mo ago
This is straightforward in the first instance, but how do you see maintenance of those projects going forward - especially adding more complex features ? I can see one way forward being to prototype them in python and convert.
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by stuaxo 5mo ago
OT: But in a way kind of good to know. Ages ago I got a Canon A3 printer. I've never been sure if it worked properly, as I was never sure if the colours are right. Next time I unpack it I'll have to try and find the place the 5 e
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by stuaxo 5mo ago
26 years since I started being in this game - how I hate the "take home exercise".
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by stuaxo 5mo ago
Ah. I was hoping some of these were ports, that's a shame. Some windows games will run under the hx extender.
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by stuaxo 5mo ago
I used the python API in GIMP headless early on in my career, was pretty handy.
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by stuaxo 5mo ago
The name Glimpse has a horrible sound to it, they should have gone with something very different. Also these tend to work when the new project has momentum and enough developers. Sodipodi was forked to Inkscape, part of it was they wanted t
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by stuaxo 5mo ago
I thought it was mostly Americans who cared about the name and not British, could totally be wrong though.
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by stuaxo 5mo ago
I'm not in favour of the online safety act, but the problem is she is incredibly stupid - nobody will listen to her.
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by stuaxo 5mo ago
Nice, interesting to see if it helps docx much.
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by stuaxo 5mo ago
True, though the reason to remove all that functionality was to get something maintainable that could grow from there.
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by stuaxo 5mo ago
And how boring it would be if that's all it was.
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by stuaxo 5mo ago
“Not only do we entirely reject claims of an alleged ‘revolving door’ strategy, but we also believe it is inappropriate to include veterans in a report alleging such a strategy. Aside from the immense value of their experience, there is rig
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by stuaxo 5mo ago
GDS has a framework that UK Gov departments have been following for some time to build sites with similar challenges to this for some time.

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